Creating a Life of Integrity: In Conversation with Joseph Goldstein
Conversations with Joseph Goldstein, one of today’s most renowned meditation teachers who taught ABC news anchor Dan Harris (author of 10% Happier) to meditate, on the topic of integrity.

Creating a Life of Integrity is our personal trainer for strengthening our integrity muscles.

When we don’t speak or act from our own sense of integrity, we feel lousy. Find out how you can live with more integrity—and subsequently more joy—as you follow these lively conversations between Joseph Goldstein, a founder of the modern mindfulness movement, and Gail Stark, a businesswoman and his student and friend of twenty-five years.

As Joseph and Gail unpack the components of integrity—generosity, virtue, renunciation, wisdom, courage, patience, truthfulness, resoluteness, loving-kindness, and equanimity—we discover each is a step on a path that transports us to an empowered place of clarity, commitment, and, consequently, more joy. As we strengthen and weave these qualities into our daily lives they become our trusted first response in a world that needs our integrity now.

“A lovely, practical, intimate, and wise book. Read and you can enjoy an intimate conversation with a great teacher, and learn how to lovingly refine the study your own mind.”—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart
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Creating a Life of Integrity: In Conversation with Joseph Goldstein
Conversations with Joseph Goldstein, one of today’s most renowned meditation teachers who taught ABC news anchor Dan Harris (author of 10% Happier) to meditate, on the topic of integrity.

Creating a Life of Integrity is our personal trainer for strengthening our integrity muscles.

When we don’t speak or act from our own sense of integrity, we feel lousy. Find out how you can live with more integrity—and subsequently more joy—as you follow these lively conversations between Joseph Goldstein, a founder of the modern mindfulness movement, and Gail Stark, a businesswoman and his student and friend of twenty-five years.

As Joseph and Gail unpack the components of integrity—generosity, virtue, renunciation, wisdom, courage, patience, truthfulness, resoluteness, loving-kindness, and equanimity—we discover each is a step on a path that transports us to an empowered place of clarity, commitment, and, consequently, more joy. As we strengthen and weave these qualities into our daily lives they become our trusted first response in a world that needs our integrity now.

“A lovely, practical, intimate, and wise book. Read and you can enjoy an intimate conversation with a great teacher, and learn how to lovingly refine the study your own mind.”—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart
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Creating a Life of Integrity: In Conversation with Joseph Goldstein

Creating a Life of Integrity: In Conversation with Joseph Goldstein

Creating a Life of Integrity: In Conversation with Joseph Goldstein

Creating a Life of Integrity: In Conversation with Joseph Goldstein

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Overview

Conversations with Joseph Goldstein, one of today’s most renowned meditation teachers who taught ABC news anchor Dan Harris (author of 10% Happier) to meditate, on the topic of integrity.

Creating a Life of Integrity is our personal trainer for strengthening our integrity muscles.

When we don’t speak or act from our own sense of integrity, we feel lousy. Find out how you can live with more integrity—and subsequently more joy—as you follow these lively conversations between Joseph Goldstein, a founder of the modern mindfulness movement, and Gail Stark, a businesswoman and his student and friend of twenty-five years.

As Joseph and Gail unpack the components of integrity—generosity, virtue, renunciation, wisdom, courage, patience, truthfulness, resoluteness, loving-kindness, and equanimity—we discover each is a step on a path that transports us to an empowered place of clarity, commitment, and, consequently, more joy. As we strengthen and weave these qualities into our daily lives they become our trusted first response in a world that needs our integrity now.

“A lovely, practical, intimate, and wise book. Read and you can enjoy an intimate conversation with a great teacher, and learn how to lovingly refine the study your own mind.”—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781614292791
Publisher: Wisdom Publications MA
Publication date: 05/05/2020
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Gail Andersen Stark has been quietly infiltrating the San Francisco world of business with Buddhist teachings for thirty-plus years. The cofounder of a highly regarded real estate company, she has guided and mentored hundreds of new agents and clients by gently utilizing the concepts of integrity, kindness, and grace. Her passion is to help make these ancient principles available and accessible to a world in need. She lives in Sausalito, California and can be found online at creatingalifeofintegrity.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword Joseph Goldstein ix

Preface xi

Introduction 1

1 Generosity 15

Instructions: We Start Where We Are

Working with Generosity: Julie

Check-In Conversation: Push That Edge

2 Virtue 37

Instructions: The Peace of Non-Remorse

Working with Virtue: A Refuge for Mice

Check-In Conversation: Investigating with Interest

3 Renunciation 55

Instructions: At Peace with Our Piece

Working with Renunciation: Everything Passes

Check-In Conversation: Reframing Deprivation as Non-Addiction

4 Wisdom 75

Instructions: Anything Can Happen at Any Time

Working with Wisdom: What Is Creating Suffering in This Moment?

Check-In Conversation: The Causes of Suffering and Happiness

5 Courage 97

Instructions: Warrior Work

Working with Courage: Exploring Our Distractions

Check-In Conversation: The Valor of Truly Being Present

6 Patience 117

Instructions: Short Moments, Many Times

Working with Patience: Floating Downstream

Check-In Conversation: Practicing the Mind of Letting Go

7 Truthfulness 139

Instructions: Not Fooling Ourselves

Working with Truthfulness: The Antidote to Self-Delusion

Check-In Conversation: What's Surprising Is How Difficult It Is

8 Resoluteness 157

Instructions: Buddhists with Biceps

Working with Resoluteness: Set an Aspiration and Ask What Is Needed

Check-In Conversation: A Vision of Where We Are Heading

9 Loving-Kindness 179

Instructions: Don't Throw Anyone Out of Your Heart

Working with Loving-Kindness: What Obstructs Our

Loving-Kindness?

Check-In Conversation: Am I Getting More Loving?

10 Equanimity 199

Instructions: Path to Peace

Working with Equanimity: We Ask, What Just Happened?

Check-In Conversation: The Essence of the Path

Conclusion: Final Thoughts on a Life of Integrity 221

Acknowledgments 229

About the Author 231

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