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Book

We are the ones we have been waiting for : inner light in a time of darkness : meditations

Call Number

  • 818 W1773 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : The New Press, [2021]

Physical Description

xxii, 257 pages ; 19 cm

Summary

A book of spiritual ruminations with a progressive political edge, from the Pulitzer Prize-winner who has devoted her life to befriending the earth. Walker has long been a force for sanity in a chaotic world. Here she draws on her deep spiritual grounding, her political conviction and experience, and her literary gifts to offer a series of meditations filled with wisdom, hope, encouragement, and, at times, serenity to a world in need of all these things. "Happiness ... comes from the simple belief that what one is feeling and doing is right. That it is right to protect rather than terrorize others; right to feed people rather than withhold food (and medicine); right to want the freedom and joyful existence of all human kind ... A deep knowing that we are the earth--our separation from Earth perhaps our greatest illusion--and that we stand, with gratitude and love, by our planetary Self.

Notes

First publised in the United States by The New Press, New York, 2006.

Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction.
  • Three fates : graduation address, Agnes Scott College, 2000: includes poem: The day you are born.
  • Childhood.
  • When life descends into the pit.
  • All praises to the pause : the universal moment of reflection : commencement address, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California, May 19, 2002: includes poems: A blessing ; Until I was nearly fifty ; Loss of vitality ; My friend Yeshi ; The writer's life ; The river has its destination.
  • Crimes against dog.
  • This was not an area of large plantations : suffering too insignificant for the majority to see : Dharma talk, African American Buddhist Conference/Retreat, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre, California, August 16, 2002: includes poem: They helped their own.
  • I call that man religious : healing the universal heart, becoming intimate with that which is foreign : the College of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California, April 11, 2002: includes excerpts from a speech given by / at the International Conference on Financing and Development on March 21, 2002 ; includes poems: At first, it is true, I thought there were only peaches & wild grapes ; We have a beautiful mother.
  • Now that you are with me like my people and the dignity of the world : letters of love & hope, the story of the Cuban Five.
  • Metta to Muriel and other marvels : a poet's experience of meditation.
  • How it feels to know someone died for you : living with the voice of the beloved : talk at UC Santa Cruz, early nineties: includes poems: [Thousands of feet below you] ; Not children ; Patriot ; When we let the spirit lead us ; Remember.
  • The glimpse of life beyond the words : on censorship and freedom of speech.
  • Sent by earth : a message from the grandmother spirit : talk given to the Midwives Alliance of North America, September 22, 2001: includes poems: A Native person looks up from the plate, or, Owning how we must look to a person who has become our food ; Recommendation ; S M ; [At this time of mourning].
  • Orchids : a talk at the yoga summit & retreat presented by International Association of Black Yoga Teachers, Watsonville, California, August 1, 2003.
  • To be led by happiness : (re: March 8, 2003).

Subjects

Added Authors

Rebecca Walker