Shining Through: Switch on Your Life and Ground Yourself in Happiness (Prather, Hugh)

By Hugh Prather

Book Overview

Two generations of readers have turned to Hugh Prather's books for wisdom, comfort, and celebration. Shining Through, a fully revised and updated edition of The Quiet Answer, offers Prather's signature gentleness and quiet power in unsettled times. As Prather shares his own pain, observations, and ways of coping with modern life, he helps readers discover their own truths and ways to be happy in a complicated, often frightening world. Taking up this book for a short time can effect profound change.

Shining Through is an easydoesit, 30day course in finding peace and happiness. Prather encourages readers to take a few minutes every day to read his Essays of Encouragement and reflect on and practice the accompanying 30 Affirmations and Guides. In this book I attempt to present a few ways that our mind can begin to hear the song of our heart and experience a growing faith in a truth that exists beyond our tragedies and fears. ...It is vital to find an approach that permits us to experience a reality greater and more reliable than the confusing and surprisingly short journey of our body. I will suggest ways this can be done, Prather writes.

Among those ways are suggestions for reflection and practice:
I will make no effort to step ahead of God.Let me at least try.Today I will not project.I will not rehearse uncertainties to come.Gentleness of thought is my way Home.My body is a means of communicating love.

eaders will turn to Shining Through again and again to find a deeper hope, a quiet power, and an abiding light.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573249548
• ISBN13: 9781573249546
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Conari Press
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

The simplicity of the meditations and affirmations make them powerful!

This was the first book I have ever read by Hugh Prather. Initially I was somewhat startled by the brevity and simplicity of his Essays of Encouragement and his thirty-day course in affirmations and guides. But these qualities are exactly what make the readings powerful for me. Inspirational quotations are easy to remember, such as, "Because God is with me, I am content to be wherever I am." They are clear and reassuring! I also find that I do not have to associate with any particular religion to benefit from this beautiful book. The Metaphysical Errands and Mental Projects in the latter half of the book are exercises. They include guided meditations as well as questions that can be explored in a journal or with a trusted love one. Shining Through is a resource for self discovery and spiritual growth.

A thirty-day self-help guide for Christians

Shining Through: Switch On Your Life and Ground Yourself in Happiness is a thirty-day self-help guide for Christians seeking to revitalize their self-esteem, their faith, and the love in their hearts. Brief essays and affirmations, along with mental projects to confront and higher goals of the soul to aspire to comprise this powerful guide that challenges one's way of thinking about God and inspires greater depths of dedication to Christian principles. Highly recommended as an eye- and soul-opening experience. "Affirmation: Learning to respond to now is all there is to learn. Guide: Each instant I remember, I will take a closer look at this present moment and all it contains. The journey to God is the journey into now. To ascend into Heaven is to sink so deeply into now that I lose all interest to past and future. The ego was and will be, but only God is."