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Beauty as a State of Being: Mastering Mind and the Spiritual Path
Next Generation Indie Book Winner, Self Help2015 Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Silver Winner, Self Help2014 National Indie Excellence Book Winner, Self Help - Spiritual2014 Nautilus Book Silver Winner, Religion/Spirituality - EasternThis book is required reading for everyone who has a mind. The mind is a powerful tool capable of great creativity and invention. But, when used improperly, the mind can also become an instrument of suffering. Beauty as a State of Being shows the reader how to use the mind well, so that peace can reign in the individual life and, by extension, the life of the world.When the mind finds its proper place the heart is revealed and, with the heart, joy. Beauty as a State of Being guides the reader to realms of joy and spiritual illumination, where answers to the great questions of life are also to be found. As the path presented in this book progresses toward the spiritual, the ideas ascend in conceptual and literary beauty, in essays and prose poems that are themselves revelations of the heart.
304 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 27, 2013
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November 26, 2015
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Admittedly, I do not hold completely to the author's philosophical/religious views, however, the book is chock full of seriously helpful information regarding thoughts and how they relate to our emotions/actions. I absolutely loved the peaceful style of writing and the content. Fantastic!
September 3, 2021
Katz is an excellent writer and the content informative. I recommend this work especially for persons who wish to explore how spirituality and psychology practically relate in our emotional healing and wellbeing. Katz guides us well from dualistic spiritual practices to nondual non-practice. He finds inspiration in such past Teachers as Nisargadatta, Ramana Maharshi, and Papaji.
March 30, 2023
"Beauty as a State of Being", by Dr. Solomon Katz, is as much a book as it is a piece of art. The author brings us through his thoughts, references and arguments as an invisible spiritual leader. For a full review click: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/devils...
November 19, 2015
Beauty As A State of Being: Mastering Mind and the Spiritual Path, is a book whose message will remain with me for some time - hopefully always.
Written by Dr. Solomon Katz, a Harvard educated clinical psychologist, and lifelong practitioner of meditation, this book is one of those rare gems of spiritual enlightenment that addresses the mental pathologies of the human psyche. More significantly, he offers readers numerous tools and insights to circumvent them, ultimately allowing one to rest in a state of inner peace, harmony, and the bliss of pure being.
And how does one get there?
Not easy in the rapid-fire, digital world of information overload in which we all live on a daily basis. From Helicopter moms and over-scheduled school kids to struggling college undergrads and stressed-out executives, we are incessantly lost in our internal dramas and dilemmas. And the more we fuel them, the more real and convincing they appear.
But they're not.
And that's what Dr. Solomon Katz masterfully demonstrates in this book. Drawing from years of teaching, clinical practice, and monastic living in the East, he is a master in his own right of the spiritual path to self-mastery and inner calm.
If I had to capture the essence of Katz's book in verse, I would use the following Haiku poem by 19c Japanese monk/writer, Ryokan:
The flower invites the butterfly with no-mind;
The butterfly visits the flower with no-mind.
The flower opens, the butterfly comes;
The butterfly comes, the flower opens.
I don't know others,
Others don't know me.
By not-knowing, we follow nature's course.
Beauty As A State of Being, reminds me of the timeless, eternal mystery of my existence - an existence that is pregnant with infinite possibilities - here and now in the sacrament of the present moment. A great read: I highly recommend it.
Written by Dr. Solomon Katz, a Harvard educated clinical psychologist, and lifelong practitioner of meditation, this book is one of those rare gems of spiritual enlightenment that addresses the mental pathologies of the human psyche. More significantly, he offers readers numerous tools and insights to circumvent them, ultimately allowing one to rest in a state of inner peace, harmony, and the bliss of pure being.
And how does one get there?
Not easy in the rapid-fire, digital world of information overload in which we all live on a daily basis. From Helicopter moms and over-scheduled school kids to struggling college undergrads and stressed-out executives, we are incessantly lost in our internal dramas and dilemmas. And the more we fuel them, the more real and convincing they appear.
But they're not.
And that's what Dr. Solomon Katz masterfully demonstrates in this book. Drawing from years of teaching, clinical practice, and monastic living in the East, he is a master in his own right of the spiritual path to self-mastery and inner calm.
If I had to capture the essence of Katz's book in verse, I would use the following Haiku poem by 19c Japanese monk/writer, Ryokan:
The flower invites the butterfly with no-mind;
The butterfly visits the flower with no-mind.
The flower opens, the butterfly comes;
The butterfly comes, the flower opens.
I don't know others,
Others don't know me.
By not-knowing, we follow nature's course.
Beauty As A State of Being, reminds me of the timeless, eternal mystery of my existence - an existence that is pregnant with infinite possibilities - here and now in the sacrament of the present moment. A great read: I highly recommend it.
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