Chapter Eight

Creating a Place and a Time of Your Own

Not So Big Garden Path

Submit to a daily practice.
Your loyalty to that is a ring on the door.

Keep knocking, and the joy inside
will eventually open a window
and look out to see who's there.
-Rumi

Chapter Eight - Group Discussion Forum

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Chapter Eight - Your Turn and Exercise

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Your Turn - Mindfulness versus Labeling
Exercise - Making a Time and Place for Solitude
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Chapter Eight - Suggested References

Articles:

"New Sacred Space", by Debra Moffitt. Article in Architecture Week Magazine, published May 9, 2007. See Sacred Space.

Books:

- From A. H. Almaas

Diamond Heart Book III: Being and the Meaning of Life, by A.H.Almaas - see Diamond Heart III
Diamond Heart Book IV: Indestructible Innocence, by A.H. Almaas - see Diamond Heart IV

 

Not So Big House Sarah Susanka Maithrea