The Deepest Peace

"Reading this book is a profound meditation in itself. Exquisitely crafted and perfectly paced—you will feel your whole being calming down, responding with layered grace to the rich gifts offered here."—Naomi Shihab Nye, Young People's Poet Laureate "Solitude, silence, darkness, the warmth and chill of the earth, the ancientness of time held in the arms of the ancestors ... such is the atmosphere of Zenju Earthlyn Manuel’s haunting new text. Neither memoir, nor dharma teachings, nor poetry, but a lyric mixture of all of these and more, Zenju’s mysterious and soothing words, spoken more as lover than teacher, will bring you to tears. How much have we suffered together. How perfect it all is when we are willing to hold it in the deepest parts of our heart."—Norman Fischer, The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path