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With all of the changes taking place in the world around us, the need for inner peace is greater than ever before. Learning to live in peace under all circumstances is the secret of a happy life.
Touch of Peace is a powerful collection of spiritual writings that will change your life by guiding you through with inspiration and new perspectives for facing life's challenges and finding peace within. Drawing from the teachings of Paramhansa Yogananda (author of the classic Autobiography of a Yogi), Touch of Peace shares practical tools, instructive stories, and right attitudes to help you tap the wellsprings of peace inside you.
These blogs, then, are not mind-born, or an expression of what "we want to say." Rather, they represent what we feel people need to hear. Often, when we sit down each week to write, we'll think, "I don't really know what to write about," and then a wonderful idea will emerge resplendent like a butterfly from the dull chrysalis of our mind. As we say, it's a three-way collaboration between our role as middlemen, the needs of the readers, and Paramhansa Yogananda's life-changing teachings.
This book marks the fourth in the series of our compiled weekly blogs: Touch of Light came out in 2015, followed by Touch of Joy (2017), Touch of Love (2019), and now Touch of Peace (2021). When we began writing these blogs back in 2013, we had no idea how long we'd keep going, or how well they'd be received. We've been at it now for eight years, and have passed the four-hundred-blog milepost; it grows more fulfilling for us with each passing year.
About the author
Nayaswami Jyotish Novak is a disciple of the great master Paramhansa Yogananda (author of Autobiography of a Yogi ) and student of Swami Kriyananda. His mission is to help others live the teachings of Self-realization through meditation, devotion, and service.
His lifelong dedication to the spiritual path has led him to lecture, teach, counsel, and serve throughout the world, spreading the message of peace through meditation.
He and his wife are recipients of the Global Ambassador Peace Award. This honor was conferred at the United Nations in a special ceremony by the Institute of International Social Development in recognition of their contribution to fostering world peace.
Since 1984 he and his wife have been the Spiritual Directors of Ananda Worldwide, pioneering Ananda's work in Italy and India and guid-ing the spiritual welfare of thousands of Yogananda's devotees. They are the co-authors of Touch of Light, Touch of Joy, and Touch of Love. To see their schedule of appearances, lectures, classes, and events online and in person, go to jyotishanddevi.org.
Nayaswami Jyotish was named by Swami Kriyananda as his spiri-tual successor after decades of helping him build Ananda's work around the world. Jyotish began taking classes from Kriyananda in 1967. In 1969 they moved together to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California to found Ananda Village, now a model spiritual community. Jyotish has also written several other books: Lessons in Meditation, How to Meditate, 30-Day Essentials for Marriage, and 30-Day Essentials for Career.
