Into the Realm of Peace
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Better titled "The Five People *Eddie* meets in Heaven," this delightful book tells the story of an elderly carnival maintenance worker whose death in a tragic accident forces him to relive painful moments of his life. Naturally, since he is dead, the pain all occurs in Heaven, and takes the form of an in-depth life review administered by five people whose paths crossed Eddie's, whether he knew it or not.

As a Catholic, I am familiar with the notion that the afterlife begins with a purgation of sin. In this book, author Mitch Albom stretches this concept of Purgatory to allow Eddie to learn of the meaning of otherwise inexplicable events in his life. Why did his father's untimely death and a war wound unite to stick him in a dead-end job at the fairground? Why did an almost palpable sadness hover around Eddie after his days fighting in the Pacific? Why did his father not speak to him in his last years? The five people Eddie meets help him understand the stories of those around him, helping him to make sense of his own life and thereby rid himself of old guilt and sense of worthlessness.

Narrator Erik Singer does a nice job of giving each character a distinctive voice: from the light Bronx accent of Eddie and his friends, to the Romanian accent of his father, to the southern accent of the Captain. The CD set starts and ends with conversations and interviews by Albom himself. A quibble is that while Albom wrote the book in a way that allowed the reader to imagine the seaside amusement park to exist anywhere along the eastern or western US seaboards, the narrator's Bronx accent fixed the story firmly in New York. No matter.

"The Five People You Meet In Heaven" is full of hope and longing and answered prayers. The Heaven it depicts is not a theological one, but a psychological one. And if (as Christian theology dictates) our bodies are integral to whom we are , and if our minds arise in some sense from those bodies, then a psychological understanding of who we are and what has transpired to us ought to be part of our Heaven.

A beautiful, moving, sad and uplifting book.
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Pathways to Peace is a beautiful book both in design and content. The editor has pulled together brief writings from around the globe, ancient to contemporary. They show that in every tradition, human beings have hoped and worked for peace. I found the book easy to hold and read, with nuggets of wisdom for daily inspiration. The book reminds us that peace is possible and hope lives on.
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If everyone read and practiced this book, there would be peace.  Peace within and peace in the world.  Thank you!
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REVIEW

This book is the author's joy of living in a new place.  He believes this is truly his paradise found. I believe the author found a serenity and a calmness in the days being the same day after day.  It was something you could depend on.  there isn't too much these days that one can actually depend on.

The author was so in life with his paradise that he wrote it in verse.  The verses are well written with a little rhyming in the right places.  They are not complicated verses where you have to put a lot of thinking into what the author was trying to say.  They are quite easy to understand.  They are not deep verses.  They are simply a few little lines abort life and the beauty therein.  The author, I believe wrote this not only for himself but for all the readers who are looking for a little remembrance of our lives as we age.  We all are looking for peace and love of those around us.  We just pass the days hoping that they are pleasant and happy.

I would recommend this book to anyone who hopes for at least a few days at a time.  Poetry or verse and be so relaxing and calming.  If you love verse, please read this book.  It is wonderful.  There's something for everyone.

I was given a complimentary copy of PARADISE FOUND by Gary Melhart for my view of this book.  No other compensation took place.
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#Peace - A New Perspective of Hope.

Anita Sechesky takes us on her journey of her beautiful and lovely world of kindness, and living a life of calm and peace within.  Anita teach us peace is so powerful next to love, and we all can have desire.  Her peace is stronger and create love, healing.  She takes us on her finding God and how HE placed into her heart.  She taken us on her beautiful and divine journey of finding peace within.
Chadi Hemaidan Personal Support worker.

Darla Ouellette takes us on a beautiful positive side of finding the meaning of peace within the beauty. Of her house that she has a list of chores to do, but in her discovering that she notice a flower sitting on a coffer table. It's so beautiful, that she didn't do her chores. She learns that the beauty of a flower is the most important of inner peace.
Chadi Hemaidan Personal Support worker.

Jossine Kaizirwe describe to us how her life changes when her husband was gone. And feeling at peace. And to choose to forgive and forget, and to start a fresh thoughts to release stressful situations. Is a state of finding forgiveness and forget. She teach use how to apply to release the anger, resentments, frustration. And take a journey of walks, and hearing sounds.
Chadi Hemaidan Personal Support worker.

Ruth DeYoung Farvardin Ruth describe peace can be found in instruments and beautiful music. With our attitude and perspective, we can find peace, and be peace within. We can not have peace if there is stress, and negativity in our lives. So to let stress and negativity out, then peace comes within. And with forgiveness we can bring peace within. With distractions from lifes, it will be difficulties to find peace. Chadi Hemaidan Personal Support worker

Steve Yuzenko Steve tells us wars that affect our peace, we cannot have peace and happiness. We must go within to have peace is ourself a part of the universe. With out war, if we put war away and we can have peace, and happiness in our lives. How can we find the missing peace? we can create peace within. Chadi Hemaidan Personal Support worker.

Marigrace MG she goes within to have peace, it begins within. She tells us by the messages and images, it is up to us to find and fill our minds with peace. With the negative messages that goes around us, it will affect ourselves by blocking peace. And treated herself with the kindness that she give to others as she found hers. Chadi Hemaidan Personal Support worker.

Elizabeth Pennington explain to us of peace in how we can be differ from person to person; it all depends on each person that we come around. That peace not be found in war or in violence places. And all of the double life we come to. Looking at Gods creations, she found the beauty of peace. Chadi Hemaidan Personal Support worker.

Susan Kern Susan describe how she lost her sign of herself, with war, and violence. She ride the train, having the joy and peace sitting on the train. Seeing flowers, and all the beauty in the world. They were peace waving by the breeze and not struggling agains each other. She found happiness along the winding journey. Chadi Hemaidan Personal Support worker.

Karla Johnson describe to us how she meet her husband who she meet in school. By the look of her husband getting worst. And found herself lost. And she knows that God had a plan. God was the focus of they lives, and with fear melting away. Leaving the fear out, and surrounding herself with her peace. Chadi Hemaidan Personal Support worker.
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A wonderful story of life, love,family,and making peace. A well woven book that will touch your heart and bring you peace.
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I Have Come to Tell the World that God Exists is a wonderful book. Having been to Medjugorje many times, I expected the stories and testimonies to be very familiar. Although some were, I never get tired of hearing them and the new stories just filled me up all over again. If you've been to Medjugorje and desire to return or if you've never been but would like to experience Medjugorje, this book will take you there. Our Lady wants all of us to know the peace that comes from God. This book is a perfect way to experience that peace.
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Miller offers up bright contemplation in a series of wonderful stories.  I live next to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, and my wife and I went on our honeymoon next to Oregon's soothing shores.  I am pleased to report, that Miller captures the spectacular moments of peace these great places offer.  This is a wonderful book to have along a bedside or in a work drawer.  When the dark weight of life seems to be overtaking you, take a walk with Dean Miller to the beach,  into a river in the Rocky Mountains, or follow a Monk as he fills his hunger for understanding, and you'll find yourself enjoying the tranquil moments as I did.
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Thank God!

The world of pain is unravelling. The promised real world of peace and joy and unity that takes its place will herald our return to Heaven. Not one person excluded. The second coming is happening now through the awakening of His children to their oneness.

Read this book and join in awakening to oneness. As you awaken, others will recognize something very familiar and begin to remember the truth along with you. This is a mind-transforming, training curriculum that is AN answer to humanity's long yearning for peace and for reunion with God. God is love and only love. And we are still perfect as He created us. We just need a lot of help remembering this! Help has reached us now.

"The holiest of all the spots on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love."
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This is not a travel brochure by someone who wants us merely to see the sights, or hit the hot spots, on the prayer road to God. This is a guidebook, a journal, by a resident who knows these roads and backroads because she has lived there, guided by God in the dark and in the light. There is much here to learn, by practicing, not just reading. Morse makes these practices accessible, safe (as safe as prayer can be), and easy to enter into, in community and in personal devotion.
Like the Chesterton quote at the beginning of the book, if we want to get up close enough to kiss instead of stand at a distance and blow kisses, we must pray rather than talk about praying. Morse's gift is the ability to talk us through the doing. What a great gift of hospitality this resident intercessor has given us. Then it's up to us. Prayer takes practice into a way of living and loving. The beloved awaits, and we will never be the same.
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This book is a journal of a two day trip Robert Rice took into the Montana wilderness that ended up stretching to six months of solitude and learning. Learning about the world he sees around him, life's struggle to survive, all life: insects and flowers and animals; mice, birds, deer, himself. Even more intensely he learns about the joy of letting go, absorbing all around him, being a natural part of it, without trying to dominate it or push it in some arbitrary prescribed direction. Gradually even his "route" he simply lets happen.
Rice goes into the wilderness to learn to meditate, but as the days meander along, he simply becomes meditation. And the peace it brings, the acceptance of whatever befalls, also bring him a joy in living. Simply living.
The wonderful thing is that Rice's joy seeps into the reader as well, effortlessly. All I had to do was read a book I enjoyed and at the end I'd received this wonderful gift from the author.
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Thought provoking, laughter to tears to a deep sense of peaceful purpose.  I could not put this book down and I will read it again. Thank you for sharing your journey
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I felt a real sense of peace reading about this man's journey, though I have no experience with Kundalini, the way it is written is sure to give anyone interested in a spiritual life a sense of hope that any difficulty along the path can be over come.
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For those looking for peace, this is by helpful. I've read it twice and will probably reread it again.
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I find this to be a time, both personally and world wide where the search for hope, for love, for peace dominates.  Many of the great philosophers and spiritual leaders are being quoted in our media.  There are sites to find your soul mate.  Friends just posted the following on my Facebook page:  Pope Francis arriving in Jordan, Jesus changed my life, Maharishi University commencement, relaxing meditation music with sea views,etc.  This quest is alive, overlapping with trials in the world.

 Willis Barnstone has given us a beautiful and historical gift in his unveiling of The Poems of Jesus Christ; the perfect concert two centuries apart, by two deeply intelligent and influential spiritual souls.  Peace and hope and love are here;  Jesus' words and WIllis as translator are in solid harmony. This collection shifts my mental rumble toward a calming , a quietness.

The wisdom of the lyrics, the intensity and purity on each page is classic, reflecting hope.  This is a beautifully designed book for children and adults, for novices and scholars.  I've just sent one to a special friend, a brilliant a book to share.
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Gregorian chant isn't everyone's cup of tea, I realize, but I defy anyone to listen to this and not feel transported to a kinder, more peaceable kingdom where spirit is tangible and higher love is all around. Gorgeous.
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If you are one of those who feels you never have a moment's peace, then it's obvious that you need to simplify your life.  While Thich Nhat Hanh is considered the world's foremost peace activist, he is perhaps its foremost simplicity activist as well and a prime example that simplicity engenders peace.  He is a simple monk who leads a plain and simple life and writes the same way.  I have always admired his style for its ease and clarity in pointing to the plain truths behind the often didactic tenants of Buddhism.  Using very clear and yet subtle metaphors and personal anecdotes, he points to the basic truths beyond the dicotomies of the sutras and koans.  In fact, many academicians, scholars and  Buddhist teachers would do well to emulate his style.  Because Nhat Hanh's writing is so simplistic, many pass off his ideas as being too nave.  After all, how can anyone ever hope to achieve world peace?  But Nhat Hanh's writing is deceptive in its subtlety. In his newest book, CREATING TRUE PEACE: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World , Nhat Hanh teaches how the seed of peace planted within one individual with proper nurturing can bloom into a peaceful family and then a peaceful community and later a peaceful country, and finally turn the entire world into a garden of peace.
CREATING TRUE PEACE is a compilation of his teachings from other works such as Peace Is Every Step, Miracle of Mindfulness, and Interbeing to name a few.  As usual, he uses metaphors, personal anecdotes, commentaries and meditations, many from past lectures and texts, to show us how such an improbable task is truly possible.  He discusses his usual topics: breathing, sitting and walking meditation, the five mindfulness trainings, listening and more.  But unlike some of his earlier works, this one presents practical, step-by-step methods for getting along with oneself, one's mate and children, one's neighbors and co-workers and one's country as well as a Manifesto for World Peace and some previously unpublished mindfulness trainings, which Nhat Hanh has developed over the years.
Although his writing is simplistic that doesn't mean it should be taken literally.  One still must find one's own path through the violence that exists in the world today.  He uses the metaphor of a lotus that grows in mud to show how the practice of acceptance can lead to peace even in a world of turmoil and upheaval.  .Nhat Hanh believes the seed of peace begins with mindfulness.  Especially, we need to be mindful consumers.  We must watch for the consumption of that which leads to unmindfulness like alcohol or violence in the media.  However, even these remain open to interpretation.  I doubt if Nhat Hanh would seriously tell us to avoid Shakespeare's Macbeth or even Kubrick's classic Clockwork Orange.
I was particularly fascinated by Nhat Hanh's discourse on Interbeing.  Here, he turns to the insect kingdom for his analogy, relating the interaction of worker bees to the shared unconsciousness that connects us all.  My fascination stemmed from having written a screenplay, in which one of the character's uses the same analogy when explaining a supernatural cataclysm that is starting to destroy our hive mind and leaving in its path only mankind's sense of individuality - The Root of All Evil.
Speaking of writing and other forms of creativity, you may find some of Nhat Hanh's methods particularly helpful in those areas.  I adapted a couple of his techniques to overcome writer's block.  But you must be careful.  You might get so creative that you won't leave time for anything else, which is probably why this review is rather lengthy.  But his techniques do work.