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What People Are Saying About Still Life
“Rebecca Pacheco’s writing is miraculous: simultaneously accessible and devourable but also as beautiful and richly complex as the ideas she’s demystifying. In Still Life, she has given readers a uniquely practical blueprint for incorporating mindfulness into their lives, while always acknowledging that doing so is not a panacea, nor is it easy. But her compassionate and often warmly funny prose makes her readers feel supported and welcomed, no matter where they are in their journeys.”
— Emily Gould, author of Perfect Tunes
“This timely, necessary book reads less like a primer on meditation and more like a graceful, hilarious memoir of a life supported by the practice. It reminded me, more than anything, of Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Beautiful Things.”
— Joanna Rakoff, author of A Fortunate Age and the international bestseller My Salinger Year
“In a world heavy with inauthenticity, where meditation, yoga, and mindfulness have become competitive sports, Rebecca Pacheco’s Still Life is air and water. A born teacher, Pacheco not only gets it, but she shares it, with tough wisdom, clarity, compassion for human foibles, and a wide-open heart. Still Life is a brilliantly written instant classic, rich in metta—benevolence—and a book that I will turn to again and again for its insight not only into meditation and mindfulness, but into the modern human heart in search of peace.”
— Elissa Altman, author of Motherland and contributor to Lion’s Roar
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