Still Points: A Guide to Living the Mindful, Meditative Way

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In an uncertain world, we all seek a sense of security and inner peace. In Still Points: A Guide to Living the Mindful Meditative Way shows us how to achieve this, simply by following a daily spiritual practice. In doing so, we enter into a deep connection to sacred stillness, revealing to us the beauty within the present moment. In a book that can be followed throughout the year, or dipped in and out of to find 'still points' in times of distraction and worry, Brother Richard brings us on a transformative journey of meditation, poetry and sacred pause, enabling us to experience a sense of peace, happiness and belonging in our lives. 'Still Points is a call to stop, to consider, to see the beauty and sacredness of ourselves in everyone and everything' SISTER STAN

Brother Richard is a Capuchin Franciscan priest-friar living and working in Ireland. His poem 'Lockdown' went viral in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and was translated into 26 languages and shared widely on traditional and social media throughout the world. Currently based in Dublin, Brother Richard teaches Christian meditation and mindfulness with the Sanctuary Spirituality Centre in inner city Dublin.

Gently encourages the reader to reach beyond mindfulness towards the threshold of faith * Michael Harding * Beautifully crafted, powerful, soulful * Sister Stan * Still Points may be written by a Catholic friar, but there's much to appreciate for anyone, whether religious or not. [...] There is no shortage of books on mindfulness. Bookshops and library shelves are groaning under their weight. Still Points will be a more gentle addition to the canon * Irish Independent *