Bearing Witness: A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace
10 best books like Bearing Witness: A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace (Bernie Glassman): Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum, On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard, We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Change Your Life and the World Around You, Drinking: A Love Story, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir, Bringing Yoga to Life: The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living, Waking Up to What You Do: A Zen Practice for Meeting Every Situation with Intelligence and Compassion, Cave in the Snow
Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum
| Author | Jennifer O'Toole |
| ISBN | 1510732845 |
The face of autism is changing. And more often than we realize, that face is wearing lipstick.
Autism in Heels
, an intimate memoir, reveals the woman inside one of autism's most prominent figures, Jennifer O'Toole. At the age of thirty-five, Jennifer was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome,...
On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard
| Author | Jennifer Pastiloff |
| ISBN | 1524743569 |
An inspirational memoir about how Jennifer Pastiloff’s years of waitressing taught her to seek out unexpected beauty, how deafness taught her to listen fiercely, how being vulnerable allowed her to find love, and how imperfections can lead to a life full of wild happiness.
Centered around...
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
| Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| ISBN | 0374280002 |
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations distinguish...
A Year of Living Kindly: Choices That Will Change Your Life and the World Around You
| Author | Donna Cameron |
| ISBN | 1631524798 |
Being kind is something most of us do when it’s easy and when it suits us. Being kind when we don’t feel like it, or when all of our buttons are being pushed, is hard. But that’s also when it’s most needed; that’s when it can defuse anger and even violence, when it can restore civility in our personal...
| Author | Caroline Knapp |
| ISBN | 0385315546 |
The roots of alcoholism in the life of a brilliant daughter of an upper-class family are explored in this stylistic, literary memoir of drinking by a Massachusetts journalist.
Caroline Knapp describes how the distorted world of her well-to-do parents pushed her toward anorexia and alcoholism....
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
| Author | Priya Parker |
| ISBN | 1594634920 |
A transformative exploration of the power, purpose, and benefits of gatherings in our lives: at work, at school, at home and beyond.
Every day we find ourselves in gatherings, Priya Parker says in The Art of Gathering. If we can understand what makes these gatherings effective and memorable,...
Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home: A Memoir
When longtime Zen practitioner and world-renowned writing teacher Natalie Goldberg learns that she has a life-threatening illness, she is plunged into the challenging realm of hospitals, physicians, unfamiliar medical treatments, and the intense reality of her own impermanence. In navigating...
| Author | Donna Farhi |
| ISBN | 0060750464 |
Internationally renowned and bestselling author Donna Farhi moves yoga practice beyond the mat into our everyday lives, restoring the tradition's intended function as a complete, practical philosophy for daily living.
Expanding upon the teachings of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, the core...
Waking Up to What You Do: A Zen Practice for Meeting Every Situation with Intelligence and Compassion
| Author | Diane Eshin Rizzetto |
| ISBN | 1590303423 |
Life is rising up to meet us at every moment. The question is: Are we there to meet it or not? Diane Rizzetto presents a simple but supremely effective practice for meeting every moment of our lives with mindfulness, using the Zen precepts as tools to develop a keen awareness of the motivations behind every...
| Author | Vicki Mackenzie |
| ISBN | 1582340455 |
This is the incredible story of Tenzin Palmo, a remarkable woman who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas.
At the age of 20, Diane Perry, looking to fill a void in her life, entered a monastery in India--the only woman amongst hundreds of monks---and began her battle against...
Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet
"In Standing at the Edge, Joan Halifax weaves together scientific research and her own powerful personal experiences as a social activist and humanitarian to show how we can transform our biggest challenges with compassion and wisdom. Standing at the Edge is essential reading for our time." — Arianna...
| Author | Yōko Ogawa |
| ISBN | 2742788298 |
L’île où se déroule cette histoire est depuis toujours soumise à un étrange phénomène : les choses et les êtres semblent promis à une sorte d’effacement diaboliquement orchestré. Quand un matin les oiseaux disparaissent à jamais, la jeune narratrice de ce livre ne s’épanche pas...
