It begins where the listener already is - in the kitchen, office, driving a car, walking - and shows how deep meditative presence is available now. Lucidly and beautifully written, Peace Is Every Step contains commentaries, meditations, personal anecdotes, and stories from Nhat Hanh's experiences as a peace activist, teacher, and community leader. The most profound satisfactions, the deepest feelings of joy and completeness lie as close at hand as our next aware breath and the smile we can form right now. Dirty dishes, red lights, and traffic jams are spiritual friends on the path to 'mindfulness' - the process of keeping our consciousness alive to our present experience and reality. A ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves.

World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. His ongoing work teaching reconciliation and meditation with war veterans, widows, orphans, refugees, therapists, activists, and ecumenical groups has gained him a large and respectful following around the world.In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. and a forty year exile from his homeland. His efforts to achieve an early peaceful end to the American war in Vietnam earned him a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize by Dr. It tells his story accessibly, lyrically, and simply.” – Tricycle THE FILMĪuthor of many books (including the bestsellers Being Peace, Living Buddha/Living Christ, The Miracle of Mindfulness and Peace Is Every Step), Thich Nhat Hanh has had a profound impact on contemporary thinking and, importantly, social action. Peace Is Every Step is an homage to one of the great peace activists and Buddhists. “Resounding intimacy…conveys Thich Nhat Hanh’s soft-spoken message artfully…lends dignity and power to what he has to say. His words resonate long after the film stops.” – Yoga Journal “Wisely centered around the quiet words and serene presence of Thich Nhat Hanh himself. “Thich Nhat Hanh’s ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to world brotherhood, to humanity.” –Dr. Deep looking is meditation, and deep acting is also meditation.” –Thich Nhat Hanh CRITICAL ACCLAIM “You get out of the meditation hall in order to help people.

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