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Meditation Now or Never

by Steve Hagen

Published 2007208 pagesISBN 978-0-0611-4329-8

Cutting right to the heart of meditiation, Steve Hagen strips away cultural and religious jargon and delivers an accessible, simple, and thorough guide.A unique focus on meditation not simply as a spiritual technique, but as a way of livingA 360–degree treatment, from newcomers' most basic concerns to the difficulties that entangle the most experienced meditatorsA clear description of where most of us get stuck in meditation –– and how to get unstuckEssential (and often surprising) guidance on topics that other books rarely or never addressAn answer to why things commonly viewed as meditation aren't meditation at allSimple practices to help avoid needlessly complicating meditation

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Self-Help, Spiritual, Nonfiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Self-Help · Spiritual · Nonfiction

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Balanced tone · Measured pace

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Reading lengthA shorter read208 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2007
Primary categorySelf-HelpAlso cataloged under Spiritual and Nonfiction
ISBN-13
978-0-0611-4329-8
Language
English
Edition record
OL9243410M
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Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.

Begin with its place in Self-Help, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. Which ideas feel usable in your actual circumstances—not only persuasive on the page?
  2. Where does the author distinguish evidence, experience, and opinion?
  3. What would a small, humane experiment with one idea look like?

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