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Polishing the Mirror

How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart
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In Polishing the Mirror, Ram Dass shares his lifelong spiritual journey and teachings, inviting readers to cultivate love, awareness, and selflessness through daily practice. This work combines timeless wisdom, personal anecdotes, and practical guidance in Bhakti Yoga, Karma Yoga, meditation, mantra, and embracing life's natural flow, guiding us to see beyond fleeting thoughts and step into unconditional love.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in deepening their spiritual practice or exploring personal development through mindfulness, meditation, and unconditional love. It speaks to both newcomers to Ram Dass's work and longtime followers seeking comprehensive guidance on living fully in the present.

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Previously published in hardcover: 2013.

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Sometimes illumination occurs spontaneously or, as Ram Dass experienced, in a heart-wrenching moment of opening. More commonly, it happens when we polish the mirror of the heart with daily practice—and see beyond the illusion of our transient thoughts and emotions to the vast and luminous landscape of our true nature.

For five decades, Ram Dass has explored the depths of consciousness and love and brought them to life as service to others. With Polishing the Mirror, he gathers together his essential teachings for living in the eternal present, here and now.

Readers will find within these pages a rich combination of perennial wisdom, humour, teaching stories, and detailed guidance on Ram Dass' own spiritual practices, including:

  • Bhakti Yoga — opening our hearts to unconditional love
  • Practices for living, ageing, dying, and embracing the natural flow of life
  • Karma Yoga — how selfless service can profoundly transform us
  • Working with fear and suffering as a path to grace and freedom
  • Step-by-step guidance in devotional chant, meditation and mantra practice, and much more

For those new to Ram Dass' teachings, and for those to whom they are old friends, here is this vanguard spiritual explorer's complete guide to discovering who we are and why we are here, and how to become beacons of unconditional love.

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San Francisco Chronicle praises Ram Dass as a superb writer whose compassion and humour enrich his profound wisdom. Publishers Weekly finds the book fresh and accessible even decades after his earlier work, valuing his honesty about personal growth. Tricycle Magazine highlights Ram Dass's clarity and enduring message to 'Love everyone and tell the truth', appreciating the eclectic spiritual tools he offers for navigating life's challenges.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781622033805

Publisher: Sounds True Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 September 2014

Country: United States

Imprint: Sounds True Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 202g

Pages: 192

About the Author

Ram Dass first went to India in 1967. He was still Dr. Richard Alpert, an already eminent Harvard psychologist and psychedelic pioneer with Dr.Timothy Leary. He continued his psychedelic research until that fateful Eastern trip in 1967, when he traveled to India. In India, he met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, affectionately known as Maharaj-ji. Maharaj-ji gave Ram Dass his name, which means "servant of God." Everything changed then-his intense dharmic life started, and he became a pivotal influence on a culture that has reverberated with the words "Be Here Now" ever since.

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