Not Less Than Everything: One Man's Quest for Spiritual Enlightenment

by August Turak

Overview

"When it comes to spirituality and life, Turak is as authentic as it gets. Wonderful read!"
— Michael Keaton, actor

Not Less Than Everything: One Man's Quest for Spiritual Enlightenment is the inspirational true story of how author, August Turak overcame depression and meaningless despair through a daring quest for life's ultimate meaning and purpose.

A search for transcendence.

As a troubled young college student in 1971, Turak was seized by the idea that the mystical experience various religious traditions call Enlightenment, Satori, Nirvana, Samadhi, the Unio Mystica, or Cosmic Consciousness not only exists, but might be attainable by him.

This sparked a life altering quest as Turak became in turn,...

...the first student of a rough-hewn, hillbilly Zen master;
...the protégé of the founder of the IBM Executive School;
...the client of a mystical psychologist doing government funded research with LSD;
...a member of the original team that launched MTV: Music Television;
...a successful hi-tech entrepreneur and even a frequent monastic guest at a Trappist monastery.

It was this same spiritual roller coaster that dropped him off twenty-five years later in a tiny room of a rundown motel in Baltimore, Maryland deeply depressed, fearing for his sanity, and with nowhere else to turn. Or so it only seemed...

Through a series of true, wildly entertaining spiritual adventures and practical life lessons, Turak offers his readers an accessible, universal blueprint for a life overflowing with joy, peace, higher purpose and above all gratitude.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186007159
Publisher:	Carpenter's Son Publishing
Publication date:	09/26/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Bestselling author AUGUST TURAK is a successful corporate executive, entrepreneur, award-winning author, speaker, and consultant. He is the founder of the educational nonprofit the August Turak Foundation (previously Self Knowledge Symposium Foundation).

His book, Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks: One Man’s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity, uses 1000 years of Trappist business success and his own entrepreneurial experience to demonstrate the monks are not successful businessmen despite adhering to only the highest ethical values, but because they do.

An inspirational true story, Brother John: A Monk, a Pilgrim, and the Purpose of Life, combines Turak’s $100,000 Templeton Prize winning story with original oil paintings from award-winning artist, Glenn Harrington.

His new memoir, Not Less Than Everything: One Man’s Quest for Spiritual Enlightenment, reveals how August Turak overcame meaningless depression through a daring quest for life’s purpose. Through a series of wildly entertaining spiritual adventures and life lessons, Turak offers a powerful blueprint for a purposeful life. A life overflowing with joy, peace, and above all gratitude.

Turak has published many popular leadership articles for Forbes and been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Selling Magazine, the New York Times, and Business Week.

Turak writes and raises cattle on his seventy-five-acre farm outside Raleigh, NC.
www.AugustTurak.org