Be Generous: 101 Meditations & Suggestions to Get You Through the Day (and Night)

by David Marell

This small, captivating volume is a perfect gift and a welcome companion for the times when we all need something to ground us in the moment and give us a chance to catch our breath. Be Generous and the other hundred quick and quirky meditations remind us that life as little foibles are what life and spiritual practice are really about. Everything from making love to getting up in the middle of the night to pee to parking in the city is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573248673
• ISBN13: 9781573248679
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Red Wheel
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.8" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Quirky little book reminds of simpler things in life

Each meditation/poem/simple illustration can literally breathed in a single breath. The main point I took away from this simple and quirky volume is to teach that our spiritual practices are not to be about being cumbersome or difficult, instead they are to be about openness to beauty and power, a practice of what feels good, what feels right.It reminds me that anything can be sacred and spiritual, from reading about the process of flossing your teeth to the things we say to ourselves or that others say to us to anything at all.And even in its bare-bones simplicity, it makes you think.

Be Generous Review

In Be Generous, David Morell makes poetry a meditation and meditation a poem. It is taught that meditation is a surrender of all effort; enjoying David's poetry is effortless. His poignant poems speak directly to the heart through the body (breathe). Laughter bubbles up from the depths and a sigh of understanding and relief will surfaces.In exploring the simple acts of everyday existence and the most powerful life events, David Morell's poetry transforms our experiences. Doing the dishes, driving to the dump, waiting in a traffic jam, battling the phone company, growing older, and coping with loss will never be the same after reading David's poems for now I'm more likely to remember to BREATHE and laugh.

Be generous - and give yourself a treat

This little compendium of personal reflections treats matters pedestrian (e.g. road rage) to cosmic and is able to maintain its relevence to our daily lives over the entire range of its topics. Some of the selections will make you smile or laugh, often self-directed, while others will prompt serene and contemplative thinking. While you may want to refer back to some meditations, others will just come back to you spontaneously as they speak to situations encountered during the course of one's daily activities.This small paperback is an eminently easy way to give yourself or your friend a repeatable treat.

Pleasantly surprised and enlightened

Despite its size, this is a great book. With all the madness in the world today, it's nice to find an author who approaches spirituality with calmness, compassion, and humor. His meditations are full of 21st century zen with a zinger. Marell can be simultaneously silly and profound, wise and wily. I recommend this book highly. Now breathe.

A Little Gem

I've never meditated and probably wouldn't have thought to buy this book myself, but someone had the good sense to give it to me as a gift. It's so much more than I could have expected. It's extremely insightful, remarkably clever and downright funny at parts. I like to look at it on the train during my commute (especially on the way home), and I find myself smiling or even laughing at its insights (even having read them before). This book is a little gem. It makes a terrific gift. Give it to the people that you think should stop to smell the roses.