The Sound of the Bell

The pure sound of the bell summons us into the present moment.

The timeless ring of truth is expressed in many different voices,

each one magnifying and illuminating the sacred.

The clarity of its song resonates within us

and calls us away from those things that often distract us–

that which was, that which might be–

to That Which Is.

I wrote the lines above in 1989 when I established the Bell Tower imprint at Harmony/Crown, and over the next twenty years I published seventy books I hoped would nourish the soul, illuminate the mind, and speak directly to the heart. Many of those books live on and you can see some of them on my website at http://www.toinettelippe.com/books_edited.html.

In 2002 my own first book, Nothing Left Over: A Plain and Simple Life was published, followed two years later by Caught in the Act: Reflections on Being, Knowing, and Doing. Both were written with those lines in mind. And now, in February 2014, these books have been newly released by Monkfish as ebooks and paperbacks, this time with my own paintings on the covers and as frontispieces. See http://www.monkfishpublishing.com/

Over the months ahead I plan to share with you some of the insights that came to me as I was writing these books, and I hope that you will be moved to share  anything you feel will illuminate for others ways in which we can return to That Which Is. I look forward to these conversations.