All in This Together
Stories and Teachings for Loving Each Other and Our World
A Special Book Launch Event with Jack Kornfield + Anne Lamott
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Beloved teacher Jack Kornfield is joined by Anne Lamott and Sounds True founder Tami Simon as he shares stories on navigating our human experience with wisdom and care—for ourselves and our world—in his new book with Sounds True, All in This Together: Stories and Teachings for Loving Each Other and Our World.
This special book launch event brings together long-time peers and good friends Jack and Anne for a conversation on collective anxiety, injustice, suffering, and more.
About
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At a time of collective anxiety, injustice, and suffering, this book helps us listen with compassion to the pulse of the world and to one another. Beloved meditation teacher Jack Kornfield encourages us to remember our loving awareness, free ourselves and others from hatred and fear, and pave a path with heart where we all belong.
Through stories, poems, and fables, Kornfield shows us that the way to build a wise society within ourselves and for our world is through remembering our interconnectedness. He reminds us to respect the world and ourselves even in the face of the incomprehensible. He invites us to envision a generous world and therefore change it.
Accessible, timely, and heartfelt, the book offers a variety of perspectives, from Kornfield’s personal stories and the teachings of the Buddha to poetry from Mary Oliver and timeless legends. Throughout, Kornfield reminds us that the inescapable pain and beauty of our human experience is what can ultimately connect us.
Jack Kornfield, PhD, trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma, and India and has taught worldwide since 1974. He is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practices to the West. He is the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society and of Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. He is a husband, grandfather, and activist, and holds a PhD in clinical psychology. He has written more than fifteen books, including The Wise Heart, A Path With Heart, After the Ecstasy, the Laundry, and more.
Anne Lamott is the author of seven novels including, Hard Laughter, Rosie, Joe Jones, Blue Shoe, All New People, and Crooked Little Heart (the sequel to Rosie), as well as five bestselling books of non-fiction, Operating Instructions, an account of life as a single mother during her son’s first year and Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, a guide to writing and the challenges of a writer’s life, Traveling Mercies, a collection of autobiographical essays on faith, and Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith.
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This is a free event, and we’d love for you to be part of it. Watch the replay.
- Date: November 12, 2025
- Time: 8:00 PM ET | 5:00 PM PT
“Let yourself be tender with the world,” writes Kornfield, “The world is your lover in a way that almost nothing else is. It’s always here. You can go out right now and kiss the earth.”
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