In The Press

“This is a wonderful, wise, and tender book. Its elegant and gifted storytelling will change you—softening your heart, opening you to the gifts and beauty around you, bringing you into a presence that we so need in this fast-paced world.”
—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart

“Tracy Cochran awakens us to life’s moment-by-moment wonder, and to the teachings that come from what is both ordinary and extraordinary. She guides us to being fully present in our experience, reconnecting us to the deeper roots that can sustain us in our broken world.”
—Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Sufi teacher and author of Spiritual Ecology

“Tracy Cochran is a clear, wholehearted, and humble guide who helps us find our way home. I am moved by the warmth of Tracy’s clarity and how she uses the authenticity of her own experience to uncover the archetypal thresholds we all face—as well as the constellations of association and metaphor that her deep reflection brings to the surface.”
—Mark Nepo, author of The Half-Life of Angels

“Every essay in this thoughtful and lyrical collection is a gem shining with deeply sensitive insights and reflections. From multiple angles, these essays show us how presence—close and clear attention to the realities of our lives—can open doors to wisdom and turn the humblest of events into revelations of beauty and goodness. Even danger and disappointment, Cochran demonstrates, can connect us to previously untouched dimensions of meaning.”
—Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, Buddhist scholar and translator

“Presence takes us on a delightful journey brimming with stories, wisdom, practices, and possibility. As Tracy Cochran draws from the well of her own life experience, she offers us a mirror into our own, inviting us to shed the myriad ways we create separateness and drop open to the authentic experience of being human. Wonderfully wise, gently compassionate, Presence shines as a beacon in our troubled world.”
—Wendy Garling, author of The Woman Who Raised the Buddha