Broken Open How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

Name: Broken Open How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
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ISBN: 9780375759918

ISBN-10: 0375759913

ISBN-13: 9780375759918

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Authors: Elizabeth Lesser

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In the more than twenty-five years since she co-founded Omega Institute-now the world's largest center for spiritual retreat and personal growth-Elizabeth Lesser has been an intimate witness to the ways in which people weather change and transition. In a beautifully crafted blend of moving stories, humorous insights, practical guidance, and personal memoir, she offers tools to help us make the choice we all face in times of challenge: Will we be broken down and defeated, or broken open and transformed? Lesser shares tales of ordinary people who have risen from the ashes of illness, divorce, loss of a job or a loved one-stronger, wiser, and more in touch with their purpose and passion. And…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/14/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.15" wide x 7.96" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Elizabeth Lesser is the co-founder of the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York which offers conferences and workshops attended by 20,000 people a year, and she has been a director and teacher at that organization. Formerly a midwife, she attended Barnard College and San Francisco State University and now lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and three sons. She is the author of The Seeker's Guide and The New American Experience.



Prelude


Introduction


The Call of the Soul


What Einstein Knew


What Dante Knew


The Hands That Work on Us


Open Secret


Bozos on the Bus


Open-Heart Surgery


Heart Warrior


Lightening Up and Falling Down


When They Revolutionize the Cocktail Parties


Sleeping Giants and Strange Angels


The Rapture of Being Alive


The Phoenix Process


Chimidunchik


Here Begin the Terrors, Here Begin the Miracles


Fierce Grace


Before and After


A Broken Heart Is an Open Heart


September 11th


Crooked Hearts


The Shaman Lover


Leaving My Father's House


Marriage Math


The Shaman Lover


Initiation


The Crossroads


Goethe's Chain Letter


The Joy of Being Wrong


Children


Firstborn


Run Away, Bunny!


The Great Movement of the Couch


Gift


The Vroom, Vroom Gene


Letting Them Go


Iron John


Widening the Circle


Despair and Dulcimers


Birth and Death


Trailing Clouds of Glory


The Hundredth Name


No Birth, No Death


Visitation Dreams


Good Grief


Karaoke


Practicing Death


The Turtles and the Trees


A Meditation for Practicing Dying


The River of Change


Enjoying the Passage of Time


The Workshop Angel


When Grapes Turn to Wine


Ch-ch-Changes


Comfortable with Uncertainty


For Hugo


Peaceful Abiding


The Truth


The Spirit House


Toolbox


Meditation


Meditation Instructions


Ten-Step Meditation Practice


Psychotherapy


Working with Teachers, Therapists, and Healers


Prayer


Acknowledgments


A Reader's Guide


Permission Credits