Living From The Heart

By Nirmala

Book Overview

"You may think it matters what happens. But what if the only thing that matters is where you are experiencing from, where you are looking from? What if you could experience all of life from a spacious, open perspective where anything can happen and there is room for all of it, where there is no need to pick and choose, to put up barriers or resist any of it, where nothing is a problem and everything just adds to the richness of life?"With these words, the book, Living from the Heart, begins a journey of exploration into what has been called the spiritual Heart. For ages, spiritual seekers have been pointed in the direction of their own Heart to find the answers to life's deepest questions, and also to find the true source of peace, joy, wisdom, and love. And now there is a practical, down-to-earth guide to how to access this deepest wisdom and love in your own Being. The many pointers and exercises throughout the book give a direct experience of the open, accepting qualities of the spiritual Heart and show how it can be an integral part of everyday life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438258631
• ISBN13: 9781438258638
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Radically Transformative

I just finished reading Living from the Heart. What a wonderful book. The chapters on "Love is For Giving" were mind blowing. "What if it doesn't matter what your awareness touches but only that awareness is flowing" is radically transformative. It means it is all worth loving. It means that peace is right here in every moment. It means that I can be in love all the time by just allowing my awareness to flow to what is before me. I tried the exercises and they were amazing. It is true, deeply moving, just plain old fun and even silly to experience that when I gave love to the cold metallic metro train pole that I could feel in my hands and that was supporting me, I could be filled with a sense of love and incredible gratitude. Its like I woke up in a new world this morning. Its like a wonderful game where I get to play with giving love to all that is around "me" as it appears before me, even the hardships. I feel like it could change everything from how I will walk to talk to eat. I will do it all with awareness, space, mindfullness, presence and love. I will change not because someone is telling me to do something more "moral" or "correct" but because it is deeply satisfying to surrender into being an instrument of love. Its the ultimate perfect equation where the more you give of love the more you feel of love.

Relief from the traps of "me"

I first read one of Nirmala's books almost two years ago and it was my introduction to Avaita. It took what Pema Chodron's work had started for me to a more personal, practical level to apply in daily life. The most valuable "pointer" is how Nirmala, kindly, gently has us be with everything with a perspective of "allowing," not efforting to change anything. I've always had trouble being judgmental for not so wonderful feelings or experiences and his writings get right to the heart of being allowing and merciful of even the worst parts of my thinking and interpretations of life experiences. Nirmala, referring to your writings almost daily, I'm learning and practicing what "loving myself," my human nature, really means. His writing speaks deeply to me and compells me to practice living from the heart, even when I'm not. In person, at his retreat, his presence is also beautiful and a gift I am very grateful for experiencing.

Thank you my Most Perfect Teacher

I was stuck in my practice when I first encountered Nirmala. Through his words and Satsangs I have been able to move forward, or rather not move. To sit in the stillness that resides in all of us. His teachings incorporated with the teaching of my other Most Perfect Teachers, have given me entry to a side of existence I thought separate, but was here all along, just waiting patiently for me to discover it. Granting me grace, peace, bliss and the ability to move through life enjoying all of it; the highs and the lows. He taught me to Surrender, and in that surrender find Light, happiness and joy in whatever situation I find myself in. Thank you again, My Most Perect Teacher.

An Extraordinary Coaching

Nirmala's book is an invitation to explore the world through a new lens of perception...deep love, peace, stillness and awareness. His coaching is followed by extraordinarily simple exercises that helped me to stop avoiding and resisting the challenges in life. He taught me how to relax into every moment and find the richness that was already there. Before reading this book, I felt an almost constant obsessive desire for more...more love, gratification, experience, more of almost everything. When I view reality from my heart, as Nirmala instructs, the obsessiveness stops and is replaced with deep fulfillment and peace. Nirmala's words are imbued with Spirit and seem to penetrate deeply, way beyond the mind. The ONLY other book that had a similar effect on me was Eckert Tolle's "The Power Of Now." It is rare indeed to pick up a book and read only a sentence or paragraph and know that you have crossed the threshold of mind and entered into the larger domain of Expanded Awareness. I love this book and can't wait to share it with others.

A "Disarming" Read

I have had the pleasure of sitting in Satsangs with Nirmala, as well as reading his books, and find that there is a feeling of total acceptance which permeates his being, and is equally felt through his writings. I hope I am not exposing a secret when I say that although there are many approaches in spiritual literature which direct us to move from the head to the heart, I find in Nirmala's writing a quality which I can only describe as "disarming." The following quotations may give an idea of what I mean. In Part 2 - The Heart's Wisdom, he says: "The opening and closing of the heart is not a prescription - something you need to practice - but simply a description of what your heart has been doing your entire life." such a phrase leaves nothing for the ego to resist, and adds spaciousness to the process of inquiry. And just when the ego feels it might have material to come back into prominence as it strives to succeed in the process, Nirmala says, "There is never a need to have a bigger or smaller experience, as Being is still Being, even in the small experiences . . . just as a single drop of water is still wet." "One more try," the ego says, and then it reads "Being is never harmed by the limited perspectives we experience . . . Being is already resting within the endless opening and closing of the heart, so you might as well enjoy the ride." And it is then that the ego realizes that it is, and always has been, included in the "ride" and it finally rests. I am very grateful for Nirmala's teachings, and highly recommend his book to those who are ready to stop the struggle and rest in "Being." Arzani Burman, author of "The Legacy of Violetta Rose: An Inter-Dimensional Journey Through the Lincoln Tunnel and Beyond." The Legacy of Violetta Rose: An Inter-Dimensional Journey Through the Lincoln Tunnel and Beyond