Stillness in the West

Radically sane and hopeful in this time of darkness and madness.

- Jack Leahy

Mark and his community are already living the contemplative life in nature and somewhat outside the bounds of the megasystem. It is what many of us feel we should be doing but for some reason can't...or won't.

- Jack Leahy

Paul is a true poet and deep thinker--the best combination. His is an unflinching look into the Abyss of our times and how we might remain human through the apparent collapse of everything. Essential reading.

- Jack Leahy

Caroline has cultivated a deep and integrated response to the world, art and life. We all need to learn better to do the same. A refreshingly honest writer and artist.

- Jack Leahy

Hilary's deep love of beauty, truth and goodness shines forth in everything she writes. But she also won't spare the feelings of those who seem to want nothing better than to destroy any trace of the true world lying hidden, yet shining all around us.

- Jack Leahy

A true poet of light and beauty. He sings of the original harmony--however distant or even absent it sometimes seems.

- Jack Leahy

A kind and generous thinker. Even in his self-professed fatalism I hear overtones of hope for a more human and beautiful world. The tao of localism.

- Jack Leahy

A rare, subtle and inspiring poetic voice. Mediations not only on poetry, how to live poetically, but to see that life is already and always poetry.

- Jack Leahy

A deep and precise thinker on life in the megasystem. Mercifully clarifying. Also, a skilled novelist with a book coming out soon.

- Jack Leahy

The theory and practice of escaping the machine while inescapably living in the machine. Very helpful.

- Jack Leahy