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Strength in Stillness: The Power of Transcendental Meditation

A simple, practical, and straightforward guide to meditation from Bob Roth, a world authority on Transcendental Meditation who has spent 45 years helping people access their innate creativity and power with TM, having personally taught students ranging from Fortune 100 CEOs to Oprah Winfrey, from war-scarred veterans to inner-city youth.

Every day, we face a growing epidemic of stress, one that is damaging our physical and emotional health at younger and younger ages. Billionaire CEOs, moms managing households, college students, people of every race, age, and income all make the same confession: “I am so stressed.” It is literally killing us. While there is no one single cure, there is a simple practice that dramatically changes how we respond to stress and life’s challenges: the Transcendental Meditation technique. With scientifically proven benefits – improved focus, sleep, resilience, creativity, and memory to name a few – this 5,000-year-old technique has a clear and direct impact on our very modern problems.

Once a skeptic, Bob Roth trained under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the twentieth century’s foremost scientist of consciousness and meditation, and has since become one of the most experienced and sought-after meditation teachers in the world. Roth saw the profound and practical capabilities of the technique, and as cofounder and chief executive officer of the David Lynch Foundation, he has helped bring TM to more than 500,000 at-risk youth, veterans with PTSD, and women survivors of domestic violence. He also teaches TM to top leaders in government, business, medicine, and the arts.

In Strength in Stillness, Roth breaks down the science behind meditation in a new, accessible way. He highlights the three distinct types of meditation – focused attention, open monitoring, and self-transcending – and showcases the evidence that the third, Transcendental Meditation, is the most effective and efficient way to reduce stress, access inner power, and build resilience. Free of gimmicks, mystical verbiage, and over-inflated research studies, Strength in Stillness is a simple and straightforward guide to calming mind, body, and spirit.

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The Indomitable Mind: Cultivating Stillness With A Practiced Mind – 111 Original Inspirational Quotes (Self Love + Practiced Mind) (Volume 4)

Mindfulness has been a modern practice widely recognized for its healing and restorative effects and powers. When you combine meditative processes and mindfulness, it can help you regulate and balance your mental state of being, achieve focus and clarity, release all forms of tension and stress, cultivate patience and instill inner peace within yourself. Looking at it from a different perspective, it will show you how to watch your thoughts without judgment to attain satisfaction from life’s simple pleasures and gain fresh new insights into the heart and mind of every person seeking new light and eyes to achieve a mind of clarity and stillness. “The power of mindfulness allows you to naturally be able to become proactive in any situations and not get caught up in your own chaotic thoughts and resistant feelings while strengthening your communication skills with people you love, and learn what it really means to be present. It also helps you to reshuffle your priorities with a healthy and strong practiced mind.”

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Look into the stillness: A spiritual journey through inspirational quotes

“Every act of kindness is another step up Heaven’s stairway.”
“When you nurture Nature, Nature nurtures you.”
“When you can see God in small things, you’ll see God in all things.”
“If you love all Life you observe, you will observe all Life will love.”

During quiet meditation and reflection, author Donald Hicks has received hundreds of inspirational quotes (“pearls of wisdom” as he likes to call them) like the ones shown above. In “Look into the Stillness”, Donald shares a multitude of these inspiration gems as he guides the reader on a spiritual journey. Through the use of these simple-but-profound quotes, Donald helps readers improve their lives, their relationships, and awaken their own intuitive connection with The Creator through learning to “Look into the Stillness”.

“Look into the Stillness is one of those magical books where the simply written text quietly eases the reader into daydreams of how the book’s themes actually play out in the reader’s own life. In this way, the reader co-creates the story with author Donald L. Hicks and makes the stories in Look into the Stillness the reader’s own–a masterful exercise in of the art of storytelling.” — James Wawro, author of “Ask Your Inner Voice” and “Awakening Counsel”

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Stillness Speaks

In Stillness Speaks, Eckhart Tolle illuminates the fundamental elements of his teaching,
addressing the needs of the modern seeker by drawing from all spiritual traditions. At the core of the book is what the author calls “the state of presence,” a living in the “now” that is both intensely inspirational and practical. When the pressures of future and past thinking disappear, fear and frustration also vanish, conquered by the moment. Stillness Speaks takes the form of 200 individual entries, organized into 10 topic clusters that range from “Beyond the Thinking Mind” to “Suffering and the End of Suffering.” Each entry is concise and complete in itself, but, read together, take on a transformative power.Expanding on his mantra—Get out of your head and into the moment—Eckhart Tolle offers this new book on living in the now. Here Tolle emphasizes the art of “inner stillness”–the place where thoughts, ego and attachments fall always and we are left only with what the moment has to offer: “When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.” Don’t expect this to be a quick skim or even a straight-through read. Like his previous bestselling book The Power of Now, Tolle uses brief entries and numerous white spaces to give readers easy in-and-out access into enticing spiritual insights that expound on inner stillness, such as learning the difference between surrender and resignation, overcoming the fear death, and how to end suffering. In fact, this is designed to be an ongoing conversation. Pick it up any time or any place, but be sure to allow for plenty of breaks for serious contemplation. Even as you occasionally abandon the book, don’t abandon the teachings, pleads Tolle. Embracing and practicing inner stillness is no longer a luxury, he writes, “but a necessity if humankind is not to destroy itself. At the present time the dysfunction of the old consciousness and the arising of the new are both accelerating. Paradoxically things are getting worse and bett! er at the same time, although ‘the worse’ is more apparent because it makes so much noise.” Devotees who have read all of Tolle’s books and audio tapes probably won’t find new ideas or information here. But they may appreciate the refresher course –revisiting familiar concepts in a slightly different package. –Gail Hudson

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Stillness Speaks Inspiration Deck: 50 Inspiration Cards

Developed for both spiritual students and mainstream seekers by Eckhart Tolle, world-renowned spiritual teacher, this handsome collection of four-color cards makes a thoughtful present that provides insights into living with grace and ease. It is both intensely inspirational and practical. Excerpted from Tolle’s powerful lessons in Stillness Speaks, the deck divides into topics such as “Beyond The Thinking Mind” and “Suffering the End of Suffering” and features key topics on the front and short quotations on the back. Guidance to living in the now has never been more accessible.