Throughout his extraordinary career, New World Library cofounder and publisher Marc Allen has developed simple, powerful tools that anyone can use to find a short, direct path to success and fulfillment. In The Magical Path: Creating the Life of Your Dreams and a World That Works for All, he presents these tools. The book is filled with effective, easy-to-apply practices — including affirmation, visualization, and guided meditation — that can change the course of readers’ lives in miraculous ways. We hope you’ll enjoy this short excerpt from the book. 

The New York Times has called Alan Watts, “perhaps the foremost Western interpreter of Eastern thought for the modern world.” This month, we’re pleased to release his book Zen: A Short Introduction with Illustrations by the Author, a beautiful gift edition of a work he originally published in 1948. Zen captures the essence of Zen Buddhism as a religion and a way of life by embodying the aesthetic of Zen itself. As with brushstrokes in a Japanese ink painting, the words have been used sparingly and arranged precisely, with no unnecessary embellishments. Illustrated with calligraphy and drawings by the author, this reprint of an old classic will delight fans of Alan Watts, while introducing new readers to a legendary author who infused groundbreaking scholarship with literary brilliance.