Meditation and Reinventing Yourself

<p><strong>Former Zen Buddhist monk Alex Mill combines personal stories practical wisdom and his own full-color cartoons-created during nearly fourteen years of monastic training-to offer an engaging and refreshingly human introduction to meditation and personal transformation.</strong></p><p><em>Meditation and Reinventing Yourself</em> explores what happens when we stop trying to fix ourselves and begin learning how to relate to our experience with greater awareness integrity and compassion. Through a collection of essays reflections and illustrations Alex shares lessons from his own journey into meditation the challenges of building a spiritual practice and the surprising ways mindfulness can transform everyday life.</p><p>Whether you're curious about meditation struggling to maintain a practice or simply looking for a different perspective on personal growth this book offers encouragement humor and practical insight from someone who has walked the path himself.</p><p>Meditation is not about escaping your life.</p><p>It is about learning how to be fully present for it.</p><p>When we learn to quiet the noise we discover that much of what we have been searching for has been here all along.</p>