Dear Friends,
OOPS! Please note that we sent out the wrong time for the book signing event on Saturday at Susan Morales' house. Please note the correct time is 3:30pm! Please let us know if you have any additional questions, 1-888-558-GOMP.
-Alan Gompers
CORRECTED SCHEDULE:
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, Sept. 6-7th
Saturday, Sept. 6th, 3:30pm, Book Signing Event
Hostess: Susan Morales (Ann Arbor, MI)
Sunday, Sept. 7th, 1pm, Book Signing Event
Crazy Wisdom Bookstore (114 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI 48104)
visit www.crazywisdom.net
Sunday, Sept. 7th, 6-9pm Meditation Workshop, $49 per person
Elmo's Hideaway (220 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI 48104)
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Ann Arbor & Kansas City
Dear Friends,
A huge thank you to our wonderful hosts in Seattle (The Harschfeld Family) and in San Diego (Reva Bernstein & Michelle Sharkey.) Also, thank you to 3rd Place Books & Unity of Kent for their hospitality. We sold a ton of books and met some wonderful folks at our meditation workshops!
Just a quick reminder that I'll be heading to Ann Arbor, Michigan this weekend and then on to Kansas City.
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, Sept. 6-7th
Saturday, Sept. 6th, 6pm, Book Signing Event
Hostess: Susan Morales (Ann Arbor, MI)
Click here for more info.
Sunday, Sept. 7th, 1pm, Book Signing Event
Crazy Wisdom Bookstore (114 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI 48104)
Click here to view flyer or visit www.crazywisdom.net
Sunday, Sept. 7th, 6-9pm Meditation Workshop, $49 per person
Elmo's Hideaway (220 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI 48104)
Click here to view flyer. Click here to register.
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, Sept. 9-17th
Friday, Sept. 12th, 7pm Book Signing Event
Hostess: Tonya Whitman (8117 Parkview Drive, Parkville, MO)
(816) 769-2400 Click here for more info.
Monday, Sept. 15, 6-9pm Meditation Workshop, Cost: $49 pp
Hostess: Tonya Whitman (117 Parkview Drive, Parkville, MO)
(816) 769-2400 Click here for more info. Click here to register.
WEBSITE UPDATES & BOOK REVIEWS
Please visit my website and listen to my recent radio interview with Darryl Neher on AM 1370 WGCL in Bloomington, IN. www.alangompers.com
Also, the book has received some wonderful reviews lately. We've posted them on my website at www.alangompers.com.
The Iowa Source recently wrote "If you were to read only one spiritual memoir this year, this is the one."
If you have read the book and would like to write a review for amazon.com or borders.com, please visit those websites and leave your comments. We could especially use some reviews on Borders.com.
Love & Blessings,
Alan Gompers
A huge thank you to our wonderful hosts in Seattle (The Harschfeld Family) and in San Diego (Reva Bernstein & Michelle Sharkey.) Also, thank you to 3rd Place Books & Unity of Kent for their hospitality. We sold a ton of books and met some wonderful folks at our meditation workshops!
Just a quick reminder that I'll be heading to Ann Arbor, Michigan this weekend and then on to Kansas City.
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, Sept. 6-7th
Saturday, Sept. 6th, 6pm, Book Signing Event
Hostess: Susan Morales (Ann Arbor, MI)
Click here for more info.
Sunday, Sept. 7th, 1pm, Book Signing Event
Crazy Wisdom Bookstore (114 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI 48104)
Click here to view flyer or visit www.crazywisdom.net
Sunday, Sept. 7th, 6-9pm Meditation Workshop, $49 per person
Elmo's Hideaway (220 S. Main, Ann Arbor, MI 48104)
Click here to view flyer. Click here to register.
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, Sept. 9-17th
Friday, Sept. 12th, 7pm Book Signing Event
Hostess: Tonya Whitman (8117 Parkview Drive, Parkville, MO)
(816) 769-2400 Click here for more info.
Monday, Sept. 15, 6-9pm Meditation Workshop, Cost: $49 pp
Hostess: Tonya Whitman (117 Parkview Drive, Parkville, MO)
(816) 769-2400 Click here for more info. Click here to register.
WEBSITE UPDATES & BOOK REVIEWS
Please visit my website and listen to my recent radio interview with Darryl Neher on AM 1370 WGCL in Bloomington, IN. www.alangompers.com
Also, the book has received some wonderful reviews lately. We've posted them on my website at www.alangompers.com.
The Iowa Source recently wrote "If you were to read only one spiritual memoir this year, this is the one."
If you have read the book and would like to write a review for amazon.com or borders.com, please visit those websites and leave your comments. We could especially use some reviews on Borders.com.
Love & Blessings,
Alan Gompers
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Reminder: Seattle & San Diego
Dear Friends,
Hi! Just a quick reminder that I'll be signing books tonight at Third Place Books in Bothell, WA (click here for more info)
Also, I was interviewed today on the Afternoon Edition with Darryl Neher on AM 1370 WGCL in Bloomington, IN. You can listen to the interview online TOMORROW at www.wgclradio.com and www.alangompers.com
On Sunday, I'll be the guest speaker at Unity of Kent Church at 10am. From noon-2pm I'll offer a free meditation workshop. Please click here for more information.
On Monday, he'll head to San Diego. We hope that if you live in, or have friends or family in either of these cities, you'll stop by and say hello. (See below for San Diego schedule)
As always, thank you for sharing your thoughts with us about your experience of Maximum Security: The True Meaning of Freedom.
Love & Blessings,
Alan Gompers
**************
SCHEDULE FOR SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
(August 25-31st)
Monday, August 25th, 2:30pm-5:30pm
Meditation Workshop, $49 per person
Hostess: Reva Bernstein
North County (San Diego)
E-mail info@alangompers.com for more info
Friday, August 29, 7-9pm
Book Signing Event, Free
Sponsored by: The Red Lotus Society
At The Historic Ideal Hotel
542 3rd Ave., Downtown San Diego
www.redlotussociety.org
Saturday, Aug. 30, 1-4pm
Meditation Workshop, $49 per person
Sponsored by: The Red Lotus Society
At The Historic Ideal Hotel
542 3rd Ave., Downtown San Diego
www.redlotussociety.org
Hi! Just a quick reminder that I'll be signing books tonight at Third Place Books in Bothell, WA (click here for more info)
Also, I was interviewed today on the Afternoon Edition with Darryl Neher on AM 1370 WGCL in Bloomington, IN. You can listen to the interview online TOMORROW at www.wgclradio.com and www.alangompers.com
On Sunday, I'll be the guest speaker at Unity of Kent Church at 10am. From noon-2pm I'll offer a free meditation workshop. Please click here for more information.
On Monday, he'll head to San Diego. We hope that if you live in, or have friends or family in either of these cities, you'll stop by and say hello. (See below for San Diego schedule)
As always, thank you for sharing your thoughts with us about your experience of Maximum Security: The True Meaning of Freedom.
Love & Blessings,
Alan Gompers
**************
SCHEDULE FOR SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
(August 25-31st)
Monday, August 25th, 2:30pm-5:30pm
Meditation Workshop, $49 per person
Hostess: Reva Bernstein
North County (San Diego)
E-mail info@alangompers.com for more info
Friday, August 29, 7-9pm
Book Signing Event, Free
Sponsored by: The Red Lotus Society
At The Historic Ideal Hotel
542 3rd Ave., Downtown San Diego
www.redlotussociety.org
Saturday, Aug. 30, 1-4pm
Meditation Workshop, $49 per person
Sponsored by: The Red Lotus Society
At The Historic Ideal Hotel
542 3rd Ave., Downtown San Diego
www.redlotussociety.org
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Typo of the Day
Dear Friends,
I had the good fortune this week of being featured, indirectly, on a blog titled "Typo of the Day." The request came through a librarian at the New York State Library. She found a picture of Dr. Eugene Callender on my website and asked if she could use the photo on her blog highlighting the difference between calendar and callender.
You can visit this blog at:
http://librarytypos.blogspot.com/
(Please scroll down to the entry from Monday, Aug. 11th)
If you do not know Dr. Reverend Eugene Callender, please visit his website at www.dreugenecallender.com It is a pleasure working with this great man.
Have a great weekend!
Love & Blessings,
Alan Gompers
PS I'll be heading to the West Coast next week for several book signing events and meditation workshops.
If you live near Seattle, Washington or San Diego, CA, we hope that you'll be able to stop by and say hello. Please bring your friends!
For more information, please visit my website: www.alangompers.com
I had the good fortune this week of being featured, indirectly, on a blog titled "Typo of the Day." The request came through a librarian at the New York State Library. She found a picture of Dr. Eugene Callender on my website and asked if she could use the photo on her blog highlighting the difference between calendar and callender.
You can visit this blog at:
http://librarytypos.blogspot.com/
(Please scroll down to the entry from Monday, Aug. 11th)
If you do not know Dr. Reverend Eugene Callender, please visit his website at www.dreugenecallender.com It is a pleasure working with this great man.
Have a great weekend!
Love & Blessings,
Alan Gompers
PS I'll be heading to the West Coast next week for several book signing events and meditation workshops.
If you live near Seattle, Washington or San Diego, CA, we hope that you'll be able to stop by and say hello. Please bring your friends!
For more information, please visit my website: www.alangompers.com
Friday, July 11, 2008
What's New with Alan
Please invite your friends to come and meet Alan at the following book signing event:
July 12, 2008, 2pm
Barnes & Noble, Queens Bayside
23-80 Bell Blvd.
Bayside, NY 11361
718-224-1083
Please note the following additions to Alan's calendar:
August 2008
Portland, Oregon
&
Seattle, WA
August 20, 2008
Third Place Books
17171 Bothell Way NE
Lake Forest Park, WA 98155
Tel: 206-366-3333
September 2008
Ann Arbor, MI
October 11th
Yoga for Life Event
near South Fallsburg, NY
More Details to Follow.
July 12, 2008, 2pm
Barnes & Noble, Queens Bayside
23-80 Bell Blvd.
Bayside, NY 11361
718-224-1083
Please note the following additions to Alan's calendar:
August 2008
Portland, Oregon
&
Seattle, WA
August 20, 2008
Third Place Books
17171 Bothell Way NE
Lake Forest Park, WA 98155
Tel: 206-366-3333
September 2008
Ann Arbor, MI
October 11th
Yoga for Life Event
near South Fallsburg, NY
More Details to Follow.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
"Living from the Heart"
Dear Friends,
A very dear friend of mine, someone that I have known for many years, was extremely depressed and unhappy over his inability to have a meaningful relationship with his daughter. Her distrust and anger for him was enormous and no matter what he did their relationship continued to grow further apart.
One day, out of sheer frustration, he called me and began rambling on about how unreasonable and insensitive his daughter was. He went on this way for quite some time until I was able to get his attention and ask him a question.
"You have been sharing with me that your daughter has caused you much frustration and disappointment," I said. "You have told me that she is unreasonable and insensitive, that she continues to have a negative attitude toward you, no matter what you say or do. You have told me how she is hurting you, how selfish she is and how unloved she makes you feel, and that she refuses to change.
My question to you is this, and please don't answer too quickly-I would encourage you to take a real good look at it---Is there something that you might have contributed to this situation? Are the things that you are asking of your daughter, the changes you are asking her to make, are they meant to benefit you or her? Are they truly a giving to her or subtly meant to help make YOU feel better? In essence, are they a taking in disguise?
A few days later he called me back and said he had thought deeply about what I had said and came to realize that he really did want his daughter to change so that he would feel better. He saw that he really loved his daughter but he wasn't sure how to go about it-a very honest and beautiful realization, one that must have taken great courage on his part.
It was then that I said-"The best thing you can do for your daughter is to love yourself, to come, unconditionally, from your heart, without motive or expectation-ultimately, to offer your love, not to notice her faults and limitations. What she wants is your love, not to be fixed or changed. Until you have touched your own heart, the source of your love, what you are giving her are your expectations, judgments and desires, and all of these are products of the mind and emotions and will only further create separation and anger.
I suggested that he experiment with his relationship and try something different. Instead of "finding her out," seeing in her what he thought was insensitive and unloving, see only her heart and the love he had for her. "No matter what she does or says," I said, "continue to stay close to your heart and offer back only loving thoughts and compassionate understanding. It may be a bit tricky at first but stay with it, give it some time and see what happens. After all, what you have been doing up until now hasn't worked. What have to got to lose?"
Over the next few months the transformation in their relationship was amazing. The more he just simply offered his unconditional love, slowly her anger was replaced with a tentative curiosity. After a while she began to lighten up and share some of her insecurities and fears with him. He practiced listening and patience-which are forms of love-and saw that he had never really listened or acknowledged her before. Now he was allowing his heart to guide him and he realized that he no longer had to be "The Doer," the one who was always trying to figure things out and analyze what to do.
Now their relationship is bringing him the satisfaction and joy that he had longed for so desperately. The interesting thing is that the minute he changed, so did she. Even more amazing, he has now opened his new understanding even further, and has taken this same practice and applied it to everyone and everything. The result is that everyday he is experiencing his life with new meaning and joy. He literally sings with gratitude.
A great being once said, "When we give from our heart, we give its contents, which is love. When we give this love to someone, this love has to pass through us first, before it gets to another. So giving love and receiving love is the same event. So the more we love ourselves, the more we can offer that love back out again. Whether another willingly accepts this love consciously or not, it will always have its effects."
Please tell me, aside from giving our love to ourselves and the world, what more can we do?
"The best thing I can do for you is to love me." I can't give you what I don't have.
Love and blessings,
Alan
A very dear friend of mine, someone that I have known for many years, was extremely depressed and unhappy over his inability to have a meaningful relationship with his daughter. Her distrust and anger for him was enormous and no matter what he did their relationship continued to grow further apart.
One day, out of sheer frustration, he called me and began rambling on about how unreasonable and insensitive his daughter was. He went on this way for quite some time until I was able to get his attention and ask him a question.
"You have been sharing with me that your daughter has caused you much frustration and disappointment," I said. "You have told me that she is unreasonable and insensitive, that she continues to have a negative attitude toward you, no matter what you say or do. You have told me how she is hurting you, how selfish she is and how unloved she makes you feel, and that she refuses to change.
My question to you is this, and please don't answer too quickly-I would encourage you to take a real good look at it---Is there something that you might have contributed to this situation? Are the things that you are asking of your daughter, the changes you are asking her to make, are they meant to benefit you or her? Are they truly a giving to her or subtly meant to help make YOU feel better? In essence, are they a taking in disguise?
A few days later he called me back and said he had thought deeply about what I had said and came to realize that he really did want his daughter to change so that he would feel better. He saw that he really loved his daughter but he wasn't sure how to go about it-a very honest and beautiful realization, one that must have taken great courage on his part.
It was then that I said-"The best thing you can do for your daughter is to love yourself, to come, unconditionally, from your heart, without motive or expectation-ultimately, to offer your love, not to notice her faults and limitations. What she wants is your love, not to be fixed or changed. Until you have touched your own heart, the source of your love, what you are giving her are your expectations, judgments and desires, and all of these are products of the mind and emotions and will only further create separation and anger.
I suggested that he experiment with his relationship and try something different. Instead of "finding her out," seeing in her what he thought was insensitive and unloving, see only her heart and the love he had for her. "No matter what she does or says," I said, "continue to stay close to your heart and offer back only loving thoughts and compassionate understanding. It may be a bit tricky at first but stay with it, give it some time and see what happens. After all, what you have been doing up until now hasn't worked. What have to got to lose?"
Over the next few months the transformation in their relationship was amazing. The more he just simply offered his unconditional love, slowly her anger was replaced with a tentative curiosity. After a while she began to lighten up and share some of her insecurities and fears with him. He practiced listening and patience-which are forms of love-and saw that he had never really listened or acknowledged her before. Now he was allowing his heart to guide him and he realized that he no longer had to be "The Doer," the one who was always trying to figure things out and analyze what to do.
Now their relationship is bringing him the satisfaction and joy that he had longed for so desperately. The interesting thing is that the minute he changed, so did she. Even more amazing, he has now opened his new understanding even further, and has taken this same practice and applied it to everyone and everything. The result is that everyday he is experiencing his life with new meaning and joy. He literally sings with gratitude.
A great being once said, "When we give from our heart, we give its contents, which is love. When we give this love to someone, this love has to pass through us first, before it gets to another. So giving love and receiving love is the same event. So the more we love ourselves, the more we can offer that love back out again. Whether another willingly accepts this love consciously or not, it will always have its effects."
Please tell me, aside from giving our love to ourselves and the world, what more can we do?
"The best thing I can do for you is to love me." I can't give you what I don't have.
Love and blessings,
Alan
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