Be Still and Get Going: A Jewish Meditation Practice for Real Life Written in a warm, accessible, and intimate style, Be Still and Get Going will touch those who are searching for an authentic spiritual practice that speaks to them in their own cultural language. Lew is one of the most sought-after rabbis on the lecture circuit. He has had national media exposure for his dynamic fusion of Eastern insight and Bible study, having been the subject of stories on ABC News, the McNeil Lehrer News Hour, and various NPR programs. In the past five years there have been national conferences on Jewish meditation in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Miami where Lew has been a featured speaker. Lew's first book, One God Clapping, was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and winner of the PEN Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence. Publishers Weekly hailed him as "a perceptive thinker" for his "refreshing and sometimes startling perspective" in his last book, This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictLew, spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Sholom in San Francisco and cofounder of Makor Or, the first meditation center connected to a synagogue, has written an interesting guide to spiritual ... Read full review
Contents
2 God Is in This Place | |
3 Finding Your Divine Name | |
4 Finding God in the Present Moment | |
1 The Uses of Suffering | |
2 All This Perfection Which Is Fading into the Earth | |
1 Forward from Eden | |
2 Become Who You Are | |
1 The Emptiness at the Center | |
2 No Stopping Place | |
3 A Place of Emptiness and Flow | |
1 Unmasking the World | |
2 Through the Breath and Beyond the World of Form | |
3 Beyond the Veil of Nature | |
4 The Thing You Are Seeking Is Causing You to Seek | |
2 Deep Wells Covered Over by Conflict | |
Dont Panic Pull Yourself Together See Clearly Be Still and Get Going | |
PRACTICE POINTS | |
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 | Be Still and Get Going: A Jewish Meditation Practice for Real Life Alan Lew No preview available - 2007 |
 | Be Still and Get Going: A Jewish Meditation Practice for Real Life Alan Lew No preview available - 2014 |
 | Be Still and Get Going: A Jewish Meditation Practice for Real Life Alan Lew No preview available - 2005 |
Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Be Still and Get Going: A Jewish Meditation Practice for Real Life |
| Author | Alan Lew |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0316025917, 9780316025911 |
| Length | 272 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Judaism / Rituals & Practice Religion / Spirituality Self-Help / Meditations |
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