The shore is wherever you are: a novella of four hungers

A young woman stands on a shore, looking across the water at an island she has never seen.She believes the answer to her life is on the other side.The Shore is Wherever You Are is the story of what she pays to get there - and what she discovers, sitting in the sand on the far side, that she could not have discovered anywhere else.Wrapped around her story is a quiet investigation of the four hungers that drive almost every human life: love, money, sex, and the inherited values we mistake for our soul. Each hunger feeds on a different part of us. Each leaves a different wound. And each, the book argues, is the same hunger wearing a different mask - the mask of a life that has not yet remembered the one thing inside it that was never lost.The book is in four parts: a parable, the four hungers examined in detail, the inner mechanics of the choosing self, and the four daily practices - for the mind, the heart, the body, and the spirit - that hold a whole human life together.Osama Yousry was born in Egypt, trained in pharmaceutical sales and marketing, and spent fifteen years in corporate work across the Gulf before leaving it for a life he could finally call his own. He writes here from inside the experience most spiritual books only describe from outside: the long, ordinary apprenticeship of a working adult learning, slowly, that what he had been seeking was already, always, there.A book for anyone who has read the others and is still hungry. Anyone who has stood on a shore.Anyone who is ready to find out that they were never as lost as they feared.