The Contentment Dividend

"""Encouraging seekers toward union with the divine and experiences of awe, wonder, and love, The Contentment Dividend is a compelling, supportive spiritual guide."" -Foreword Clarion Review ""Throughout, Goddart makes the case in clear, inviting prose that we need to become attached to something higher within ourselves and pursue spiritual purpose. With many, varied meditations on everyday life and situations, the book will prove a valuable compendium of thought-provoking and spiritual reflections for readers who strive to better themselves through meditation and spiritual growth."" -BookLife by Publishers Weekly ★IR Approved ""Through a tapestry of intimate spiritual reflections, The Contentment Dividend guides truth-seekers to penetrate surface identities, embrace life's secret curriculum, and reunite with the luminous core of divine being. ... the author shines in addressing existential quandaries of purpose, resistance, and self-transformation. ... For spiritual voyagers fatigued by surface living, this real-world monk offers welcome perspective and wings."" -IndieReader ""The Contentment Dividend is an original and worthy guide to navigating the many pitfalls, twists and turns on the spiritual path. With humor, tact, and reassuring wisdom Goddart has provided a Light-filled path out of the seeming abyss of our modern materialistic lifestyles.."" -Andrew Vidich, PhD, author of Love is a Secret: The Mystic Quest for Divine Love ""It has been an honor, privilege, and joy to pour over Michael Goddart's brilliant, poetic, and divine combination of words. For those seekers looking to identify and embrace a spiritual journey to realize their true self, The Contentment Divide can lead the way. You'll be riveted by the 49 intuited meditations, taking you on a joyous experience."" -Janice Fletcher, EdD, author of Wisdom from the Inner Teacher ""With an authentic and inviting voice, Goddart takes the reader's hand and gently guides them through beautiful reflections on life, death, and opening to the divine. Seekers new and experienced alike will discover a deeper connection to their own truth by savoring the kindhearted, wise, and poignant contemplations that Goddart distills from his life experiences."" -Patrick Paul Garlinger, author of Endless Awakening: Time, Paradox, and the Path to Enlightenment ""Goddart, a well-traveled and experienced spiritual writer, shares 49 essays on the heady subjects of personal enlightenment, reunion with God, and the provisional nature of the physical. ... they recall small reflecting ponds with yawning depths."" -Kirkus Reviews ""The Contentment Dividend is ... told in a story-like format that will allow readers to dive deep into a practice for self-realization and self-discovery. With themes of faith, gratitude, acceptance, perception, intention, and manifestation, this book, based on the Ancient Word of God, will help readers cultivate a daily spiritual practice."" -Kristi Elizabeth, Los Angeles Book Review ""Michael Goddart ... writes beautifully, and every short piece in The Contentment Dividend is laden with fresh insights that make you want to read them all with a pencil in your hand and a pad of paper nearby. ... In Michael Goddart's long-practiced synthesis of Eastern and Western thought, many seekers will again find balance."" -Roberta Grimes, author of The Fun of Dying and Liberating Jesus ""This book provides people with an opportunity to add a new dimension to their lives. It is an inspiration to me. ... I hope you will avail yourself of this opportunity."" -Richard Dugan, Video Producer"