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Eric Alan

Eric Alan is an author, photographer, lyricist, radio broadcaster and workshop leader. With the release of Grace and Tranquility in book and CD form, he continues a creative journey that has taken him across genres and decades. His previous book, Wild Grace: Nature as a Spiritual Path, has inspired workshops on the re-integration of nature into daily life, a regular column reaching several eastern states, and multi-media event collaborations with nationally recognized musicians. Grace and Tranquility further integrates his passions for meditative inquiry, photography and music. It’s a quest to share a path along which reliable daily tranquility can be found, no matter the world’s hard chaotic edges.

The companion CD of the same name adapts lyrics from his two books and merges them with the elegant music of the band Gypsy Soul. He divides his time between Cottage Grove and Ashland, Oregon, while also exploring wild and civilized places beyond. He can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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Simplicity
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” ~ Hans Hofmann Exposed to the summer sunlight of honest self-observation, most of us find contradictions. Check your mirror: we are constantly seduced by complexity, but often we escape the hard questions by allowing ourselves to [...]
Discipline
“Without discipline, there’s no life at all.” ~ Katherine Hepburn The commitment you make to self-discipline weaves your spiritual practice into your daily life. That commitment nurtures mindfulness from disciplined moment to moment. You will find such discpline is its own reward, while it is also a continually renewed promise to yourself. [...]
The Lake of Transformation
We simply came to view. But what we saw transformed us.
Easter Rabbits and Machine Guns
In this small town, the annual Earth Day children’s parade passes right in front of the machine gun shop.
Returning to Newness
Another favorite, familiar place I've never seen before.

“I love the human spirit, and that’s what this team was all about. It wasn’t ‘our team beat your team.’ It’s what the human spirit can overcome. That’s the story of this whole thing. And that story is beautifully told in This Is Our Time!”
—Tim Flannery, Giants third-base coach

When I finally finished Grace & Tranquility I realized I'd been deliberately reading it more and more slowly, savoring it in smaller and smaller nibbles, as one puts off the inevitable conclusion of a sumptuous meal. It is a profoundly wise book in that it never announces itself as wisdom; and it has the power, precision and absolute necessity of poetry in that every page--while containing not a single superfluous syllable--purveys both an arresting image and a scintillating nugget of truth. Anyone interested in an unostentatiously elegant narrative of the human journey toward awareness will cherish both Grace & Tranquility and its predecessor, Wild Grace.
~Will Clipman, pan-global percussionist, poet, maskmaker, storyteller, six-time Grammy Award nominee

We can walk and seek serenity together, no matter the conflict that surrounds and stirs within us. You and I, we can walk these places and make them home. We can find the paths of grace and tranquility within them, just as we have found each other within the open arms of the day. We can share the earth’s abundance, and by knowing its ways well, grow abundance greater still. We can deepen our gratitude for the mystery and miracle, celebrating each moment and its reflections inside.
~ Eric Alan
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