Hope leans forward : braving your way toward simplicity, awakening, and peace

Title:

Author:

Brown, Valerie (Educational consultant), author.

Personal Author:

Brown, Valerie (Educational consultant), author.

ISBN:

9781506478371

Physical Description:

x, 275 pages ; 19 cm

Contents:

Introduction -- Calling the soul, the true self, and the deepest longing -- Daring to listen to the inner voice, the small holy -- When life breaks you open: practice and growth -- Trusting true self: taking the risk to blossom -- Cultivating wholeness: the body as grounded wisdom -- Deepening connections: journeying with community, mentors, and friends -- Living your genuine: truth telling to embrace the true self -- Bravely home: boundless joy (well, maybe basic okayness) on the way back to you -- Afterword.

Abstract:

Rich in Buddhist and Quaker spiritual wisdom and practice, Hope Leans Forward helps us navigate life's essential questions of true aliveness and meaning--guiding us to discover greater bravery and courage to meet these fractured times. As we cultivate clarity and discernment, we see ourselves truly connected to a larger whole.

Subject Term:

Self-actualization (Psychology)

Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Religious aspects.

Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.

Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Religious aspects -- Society of Friends.

Hope.

Courage.

Society of Friends.

Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism. (OCoLC)fst01111487

Genre:

Self-help publications.

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Summary

Find spiritual insight for developing courage and meeting life's broken-open, pulled-apart times for anyone seeking hope.

Daily we are asked to move toward bravery, to stretch in the direction of goodness, kindness, forgiveness, patience, and vulnerability. Yet life's tender fragility, fear, anxiety, and our own practiced self-sabotage can derail us from growing and thriving, leaving us fractured and afraid.

Ordained Buddhist teacher and Quaker Valerie Brown invites us into the heart of compassion, insight, and courage. Filled with Quaker wisdom, mindfulness meditation practices, and portraits of real people living out simple yet life-affirming bravery, Hope Leans Forwar d is a guidebook for all of us who are on journeys of self-transformation, self-discovery, and spiritual discernment. Centering small, everyday acts of bravery with diverse stories from marginalized communities, Brown's unique perspective as a Black Buddhist Dharma teacher in the Plum Village tradition and her extensive leadership experience shepherd us in navigating life's essential questions to discover true aliveness and meaning. When we focus on cultivating clarity and discernment in our purpose, we begin to understand that we are truly connected to--and that we contribute to --a larger whole.

Written through a period of profound personal loss and in the urgency of the Black Lives Matter movement, Brown's spiritual insight and life- and spirit-tested wisdom offers a new source for anyone seeking hope, and seeking to alleviate suffering within ourselves and our communities.