Creating Peace by Being Peace

Author: Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1556438486
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
Representing a synthesis of the author’s decades of multidisciplinary work in meditation, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and spirituality, Creating Peace by Being Peace guides readers in creating peace on seven levels of engagement, from the body to the ecology to God. Author Gabriel Cousens addresses the increasingly urgent need to transform humankind with the ancient peace wisdom of the Essenes, a Judaic mystical group that flourished two millennia ago. He begins by explaining the Essenes and the lessons they can teach us as creators of peace. Individual chapters cover a wide range of possibility, from the personal (“Peace with the Mind”) to the political (“Peace with the Community”). The final chapter, "Integrating Peace on Every Level," presents a comprehensive plan for peace with the body, mind, family, community, culture, ecology, and God as a pervasive experience in life—moment to moment, day by day. Cousens blends documentary evidence with original interpretation to show that the Essenes actually did live this experience of peace. Most importantly, he transfers their gift to modern seekers as a breathing blueprint for realizing this reality as we walk in our lives; work according to our gifts, joys, and sacred design; and live the path of spiritual awakening—the sevenfold peace.

The Peace Book

Author: Todd Parr
Publisher: LB Kids
ISBN: 9780316510776
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Peace is making new friends.Peace is helping your neighbor. Peace is a growing a garden. Peace is being who you are. The Peace Book delivers positive and hopeful messages of peace in an accessible, child-friendly format featuring Todd Parr's trademark bold, bright colors and silly scenes. Perfect for the youngest readers, this book delivers a timely and timeless message about the importance of friendship, caring, and acceptance.

Keeping the Peace

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
Publisher: Parallax Press
ISBN: 1935209183
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Keeping the Peacespeaks to all of us who work in difficult, people-oriented jobs and shows us how to turn environments that are often filled with anger, stress, and frustration into islands of peace. Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh creates a revolutionary definition of public service that includes all of us. He challenges us to transform the way we think about our work and offers eleven key practices to strengthen our mindfulness and joy. Based on a retreat for civil servants, Keeping the Peace is the first book of its kind to demonstrate the usefulness of mindfulness practices for law enforcement officers, social workers, teachers, and others in people-helping professions. With empathy and humor, Thich Nhat Hanh demonstrates the need for public service professionals to cultivate their own inner peace in order to help others. In clear and simple prose, he offers a path for how we can reduce violence in ourselves, our workplace, and ultimately, in our world.

Peace of Mind

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
Publisher: Parallax Press
ISBN: 1937006484
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Live life more fully and enjoy the present moment with mindfulness practices for cultivating deeper mind-body awareness—from legendary Zen Buddhist Thich Nhat Hanh. We can’t heal with our minds alone. Thinking can be something productive and creative, but without integrating body and mind, much of our thinking is useless and unproductive. In Peace of Mind, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh reminds us that integrating body and mind is the only way to be fully alive in each moment, without getting lost in our thoughts while walking, cooking, driving, and going about our everyday lives. Only by cultivating a mindful body and an embodied mind can we be fully alive. Bringing together ancient wisdom and contemporary thinking, Thich Nhat Hanh says it's like hardware and software—if you don't have both, you can't do anything. Peace of Mind provides a foundation for beginning mindfulness practices and understanding the principles of mind/body awareness. By learning how our physical body and mind are inseparable in creating our own perceptions and experiences we can begin to trust and nourish our ability to create well-being.

Practicing Peace in Times of War

Author: Pema Chöön
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 1590305000
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
"War and peace begin in the hearts of individuals," declares Pema Chodron in her inspiring and accessible new book, which draws on Buddhist teachings to explore the origins of aggression and war.

Shalom

Author: Billye Brim
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974215693
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Dr. Billye Brim began her study of Hebrew at a prestigious language school in Israel. Her study of the language has equipped her to explore the deep meaning of the Hebrew Scriptures. Here she starts at the root of the word ¿shalom¿ and examines the development of the related words that have grown from it. There is more to the word than meets the eye.

Finding Peace in an Out of Control World

Author: Cindy Nolte
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615959900
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
"The ideas in this book can help you take back your power, connect with yourself, feel strong connections within, and recognize that everything has a purpose. Coming from that perspective, you will not only believe that everything will be okay, you'll also feel it and live it every day." Finally achieve the inner peace for which you've always searched with #1 bestselling author Cindy Nolte's inspirational new book, "Finding Peace in an Out of Control World." As daily life pummels us with its everyday stresses and unexpected obstacles, it is sometimes difficult to see a way out. But with Nolte's no-nonsense approach, achieving your dreams is more possible now than ever before. Encouraging a balanced lifestyle that brings peace to the mind, body, and spirit, this easy-to-read volume guides you through the journey of becoming reacquainted-with yourself! Readers will learn to become present in their own lives and enjoy each moment for what it is instead of what they wish it to be. Embrace a life of passion with" Finding Peace in an Out of Control World" and gain a new clarity about what life has in store.

A Mind at Peace

Author: Christopher O. Blum
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
ISBN: 1622823818
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
These past two decades, modern technology has brought into being scores of powerful challenges to our interior peace and well-being. We’re experiencing a worldwide crisis of attention in which information overwhelms us, corrodes true communion with others, and leaves us anxious, unsettled, bored, isolated, and lonely. These pages provide the time-tested antidote that enables you to regain an ordered and peaceful mind in a technologically advanced world. Drawing on the wisdom of the world’s greatest thinkers, including Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas, these pages help you identify – and show you how to cultivate – the qualities of character you need to survive in our media-saturated environment. This book offers a calm, measured, yet forthright and effective approach to regaining interior peace. Here you’ll find no argument for retreat from the modern world; instead these pages provide you with a practical guide to recovering self-mastery and interior peace through wise choices and ordered activity in the midst of the world’s communication chaos. Are you increasingly frustrated and perplexed in this digital age? Do you yearn for a mind that is more focused and a soul able to put down that IPhone and simply rejoice in the good and the true? It’s not hard to do. The saints and the wise can show you how; this book makes their counsel available to you.

Peacefulness

Author: David Cadman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789935936301
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
This timely book offers an intelligible narrative of peacefulness. These stories not only resonate with deep human needs and spiritual longing but also inspire the reader to reimagine the possibility of global peace. In contrast to 20th century peace studies, which were often undertaken within the context of warfare and violence, this book argues that peace is the most fundamental of all human values and peacefulness an inherent human virtue and disposition, and a primary character of the universe. At the same time, it proposes that peace cannot be fully expressed as our innate state of being without it being also the structural condition of the society and vice versa. Drawing on ideas and insights from wide ranging sources, including interdisciplinary literature, wisdom in spiritual traditions, international peacebuilding practices and healing experiences of individuals and communities, the authors put forward a compelling case for lasting peace on our planet. Therefore, this book will appeal to students and scholars, peacebuilders and peace practitioners, leaders, educators and anyone who is interested in transformative understanding and practices of peace and peacefulness. Indeed, if the limit of our imagination is the limit of our future, then the hope here is that the book and its narrative will put wings on our shared vision for a truly peaceful and flourishing world.

Discover Inner Peace

Author: Mike George
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811825603
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
Drawing on insights and techniques from Buddhism, Taoism, and Western meditation traditions, "Discover Inner Peace" offers more than 25 specially devised exercises for controlling emotions, maintaining positive thinking, and attaining mental clarity. 100 color illustrations.