Be Generous: 101 Meditations & Suggestions to Get You Through the Day and Night

by David Marell

This small, captivating volume is a perfect gift and a welcome companion for the times when we all need something to ground us in the moment and give us a chance to catch our breath. Be Generous and the other hundred quick and quirky meditations remind us that life as little foibles are what life and spiritual practice are really about. Everything from making love to getting up in the middle of the night to pee to parking in the city is fodder for Marells finelyhoned sense of being in the moment. The meditations are funny and serious and urge us to practice compassion, bask in abundance, meditate, laugh, and rejoice in our perfect and imperfect lives. They give us the opportunity to breathe. From the I Make My Own Decisions I paid fifty dollars to park my car I paid fifty dollars to park my car I paid fifty dollars to park my car Breathe Breathe Thank you Thank you More than a hundred quirky, original meditations are designed to bring you back to the here and now along with blackandwhite illustrations by the author that go with meditations on dental floss.

117 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2003

Reviews

[Danna · Rating 5 out of 5]

If Being Home is a calm ocean, Be Generous is a laughing brook! I love this deceptively simple book of bitsy mantras that help us manage life's little irritations and mysteries, often finding myself making up my own in the same pattern.