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A 300 Year Old Spiritual Classic Gives Birth to a Contemporary Masterpiece!

Can we experience the presence of peace every day, all day, while washing the dishes, feeding the cat, or riding the bus on the way to work? Can we experience this presence when the kids are fighting, the boss is frustrated and the stock market is in tatters? This book says absolutely yes, and shows us how!

In the late 1600’s a small book appeared, The Practice of the Presence of God, describing the daily spiritual practices of a humble monk named Brother Lawrence. That book, never out of print, evolved into a beloved classic and textbook for “contemplative spirituality.” Now Practicing the Presence of Peace updates that beloved classic and shows how the simple practice of peace inevitably leads to

• Better health and physical healing
• Happier family relationships
• Profitable vocational advancement
• The end of the agonizing search for “more.”

Those who practice the monastic discipline– recognizing the spirit of happiness and the happiness of spirit in themselves and others, and recognizing all the ground they walk upon as holy ground, and understanding all the actions they engage as simply means to enjoy the Divine Presence in the moment– those who practice such discipline inherit the highest form of power and authority available to any human on earth. Just as importantly, such practioners also inherit the grace by which to exercise such power and authority in service to others. Although the expressions of divine happiness which monks and nuns offer might have uncountable variations around the world, the spirit of happiness is the same, and it is recognizable, one to another, immediately and without fail. Although happiness itself is Absolute, Complete, and Infinitely, Eternally, Dynamically Still, Unformed yet Full, gently Blissful, the expressions of happiness are artful, with beginnings, middles and ends, progressive, unfolding, paradoxical. Happiness is life itself. Words can point, but cannot contain.

In truth, we are all monks and nuns, all brothers and sisters, here in the sacred institution of modernity. The nations are simply rooms within the same house. The different faiths are lamps which light the rooms. That we have brothers and sisters in all the rooms, seeing by different lamps, does not diminish the fact that we are one house, one family, and the house if the Lord’s, Krishna, Allah’s, Jehovah’s, the Buddha Mind, and we are His (Her) children. This is so simple, so obvious, yet to live our lives this way is a revolutionary commitment.

The revolution is at hand. The spiritual awakening across the globe is reflected in the spontaneously growing commitment to the wider view, the higher life, the joyful presence which the monastic discipline incorporates. Without a conscious connection to Heart Mountain Monastery, and yet with a conscious commitment to the heart’s great ascension, millions of people the world around have joined in the power and authority which only love can grant. We see these others as brothers and sisters, just as they recognize us, near and far, openly or not.

Happiness is awakening on the earth, and we all and each are the vessels for such awakening to occur.