Stairway of Surprise Six Steps to a Creative Life

Language: English
Author: Michael Lipson
Publisher: Anthroposophy Press
Category: Waldorf Books(English)
ISBN: 9780880105071
Barcode: 204
Shelf mark: E
For most of us, life is often a humdrum course of the same-old and the nothing-new. We may dream about running away to exotic lands or retreating to distant monasteries, but the whirligig of life won't let us out of its clutches. Michael Lipson offers a fresh way of looking at this old predicament. Using exercises pioneered by the great spiritual teacher Rudolf Steiner, he gives ancient yet very timely keys to freshening our perceptions and opening our horizons. The six steps on this stairway are thinking, doing, feeling, loving, opening, and thanking. If they sound simple, that's because -- in a way -- they are. They show us how to infuse consciousness and mindfulness even into ordinary and overlooked parts of life. Practiced for just a few minutes a day, they can reveal the surprise in the universe that is usually hidden by stale, habitual attitudes.
About the author:
It has been a great privilege to work for many years as a clinical psychologist while living with my family in the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts. Before that, I was the Chief Psychologist in Pediatric AIDS at Harlem Hospital in NYC, where as a Soros Faculty Scholar I developed a meditation program for health professionals who work with the dying. Earlier still, I had been awakened to some hard and glorious facts of life by volunteering with Mother Theresa in her Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta, India. But who are we really? Our resumes? What happens in the moment of eye-contact has always fascinated me more than who we seem to be in our official biographies. You can meet me through books, through my weekly emails, or sign up for my meditation groups and workshops at michaellipson.org.