title: A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
author:  Jack Kornfield 
description: In undertaking a spiritual life, we must make certain that our path is connected with our heart, according to author and Buddhist monk Jack Kornfield. Since 1974 (long before it gained popularity in the 1990s), Kornfield has been teaching westerners how to integrate Eastern teaching into their daily lives. Through generous storytelling and unmitigated warmth, Kornfield offers this excellent guidebook on living with attentiveness, meditation, and full-tilt compassion.
zlib_text: > “Beyond duality and nonduality, the realizations voiced here are like the
  > immediacy and laughter of Zen, expressions of untethered freedom beyond
  > fixed view, the joy of letting go, embracing paradox, liberating wisdom, a
  > gift of grace.”
  
  > —Jack Kornfield, author of _A Path with Heart_
  
  > “It’s exhilarating to see a master teacher break free and clear—even of his
  > own teaching! This book confirms suspicions that have long been growing in
  > me and encourages me even more to trust my own inner compass as I bushwhack
  > my way along the pathless path. _Runaway Realization_ offers an inviting and
  > hopeful alternative vision of the mature stages of spiritual life, served up
  > with the author’s signature clarity and a newfound note of gentleness.
  
  > —Cynthia Bourgeault, author of _The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three_
  
  > “As we awaken to the field of aliveness in which we live, we enter the realm
  > of this magnificent and important book. Almaas combines penetrating insight
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