Writing as a Path to Awakening: A Year to Becoming an Excellent Writer and Living an Awakened Life

Author:   Albert Flynn DeSilver
Publisher:   Sounds True Inc
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9781622039111


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   31 August 2017
Format:   Paperback
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"The best writers say their work seems to come from a source beyond the thinking mind. But how do we access that source? ""We must first look inside ourselves and be willing to touch that raw emotional core at the heart of a deeper creativity,"" writes Albert Flynn DeSilver. In Writing as a Path to Awakening, this renowned poet, writer, and teacher shows you how to use meditation to cultivate true depth in your own writing—so your words reveal layers of profound emotional insight and revelation that inspire and move your readers. Writing calls on us to fully engage our mind's cognitive powers, while meditation often asks us to let go of thinking and storytelling. Though these two practices may seem incompatible, Albert teaches that they can be powerfully complementary.  With a mixture of engaging storytelling and practical exercises, Writing as a Path to Awakening invites you on a journey of growth and discovery—to enhance your writing through the practice of meditation while using the creative process to accelerate your spiritual evolution."

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Author:   Albert Flynn DeSilver
Publisher:   Sounds True Inc
Imprint:   Sounds True Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.264kg
ISBN:  

9781622039111


ISBN 10:   1622039114
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   31 August 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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DeSilver opens a doorway that allows for spiritual and emotional growth, concepts not discussed in typical writing books. --Shelf Awareness In this gentle, lucid, erudite and compassionate guide, Albert Flynn DeSilver offers the wisdom and warmth of a true friend who has walked the path--one who reaches out a capable hand and offers it to the new writer, to the struggling writer, and says, 'Here, here, let me show you not only how to write, but how to live. --Dani Shapiro, author of Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life This book is full of wonderful insights, exercises, and some luscious prose. Luck for us, Albert Flynn DeSilver learned how to write as he was walking the spiritual path, a quality lacking in so many books on spirituality. This is an original, and a real good read. --Wes Nisker, author of Buddha's Nature: A Practical Guide to Discovering Your Place in the Cosmos This is a wonderful collection of insights, practices, writing exercises, and meditations to help you get words on the page, not just as an accomplishment, but as a way to discover who you really are. --Susan Piver, author of Start Here Now: An Open-Hearted Guide to the Path and Practice of Meditation Albert Flynn DeSilver is our funny, wise, and vulnerable tour guide on this magical year-long journey through the soul of writing. I recommend this book to seekers who want to tell their stories, writers who want to connect with their deepest truths, and anyone who wants to use words as a path to what lies beyond language. --Anne Cushman, author of Enlightenment for Idiots: A Novel


DeSilver opens a doorway that allows for spiritual and emotional growth, concepts not discussed in typical writing books. --Shelf Awareness In this gentle, lucid, erudite and compassionate guide, Albert Flynn DeSilver offers the wisdom and warmth of a true friend who has walked the path--one who reaches out a capable hand and offers it to the new writer, to the struggling writer, and says, 'Here, here, let me show you not only how to write, but how to live. --Dani Shapiro, author of Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life This book is full of wonderful insights, exercises, and some luscious prose. Luck for us, Albert Flynn DeSilver learned how to write as he was walking the spiritual path, a quality lacking in so many books on spirituality. This is an original, and a real good read. --Wes Nisker, author of Buddha's Nature: A Practical Guide to Discovering Your Place in the Cosmos This is a wonderful collection of insights, practices, writing exercises, and meditations to help you get words on the page, not just as an accomplishment, but as a way to discover who you really are. --Susan Piver, author of Start Here Now: An Open-Hearted Guide to the Path and Practice of Meditation Albert Flynn DeSilver is our funny, wise, and vulnerable tour guide on this magical year-long journey through the soul of writing. I recommend this book to seekers who want to tell their stories, writers who want to connect with their deepest truths, and anyone who wants to use words as a path to what lies beyond language. --Anne Cushman, author of Enlightenment for Idiots: A Novel


In this gentle, lucid, erudite, and compassionate guide, Albert Flynn DeSilver offers the wisdom and warmth of a true friend who has walked the path--one who reaches out a capable hand and offers it to the new writer, to the struggling writer, and says, 'Here, here, let me show you not only how to write, but how to live.' --Dani Shapiro, author of Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life This is a wonderful collection . . . to help you get words on the page, not just as an accomplishment, but as a way to discover who you really are. --Susan Piver, author of Start Here Now: An Open-Hearted Guide to the Path and Practice of Meditation I recommend this book to seekers who want to tell their stories, writers who want to connect with their deepest truths, and anyone who wants to use words as a path to what lies beyond language. --Anne Cushman, author of Enlightenment for Idiots: A Novel This book is full of wonderful insights, exercises, and some luscious prose. Lucky for us, Albert Flynn DeSilver learned how to write as he was walking the spiritual path, a quality lacking in so many books on spirituality. This is an original, and a real good read. --Wes Nisker, author of Buddha's Nature: A Practical Guide to Discovering Your Place in the Cosmos


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"Albert Flynn DeSilver ALBERT FLYNN DESILVER is an internationally published poet, memoirist, novelist, speaker, and workshop leader. He has published several books of poetry and Beamish Boy (Owl Press, 2012), which Kirkus Reviews calls, ""A beautifully written memoir of awakening and self-acceptance."" He teaches at the Omega Institute, Esalen, Spirit Rock, and writing conferences nationally. He lives in northern California. For more, visit albertflynndesilver.com."

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