Bookmark, Charlottetown’s independent bookstore, is partnering with the Buddhist Nuns from the Great Wisdom Buddhist Institute to launch Kindling Hope: Daily Passages from Darkness into Light on July 14th at 7 pm at The Gallery Coffee House & Bistro. Members of the translation team will be joined in conversation about the project by Mo Duffy and Genevieve Loughlin from Pownal Street Press. This event is free and open to all.
As humans we have the exceptional abilities to learn and to choose. Kindling Hope is filled with insight and encouragement: to be kind, to be ethical, to be forgiving, to be loving. A slight shift in perspective takes us from despair to hope; a slight alteration in outlook, and the world changes. We have the potential to grow beyond our greatest aspirations.
This gentle book provides the peace, solace and support for living joyfully in our current world. It reminds us that hope is never far; we can find it within ourselves. With each passage, we are invited to enter a life of joy, and to sometimes shift perspectives. With each passage, readers are given a vantage point to allow us to break free from our dead ends.
A collection from renowned Buddhist teacher, Zhen-Ru, Kindling Hope is filled with short passages and musings that invoke the stillness needed for everyday contemplation. Available for the first time in English, each of these passages is offered with the goal of helping the reader access the compassion, understanding and gratitude that is needed to hold space for each other, and for the earth.
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