- Meditation, Contemplation, Relaxation Therapy, Religion
Looks at Hindu, Jewish, Christian, Sufi, and Zen meditation, explains how to prepare the mind for meditation, and discusses the psychological aspects of altered mental states.
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Warm, grave, classical in form and earnest.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Daniel Goleman
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 214
- Publisher
- Tarcher, Distributed by St. Martin's Press, Crucible
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780874778335
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First sentence
“Practice begins with sila (virtue or moral purity).”
About Daniel Goleman · 1946
**Daniel Goleman**, Ph.d.
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