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We Were Made for These Times

By: Kaira Jewel Lingo
Narrated by: Kaira Jewel Lingo
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In ten concise chapters, you'll learn powerful ways to meet life's challenges with wisdom, resilience, and ease.

We all go through times when it feels like the ground is being pulled out from under us. What we relied on as steady and solid may change or even appear to vanish. In this era of global disruption, threats to our individual, social, and planetary safety abound, and at times life can feel overwhelming. Not only are loss and separation painful, but even positive changes can cause great stress.

Yet life is full of change: birth, death, marriage, divorce; a new relationship; losing or starting a job; beginning a new phase in life or ending one. Change is stressful, even when it is much desired or anticipated—the unknown can feel scary and threatening. In We Were Made for These Times, the extraordinary mindfulness teacher Kaira Jewel Lingo imparts accessible advice on navigating difficult times of transition, drawing on Buddhist teachings on impermanence to help you establish equanimity and resilience.

Each chapter in We Were Made for These Times holds an essential teaching and meditation, unfolding a step-by-step process to nurture deeper freedom and stability in daily life. Time-honored teachings will help you develop ease, presence, and self-compassion, supporting you to release the fear and doubt that hold you back.

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A beautiful resource

Wonderful companion to have on hand for the moments and periods of life when you are facing difficulties. Lovely narration!

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Just beautiful

Ended this book with a great deal of new practices, perspective, and renewed peace. Kaira’s voice and profound insight into suffering, living, and starting over brought me closer to myself and all those around me.

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An Embodiment of living Dharma, full of compassion

Kaira Jewel is masterful in her simplicity, depth, and wide reaching compassion in sharing her living Dharma. This book is like a kind and trustworthy friend, who I can go to for encouragement, tender guidance, and uplifting wisdom no matter the situation I find myself in.

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Wisdom Gem

In her book, We Were Made for These Times, Kaira Jewel Lingo supports readers to lean into the complex challenges of the times with practices that are simultaneously simple and deep. Serene, clear, intelligent and wise, Lingo’s voice adds power to the lessons, meditations, chants and reflections.
This is a book to audio read many times, a book that creates actionable hope for spiritual activism.

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Comforting inspiring and thought provoking

I'm so glad I learned of this book through Dan Harris and the Ten Percent Happier podcast when the author was a featured guest on the show.

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Written by AI?

This book felt like if you prompted AI to write a word salad of Easter philosophy and 2020s liberal dogma. As a liberal myself, I agreed with many of the values espoused in this long form opinion piece and meditation guide, Ultimately though there was no true knowledge or information conveyed and it was a complete waste of my time. Approximately 50% of this was guided meditation, and given the vast amount of the book dedicated to that, it should be part of the title. If you are looking for a book version of the Calm app, this is for you.

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