• Good Citizens: Thich Nhat Hanh explains the relevance of paying attention and being mindful in order to be more compassionate citizens.
  • Not Quite Nirvana: Rachel Neumann presents a down-to-earth and spunky memoir about mindfulness.
  • New World Mindfulness: Donald McCown and Marc Micozzi provide a brief history of mindfulness in America and a mix of meditations and practices for navigating life's stormy and stressful passages.
  • One-Minute Mindfulness: Donald Altman poses mindfulness exercises to increase our awareness and focus our attention on the present moment.
  • Stepping into Freedom: Thich Nhat Hanh teaches mindfulness to Buddhist monks and nuns and lay practitioners in Vietnam and in the West.
  • Seven Masters, One Path: John Selby presents seven masters of meditation from different traditions and explains their approaches to this practice.
  • Awareness: Anthony de Mello explains the importance of attention in a spiritual pep talk that sparkles with glints of wisdom.
  • Light Waves: David K. Reynolds ponders how invaluable attention is to everyday living, creating a classroom that is open 24-7.
  • One Hundred Days of Solitude: Jane Dobisz shares the riches discovered through the practice of attention during a 100-day Zen retreat in the woods of New England one winter.
  • Everyday Sacred: Sue Bender challenges us to be mindful and grateful for the "just enough" dimensions of daily life.
  • Sweeping Changes: Gary Thorp brings energy and attention to everyday activities in the kitchen, the bathroom, and outside surroundings.
  • The Clown in the Belfry: Frederick Buechner chooses "Pay Attention" as the summation of all he has to say as a writer.
  • Zen Computer: Philip Toshio Sudo creatively applies Zen insights to the modern technology of bits and bytes with suggestions on to make working at a computer into a mindful art.
  • The Way of Aikido: George Leonard explains aikido as a martial art that enables us to stay alert.
  • Essential Feng Shui: Lillian Too believes that feng shui helps us to pay more attention to the environment in which we live.
  • Boundless Healing: Tulku Thondup, a Tibetan Buddhist, spells out the wonders that can abound from attentiveness to the mind-body connection.
  • Learning to Fall: Phillip Simmons, while living with ALS, salutes the spiritual practice of attention as a passport to meaning in our imperfect lives.
  • The Attention Economy: Thomas H. Davenport and John C. Beck pinpoint the understanding and management of attention as one of the most important concerns in the business world.

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