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The Heart of Who We Are: Realizing Freedom Together
Awareness practices and contemplative technologies that transform our understanding of ourselves and the world ― profoundly impacting how we live
When Caverly Morgan reentered society after eight years as a Zen monk, she was confronted with a question many of us are asking these When faced with the enormity of the collective problems before us, how can one individual’s spiritual practice make a tangible difference in our world?
In The Heart of Who We Are , Morgan explores how meditation, mindfulness, and contemplative technologies designed for the realization of personal freedom can―and must be―applied collectively. Offering a wealth of teachings and reflections, solo and group exercises, and personal stories that inspire us to put our values into action, this timely guide invites us to connect with the deepest truth of who we are, and then use that understanding to transform our own lives and the world we share.
• Chapter 1: Return to Creating an Environment of CARE
• Chapter 2: Return to Giving the Gift of Attention
• Chapter 3: Return to Recognizing the Conditioned Mind
• Chapter 4: Return to Releasing Negative Self-Talk and Shame
• Chapter 5: Return to Unconditional Embodying the Compassionate Mentor Within
• Chapter 6: Return to Unpacking Our Survival Strategies
• Chapter 7: Return to Seeing Through Duality
• Chapter 8: Return to Knowing the Heart of Who We Are
• Chapter 9: Return to Resting in Luminous Being
• Chapter 10: Return to Releasing the Mind into the Heart
• Chapter 11: Return to Turning Toward What Is
• Chapter 12: Return to Loving and Living Truth in the World
At the core of this book is the call to liberation, to find freedom that is within and without, both personally and collectively. “The longer we cling to the notion that there’s a separate self who awakens, the more arduous our path will be,” Morgan writes. “We realize freedom together.”
When Caverly Morgan reentered society after eight years as a Zen monk, she was confronted with a question many of us are asking these When faced with the enormity of the collective problems before us, how can one individual’s spiritual practice make a tangible difference in our world?
In The Heart of Who We Are , Morgan explores how meditation, mindfulness, and contemplative technologies designed for the realization of personal freedom can―and must be―applied collectively. Offering a wealth of teachings and reflections, solo and group exercises, and personal stories that inspire us to put our values into action, this timely guide invites us to connect with the deepest truth of who we are, and then use that understanding to transform our own lives and the world we share.
• Chapter 1: Return to Creating an Environment of CARE
• Chapter 2: Return to Giving the Gift of Attention
• Chapter 3: Return to Recognizing the Conditioned Mind
• Chapter 4: Return to Releasing Negative Self-Talk and Shame
• Chapter 5: Return to Unconditional Embodying the Compassionate Mentor Within
• Chapter 6: Return to Unpacking Our Survival Strategies
• Chapter 7: Return to Seeing Through Duality
• Chapter 8: Return to Knowing the Heart of Who We Are
• Chapter 9: Return to Resting in Luminous Being
• Chapter 10: Return to Releasing the Mind into the Heart
• Chapter 11: Return to Turning Toward What Is
• Chapter 12: Return to Loving and Living Truth in the World
At the core of this book is the call to liberation, to find freedom that is within and without, both personally and collectively. “The longer we cling to the notion that there’s a separate self who awakens, the more arduous our path will be,” Morgan writes. “We realize freedom together.”
320 pages, Paperback
Published November 29, 2022
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December 31, 2022
Highly recommend! I usually read books quickly but this one surprised me with guided meditations and journal prompts so I took almost all of December to read it so I could fully participate and I’m glad I did! Full of very rich, beautiful writing, super fascinating stories and a way of living that is kind and accessible to all of us, even those who aren’t familiar with meditation and mindfulness.
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