Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

By Thich Nhat Hanh

Book Overview

In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. Zen master, peace activist 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. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553351397
• ISBN13: 9780553351392
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Bantam
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Although a professors recommendation, I've kept this one close since.

This book helped me in so many ways as an angry young teenager. I highly recommend you give you time to these pages, I am sure you will learn to deal with life much more peacefully.

A Gem: Small And Precious

Peace is not external, so we do not need to chase it. Peace is already present but we have to get in touch with it. This is attained through mindfulness: living in the present moment, in the here and now. Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen master and spiritual leader teaches mindfulness through conscious breathing and smiling. Connecting the body and mind, to find peace and happiness even in the most unlikely situations. Breathing and smiling!...

a moment of peace is waiting for you...

How can you make a difference in this world? Reading PEACE IS EVERY STEP is definitely a step in the right direction. Thich Nhat Hanh illustrates in his beautifully simplistic way that peace is something that begins with the individual.One need not read the book from start to finish. Each chapter is a morsel of wisdom in and of itself. I use it as a daily meditation first thing in the morning. A gentle reminder as I start...

Wonderful

I read this book twice once ten years ago and once recently. The last reading was the most powerful possibly because I had read both Converstaions with God and An Encounter With A Prophet. It was much easier for me to attain great peace after I had changed my concepts of God from reading these two books. try it you will like it

Amazing

This book was written by a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk. But don't let that fool you, this book is for everyone. The author doesn't try to convert you to his religion, the only Buddhist principles in this book go hand in hand with many Christian beliefs. The author shows how easy it is to live a fulfilling life in harmony with yourself and the world around you.Read this book if you ever feel depressed or if you feel you...