Real Life | Free Book
Merging the insights of inspiring voices with her own
understanding of mindfulness, New York Times bestselling
author Sharon Salzberg shows us how we can recover from the
emotional effects of crisis.
When confronted with pain and obstacles, we often shrink back and
contract out of fear and disappointment. That can become a way of
life.
In Real Life, Sharon Salzberg lets us know
it doesn’t have to be that way.
When we feel alone, cut
off, or trapped, we can let those difficulties steer us onto a path
toward an authentic, flourishing life—living in a way that allows us
to find the wholeness that lies within. Even when we’re alone, a
sense of community can accompany us through the stormy times. Our
words, hearts, and actions can line up with a larger vision, rather
than the smaller views our anxious, fearful thoughts arouse in
us.
To live in a less constricted way—with a more
spacious, open sense of possibility, creativity, connection, and
joy—Salzberg says we need to get real about what’s most important,
to ask ourselves, “What do I most deeply yearn for?” “What would I
benefit from letting go of?” “What do I believe is possible for
me?”
We accomplish the journey to expansive freedom (Real
Life) through developing tools like mindful awareness, friendship,
and a greater sense of purpose/aspiration. We learn to:
• take
some risks with what we dare to imagine
• take an interest in
internal states we might normally try to avoid
• take an
interest in people we might normally try to avoid
Real Life
is about the journey we make when we decide to live the life that
speaks to our innermost longing to live free.
In The Press
"Sharon Salzberg is, to me, a perfect Buddhist teacher, who manages to
guide us gently and entertainingly towards peace, awakening, and
lovingkindness, where joy is to be found.”
- Anne Lamott,
bestselling author of Bird by Bird
“Sharon Salzberg
writes from a place filled with love and simplicity. With
Real Life, she gives profoundly effective advice about emerging
from the dark corners where we find ourselves. Her insights are
life-changing.”
- Mary Louise Parker, star of Showtime’s
Weeds
“Real Life has the power to
revolutionize the way we relate to ourselves and the world.”
—
Valarie Kaur, bestselling author of See No Stranger
“Real Life leaves us wiser, encouraged, courageous
and tender, more connected to our heart.”
— Jack Kornfield, author of After the Ecstasy and
The Laundry
“Sharon is a master at helping us get
over ourselves and get out of our heads — so that we can do hard
things and generally do life better. This book will help you shed old,
unhelpful patterns and escape what David Foster Wallace once called
‘the skull-sized kingdom’. Check it out.”
- Dan Harris,
author of 10% Happier
“What a joy to soak in these
illuminating ideas and engaging stories of how we each can mice more
fully and freely in our challenging times.”
—
Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. New York Times best selling author,
IntraConnected and Executive Director, Mindsight Institute
“Sharon
Salzberg’s Real Life invites us to approach our one, precious
life with fullness and courage, without papering over the pain or the
challenges. “
- Rabbi Angela W. Buchdahl
“The
jewel in the crown of the Real series. This gift of a book is filled
with Sharon’s signature style of blending keen observation, profound
wisdom, and the easeful confidence of a trusted teacher.”
-
Amishi Jha, Ph.D, author of the national bestseller
Peak Mind.
“This book will put you in touch with
your own deepest wisdom—and help you embody it in your own life.”
— Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, Host of The Psychology Podcast and
author of Transcend
“ Sharon Salzberg is, above all, a
master storyteller."
- Catherine Burns, the long-time
Artistic Director of The Moth
“Sharon Salzberg shows us how
to rebalance ourselves in the face of life’s difficulties, and in so
doing, free our minds and hearts to find bliss and wonder.”
–
David DeSteno, host of the PRX Podcast How God Works
“Real Life
is far more than piercing, fierce instructions for cultivating
lovingkindness as a means for our connection. It is also an elegy for
the heartache of isolation and pathway to connection..”
–
Jerry Colonna, author Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing
Up.
"Our great suffering is forgetting who we really are,
forgetting the possibility for freedom in every moment.
Real Life gives us a pathway of remembering. In this inspiring
and powerful book we are invited to open to our full potential for
wisdom and love, and offered clear, practical guidance for living from
that basic goodness."
- Tara Brach, author of
Radical Acceptance and
Radical Compassion
"This book maps our life-giving
journey from isolation to community, from confinement to freedom"
—Parker J. Palmer, author of On the Brink of Everything
"A shout of
joy to welcome the hope-filled inner journey of this book!"
—Robert Thurman, Professor Emeritus, Columbia U., author of
Wisdom IS Bliss.
Sharon has done it again;
Real Life delivers another gem from the person I like to call the
“Queen of Loving Kindness”.
—Atman Smith, author of
Let Your Light Shine
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