Recipes For A Sacred Life: True Stories and a Few Miracles by Rivvy Neshama
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Recipes For A Sacred Life: True Stories and a Few Miracles is not just another book of feel good stories detailing how other people have overcome adversity. Instead, it is a book of stories that includes specific suggestions for how people can live a sacred life. The book came about after Neshama did an exercise in a book to find her highest purpose. She identified her highest purpose as living a sacred life and she soon realized through a series of synchronicities that she should write a book about how to live a sacred life. Once she set her intention, she began meeting the people who provided the stories for the book.
Throughout the book Neshama shares stories of her successes, her failures, her happiness, and her grief and she provides guidance on dealing with the good days and the bad. One of the practices in her book that really spoke to me was saying hello to the sun each morning. She doesn’t advocate a hard core practice of rising at god-awful o’clock each morning to see the sunrise, but recommends making a conscious effort to say hello to the sun when you first step outside or making an effort to step outside to greet the sun. I’ve started this practice over the last few weeks and it has helped me be more in touch with the world around me. Once I realized how good saying hello to the sun felt, I expanded the practice and I now say hello to the sun, the earth, the wind, and the water. Saying hello to the elements has helped me to realize that I am supported on this journey through life.
What I love most about this book is that each of the vignettes in the book are only a few pages so I can pick it up and read a few pages, then go on with my day. Or I can settle in for a longer read if that’s what I need. This will definitely be a book that sits on my nightstand to provide a pick me up.
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