All We Have Is All We Need: Daily Steps Toward a Peaceful Life (Meditation Gift, from the Author of Each Day a New Beginning)

It is so incredibly easy to get lost within the drama of everyday life. Suddenly each person who sees the world differently, questions something about our life, or disagrees with us creates an angry fearful reaction. We want nothing more than to teach that person a lesson and nothing less than being in the right. All We Have is All We Need reminds us that every person we come into contact with and every experience that we have is meant as a cosmic lesson. In our lives, we are both teacher and student, simultaneously. Fighting against these roles and circumstances simply causes more opportunities to deal with these experiences. Thus, the best way to deal with conflict or situations that cause you anxiety and angry is to be open to the lesson and allow awareness to permeate through your being. Along with discussion of these and other concepts, each chapter of this book contains a several pages of thoughts and questions. These short notes ask the reader to look deeper within themselves, to let go of judgements, and to act with kindness and compassion. The reader is free to choose one thought to focus on per day or to post several of these little gems around his or her home or office. Each reader will likely find several comments that resonate within them and become almost mantra-like.

Karen Casey, author of Each Day a New Beginning (and 16 others), has crated a nice little pick up/put down book of daily steps to a peaceful life. In our hectic lives, we do have daily opportunities to experience joy and create peace. It's our decision to act from a place of love to others. We are neither helpless nor hopeless. The book can be "baby steps" toward that perfect presence in living with others. It is divided into 6 parts: 1. On the Path with Others: Relationships, Forgiveness and Amends 2. When Walking Away Is Wise: Letting Go, Acceptance, Powerlessness, Surrender 3. The Choices We Make: Fear, Choice, Acting As If 4. What We See Changes Us: Lesson, Change, Perspective 5. Day by Day: Peace, Moment, Kindness 6. We're Not Alone: Love, Wisdom, Prayer, God and Listening After each chapter's introduction, the following pages have three short thoughts/steps. For example, in the chapter on Choices-Choose Joy, my favorite is: "The thought that God is with us this minute, as we read these words, is powerful, isn't it. Well, God is powerful. Let yourself be at peace at this awareness today." Armchair Interviews says: This is carry-along book for those quick read as you wait for someone or something--peaceful yet powerful and thought-provoking steps toward a peaceful life.