Trusting the Gold: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness, Hardcover

A beautifully illustrated gift book to help us uncover and trust the innate goodness in ourselves and others.

We receive so many messages from our culture meant to divide us from one another or turn us against ourselves. Yet when we stop judging, stop avoiding, stop trying to resist that which makes us afraid or ashamed, we open to our true nature--a boundless field of awareness that is innately fearless and loving.

This recognition of our essential human goodness may be the most radical act of healing we can take. "The gold of our true nature can never be tarnished," says Tara Brach. "In the moments of remembering and trusting this basic goodness of our Being, we open to happiness, peace, and freedom."

In Trusting the Gold, Tara draws from more than four decades of experience as a meditation teacher and psychologist to share her most valuable practices for reconnecting with the beauty of our humanity--from timeless Buddhist wisdom to techniques adapted to the specific challenges of our modern age. Here you'll explore three pathways of remembering and living from your full aliveness:

- Opening to the Truth of the present moment
- Turning toward Love in any situation
- Resting in the Freedom of our natural, radiant awareness

"Even in the midst of our deepest emotional suffering, self-compassion is the pathway that will carry us home," Dr. Brach writes. "What a joy to pause and behold our basic goodness, and to see how it shines through each of us. Seeing that secret beauty, we fall in love with all of life."

About author(s):

Tara Brach has been practicing and teaching meditation since 1975, as well as leading workshops and meditation retreats at centers throughout North America and Europe. She has a PhD in clinical psychology, is the founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (IMCW), and is the author of Radical Acceptance, True Refuge, Radical Compassion, and Trusting the Gold. Tara's weekly podcasts of talks and meditations are downloaded more than three million times each month. For more, visit tarabrach.com.

Vicky Alvarez is a visual artist and illustrator with a love for the intimate and contemplative experience of art-making and its ability to reveal and heal. She is inspired by her own inner landscape, glimpses of innocence and simplicity, our human vulnerability, and the mystical. Vicky currently lives between her home countries of England and Spain. She also loves to explore her creativity and emotional realm through dance, nature, and clay. For more, visit vickyalvarez.com.