Grace and Tranquility Natural Peaceful Paths through Every Living Day

by Alan, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780974524580
• ISBN10: 0974524581
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-10
• Publisher: White Cloud Press

Summary

To be at peace is not an easy task. It's a daily challenge to embody grace and tranquility in the midst of conflict and uncertainty. Yet even within our most difficult days, there are natural paths of ease and calm to be followed, found in our own stillness and the world's persistent beauty. Grace and Tranquility maps a shared journey down these paths, which reveal themselves given our vision, our patience and our mindful footsteps. Through photographs and meditative wisdom, Grace and Tranquility offers a daily practice of peace, as peace really is. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Eric Alan has taken the ever-present spiritual metaphors of nature and given them voice. His photographs serve as elegant evidence both to the power of beauty and to the truth of Alan's words. Photos and words dance across the pages, each carrying the other to higher levels of insight. One is left in a state of gratitude. Perhaps the very state that will allow us to find grace and tranquility in our own lives.

Table of Contents

A Few Tranquil Steps
Awakening	p. 2
A Tranquil Pace	p. 4
A Small Peaceful Presence	p. 6
Inside the Living Storm	p. 10
Gathering Strength	p. 17
Spaciousness (the Key)	p. 23
Richness, the Wind	p. 30
Into the Endless Richness	p. 34
Tranquil Abundance	p. 39
A Gardener's Tranquility	p. 46
Family Letters	p. 52
Intimacy's Tranquility	p. 60
Intimate with War	p. 64
Governmedia	p. 72
The Beauty of Doubt	p. 76
Letting Wounds Go	p. 80
Tranquility in Patience	p. 84
Imagination as Foundation	p. 93
Aligning with Purpose	p. 98
The Banks of Clear Streams	p. 107
Time's Laughter	p. 110
Becoming the Harvest	p. 114
Intimate with Integrity	p. 122
Transition's Ceaseless Seas	p. 124
Walking Softly Beyond	p. 130
Meditation and Conversation Guide	p. 136
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