Seldom does a book come along that uplifts, entertains and instructs with as much wit and wisdom as "Gifts of Meditation." It is informed by a lifetime of world travel, study and "apparently random meetings with remarkable beings which guided and directed me to the many practices that have sustained me along the way." This is an engaging and thoughtful book, inspired by the spiritual traditions of both East and West, and it offers clear and gentle guidance on how to use each of the nine practices that are "woven within the personal history that gave rise to them." The author's aspiration is that you may find within it techniques that work for you, so that you may "briefly surrender to the awareness that something higher and greater actually does exist and it is within every soul's capacity to connect with it."