Cultivating Inner Peace: Exploring the Psychology, Wisdom and Poetry of Gandhi, Thoreau, the Buddha, and Others

By Paul R. Fleischman

Book Overview

A psychiatrist shows readers how to generate harmony in their everyday lives, using attention, focus, devotion, and commitment as a means to persevere in a world filled with conflict and violence. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1928706258
• ISBN13: 9781928706250
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Pariyatti Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Most inspiring, beautiful and pleasurable of books

This book has changed my life. It is an inspirational book, not a guide or magical cure to your inner peace problems, no self-help book here, which is refreshing and wonderful. It acts as the best teacher you have ever had inspiring you to go out and discover more about yourself and your connection to the World. There are a lot of quotations and inspiration from people blessed with unique natural wishdom (Ghandhi,, Thoureau...) and invites you to learn more about them and the lives they chose to live. It opens a path in your life for self-awareness and betterment as a human being in a holistic scenario. It is written with unimaginable beauty and use of words. In a way this book also relates to the sound of the spoken word and its qualities...therefore, it is close to poetry too and people without a developed lyric sense might feel frustrated in some of its passages (Rabindranath Tagore...) to me, it is a incitement to read more poetry! I will definitely recomend this book to everyone I love !!

an important and timely work

This is the first book I can remember that I've finished, then immediately flipped back to Chapter One and began reading again. Fleischman's beautiful and lyrical metaphors create powerful flow within the simple biographical essays, and the unexpected list of characters whose lives are portrayed provides a smorgasbord of reflections within his theme of lives of peace. We can use profound, yet approachable role models in this time of dismay, and here's a sensitively written way to meet them.

Incredibly Helpful

Discover the lifelong, hard won insights about living a peaceful life as learned by some of the Great Masters: Gandhi, Thoreau, Buddha, etc...Thank you Dr. Fleischman for this amazing work!

Really Helpful

A remarkably helpful work that distills the hard-won, lifelong insights of some of the World's true masters, such as Gandhi and Thoreau. Thanks for the gift Dr. Fleischman.

An unostentatious gem

"Cultivating Inner Peace" is a beautifully written and inspiring book. Dr Fleischman examines the lives of extraordinary people such as Tagore, Whitman, and the Nearings to tease out the ways by which they cultivated and manifested inner peace. He then shows how we, too, can cultivate inner peace by employing the same means. These include seeking out peaceful people, giving peace priority among daily activities, selecting out obstacles to peace and so on. Dr Fleischman is a clear-eyed, poetic writer who reveals beauty at the core of life, while remaining fully aware of its vicissitudes. I encourage others to read this book.I can also recommend the following essays that Dr Fleischman has written: "The Therapeutic Action of Vipassana", "Why I Sit", "Vipassana Meditation: Healing the Healer", and "The Experience of Impermanence". They have something to say, I think, to meditators of any stripe. And also to those who do not practice formal meditation, but who choose to dive deeply into their own being and environment.