Rest Is Sacred

About Rest Is Sacred

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. Raheem posits 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 which is available to us all.

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