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Vivir Desde el Corazon: (Living from the Heart)
El Corazón spiritual es la fuente de amor, paz, sabiduría y felicidad. Todo aquello que en realidad importa lo encontramos dentro de nuestro propio Ser. Vivir desde el Corazón utiliza guías y ejercicios para guiar a los lectores de forma gradual y profunda hacia experiencias de sabiduría interna y hacia la capacidad ilimitada de amar. Consiste de una colección de enseñanzas acerca del Corazón, incluyendo:Desde el Corazón: El descenso desde su mente hacia su Ser: Ofrece maneras simples de alcanzar una perspectiva más abierta y de aceptación, además de explorar su verdadera naturaleza como espacio consciente. La sabiduría del Corazón: Dirige al lector hacia el Corazón, la verdadera fuente de sabiduría.Amar es dar, no recibir: Señala la verdadera fuente de amor en su propio corazón. Nos llenamos de amor dando amor. Luego de un profundo despertar spiritual en la India en 1998, Nirmala ha estado compartiendo sus ideas y enseñanzas con individuos y grupos alrededor del mundo. También es autor de Nada personal: Ver mas allá de la ilusión de un yo separado y otros escritos, los cuales están disponibles gratuitamente en su página web: www.endless-satsang.com
170 pages, Paperback
First published July 24, 2008
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Nirmala
18 books57 followersWho are you really? Are you your body. mind and personality? Or are you the spacious awareness in which they appear? Questions like these point us to the infinite Presence that is the true source of peace, happiness and fulfillment. Nirmala is a spiritual teacher in the Advaita tradition of nondual wisdom, and is the author of several engaging and practical books about our spiritual nature.
**Nirmala's book, Living from the Heart, is available for FREE here:
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**Nirmala's blog: http://endless-satsang.com/nonduality...
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Nirmala offers a unique vision and a gentle, compassionate approach, which adds to this rich tradition of inquiry into the truth of Being. He also offers Nondual Spiritual Mentoring, or spiritual guidance, in one-on-one sessions either in person or over the phone. More information about mentoring sessions is here: http://endless-satsang.com/spiritual-...
"The beauty of this collection of Nirmala's talks and dialogues is that it covers much of the spectrum of spiritual awakening, from the initial experience of one's true nature to the practical challenges, which always call for a deeper seeing and deeper understanding of how spirit manifests as all of life and beyond. Within these talks and dialogues you, the reader, will find Nirmala to be a living invitation to look within. Nirmala welcomes whatever arises within the field of experience. In the midst of this welcoming is always an invitation to inquire deeply within, to the core of who and what you are. Again and again, Nirmala points the questions back to the questioner and beyond to the very source of existence itself--to the faceless awareness that holds both the question and the questioner in a timeless embrace." -from the Foreword by Adyashanti to Nirmala's book, Nothing Personal.
**Nirmala's book, Living from the Heart, is available for FREE here:
http://endless-satsang.com/free
**Nirmala's website: http://endless-satsang.com
**Nirmala's blog: http://endless-satsang.com/nonduality...
**Nirmala's facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Nirmal...
Nirmala offers a unique vision and a gentle, compassionate approach, which adds to this rich tradition of inquiry into the truth of Being. He also offers Nondual Spiritual Mentoring, or spiritual guidance, in one-on-one sessions either in person or over the phone. More information about mentoring sessions is here: http://endless-satsang.com/spiritual-...
"The beauty of this collection of Nirmala's talks and dialogues is that it covers much of the spectrum of spiritual awakening, from the initial experience of one's true nature to the practical challenges, which always call for a deeper seeing and deeper understanding of how spirit manifests as all of life and beyond. Within these talks and dialogues you, the reader, will find Nirmala to be a living invitation to look within. Nirmala welcomes whatever arises within the field of experience. In the midst of this welcoming is always an invitation to inquire deeply within, to the core of who and what you are. Again and again, Nirmala points the questions back to the questioner and beyond to the very source of existence itself--to the faceless awareness that holds both the question and the questioner in a timeless embrace." -from the Foreword by Adyashanti to Nirmala's book, Nothing Personal.
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September 6, 2014
NIRMALA’S BOOKS A TREASURE TROVE
OF ADVAITA WISDOM
I came to Nirmala’s books as a lifelong mystic and spiritual explorer who served as an ordained minister for 22 years. The mystics of the East and the West have inspired me for decades. After reading the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, Shankara, many Buddhist teachers, and the Yoga Vasistha, I wanted to explore the Advaita tradition in more depth. I stumbled onto Nirmala’s books after an on-line search. I only planned to read his book Nothing Personal: Seeing Beyond the Illusion of a Personal Self as a way of answering some questions about the Buddhist concept of No-Self. But after reading this book I was so delighted with what I found in its pages that I went on to read three more of his books, Meeting the Mystery: Exploring the Aware Presence at the Heart of All life; Living from the Heart; and That is That: Essays About True Nature.
What Nirmala (AKA Daniel Erway of Sedona, Arizona) does in these books is nothing short of remarkable. T.S. Eliot once wrote that the job of the poet is to make the most difficult truths of philosophy and religion as immanent as the fragrance of a rose. Nirmala has taken some of the most difficult truths of Eastern religion and philosophy, distilled them, and expressed them in clear, concise form. What might be called the metaphysics and ethics of Advaita non-dual thought have been clearly and simply expressed in Nirmala’s books in ways that make them applicable to everyday life.
As he does this, Nirmala injects wry humor and amusing examples with which we can easily identify. He also shares a few snapshots of his own life and struggles, which bring these ideas to life for us. His approach is wonderfully refreshing especially after wading through the hundreds of repetitious pages of the Yoga Vasistha!
In addition to restating clearly the main ideas of Advaita non-dual thought, Nirmala adds many practical suggestions for applying these ideas to our lives. I found Nirmala’s books treasure troves of wonderful insights and suggestions. Following are a few of his ideas that I found most helpful:
1. The real me is not this body or my ego but Awareness. This basic conscious awareness was never born and will never die. Knowing this gives one a cosmic perspective on everyday problems. When you know that you are Awareness you don’t need to be a seeker anymore. You know that you already are what you wished to become. So just Be! (Here he echoes one of his sources Ramana Maharshi.)
2. When everyday problems besiege us it is wise to give them space and blast off from them up into the cosmic Awareness that we really are.
3. Wisdom and Truth expand the heart and quiet the mind. We can actually feel our hearts expand in the presence of truth and contract in the presence of lesser truth. If we put our hands over our heart and open our heart we can actually feel the flow of Being. This provides a powerful guide for living.
4. Judgment cuts us off from the flow of being as we close our hearts to what is. Accepting what is rather then engaging in denial or attack leads to insight and growth.
5. We learn and grow from all of our choices in life, both the bad ones and the good ones. Being just enjoys watching us explore and learn -- so you might say it’s all good.
6. Everything is alive and aware, even a stone. It’s all the dream of the one primal Awareness Being that we all are at different levels of awareness.
7. Hold all ideas lightly knowing that change is the norm.
8. Surrender to what is and explore it knowing that desire for what is not is what brings about suffering. Be grateful for whatever is, knowing that in the cosmic perspective all is well.
9. Be aware that Being is always working for our highest good, but also knowing that it gives us the freedom to choose lesser goods until we learn (the hard way!) to flow with the highest will of Being. The Wise man or woman aligns his or her will with the highest good of Being.
Well, I could go on and on listing the powerful insights in these books. But one last observation about Nirmala’s work – something I found most refreshing. He’s humble about this work. He does not claim to be the divine revealer and he does not want us to accept him as our savior or guru -- or write him a check! He shares his ideas, but tells us to find our own way to our own truth. The only truth he seems to find non-negotiable is the Advaita truth that there is only the One Thing and we are all It. I am not exaggerating when I say that Nirmala’s books have been enlightening and life changing for me. I hope they find wide readership. This is the kind of thought that our fragmented world needs desperately at this point in history.
Gratefully, Dwight L Zavitz, Jr.
OF ADVAITA WISDOM
I came to Nirmala’s books as a lifelong mystic and spiritual explorer who served as an ordained minister for 22 years. The mystics of the East and the West have inspired me for decades. After reading the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, Shankara, many Buddhist teachers, and the Yoga Vasistha, I wanted to explore the Advaita tradition in more depth. I stumbled onto Nirmala’s books after an on-line search. I only planned to read his book Nothing Personal: Seeing Beyond the Illusion of a Personal Self as a way of answering some questions about the Buddhist concept of No-Self. But after reading this book I was so delighted with what I found in its pages that I went on to read three more of his books, Meeting the Mystery: Exploring the Aware Presence at the Heart of All life; Living from the Heart; and That is That: Essays About True Nature.
What Nirmala (AKA Daniel Erway of Sedona, Arizona) does in these books is nothing short of remarkable. T.S. Eliot once wrote that the job of the poet is to make the most difficult truths of philosophy and religion as immanent as the fragrance of a rose. Nirmala has taken some of the most difficult truths of Eastern religion and philosophy, distilled them, and expressed them in clear, concise form. What might be called the metaphysics and ethics of Advaita non-dual thought have been clearly and simply expressed in Nirmala’s books in ways that make them applicable to everyday life.
As he does this, Nirmala injects wry humor and amusing examples with which we can easily identify. He also shares a few snapshots of his own life and struggles, which bring these ideas to life for us. His approach is wonderfully refreshing especially after wading through the hundreds of repetitious pages of the Yoga Vasistha!
In addition to restating clearly the main ideas of Advaita non-dual thought, Nirmala adds many practical suggestions for applying these ideas to our lives. I found Nirmala’s books treasure troves of wonderful insights and suggestions. Following are a few of his ideas that I found most helpful:
1. The real me is not this body or my ego but Awareness. This basic conscious awareness was never born and will never die. Knowing this gives one a cosmic perspective on everyday problems. When you know that you are Awareness you don’t need to be a seeker anymore. You know that you already are what you wished to become. So just Be! (Here he echoes one of his sources Ramana Maharshi.)
2. When everyday problems besiege us it is wise to give them space and blast off from them up into the cosmic Awareness that we really are.
3. Wisdom and Truth expand the heart and quiet the mind. We can actually feel our hearts expand in the presence of truth and contract in the presence of lesser truth. If we put our hands over our heart and open our heart we can actually feel the flow of Being. This provides a powerful guide for living.
4. Judgment cuts us off from the flow of being as we close our hearts to what is. Accepting what is rather then engaging in denial or attack leads to insight and growth.
5. We learn and grow from all of our choices in life, both the bad ones and the good ones. Being just enjoys watching us explore and learn -- so you might say it’s all good.
6. Everything is alive and aware, even a stone. It’s all the dream of the one primal Awareness Being that we all are at different levels of awareness.
7. Hold all ideas lightly knowing that change is the norm.
8. Surrender to what is and explore it knowing that desire for what is not is what brings about suffering. Be grateful for whatever is, knowing that in the cosmic perspective all is well.
9. Be aware that Being is always working for our highest good, but also knowing that it gives us the freedom to choose lesser goods until we learn (the hard way!) to flow with the highest will of Being. The Wise man or woman aligns his or her will with the highest good of Being.
Well, I could go on and on listing the powerful insights in these books. But one last observation about Nirmala’s work – something I found most refreshing. He’s humble about this work. He does not claim to be the divine revealer and he does not want us to accept him as our savior or guru -- or write him a check! He shares his ideas, but tells us to find our own way to our own truth. The only truth he seems to find non-negotiable is the Advaita truth that there is only the One Thing and we are all It. I am not exaggerating when I say that Nirmala’s books have been enlightening and life changing for me. I hope they find wide readership. This is the kind of thought that our fragmented world needs desperately at this point in history.
Gratefully, Dwight L Zavitz, Jr.
September 8, 2012
If you are looking for a novel to take you on a spiritual journey then click buy now. If you are not interested in exploring faith then keep browsing. The author does a great job of communicating the importance of faith and the need of humans to explore all aspects of such. I would recommend this as a good read for all to get a bit of understanding.
June 18, 2011
Great Stuff! Really put me in touch with my heart. I had heard about listening to my heart, but I did not really know how to do it. This book has shown me how to tap into my own inner wisdom.
June 25, 2018
This excellent book opens up a whole new way of looking at and experiencing life. The progression of exercises are well done and enlightening. Very easy to understand.
March 3, 2014
I started rereading this book one day after I finished it. Never in my life have I done this but the eye and heart opening wisdom within is something I have never experienced before. Some concepts may sound familiar but this writing truly touched a deeper part of me. And I have read many spiritual and self-improvement books. Nirmala writes in such an expansive yet simple and honest way, you just cannot help but be captivated by the greater truth his words hold. With practicial excecises included, reading this book is like going on a spiritual journey.
March 13, 2011
What more can I say, the title, Living from the Heart, says it all. Practical instructions for living in joy, peace, awareness and truth. Helps you navigate daily life with a spiritual perspective.
March 13, 2011
A wonderful introduction to the spiritual heart and its wisdom.
December 25, 2012
Reflections and instructions for Open hearted living
February 20, 2017
Living from the Heart presents a beautiful, simple philosophy rooted in Advaita Vedanta Hinduism. I found it...mind-opening, compelling, and fulfilling. I can't describe it well, but I need more. I want to read a little jolt of this work every morning to remind myself how to approach every moment of my life, no matter what is happening. This little book is full of wonderful exercises you can do anytime, anywhere and it's written with a soothing, hypnotic style that really makes you feel as if Nirmala is mesmerizing you into meditation.
I'm so glad I found this. I think it signals the start of new direction for my spiritual studies. I'm excited for the path this book has shown me.
I'm so glad I found this. I think it signals the start of new direction for my spiritual studies. I'm excited for the path this book has shown me.
September 13, 2016
I started rereading this book as soon as I finished it. Never in my life have I done this and I have read many spiritual and self-improvement books. Although certain concepts are familiar to me, it is an amazing experience to venture through the eye and heart opening wisdom contained within. Nirmala writes in such an expansive yet simple and honest way, you just cannot help but be captivated by the greater truth contained in his words. With the practical exercises, reading this book is like going on a spiritual journey.
July 28, 2015
Great Book
Nirmala has a very unique talent. He can help us see that life is simple. He teaches us in a fun, playful way that our focus should be on love, not on consuming. He explains that the panacea of love is in the giving, not in the getting. The exercises are excellent in proving the truth of the teachings in the book. This teacher shows us as well as tells us all we need to know to get on the path to love and satisfaction. He explains in a palatable way the plausibility of who we really are. This author is a truly gifted writer and teacher.
Nirmala has a very unique talent. He can help us see that life is simple. He teaches us in a fun, playful way that our focus should be on love, not on consuming. He explains that the panacea of love is in the giving, not in the getting. The exercises are excellent in proving the truth of the teachings in the book. This teacher shows us as well as tells us all we need to know to get on the path to love and satisfaction. He explains in a palatable way the plausibility of who we really are. This author is a truly gifted writer and teacher.
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March 29, 2013The spiritual Heart is not limited to a location in your body. The heart is the totality of your connection with the essential qualities and greater dimensions of your true nature as a limitless Being. Any full exploration of the larger truth of your Being must include a discovery of the capacities and qualities of this tender, loving and wise aspect of your true nature.
The book's introduction is self-reviewing. 'Nuff said.
The book's introduction is self-reviewing. 'Nuff said.
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March 20, 2014The message "living from the Heart" is so up for me now, but yet sometimes I have wondered, but how do I do it? This book is very helpful in that regard. Highly recommended if it is time to change the way you look at the world.
January 18, 2016
What a loving, gentle and compassionate book! Yet filled with such wisdom and insight. It's deceptively simple, but provides profound wisdom in a form that is easily understood and practically applied by Western seekers. Truly life-altering in every way.
March 12, 2011
What more can I say, the title, Living from the Heart, says it all. Practical instructions for living in joy, peace, awareness and truth. Helps you navigate daily life with a spiritual perspective.
January 1, 2015
A simple yet profound book, many of the concepts seem to overlap and are very similar but the author takes us on a journey of self-discovery, opening the heart!
May 25, 2015
Una perspectiva hacia otros ámbitos del Ser. Una guía interesante si no se es experto en el tema, con orientaciones básicas y contenido de fácil entendimiento.
September 17, 2016
New way to think and move through your daily life. Is very helpful if your in a rut in life or just not sure why nothing seems to be going with the waves of the universe.
July 15, 2017
I found it hard to read due to the writing style and repetetiveness but persisted in order to glean the worthwhile information. Overall I'd say it was worth the effort.
June 3, 2023
Part 1 was very good. The remaining two parts felt rushed, disconnected, and some concepts needed to be further expounded (such as the glancing mention of accepting and appreciating some pretty horrible stuff).
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When trying to find out how your system works, it seems like learning a complex video game when one has never even played agame.
Can anyone help?
Thanx.
Raymond
When trying to find out how your system works, it seems like learning a complex video game when one has never even played agame.
Can anyone help?
Thanx.
Raymond
March 23, 2017
Simple yet beautiful.... it is indeed an art to express the universal beauty in words...
February 16, 2020
Not a big fan of this one. I found parts of it hard to understand.
April 27, 2020
Great book. Thoroughly enjoyed it
December 23, 2025
Long, waffling, way too many "exercises" and I think a bit misguided in places like where it said to try and feel love for the murderer. A bit Pollyanna-ish/toxic positivity for me.
August 9, 2017
This book is at best questionable
This book is a mixture of pop psychologically and new age nonsense. It predicates hoped for resulted on the basis of magical thinking.
This book is a mixture of pop psychologically and new age nonsense. It predicates hoped for resulted on the basis of magical thinking.
October 2, 2013
Good book. It made a difference. I would have been really fond of this book had i not already naturally discovered this teaching.
September 10, 2016
Not my thing. Did not finish.
April 8, 2016
Too new age for me...
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