Book Review: Quiet Mind: One-Minute Retreats from a Busy World, David Kundtz
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Have you always wanted to go on a personal retreat? Do you feel you just can't afford the time or cost? Well, here's a whole collection of retreats to gift yourself almost anytime and anywhere, and for less than $15.00.
This is a wonderful little book — a series of reflections, none more than a page and a half or so, and each brimming with meaningful insights, illuminating what it means to be a human being while sending "human doing" to the back burner for a bit.
Wake with the sun and sleep with the moon, turn with the tide, and know when the tide has turned, without the angst of needing to know why it turned. Here is a book about making room for life, and simultaneously realizing the unbounded potential found in all those seemingly trivial moments lost between our daily comings and goings. This is a book about the art and grace of simple awareness. I wish this review could do it justice...
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