Inside The Book
"The central message of this book is that taking on a structured Shabbat practice with a spiritual core can bring about transformation of a key set of inner traits, not just every seventh day, but with an effect that extends through every day of your life.
Observing a Sabbath means carving out one day per week that you intentionally design and cause to be infused with awareness, joy, peace, rest, pleasure, holiness, and the like, qualities that, through practice and experience, get ingrained in you, and thus become characteristic of who you are in general."
"The perfection of Shabbat lies in accepting everything that is present in this moment just as it is, calling out to us for no fixing, adjusting or repair.
Our task is to be fully present with the joy of a beloved’s company, the pain in the heart from that recent loss, the fine tastes and smells on the table as well as the soup that burned, the radiant flames dancing on the candles along with the wax that dripped onto the tablecloth.
This moment contains all of that. And it is perfect just the way it is. Six days a week we are busy diagnosing and fixing things, and one day a week our task is to bask in the majestic beauty of the completed creation in all the aspects that happen to be present at that moment.
We are looking at a perfect picture, when we attune our eyes to see the perfection."
"When our lives are consumed by attempts to satisfy a never-ending flow of desires, we have no access to the deeper and lasting contentment that comes not from acquiring things or accomplishing tasks but from slowing down enough to savor the present moment in its rich fullness.
Only when we stop running after things can our minds come to rest in a spacious stillness that invites us to bask in the holy radiance that hovers barely beyond the boundaries of consciousness, just waiting to be let in."
The full book will be released on November 13.
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