BOOK PREVIEWS
in-depth book previews with chapter excerpts
True? Daily Life IS Reality. Become What You Are: Alan Watts
“… Everyday life is the Tao …” ~ Alan Watts
Gift Of Quiet Moments? Klein’s Being In Meditation & Real Nature
“… It is like being alone in the desert. At first you listen to the absence of sounds and you call it silence. Then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening itself …” ~ Jean Klein
Can We Walk With The Tao? Zen Reveals Tao Gift
“… we all want to walk with the Tao …” ~ Trevor Rufli
Accepting & Dissolving Into The Invitation To Silence? Jean Klein
“… accept the possibility that your real nature is tranquillity, silence …” …&… “… It is vital to live… in oneness with the moment where thought dissolves in silence…” ~ Jean Klein
Gift Of Walking On The Wheel? Become What You Are: Alan Watts
“… Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal …” ~ Alan Watts
Thich Nhat Hanh: Gift Of Deep Listening? You Are Here
deep listening: “… Everything you are seeking, you should seek in the present moment …” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Why Silence? And Its Gift: Invitation to Silence, Jean Klein
“… In this observing is the total absence of yourself. It is your real presence …” ~ Jean Klein
Can Kindness Meditation Overpower The Daily Spin? Devon Nico Hase
kindness meditation: “… {can help} build a heart of kindness and then extend that to others … ” … “… {is} more than just calming the mind. It’s also about cultivating an atmosphere of warmth and positive regard—for yourself, for others …” ~ nico (& devon) hase
Acceptance & Surrender: Why & Their Gifts: Who Am I Jean Klein
“… In the openness that is inherent in our nature there is no one who accepts … acceptance or surrender is … active in that one remains supremely awake and alert, ready for what presents itself. This silence is simply waiting without the anxiety of waiting and in this openness the highest intelligence operates. …” ~ Jean Klein
Illusion Of Self: Why Remove It? Power & Gift Zen Tao
“… You do not have to go anywhere or look anywhere to find it. It is so close that you keep missing it. There is no distance between you and the Tao whatsoever …” ~ Trevor Rufli
Passion For God? The Rumi Collection: Harvey & Helminski
“… The radiance of consciousness-bliss, in the form of one awareness shining equally within and without, is the supreme and blissful primal reality. Its form is silence …” ~ Ramana Maharshi
Unlock Living Power Of Seeing Clearly? Illumination Rebecca Li
“… The mind becomes still as we are no longer agitating the mind with habitual reactivity to the present moment. With this clarity and stillness, we are more able to see that in every moment there is a choice for us to not perpetuate the habit of suffering. …” ~ Rebecca Li
Fear, Habitual Thoughts To Freedom? Mindfulness By Oren Jay Sofer
“… Mindfulness is the only way to be free …” ~ Godwin Samararatne
Unveiling The Rumi Collection: Why Give Thanks? Kabir Helminski
“… In Rumi, the full rose of the human divine opened … He gave a sign to us all forever of what is possible in a life surrendered wholly to the light …” ~ Eva de Vitray-Meyerovitch
Separateness Illusion: Why We Can’t See It? Power & Gift Zen Tao
“… it is the very illusion of self that hides the Tao …” ~ Trevor Rufli
Living Truth Q&A Jean Klein: Is It Will Or Natural Giving Up?
“… The ultimate is always in the background. Then, to awaken yourself in this silent oneness is a spontaneous event … your real nature is timeless …” ~ Jean Klein
What Is Yin Mountain Daoist Immortal Poetry? Levitt & Rebecca Nie
The Valley Spirit never dies.
It is called the Mysterious Female.
The gateway of this Mysterious Female
is the source of heaven and earth.
~ Dao De Jing
Sound of Every Element? Hazrat Inayat On Sound & Music Mysticism
“… Sound is the sign of life; in the temples of gods and goddesses, in Hindu churches, bells ringing show life even in the silence …” ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Jean Klein: Can We Extend Glimpses Of Reality? Q&A Living Truth
“… I hear your question in my stillness and the answer comes out of stillness … All that is, all that you are, is in this stillness …” ~ Jean Klein
Wonderment Despite Climate Crisis? Susan Bauer-Wu Future We Can Love
“… With a different kind of attention —curious, trusting, open, and loving— we can find the wonders of right where we are …” ~ Susan Bauer-Wu
How Do We Become The Unifying Solution? Rumi & Kabir Helminski
“… voluntary simplicity is the best road to health, happiness, justice, and humanity’s survival …” ~ Kabir Helminski
Value Of Silent Life? Hazrat Inayat On Sound & Music Mysticism
“… God is not in time … He is in the silence …” ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
What Is The Longing For Divine Love? Almaas Nondual Love
“… The greatest romance is with the Infinite … When you suddenly find God everywhere … the romance of divine love has begun …” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Alan Watts Talking Zen: What Are The Taoist Ways & Its 3 Keys?
” … The philosophy of Tao sees humanity as a part of nature rather than dominating it …” ~ Alan Watts
Oneness: Self-Interest to Benefit of All? Mysterion, Rumi & Kabir Helminski
“… Peace comes within the souls of men when they realize … their oneness, with the universe … that at the center of the Universe dwells Wakan-Tanka (the Great Spirit), and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.” ~ Black Elk
Nondual Love: Can We Awaken To Loving Nature of Reality?
“… The spiritual heart is the doorway to the next plane of consciousness . . . ‘soul land.’…” ~ Ram Dass
Deep Relaxing To Calm To Awareness: You Can Try? Jean Klein Listening
“… Be only awareness, only hearing without a hearer. There is nothing heard, only hearing …” ~ Jean Klein