SageTree

On communication:

" Through the practice of deep looking and deep listening, we become free, able to see the beauty and values in our own and others' tradition.
Many years ago I recognized that by understanding your own tradition better, you also develope increased respect, consideration, and understanding for others."

This is also the book I got one of my first mantra:

Breathing in , I calm my body
Breathing out, I smile
Dwelling in the present moment,
I know this is a wonderful moment.

This book was the first book I really looked at to link my Buddhist driven divergence from Christianity, once I really wanted to begin to understand my birth religion, described by one I aspired to understand. I figured this would be ' in my language' so I would understand it better. This book was more than I thought, and I continue to read and find new things often in it, as my understanding of one faith, many paths, and as I grow to accept the stories of the gospels, in my own understanding. Seeing how that story is a metaphore that is broadly applicable type realizations.

He writes many good books, fulled with love and compassion. Anger is a book I'd highly recommend for anyone struggling with anger and its roots. It really helped me think about mine in a different way, and to the greater extent understand what emotions are and are not.

Good evening,
SageTree

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