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  • Peace Is Every Step

  • The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
  • By: Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
  • Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (358 ratings)

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Peace Is Every Step

By: Thich Nhat Hanh
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
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In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch with the peace that is available in each moment. World-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and author Thich Nhat Hanh shows us how to make positive use of the situations that usually pressure and antagonize us. A ringing telephone can be a signal to call us back to our true selves. Dirty dishes, red lights, and traffic jams are spiritual friends on the path to "mindfulness" - the process of keeping our consciousness alive to our present experience and reality. The most profound satisfactions, the deepest feelings of joy and completeness lie as close at hand as our next aware breath and the smile we can form right now.

Lucidly and beautifully written, Peace Is Every Step contains commentaries, meditations, personal anecdotes, and stories from Nhat Hanh's experiences as a peace activist, teacher, and community leader. It begins where the listener already is - in the kitchen, office, driving a car, walking - and shows how deep meditative presence is available now. Nhat Hanh provides exercises to increase our awareness of our own body and mind through conscious breathing, which can bring immediate joy and peace. Nhat Hanh also shows how to be aware of relationships with others and of the world around us, its beauty and also its pollution and injustices.

The deceptively simple practices of Peace Is Every Step encourage listeners to work for peace in the world as they continue to work on sustaining inner peace by turning the "mindless" into the mindful.

©1991 Thich Nhat Hanh (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Life changing simplicity

This book has completely changed the way I look at life. Simple, beautiful, and breathtaking.

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Peaceful

Gives a peaceful feeling and peaceful metaphors to help act and live more mindfully. Listen and meditate on the words and you'll feel that peace I every step

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A beautiful, centring book

I feel calmer and more purposeful after listening to this book. I can’t want to read/listen to more Thich Nhat Hanh

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very impressive

very impressive and enlightening. Very calming for the soul. Soul food at its best, Namaste

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Excellent!

This came at the right time. Am doing the practices and am very grateful for these teachings.

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So inspiring

Thich Nhah Hanh is so inspiring, and how words are poetic, profound and loving. His messages and advice on how to cultivate peace within ourselves, with our family and community, and with all beings around the world is so important to our modern world. I highly recommend this book to everyone, particularly to those who want to make peace in the world, including activists, teachers, parents, Buddhists and non-Buddhists.

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Beautiful

A beautiful, peace-filled book which reminded me what is really important in life.
Just listening to the reading brought me peace.
Going to replay it to absorb more.

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Loved this book - it’s spiritual, mindful & about living life in a beautiful & gentle way

The book is easy to follow, and enlightening. Thich is a humble, spiritual leader who lives the principles he teaches.

His stories and examples of practising mindfulness and engaged Buddhism were touching, educational and heart felt.

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A handbook for peaceful living

We learn practical ways to bring peace and compassion into our lives and the world in this book. I listened each morning to a short passage while practising the breathing technique suggested at the beginning. It helped to enable me to have a calmer more peaceful day. We can’t be reminded too often of these techniques. 🙏🏽

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beautiful if a bit simplistic

There were some really beautiful and moving sentiments in this book. There were a few negative mentions of technology like nuclear power and television which weren't really backed up. Overall, was a nice listen and a nice insight into the big heart of Thich Nhat Hanh

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