Making Your Wisdom Come Alive

Making Your Wisdom Come Alive (2 Ed.)”
A Guide to the Source of Your Wisdom and Joy

“Reading Michael’s book is like listening to a wonderful symphony that leaves you feeling uplifted and refreshed.  It is highly recommended for all those who sense that there’s an alternative to suffering, and who want that alternative now.”       
George Fine

In the fully revised second edition of “Making Your Wisdom Come Alive,” Michael Gluckman reveals the secret teachings passed down from antiquity. He shows how these teachings are genuine, because they are reasonable and because you can experience them. Although they help with stress, depression and anxiety, Michael shows how life is more than just getting rid of problems. In fact you will be astonished by how much peace and joy you can experience.

In the same way that the sages of old discovered this indescribable freedom, you can discover it too. Indeed, you will find that the source of wisdom and happiness is the center of your experience.

“Making Your Wisdom Come Alive” promises to help you:

Experience happiness and joy at the source

Banish emotional pain, stress and depression

Find peace when all seems lost, when you are sick, broke, afraid and alone

Deepen your meditation practice and find the center of your mind

The first section of the book is a step by step guide that starts with your everyday experience and from there, takes you to a place where you can discover the freedom and happiness that springs from your identity.

Michael shows how you look for things to provide the happiness that you already have. Even when you get the relationship, the car or the house that you want, the happiness comes from your own Being, the place where you experience it anyway; it doesn't come from an object.

Then when the car crashes, or the house gets foreclosed on, you seem to lose this happiness. The things that seem to give you happiness also have the power to take it away. But in reality happiness has nothing to do with things; it has to do with your essential nature. When you overlook your essential nature and take the limitations that you see to be normal, happiness seems to come and go.

Michael describes the process of returning happiness to its rightful place. He opens your eyes to your natural freedom, and shows you how to cut the strings that seem to pull you back into limitation. This allows you to remain in an effortless state of peace.

In the second section, Michael presents the teachings of many sages from different cultures and religions. This is to show the validity of this knowledge, to fuel your meditation practice, and to confirm your experience.

Michael writes,

"My hope in writing this book is not so you can learn a new or improved philosophy, but so you can be liberated from the limitations that the world seems to present, and live in freedom and joy that you never would have dreamed possible.”

   
Title: Making Your Wisdom Come Alive (2 Ed.),
A Guide to the Source of Your Wisdom and Joy
Pub Date: July 2010
Author:  Michael Gluckman
Publisher: Light Up Your Life
ISBN-13:  978-1-4507-2240-7
List Price:  $15.99
Format: Quality Trade Paperback.
Interior:  288 pages, 5.25”x 8”, black and white, with 16 illustrations
Rights:  World