How to Thrive in Hard Times

"This book is filled with all the wisdom and compassion Stephen has gleaned from years of teaching, healing and peace work in Israel and Palestine." - Jack Kornfield


"deeply nurturing and illuminating" - Jon Kabat-Zinn



This book describes the rich and profoundly fulfilled way of living that comes when we act according to Buddhist principles. Mindfulness - or the practice of paying attention to the present moment - is a part of this, but only one part. This book reveals exactly how radical, exciting and life-changing it can be if we transform our daily life according to the exceptional Buddhist wisdom of compassion, joy, detachment and liberation. Written in in simple, straightforward language, the book contains 50 essays covering every aspect of modern life, ranging from the mundane to the spiritual. Topics include:


How to be fulfilled at work
How to relate to money
What mindfulness really means
How to find the magic of the moment
What being authentic means
How to age wisely
How to be friends with your own body
How to step off the treadmill of the daily grind
How to radically shift our thoughts, emotions and difficult memories
Ways to grasp spiritual concepts such as enlightenment, non-duality and equanimity.


This book goes all the way from the ordinary to the sublime and will imbue your life once more with the sense of wonder that you felt as a child. It will allow you to put down the burdens of anxiety, joylessness, restlessness or a judging mind. And it will do all this by enabling you to shift your experience of the world in a truly profound way.