Gwen Bell is hosting a challenge to capture 2009 in the month of January. Almost 300 blogs are participating by writing about the prompts that she has given. Today's prompt is:
December 4 Book. What book - fiction or non - touched you? Where were you when you read it? Have you bought and given away multiple copies?
It's funny, but I read hundreds of books a year in many different categories -fiction, non-fiction, spirituality, business, tech, psychology, science, graphic novels, adult contemporary, ya... etc. And there are some that I just keep coming back to over and over. This year the book that touched my heart most deeply was Jack Kornfield's A Path with Heart. It is a simple explanation of Vipassana sitting instruction. When I was in some of my darkest hours this year I grasped onto the clear instructions for sitting meditation presented in the book and my heart was lighter. My copy is old and the pages are musty, but the information is as relevant today as when I purchased the copy at Green Apple books in San Francisco. I am grateful that this teacher/author wrote down a path towards clearing the mind. It is a book that, curled up in my chair in my room, helped me make sense of the feelings and thoughts rushing around in my head.
