Okay, okay, so I'm reviewing my husband's CD/MP3. So chase me out of town with torches and pitchforks. It might not be kosher for an editor to sing the praises of her husband's talents, but I'm breaking the rules. Allen's music is so special, so magical, and so transformative, I'm shouting it from the mountain tops. It's not just my opinion. Everyone who has listened to him sing or his transformational, healing CDs are wowed. That's one of the reasons I married him. He is amazing and he doesn't have a clue about it. 

Publisher’s Description: In the Buddhist tradition, love is not just a feeling but a way of being present with ourselves and others. This book offers practical advice on how to cultivate love, how to deepen it, and how to let it flower in our lives. 

We may feel great love for our partners, our children, and our friends, but how do we put that love into action so that others are nurtured by it? And what about loving ourselves? How can we develop greater self-acceptance and self-compassion?

Meditation teacher Moh Hardin offers key insights and practices from the Buddhist tradition for deepening our relationships and finding true fulfillment in our lives. 

Topics include: 

   • Simple Buddhist practices for awakening the heart 

   • How and why to become your own best friend 

   • Finding freedom from destructive patterns in relationships 

   • Listening and speaking with love 

   • Loving and letting go 

Donald Altman

Publishers Description:

ONE-MINUTE MINDFULNESS—50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-Out World

Each human being on planet Earth is – consciously or unconsciously – searching for happiness with unlimited persistence and greed. Happiness appears as a mirage; we try countless ways in order to find it in the external world, with perseverance and determination; nevertheless, each time, the desired happiness finally results in disappointing delusion.

Other, more subjective individuals turn to their inner world; in this case as well, their thirst for happiness is satisfied by sheer deceitful imagination. In each of our attempts to search for it, we start from what we know or imagine. Such happiness is always motivated by an object we anticipate or desire.

True happiness ensues indirectly. It always appears in a state of non-search. Practically, we do not know what happiness is, but, when the mind is completely silent, in a state of total passiveness, our whole being experiences harmony. In this state, as complete beings, integrated into Life, we are overwhelmed with an immense Joy and Happiness without cause.

You Don't Choose a Life, You Live One.

Release date: February 21, 2012

Publisher's Description: The Way is a powerful and inspirational story about family, friends, and the challenges we face while navigating this ever-changing and complicated world. 

Martin Sheen plays Tom, an American doctor who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son (played by Emilio Estevez) killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking the Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of Saint James.