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“Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back.”

Pema Chodron

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Peace is every step : The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
A practical introduction to the practice of mindfulness by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonviolent Communication : A Language of Life
This book by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg offers effective tools to reduce violence and create peace—by changing how we communicate.

Mutual Aid : A Factor of Evolution
Peter Kropotkin counteracts the conception that evolution is a fierce competition for survival between individuals by exploring the utility of cooperation as a survival mechanism for animals

Building United Judgment : A Handbook for Consensus Decision Making
An effective introduction to consensus decision making. More than just a "how-to" it's a "handbook on how to be the kind of group, and the kind of group member, that can use decision making well

Creating a Life Together : Practical Tools to Grow Intentional Communities
This guide to launching and sustaining successful communities provides step-by-step, practical advice on all the issues related to starting and maintaining an intentional community

The Good Life
Helen and Scott Nearing, the great-grandparents of the back-to-the-land movement, provide their combined sixty years of self-sufficiency living experience in this guide to rural homesteading, right livelihood and healthful living

In Praise of Slow : How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed
Canadian journalist Carl Honore presents a challenging take on the cult of speed, as well as a corrective look at how we can approach our lives through slow living

Affluenza
Through revealing personal stories, expert commentary, hilarious old film clips, dramatized vignettes and "anti-commercial" breaks, Affluenza examines the high cost of achieving the most extravagant lifestyle the world has ever seen.

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
Demonstrates how nature's solutions to survival needs have been the creative jumping-off points for individuals seeking solutions to human challenges, developing, or simply revitalizing processes or products.

Conflict, Culture, Change
Sulak Sivaraksa, founder of the International Network of Engaged Buddhists, explores social activism through an engaged Buddhist lens

The Engaged Buddhist Reader
A selection of essays and stories from some of the leading members of the engaged Buddhist community: The Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Shunryu Suzuki, Maha Ghosananda, Joanna Macy, Jack Kornfield, Robert Aitken and many others

Introduction to Permaculture
The father of permaculture, Bill Mollison, demystifies this system of design and philosophy in this well-illustrated, reader-friendly book