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Quiet Mind,

Fearless Heart

Also by Brian Luke Seaward, Ph.D.

Hot Stones and Funny Bones: Teens Helping Teens Coping with Stress

and Anger

Health of the Human Spirit; Spiritual Dimension for Personal Health

The Art of Calm: Relaxation through the Five Senses

Stressed Is Desserts Spelled Backward: Rising above Life’s Challenges with

Humor, Hope, and Courage

Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water: Reflections on Stress and

Human Spirituality

Health and Wellness Journal Workbook (second edition)

Managing Stress: A Creative Journal (third edition)

Managing Stress: Principles and Strategies for Health and Well-being

(fourth edition)

Quiet Mind,

Fearless Heart

The Taoist Path

through

Stress and Spirituality

BRIAN LUKE SEAWARD, Ph.D.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

Published simultaneously in Canada

The author gratefully acknowledges the following for permission to quote from: page

34, If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human by Dr. Chérie

tesy of Josh Zhou; page 117, “Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water” by Brian Luke

Seaward, © Health Communications Inc. Reprinted with permission; page 165,

“Beauty Poem” from In One Era and Out the Other by Samuel Levenson. Reprinted

enson; page 226, “The Winds of Grace” by Brian Luke Seaward, © Inspiration Unlim-

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Seaward, Brian Luke.

Quiet mind, fearless heart : the Taoist path through stress and spirituality / Brian

Luke Seaward.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-471-67999-2 (pbk.)

1. Spiritual life. 2. Stress (Psychology)—Religious aspects. 3. Taoism. I. Title.

BL624.S4226 2004

299.5'144—dc22

2004014378

Printed in the United States of America

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