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Enkrateia
Paperback
Publisher Price: $12.00
Publisher: Walnut Publication
Published: Jan 12 2026
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
This book is a quiet yet powerful invitation to choose growth with awareness and intention. It explores self-transformation not as a dramatic breakthrough, but as a series of conscious, everyday choices-choices that slowly shape character, clarity, and inner strength. At its heart lies a simple truth: meaningful change begins the moment you decide to take responsibility for your inner world.
Through gentle, reflective poems, the book guides readers toward self-mastery-the ability to direct thoughts, emotions, and actions with honesty and care. There are no grand theories or complicated frameworks here. Instead, the verses remind us that real progress is built through small, consistent efforts: paying attention to our thoughts, questioning our habits, and choosing responses instead of reactions. Growth, the book suggests, is less about becoming someone new and more about uncovering who you are capable of becoming.
Written especially for young minds navigating uncertainty, pressure, and self-doubt, these poems speak to those standing at the threshold between confusion and clarity, fragility and resilience. They acknowledge the vulnerability of feeling lost or overwhelmed, while gently pointing toward inner steadiness and purpose. Each poem serves as a pause-a moment to reflect, realign, and reconnect with one's values.
The tone is compassionate, encouraging, and deeply introspective. Readers are invited to slow down, to read without rush, and to revisit the poems as companions through different phases of life. With each return, new meanings emerge, mirroring the reader's own growth and evolving perspective.
Above all, this book affirms that you are not defined by your present limitations or past mistakes. You are a work in progress-capable of change, capable of choice, and capable of becoming stronger with each mindful step. By fostering self-honesty, daily discipline, and the courage to look within, these poems aim to shape not just thoughts, but feelings and will. It is a book to live with, reflect on, and grow into-by choice, one day at a time.
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