Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (802 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1594484406 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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This helped me during a difficult time Judith Flynn I love this personal memoir. I read it when I was going through a difficult time and it really helped me. I believe that the challenging times in our lives is when we are most likely to grow emotionally and I felt that Pipher was so brave to share how her experience of having and promoting a bestselling book led to a depressive bout that then led to greater self-awareness and healing. I bought this copy to send to a loved one who was going through a. Five Stars thank you. Average biography Zahara I have to pretty much agree with the two star review. As biography I found the book to be average. 75% through the book I find I'm pretty tired of Mary's story. But I can understand why some give it higher ratings as it does relate conditions many people of her era experienced. I would buy it used only.
In this quest describing a quest, best-selling Pipher describes how, after spending her life developing relationships to fend off her dark loneliness, she found that she possessed the wrong psychological makeup for public life when fame thrust her out of her support system and into an exhausting whirlwind of appearances. Captivated by the concept of mindfulness and becoming a bird whose wings are compassion and awareness, Pipher found self-accepting peace through Buddhist meditation and in writing this absorbing chronicle of discovery. Time in seclusion spent petting her cat and exploring yoga and massage led her to the age-old healing found in familiar homey routines, and in laughter. --Whitney Scott . Only after her inability to disappoint others became a disaster, and she felt both totally naked and utterly hidden, could she take a first step toward self-reclamation: simplify. The woman with only two speeds—on and off—had never l
She spent her childhood in small Midwestern towns, the nurturing daughter of a doctor mother and a restless, jack-of-all-trades father. But after the surprising success of Reviving Ophelia, she found herself overwhelmed by the demands on her time and attention. "An absorbing chronicle of discovery" (Booklist) from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia and The Shelter of Each OtherLike most lives, Mary Pipher’s is filled with glory and tragedy, chaos and clarity, love and abandonment. Candid, surprising and moving, Seeking Peace offers a map for our own journey toward a more fulfilling, more joyously lived life. . In 2002
Mary Pipher, Ph.D., is a psychologist and the author of nine books, including the New York Times bestsellers Reviving Ophelia, The Shelter of Each Other, and Another Country, as well as Seeking Peace and Writing to Change the World. She lives in Nebraska.