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The most pressing question in these uncertain times may well be, How can we bring healing and protection to the Earth? It was this very question that Cynthia Jurs carried with her in 1990 as she climbed a path high in the Himalayas, to meet an "old wise man in…


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In this honest memoir, Cynthia Jurs grapples with some of the biggest issues of our times and offers solutions from her lifetime practice with Thich Nhat Han. The book is full of spiritual wisdom and heart.

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