Cultivating Inner Peace Author:Paul R. Fleischman Using practical, progressive steps, Paul Fleischman takes us into the experience of attention, focus, devotion and commitment, helping us find our way to that elusive transcendence which is inner peaceineffable yet always possible. He describes these steps toward peace as an eight-pearled necklace. The pearls can be strung together into a ... more »way of life, the first pearl being simply to seek out peaceful people. Fleischman also incorporates moving portraits of those who have conquered this mountain before us: John Muir, Walt Whitman, Gandhi, Thoreau, Tagore, the Nearings, the Buddha, and others. Peace is not the crowning achievement at the end of a hard or virtuous life, but rather a part of day-to-day existence. It is the transcendence of suffering in everyday life that leads directly to inner peace.« less