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We Were Made for These Times
Ten Lessons for Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption
View this bookWe all go through times when it feels like the ground is being pulled out from under us. What we relied on as steady and solid may change or even...
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Reconciliation
Healing the Inner Child
View this bookBased on Dharma talks by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and insights from participants in retreats for healing the inner child, this book is an exciting contribution to the growing...
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Beginning Anew
Four Steps to Restoring Communication
View this bookIn Beginning Anew, Sister Chân Không shares a concrete, four-part process that can help anyone clear up misunderstandings, communicate more honestly and openly with the people around them, and heal...
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Healing
A Woman's Journey from Doctor to Nun
View this bookHealing is an extraordinary story that takes the reader from the rice fields of Vietnam to the peaceful surrounding of Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastery in Plum Village where Sister Dang...
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Our Appointment with Life
Sutra on Knowing the Better Way to Live Alone
View this bookThis easily accessible translation and commentary by Thich Nhat Hanh on the Sutra on Knowing the Better Way To Live Alone, is the earliest teaching of the Buddha on living...
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This Difficult Thing of Being Human
The Art of Self-Compassion
View this bookWe all long for someone to offer us unconditional love and support. But what if that person is us? The practice of mindful self-compassion creates the space we need so...
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Drawing Your Own Path
33 Practices at the Crossroads of Art and Meditation
View this bookDrawing Your Own Path is an account of how multi–media artist John Simon’s daily drawing discipline became a meditation practice, and how that meditation illuminated his creative source. A practical...
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Being with Busyness
Zen Ways to Transform Overwhelm and Burnout
View this bookRediscover Balance and Joy Through Mindfulness and Compassion Practices
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Heal Your Living
The Joy of Mindfulness, Sustainability, Minimalism, and Wellness
View this bookEmbark on a transformational journey with this easy-to-use minimalist, mindful guide to physical and emotional decluttering from the founder of Heal Your Living, the Youtube lifestyle channel with over 250,000...
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Answers from the Heart
Practical Responses to Life's Burning Questions
View this bookWe all share the experience of carrying with us the one question that has always seemingly stood in the way of the next step in our personal development, the development...
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Leading with Love
Inspiration for Spiritual Activists
View this bookWhen the world is burning with anger, divisiveness, and fear, this book of inspiring quotes selected by the editors of Parallax Press is a still, small voice in the storm...
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How to Smile
View this bookThe latest book in the bestselling How To series: simple, refreshing meditations of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh give us inspiration and tools for transforming our suffering and cultivating happiness...
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Brief Flashings in the Phenomenal World
View this bookA Zen study wrapped in a memoir of destruction and healing written by an elite ultrarunner as she struggles to make it to the other side of a life-shattering injury...
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The Idealist’s Survival Kit
75 Simple Ways to Avoid Burnout
View this bookThe Idealist's Survival Kit is a series of 75 short reflections on mindfulness in action designed to support humanitarian professionals and volunteers in addressing the specific themes and issues that they are likely...
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The River in Me
Verses of Transformation
View this bookEmbark on a journey of refuge and wisdom with Sister Dang Nghiem, a disciple of Thich Nhat Hanh, through her poignant poetry collection. Delve deep into overcoming life’s adversities with Zen-inspired insight.
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The 7 Laws of Enough
Cultivating a Life of Sustainable Abundance
View this bookThe gap between those who have and those who don't grows; the deep conflicts within our society around race and privilege are pervasive; and many other inequities undermine our sense...
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Love’s Garden
A Guide to Mindful Relationships
View this bookA collection of real-life Buddhist love stories, with commentary and guided exercises for couples developed by Peggy Rowe-Ward and Larry Ward, senior students and ordained Dharma teachers in the tradition...
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The Nest in the Stream
Lessons from Nature on Being with Pain
View this bookA concise and inspirational book for anyone dealing with pain by a long time palliative care doctor who is greatly inspired by Native American wisdom and the natural world. This...
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Awakening Joy
10 Steps to True Happiness
View this bookAwakening Joy is more than just another book about happiness. More than simply offering suggested strategies to change our behavior, it uses time-tested practices to train the mind to learn...
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The Healing
One Woman's Journey from Poverty to Inner Riches
View this bookIn this memoir of upward mobility through the unexpected route of yoga, a young African American woman signs up for lessons in yoga and clean eating as a sign that...
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Anger
Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
View this bookIt was under the bodhi tree in India twenty-five centuries ago that Buddha achieved the insight that three states of mind were the source of all our unhappiness: wrong knowing,...
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Sleep Wise
How to Feel Better, Work Smarter, and Build Resilience
View this bookThe Center for Disease Control considers insufficient sleep a national public health epidemic— nearly 30% of adults and two–thirds of all high school students report they regularly get insufficient sleep....
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Transformation at the Base
50 Verses on the Nature of Consciousness
View this bookA finalist for the 2001 Nautilus award, Transformation at the Base is a profound look at Buddhist psychology with insights into how these ancient teachings apply to the modern world....
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The Angry Therapist
A No BS Guide to Finding and Living Your Own Truth
View this bookTackling relationships, career, and family issues, John Kim, LMFT, thinks of himself as a life-style designer, not a therapist. His radical new approach, that he sometimes calls "self-help in a...
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The Art of Money
A Life-Changing Guide to Financial Happiness
View this bookThe Art of Money brings mindfulness, body-based awareness, and radical self-love to one of our most troublesome relationships, the one with our money.
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Small Bites
Mindfulness for Everyday Use
View this bookDrawing on her experiences as a Buddhist teacher in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, Annabelle Zinser developed meditation and mindfulness practices for a variety of everyday situations and the...
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Parenting in the Present Moment
How to Stay Focused on What Really Matters
View this bookThis generation of parents is overwhelmed with parenting advice; Carla Naumburg sets out to remind them that they have everything they need to raise healthy, happy children. Mindful parenting is...
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What Now?
Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond
View this bookBuddhist teachings and meditation offer a roadmap to help college students and others in early adulthood incorporate mindfulness into their lives as a means of facing the myriad struggles unique to this stage of life.
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Solid Ground
Buddhist Wisdom for Difficult Times
View this bookSolid Ground: Buddhist Wisdom for Difficult Times is a lively and topical book that offers guidance on how to respond to the individual crises that inevitably arise in all of...
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Long Weekend
Guidance and Inspiration for Creating Your Own Retreat
View this bookWith simple mindfulness activities, healthy recipes, and suggested itineraries to recharge, build community, and inspire creativity, this beautiful photo book is full of ideas that will inspire anyone seeking relaxation...
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Sit, Walk, Don’t Talk
How I Survived a Silent Meditation Retreat
View this bookListen to Jennifer's interview on NPR's Weekend Edition. Jennifer Howd had been building a mindfulness practice for a few years before taking on the challenge of her first nine-day silent...