{ "item_title" : "The Map Is Finished", "item_author" : [" Sufi Ilham "], "item_description" : "The map is not the country. Walk until you know the difference.There is a country inside every person that no map has ever drawn. This book is the walking of it.One morning, at the window of the house where he has lived all his life, a walker realizes he cannot describe the river he has watched ten thousand mornings. An old cartographer hands him an atlas. The map is not the country, she says. Walk until you know the difference.What follows is a journey through the country of the inner life - a journey that may change the way you see everything:a forest of echoes where every thought returns wearing your own voicea weaver's room where attention is a thread one breath long - and the whole art of life is the returninga courtyard where the dragon in the shadows turns out to be a pear treea meadow of fires where the dead are kept as warmth, and nothing is ever truly losta city of doors where every door opens onto the same room: the presenta lake of still water where the watcher meets itself at lastIn every one of the twenty chapters you will find:a practice - one meditation, in plain steps, that fits an ordinary daya journal - three pages for the inner lifereflection questions that keep walking with you long after the chapter endsthe science - real research, honestly told, never oversoldkey lines you will want to carry in your pocketWhy this book is different:No school, no guru, no doctrine. The country belongs to no tradition - and therefore to all of them.Not a lecture. A story. You are not told the way; you walk it.Not self-help. Something older: philosophy with a heartbeat, psychology with a soul.Science that is honest. Every study is real, cited, and marked with its true limits.This book is for you if:your mind never stops talking and you wonder who is listeningyou have ever felt that the description of your life is not the same as your lifeyou sense that the answer you are searching for is not somewhere else - it is the searching itselfyou are tired of being told to think positive, and ready to learn to see clearlyyou have read the books - and the books were not the countryPart philosophy, part psychology, part meditation, part story - THE MAP IS FINISHED is one continuous journey in twenty chapters through attention, freedom, and the love that is left when the map ends.It asks nothing of you but attention - and gives back the only room there is: the present.For readers of The Power of Now, Man's Search for Meaning, and the meditative essays of Alan Watts - and for anyone who has ever suspected that the map is not the country.The map is finished. Walk on. Sufi Ilham is a walker.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/819/156/9798191566634_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "13.99", "online_price" : "13.99", "our_price" : "13.99", "club_price" : "13.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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