No Time Like the Present, Jack Kornfield
No Time Like the Present, Jack Kornfield
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No Time Like the Present
Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

Author: Jack Kornfield

Narrator: Jonathan Todd Ross

Unabridged: 7 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/16/2017


Synopsis

In this landmark work, internationally beloved teacher of meditation and “one of the great spiritual teachers of our time” (Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple) Jack Kornfield reveals that you can be instantly happy with the keys to inner freedom.

Through his signature warmhearted, poignant, often funny stories, with their a-ha moments and O. Henry-like outcomes, Jack Kornfield shows how we can free ourselves, wherever we are and whatever our circumstances. Renowned for his mindfulness practices and meditations, Jack provides keys for opening gateways to immediate shifts in perspective and clarity of vision, allowing us to “grapple with difficult emotions” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and know how to change course, take action, or—when we shouldn’t act—just relax and trust.

Each chapter presents a path to a different kind of freedom—freedom from fear, freedom to start over, to love, to be yourself, and to be happy—and guides you into an active process that engages your mind and heart, awakens your spirit, and brings real joy, over and over again. Drawing from his own life as a son, brother, father, and partner, and on his forty years of face-to-face teaching of thousands of people across the country, Jack presents “a consommé of goodness, heart, laughter, tears, and breath, nourishing and delicious” (Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird). His keys to life will help us find hope, clarity, relief from past disappointments and guilt, and the courage to go forward.

About Jack Kornfield

Jack Kornfield, PhD, is one of the best known, most respected meditation teachers in the world. A psychologist and founder of two of the largest Buddhist centers and communities in America, he is one of the key teachers to introduce mindfulness to the West. His books, which include A Path with Heart; After the Ecstasy, the Laundry; and The Wise Heart, are classics, selling well over a million copies, and translated into twenty-one languages. Jack has taught at major universities and centers worldwide, including Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, and Berkeley; he teaches regular classes to four hundred at Spirit Rock in Marin County and to large crowds nationwide at retreats, conferences, and events. To learn more, please visit: JackKornfield.com or SpiritRock.org.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Christopher VanZoest on June 30, 2017

Best book I've ever read. This is the best book I've ever read. I feel happy for the first time in many years as a result of reading it.......more

Goodreads review by Tommy on June 28, 2017

I really do like Jack Kornfield, and this book is filled with some powerful wisdom. Perhaps it's my shortcoming that I didn't take it in smaller doses, because amid the ancient teachings and a-ha moments there was a bit too much self-help chatter and granola-speak, and this is coming from someone wh......more

Goodreads review by Shashank on March 10, 2024

Jack Kornfield has had a very interesting career as a Buddhist writer. His early work was very Buddhist specific, an authentic prestation of other teachers' teachings, and not too approachable for a general audience (Living Dharma, A Still Forest Pool). Then he became great at "translating" aspects......more

Goodreads review by James on December 07, 2017

No Time Like the Present is an Owner’s Manuel for the soul and Jack Kornfield shares his training in Buddhism and clinical psychology through a hundred stories that inspire and help us make whole. When I’m done with a book I usually give it away or put it on the shelf. I think I’ll keep this one out......more

Goodreads review by Val Escobar on August 23, 2018

Mi frase favorita del libro: "No dejaré que lo que no puedo hacer me impida hacer lo que puedo."......more