Peace is every step - Nht Hanh

In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available
in each moment.

World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat
Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the very situations that usually pressure
and antagonize us. For him a ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to
our true selves. Dirty dishes, red lights, and traffic jams are spiritual friends
on the path to "mindfulness"-the process of keeping our consciousness alive to our
present experience and reality. The most profound satisfactions, the deepest feelings
of joy and completeness lie as close at hand as our next aware breath and the smile
we can form right now.

Lucidly and beautifully written, Peace Is Every Step contains
commentaries and meditations, personal anecdotes and stories from Nhat Hanh's experiences
as a peace activist, teacher, and community leader. It begins where the reader already
is-in the kitchen, office, driving a car, walking a part-and shows how deep meditative
presence is available now. Nhat Hanh provides exercises to increase our awareness
of our own body and mind through conscious breathing, which can bring immediate joy
and peace. Nhat Hanh also shows how to be aware of relationships with others and
of the world around us, its beauty and also its pollution and injustices. The deceptively
simple practices of Peace Is Every Step encourage the reader to work for peace in
the world as he or she continues to work on sustaining inner peace by turning the "mindless" into the mindFUL.