This book is written for you if you know that the purpose of your life is to seek God, but you find that the world around you constantly gets in your way. Do you believe that the best way to move toward God is, therefore, to separate yourself from the world as much as you can? I am here to tell you that the opposite is true. The very purpose of creation is to lead you to God. The path to Him is not away from the world, but through it.

Lynn Shostack is best known for the innovation she brought to banking and marketing.

That was the public Lynn Shostack: business genius and innovator. But there is another Lynn Shostack, a woman whose spiritual intelligence was the basis of a hidden interior life of startling depth and insight. This book tells Lynn’s story in her own words.

She is a private and mysterious person who has always delighted in confounding others’ expectations.

She did not share herself for attention or accolades, or out of a need for self-affirmation, but because she loved to instill passion and wonder in others who were eager to express it. She lived to share the experience of being awed.

Lynn began life as an ambitious child and became a successful businesswoman. This book also shows another side of Lynn that nobody knew: she is a mystic at heart.

This guided journal will help you work through insights about the world, the Real, and yourself by using the most easily available informative thing you have at hand: your own experience. It presents a series of self-exploratory topics about everyday life such as happiness, how to deal with problems and emotions, and why you react the way you do. Throughout this process of journalizing your responses to the questions, your objective will be finding the Real in yourself and distinguishing it from that which comes and goes—and discovering what effects this discernment has on your daily life.

In Here, Now, One Terry Moore has given us—whether we are experienced practitioners or comparative newcomers—an extraordinarily helpful guide to integrating spirituality into our daily lives. From within a Sufi paradigm, Terry’s inspiring admixture of mysticism and sheer practicality can be used within the framework of almost any religion.

Don’t mistake this universality across cultures, doctrines and practices for a lightweight cherry-picking expedition, though. We are not being invited to leave the bits we don’t like on the side of our plate, but we are being informed and guided by a wisdom garnered over years of study, exploration and practice. Terry shares the value of techniques and the philosophies that underpin them with an emphasis on the constant interplay between the inner life and the outer life.

As Terry says: “My only interest here is in being of principial or practical help to my fellow travelers as we journey from our illusion of separativity to the reality of the One.”