Smile Across Your Heart explores the full spectrum of living life consciously from the inside out. It includes how to be spiritual in the business world, helpful practices and exercises, personal stories and clients? experiences, highlights of the spiritual, emotional, and physical aspects of life, and learning how to connect to, trust, and listen to your heart.

Many of us, without even realizing it, are dominated by fear. We might be aware of some of our fears—perhaps we are afraid of public speaking, of financial hardship, or of losing a loved one. Chögyam Trungpa shows us that most of us suffer from a far more pervasive fearfulness: fear of ourselves. We feel ashamed and embarrassed to look at our feelings or acknowledge our styles of thinking and acting; we don’t want to face the reality of our moment-to-moment experience. It is this fear that keeps us trapped in cycles of suffering, despair, and distress. Chögyam Trungpa offers us a vision of moving beyond fear to discover the innate bravery, trust, and delight in life that lies at the core of our being. Drawing on the Shambhala Buddhist teachings, he explains how we can each become a spiritual warrior: a person who faces each moment of life with openness and fearlessness. "The ultimate definition of bravery is not being afraid of who you are," writes Chögyam Trungpa. In this book he offers the insights and strategies to claim victory over fear.

An international bestseller with tremendous word-of-mouth appeal, Follow Your Heart is a bittersweet, heartwarming novel spanning generations and teaching the universal truths about life, love, and what lies within each of us. Originally published in Italy, Follow Your Heart won the coveted Premio Donna Citta di Roma and sold over 800,000 copies in that country alone before hitting bestseller lists throughout the rest of Europe. Now North American readers can enjoy the novel that has won over the world. It begins in late autumn 1992 as an elderly Italian woman, prompted by the knowledge of her encroaching death, sits down to write a letter to her granddaughter now grown and living in far-off America. Through these moving reflections, we see one life laid bare--joys, sorrows, regrets, and all. And through the eyes of a woman nearing the end of her days, we come to understand what life experience has taught her: that no matter what the stakes, we must look within ourselves and gather the courage to follow our hearts.

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From Rwanda to Sierra Leone, African countries recovering from tyranny and war are facing an impossible dilemma: to overlook past atrocities for the sake of peace or to seek catharsis through tribunals and truth commissions. In this work, Rice reports on Idi Amin's legacy and the limits of reconciliation.

You are on your way to find a treasure chest of glorious ideas, which may metamorphose your entire life. You will also explore how these ideas work. The ideas described in this book are easy to comprehend, follow, and practice. Master the simple procedures in Smile Your Way to Bliss, and discover how easy it can be to remove mental blockages, which stand between you and your accomplishments. This book will guide you to elicit mental powers for gaining prestige, self-esteem, conquering inferiority complex and phobias, creating bonds of unconditional love and companionship, and getting mental peace. These pages will help you gradually grow strong, until you blossom into a person you want to become. You may agree or not with the ideas contained in this book, but you will certainly have food for thought, and you will grow from within. Down-to-earth practicality of this book will motivate you to put these glorious ideas into practice.

Take a journey through the adventures and misadventures of an intrepid science nerd! Her understanding of life emerged from relationships with people around the world and adventures like swimming with great white sharks, surviving cancer, and leading a university. Spirited experiences and humor abound. Our lives are full of challenges and opportunities - the important outcome is the lessons we learn. The author shares bits and pieces of her life, hoping that these reflections will inspire you to celebrate the wonder of your own life. May your heart smile.Dr. Virginia S. Hinshaw is a science nerd with a wild sense of humor and a love of adventure. Whether conducting research, teaching students, leading a university, or throwing a javelin, her laugh is her constant companion. Her passion for research and education has taken her around the world chasing influenza viruses and across the nation serving in university leadership positions. She has gained much wisdom from those experiences, particularly about what makes her heart smile - and her goal is to share that knowledge with others. She is Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.