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Title:	Practice the Pause: Author Signing and Book Launch
Date:	2/4/2023 (Saturday)
Address:	35 Maryland Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21401
Location:	Annapolis, MD
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Please join us in welcoming and celebrating neighbor, friend, and author Caroline Oakes to the shop. Caroline will be discussing and… More sharing her just released book, Practice the Pause.

Here are a couple of reviews from the back cover.

"What if a seven-second pause could transform your life? Caroline Oakes' warm-hearted Practice the Pause explores this question as a radically inclusive path for us all. Bringing together the wisdom of Jesus' ancient contemplative practice with the exciting, concrete discoveries of neuroscience, plus the sagest voices from all traditions, she takes us on an inter-spiritual journey to awaken--and keep awake--the spark of the divine within." --Carmen Acevedo Butcher, PhD, translator of Brother Lawrence's Practice of the Presence and of Cloud of Unknowing

"I've been thinking that there needs to be a book that connects the dots between contemplative Christianity and neuroscience; I've also thought that we need a good book on Jesus's own spiritual practice. Caroline Oakes has written an excellent book that fills both of these needs. Practice the Pause is the type of book that you'll go back to again and again--and you'll recommend it to all your friends." --Carl McColman, author of Eternal Heart and The Big Book of Christian Mysticism

About the author:

Caroline Oakes is a writer and spiritual director whose essays have been published at On Being, The Huffington Post, and her bimonthly "Mind & Spirit" column in The Bucks County Herald, an award-winning regional newspaper. A student of everyday spirituality, wisdom teachings, and the human spirit, she has a master's degree in ascetical theology from the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church and participated in Thomas Keating's Contemplative Ministry Project. She is trained in teaching contemplative practice and mindfulness meditation by Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation and by Mindful Schools, Inc. She lives in Annapolis, Maryland.