Rest Is Sacred

Reclaiming Our Brilliance Through the Practice of Stillness

De: Octavia F. Raheem

Narrado por: Octavia F. Raheem

Concise, potent, poetic messages of inspiration, direction, and encouragement for you to embrace rest and reflection as a deep spiritual practice.

In this compelling follow-up to her popular book, Pause, Rest, Be, Octavia Raheem offers succinct, gem-like teachings that invite us to find ways to embrace rest in our daily lives. Rest, she posits, is not only restorative—it connects you to your inner wisdom and is a portal to revelation. Raheem urges us to consider rest as a spiritual practice and to find ways to weave it into the busyness of our everyday life. In this way, she says, we can more fully “rise to the occasion of our life.”

Raheem uses personal reflection, and creative, evocative “sutras” (or, just as aptly, aphorisms, threads, psalms, or proverbs) and inquiry to guide us toward a more well-rested present and future. The forty sutras fall into three categories:

• Rest as a place of refuge from the storms of life

• Rest as a place to remember who you are

• Rest as a place of revelation

Each moment of Rest is Sacred invites the listener into seeing rest as a contemplative practice and a way of life—and to reflect on our relationship to grind culture. The sutras are concise, potent, and inspiring and can be listened to in a moment, contemplated, or lingered over. Raheem offers the view that the most sustainable future available to us is a well-rested one, and that rest isn’t a luxury—it is a necessary spiritual practice that is available to us all.

©2024 Octavia F. Raheem (P)2024 Shambhala Publications

Simply beautiful

So many people I want to gift this to. Loved it so much. Octavia’s soothing voice made this an absolute pleasure to listen to, ordered a hard copy too.

Brilliant and medicinal

Read and rest along the way! Octavia Raheem has done it again. I am sipping slowly to savor the insights. Definitely keeping it at my fingertips and plan to reread.

Perfect Divine Timing

I came across this book based on it being a preview from some of the other titles that I have listened to, and I am so happy that it populated for me. Many of the elements that Octavia speaks about in the book is something that I needed right at this point in my life and in the year. I have put off myself and rest and instead had burned out multiple times this year. Something as simple as rest and implementing the tactics shared in this book will help me to get back on track.

Rest is Enhancing

I like that it’s about rest and restoration and how to not only how to think of and process it, but also how to do it. Thank you Octavia for sharing this work. This will undoubtedly enhance the quality of my thoughts, my energy and my life going forward. ❤️

Rest IS Sacred

Octavia's voice was both soothing & restorative as she shared this excellent content! I would recommend this audiobook & the paper copy to everyone... BRAVO!

Absolutely Necessary!

I loved this book on the need for and power of rest as part of our daily schedule. The language in this work is wonderfully poetic. It’s also a call to action towards empowerment of self and community. I’ll be reading it again.