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A Surfer's Guide to Enlightenment: Insights from the Ocean on Life, Love and Happiness
A must-read for surfers and non-surfers alike!
"A Surfer's Guide to Enlightenment" is a captivating book that transcends the world of surfing to offer lessons in life, love, happiness, and inner peace. With short, punchy chapters, the author uses the ocean as a metaphor for the ups and downs of life and provides insights and wisdom into those challenging moments that threaten to overwhelm us all.
Praise for A Surfer's Guide to Enlightenment
A little treat that you can carry around in your pocket.
The deep passion for the ocean flows off the page and makes for a gentle way to deliver some profound insights.
Provides insights on happiness, anxiety, family, love, and even that ever-fraught term, "Enlightenment".
"A Surfer's Guide to Enlightenment" is a captivating book that transcends the world of surfing to offer lessons in life, love, happiness, and inner peace. With short, punchy chapters, the author uses the ocean as a metaphor for the ups and downs of life and provides insights and wisdom into those challenging moments that threaten to overwhelm us all.
Praise for A Surfer's Guide to Enlightenment
A little treat that you can carry around in your pocket.
The deep passion for the ocean flows off the page and makes for a gentle way to deliver some profound insights.
Provides insights on happiness, anxiety, family, love, and even that ever-fraught term, "Enlightenment".
134 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 26, 2023
About the author
Alastair Thompson
1 book2 followersAlastair is an author, teacher, surfer, and entrepreneur. His first newsletter series, written after the fall of Apartheid in his native South Africa, garnered a loyal following. Fodor's Travel Guides hired him to write about his travels in South America. He wrote briefly for newspapers in the USA. Businesses in Europe, Australia, and the Americas pay him to write about the environment.
Alastair has lived on five continents and started three businesses. A passionate teacher, he taught scuba diving in Egypt, skiing in the Rockies, snowboarding in the Appalachians, capoeira in New York City, algebra to kids with dyslexia, and English to kids in the favelas of Brazil.
He is married with two children and divides his time between San Diego, California, and Florianópolis, Brazil.
Alastair has lived on five continents and started three businesses. A passionate teacher, he taught scuba diving in Egypt, skiing in the Rockies, snowboarding in the Appalachians, capoeira in New York City, algebra to kids with dyslexia, and English to kids in the favelas of Brazil.
He is married with two children and divides his time between San Diego, California, and Florianópolis, Brazil.
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August 26, 2024
An ode to surfing and life.
Alistair Thompson presents the reader with a unique way to view surfing as a meaningful experience in life. He covers many aspects to demonstrate that surfing is more than just catching waves and that surfing attracts many different types of people. The books is a nice read that draws you in as you go from one topic to another.
Alistair Thompson presents the reader with a unique way to view surfing as a meaningful experience in life. He covers many aspects to demonstrate that surfing is more than just catching waves and that surfing attracts many different types of people. The books is a nice read that draws you in as you go from one topic to another.
November 20, 2024
Nonfiction. A unique perspective on surfing and life.
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