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Peace is every step
156 pages
A gentle, grounding invitation to slow down and discover profound beauty in the ordinary, frustrating moments of a busy life.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like taking a long, deep breath after running a marathon you did not realize you were running. It is a profoundly grounding experience, moving at a leisurely, meditative pace that actively resists the rush of modern life. The prose is deceptively simple and poetic, wrapping profound spiritual truths in everyday metaphors like washing the dishes or waiting at a red light. Instead of demanding rigorous asceticism, the narrative voice is endlessly compassionate and encouraging, wrapping the reader in a warm, serene atmosphere. It transforms the mundane and the irritating into anchors for joy. This is a perfect companion for anyone feeling frayed by the demands of the world, offering a quiet, spacious sanctuary within its pages.
- Mood
- serene
- grounding
- spacious
- warm
- Tone
- gentle
- compassionate
- lucid
- encouraging
- earnest
- Pace
- leisurely
- Themes
- mindfulness in the mundane · interconnectedness · inner peace · conscious breathing · transforming anger
- The writing
- Deceptively simple and poetic, the sentences flow with a crystal-clear clarity that invites slow, meditative reading.
- The arc
- The reader is guided from the frantic overwhelm of daily life into a state of grounded, spacious tranquility.
- Who it's for
- Overwhelmed modern souls seeking a gentle, practical, and deeply forgiving approach to finding quiet amidst the chaos.
Content notes
- brief mentions of war
- environmental anxiety
About the book
In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. For him a ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves. Dirty dishes, red lights, and traffic jams are spiritual friends on the path to "mindfulness"—the process of keeping our consciousness alive to our present experience and reality. The most profound satisfactions, the deepest feelings of joy and completeness lie as close at hand as our next aware breath and the smile we can form right now.
Lucidly and beautifully written, Peace Is Every Step contains commentaries and meditations, personal anecdotes and stories from Nhat Hanh's experiences as a peace activist, teacher, and community leader. It begins where the reader already is—in the kitchen, office, driving a car, walking a part—and shows how deep meditative presence is available now. Nhat Hanh provides exercises to increase our awareness of our own body and mind through conscious breathing, which can bring immediate joy and peace. Nhat Hanh also shows how to be aware of relationships with others and of the world around us, its beauty and also its pollution and injustices. the deceptively simple practices of Peace Is Every Step encourage the reader to work for peace in the world as he or she continues to work on sustaining inner peace by turning the "mindless" into the mindFUL.
In this modern spiritual classic, a world spiritual leader and Zen master shows how to adapt simple Zen principles for daily living and the way to peace--the first practical book on the subject since Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Peace Is Every Step offers ways to use everyday events--washing dishes, eating a meal, sitting in traffic--in the quest for peace and fulfillment.
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