About the Book
STARRED REVIEW "... a valuable guide that can be read repeatedly ... on finding a unique, ongoing way of quieting the mind's chatter and accessing the higher self." -BlueInk Review Notable Book
You have the power within you to liberate your soul from the mind's dominance and achieve reunion with God. The forty-nine intuited meditations of The Contentment Dividend take you on a journey of discovery toward realizing your true spiritual self, understanding the immortal truths of existence, and focusing your mind and life to achieve contentment.
If you have ever wanted to comprehend the yearnings and role of your lower mind, higher mind, and soul, if you have ever desired to realize your fullest potential of goodness and love, and if you seek truths that will illuminate your life, The Contentment Dividend offers answers and riches.
When you review the contents, some of the names of the meditations may sound obscure, cryptic, even fanciful. Let them pique your curiosity. The meditations are sourced in the author's many decades-long study and practice of the teachings of realized Masters and true Saints. These are the fully God-realized humans who come to awaken us to our unlimited spiritual potential.
By engaging with the meditations, you will access the wisdom of your higher mind, heighten your receptivity to grace, and undergo a revolution in how you navigate life's challenges.
About the Author :
Michael Goddart, MFA, writes to empower people to lead a life of increasing awareness, bliss, and love and to realize their true self. The Contentment Dividend is his fifth book. His previous book, A New Now, won six book awards and seven honors, including the Nautilus Book Award. In Search of Lost Lives earned four book awards, including the National Indie Excellence Award. In this unique memoir, the 88 past lives he recovered in vivid detail illustrate his spiritual evolution. He is also the author of BLISS: 33 Simple Ways to Awaken Further and Spiritual Revolution: A Seeker's Guide, which the Hollywood Spiritual Film and Entertainment Festival named Best Spirituality/Self-Help Book. Australia's leading spiritual bookshop named Spiritual Revolution one of the ten greatest metaphysical books ever written. Michael started actively searching for the truth about death and how to attain true immortality with everlasting bliss when he was 10 years old. He began daily meditation at age 19, and at 21 began to meditate for two and a half hours daily.His spiritual quest, along with his work as an international tax consultant, has taken him to over fifty countries. Since 1974, he has journeyed thirteen times to India and also numerous times to England, Greece, Canada, Spain, and within the United States to be with those rare Teachers whom he considers to be fully realized humans. Michael earned his MFA in creative writing at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He currently lives in Southern California, where he loves the brilliance of the light, reading fine novels, and playing with his White Swiss Shepherd. Kindly visit www.goddart.com for interviews, excerpts, endorsements, and more.
Review :
"Encouraging seekers toward union with the divine and experiences of awe, wonder, and love, The Contentment Dividend is a compelling, supportive spiritual guide." -Foreword Clarion Review
"Throughout, Goddart makes the case in clear, inviting prose that we need to become attached to something higher within ourselves and pursue spiritual purpose. With many, varied meditations on everyday life and situations, the book will prove a valuable compendium of thought-provoking and spiritual reflections for readers who strive to better themselves through meditation and spiritual growth." -BookLife by Publishers Weekly
★IR Approved "Through a tapestry of intimate spiritual reflections, The Contentment Dividend guides truth-seekers to penetrate surface identities, embrace life's secret curriculum, and reunite with the luminous core of divine being. ... the author shines in addressing existential quandaries of purpose, resistance, and self-transformation. ... For spiritual voyagers fatigued by surface living, this real-world monk offers welcome perspective and wings." -IndieReader
"The Contentment Dividend is an original and worthy guide to navigating the many pitfalls, twists and turns on the spiritual path. With humor, tact, and reassuring wisdom Goddart has provided a Light-filled path out of the seeming abyss of our modern materialistic lifestyles.." -Andrew Vidich, PhD, author of Love is a Secret: The Mystic Quest for Divine Love
"It has been an honor, privilege, and joy to pour over Michael Goddart's brilliant, poetic, and divine combination of words. For those seekers looking to identify and embrace a spiritual journey to realize their true self, The Contentment Divide can lead the way. You'll be riveted by the 49 intuited meditations, taking you on a joyous experience." -Janice Fletcher, EdD, author of Wisdom from the Inner Teacher
"With an authentic and inviting voice, Goddart takes the reader's hand and gently guides them through beautiful reflections on life, death, and opening to the divine. Seekers new and experienced alike will discover a deeper connection to their own truth by savoring the kindhearted, wise, and poignant contemplations that Goddart distills from his life experiences." -Patrick Paul Garlinger, author of Endless Awakening: Time, Paradox, and the Path to Enlightenment
"Goddart, a well-traveled and experienced spiritual writer, shares 49 essays on the heady subjects of personal enlightenment, reunion with God, and the provisional nature of the physical. ... they recall small reflecting ponds with yawning depths." -Kirkus Reviews
"The Contentment Dividend is ... told in a story-like format that will allow readers to dive deep into a practice for self-realization and self-discovery. With themes of faith, gratitude, acceptance, perception, intention, and manifestation, this book, based on the Ancient Word of God, will help readers cultivate a daily spiritual practice." -Kristi Elizabeth, Los Angeles Book Review
"Michael Goddart ... writes beautifully, and every short piece in The Contentment Dividend is laden with fresh insights that make you want to read them all with a pencil in your hand and a pad of paper nearby. ... In Michael Goddart's long-practiced synthesis of Eastern and Western thought, many seekers will again find balance." -Roberta Grimes, author of The Fun of Dying and Liberating Jesus
"This book provides people with an opportunity to add a new dimension to their lives. It is an inspiration to me. ... I hope you will avail yourself of this opportunity." -Richard Dugan, Video Producer
