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Take Your Time: How to Find Patience, Peace & Meaning
SKU:
018-4
Size:
5½'' x 8¼''
ISBN:
978-158638-018-2
Pages:
224
Author:
Eknath Easwaran
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Paperback
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Winner of the 2006 Gold Prize for best book in the Body/Mind/Spirit category, awarded by
ForeWord magazine
, a trade publication for independent booksellers.
Life today can feel so fragmented. Often we face enormous pressures both on the work front and at home. Irritable and drained at the end of a long day, we wonder what it is all about. But if we look at our choices through Easwaran’s eyes, it’s surprising how quickly we begin to discover patience, peace, and meaning. Easwaran shows that the key to finding peace isn’t necessarily changing how we work or what we do, but how we think. “We may not realize it,” he writes, “ but it is the mind, not external events, that drives our constant sense of urgency and restlessness.”
When we’re tired, we need a book we’ll enjoy. Easwaran is a master storyteller, and
Take Your Time
has many entertaining, all-too-recognizable everyday anecdotes to make us smile as we read his insights.
Features
In
Take Your Time
, Easwaran invites us to try something different next time we’re stressed – techniques we can use to:
Slow down inwardly, even if we have a lot to do
Stay calmer, more patient, more loving with all those around us
Improve concentration – do one thing at a time and do it well
Keep our attention in the present so we don’t waste energy on worry and resentment
Simplify our lives and avoid trying to do too much
Get a sense of life’s true purpose
Each chapter ends with an “Ideas and Suggestions” section, and the book is fully indexed.
Table of Contents
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Foreword: The Gift of Time
A new foreword by Christine Easwaran, wife of Eknath Easwaran and editorial director of Nilgiri Press.
Chapter 1: Take Your Time
Every moment is a doorway to meaning, purpose, and joy. The key is an unhurried mind.
Chapter 2: Slowing Down
Eight ways to make the best of the time we have every day.
Chapter 3: One Thing at a Time
Even when we have a lot to do, we can avoid stress and hurry by tackling one thing at a time.
Chapter 4: Finding Balance
The energy we need is always present; we just need to release and harness it.
Chapter 5: Living in Freedom
To live in balance we need a mind that listens to us.
Chapter 6: Time for Relationships
We all need personal relationships if we want to function beautifully in life’s ups and downs.
Chapter 7: A Higher Image
Body and mind are like a car that carries us through life. But they shouldn’t be driving us – we are the driver.
Chapter 8: The Still Center
When the mind grows still, it is full of healing power.
Appendix: Meditation & the Eight-Point Program:
An overview and step-by-step description.
Excerpt from
Take Your Time
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The more we slow down the thinking process, the more control we have over our lives. That is why Meher Baba says a mind that is slow is sound. When your mind stops racing, it is naturally concentrated rather than distracted, naturally kind instead of rude, naturally loving instead of selfish. That is simply the dynamics of the mind.
People who don’t easily get provoked, even when there is cause for provocation, don’t “fly off the handle.” It’s difficult to upset them, difficult to speed up their minds. They can stay calm in the midst of pressure, remain sensitive to the needs of all involved, see clearly, and act decisively. During a crisis – from a minor emergency at the office to a major earthquake – such people help everyone else to stay clearheaded. They are protecting not only themselves from danger, but those around them too.
The Buddha called this “living intentionally.” It is a way of life. Slowing down is not the goal; it is the means to an end. The goal is living in freedom – freedom from the pressures of hurry, from the distractions that fragment our time and creativity and love. Ultimately, it means living at the deepest level of our awareness.
An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day – choices of how we use our time, of where we place our resources and our love. I am not just talking about avoiding the rat race, but about a life full of an artistic beauty – a life that has almost vanished from modern civilization, but is quite within the reach of everyone.
In this, I believe, we do more than simply elevate our own personal lives. We begin to remake our civilization. We can begin to transform our global jungle into a real global village, where our children will remember naturally the needs of all the children on the face of the earth. This is our destiny. This is what we were all born for and what we have been looking for all of our lives, whatever else we have been seeking.
Media Reviews and Endorsements
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“In
Take Your Time
, Eknath Easwaran presents a timely and timeless message on how to care for yourself and your soul in this all-too-busy world. I always find his kind and nourishing words soothing and inspirational in my daily life.”
– Patricia Walden, International Yoga Teacher
“In his characteristically gentle way, Easwaran (
Your Life Is Your Message
), founder of California’s Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, instructs readers in the art of “intentional living.” Offering a simple “Eight Point Program” for reclaiming control over one's time and mind, Easwaran stresses slowing down, eliminating unnecessary activities, and focusing on “only one thing at a time.”
–
Publishers Weekly
“Teacher and meditation director Easwaran urges us to slow down in the midst of our fast-paced world and reclaim our time to achieve the spiritual nurturing we so desperately crave. ”
–
Library Journal
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Reader Reviews
Name:
Dianne Stevens
Date:
11/20/2009
Review:
Such a wonderful excerpt! I look forward to a more peaceful life reading it. Thank you so much for keeping Mr. Easwaran's work alive.
Name:
Michael Orlando Yaccarino
Date:
06/07/2009
Review:
The experience of reading this comforting text is akin to sitting down with a loving mentor whose purpose is to assist you in overcoming the challenges of everyday living in the most productive and spiritually responsible ways possible. With a gentle, yet firm hand, knowing wit, and deep insight, Easwaran provides us with the necessary tools to slow down, focus our attention, achieve our goals, and find our still center. This wonderful volume is rounded out by a concise overview of the master's superlative approach to meditation and his celebrated Eight Point Program.
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