Faith

Sharon Salzberg

The book Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience by renowned meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg is a powerful exploration of our capacity to find joy, peace, and liberation through inner strength, love, and connection.This book offers readers the opportunity to reconnect with their innate capacity to trust and move towards peace. Salzberg teaches how to be present with the normal feelings of confusion, loss, and pain, and of how to move away from the entrapment of false expectations and expectations in order to find a way out of suffering and into a greater sense of self-assuredness and joy.The teachings in Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience query modern definitions of faith and how to trust in the middle of chaos and doubt. Salzberg draws upon her own extensive life experience and discusses with her readers the ways faith can play a key role in allowing us to find our way to our highest good. She shows how strength, resilience, and the capacity to remain open and connected to others are key aspects of faith.The book also offers practical exercises to help readers come to a deeper understanding of their own sense of faith and how to reconnect with it. Through such practices as mindful breathing, presence awareness, compassionate inquiry, and cultivating gratitude, Salzberg gives readers the opportunity to deepen the connection between their faith and true inner peace.Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience is a powerful reminder that our own deepest experience and faith in that experience can help us find liberation from our pain and suffering. Sharon Salzberg provides readers with insight and guidance to define our own relationships to faith and trust and to reclaim a sense of joy and freedom in life.