The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life
The popular guide to living with kindness now includes a new chapter, introduction, and exercises in this tenth-anniversary edition. When The Power of Kindness first appeared in 2006 it thrilled and challenged readers with one audacious promise: Your acts of generosity and decency are the secret to a fuller, more satisfying life. Kindness is not some squishy virtue but the very key to your own happiness. With nearly 125,000 copies sold, TarcherPerigee is celebrating the book's tenth anniversary with this new edition, featuring a complete new chapter by Piero Ferrucci on the theme of 'Harmlessness,' which joins his other chapters on virtues such as 'Honesty,' 'Warmth,' and 'Loyalty.' In addition, Ferrucci contributes a substantial new introduction and selection of techniques, meditations, and exercises. This tenth-anniversary volume is perfect for new readers and for lovers of the original who want to re-experience its wisdom and power.
Inevitable Grace: Breakthroughs in the Lives of Great Men and Women: Guides to Your Self-Realization
Now back in print, this classic guide to breakthrough transpersonal experiences shows how exceptionally creative and talented individuals become capable of their remarkable feats, and teaches the techniques and inner attitudes that put the same breakthroughs within anyone's grasp. What spiritual practices have helped the world's greatest artists, scientists, and thinkers? How can you discover the type of spiritual practice that's suited to your personality. Inevitable Grace shows how people from every walk of life can learn from teh achievements of humanity's spiritual and creative geniuses.
Your Inner Will: Finding Personal Strength in Critical Times
The bestselling psychotherapist and author of The Power of Kindness provides concrete, meaningful lessons in developing internal willpower during times of personal crisis. We all experience periods of gloom, fear, and uncertainty. But we each possess deep reserves of inner strength and wisdom for dealing with such setbacks. Indeed, it is the very arrival of darkened circumstances that can summon our untapped energies. In Your Inner Will, therapist and philosopher Piero Ferrucci explores how to play on the iron chords of our interior selves. In this stirring and deeply practical work, Ferrucci provides a full program for the cultivation of the will by employing insights from classical mythology and wisdom teachings, neuroscience research, case studies, and psychological exercises. Each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of will and is followed by exercises that guide the reader in its development. Chapters include: Mastery, Autonomy, Freedom, Courage, Integrity, and Resilience.
