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Awake

Stories of Life-Changing Epiphanies

By Couse, Kristen & Dyja, Thomas

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To Buddhists it is called satori, that moment when the mind and soul finally understand the basic truth of the universe. It is the instant of spiritual fission, when the veil falls, when lives change. Awake collects the greatest, most moving, most inspiring tales of this ultimate experience with selections by such authors as Henry James, the Reverend Al Green, Thomas Merton, Anne Lamott, James Joyce and Eugen Herrigel. Filled with reports from the edge of wonder and understanding, Awake will help you create a map toward finding your own epiphany.

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978-1-56924-583-5
Publisher
Da Capo Press


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Reviewed on August 3, 2001

Compiled by Dyja (Play for a Kingdom), a series editor for Illumina Books, the fiction and nonfiction selections in this anthology of "epiphanies" deftly capture many varieties of intellectual, emotional, and spiritual unfolding. Anne Lamott's excerpt from Traveling Mercies chronicles a descent into an alcohol- and drug-induced hell, while ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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