If it is true for you that "sticks and stones can break

my bones, but words can never hurt me," then your

words are soft, weak and ineffective. Words can hurt;

words can shatter; words can strip you naked, forcing

you to see the truth no matter how precious the lies.

This is the kind of word craft that awardwinning

author and renowned spirituality teacher

Rami Shapiro promotes in this fresh and unapologetic

guide to writing as a spiritual practice. It isn't

about writing spiritual books or about the romance

of writing. It doesn't cover the ins and outs of publishing

and building a brand. Rather, it explores the

bedrock of spiritual awakening and how writing

can shatter you upon it. Along with award-winning

writer and writing coach Aaron Shapiro, he

approaches writing the way a spiritual seeker uses

meditation and chant to shift from narrow mind

to spacious mind and see through the distorting

lens of the self-centered self to the larger reality that

includes and transcends it.

They guide you in how to use writing to discover

the deeper reality of life and how best to live

in harmony with it.