Be Still and Get Going
A Jewish Meditation Practice for Real Life- By Alan Lew
Full Description
- Written in a warm, accessible, and intimate style, BE STILL AND GET GOING will touch those who are searching for an authentic spiritual practice that speaks to them in their own cultural language.- Lew's first book, "One God Clapping (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2/01), was a "San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and winner of the PEN Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence. "Publishers Weekly hailed him as "a perceptive thinker" for his "refreshing and sometimes startling perspective" in his last book, "This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared (Little, Brown and Company, 2003).
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Critical Praise
"This is a brilliant, honest, edifying, funny, engaging-as-a-suspense-novel, passionate invitation and promise - transformation is possible, and at any time of the year. It could start today!"
—Sylvia Boorstein, author of Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake
"Rabbi Alan Lew conveys Jewish spiritual concepts in emotional terms that speak powerfully to the modern reader. . . . He draws on stores of Jewish wisdom, as well as a profound psychological awareness and a rich experience as rabbi and counselor. A deeply felt and beautifully written book."
—Avivah Zornberg, author of The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis
"Lew emerges as a major voice for the new Judaism. The passion, power, and poetry of his words . . . illuminate a challenging spiritual path."
—Norman Fischer, author of Taking Our Places: The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up
- Category:
- RELIGION, SELF-HELP
- Format:
- TRADE PAPERBACK
- Publish Date:
- 8/30/2005
- Price:
- $14.95/$19.95
- ISBN:
- 9780316739108
- Pages:
- 272
- Size:
- 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"
