Book details

  • Genre:body, mind & spirit
  • Sub-genre:Inspiration & Personal Growth
  • Language:English
  • Pages:219
  • eBook ISBN:9781971735016

The Fixed Point

Sovereignty and the Fixed Self

By Lisa J. Scott

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Overview


The Fixed Point is a modern meditation book on sovereignty, orientation, and the self that does not move. Through fifty meditations and a symbolic visual system, Lisa J. Scott explores what remains steady when identity, relationships, power, language, time, meaning, and certainty continue to change. Quiet, precise, and contemplative, The Fixed Point is for readers seeking clarity without performance, stillness without withdrawal, and a deeper understanding of the part of the self that remains intact.
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Description


What remains when everything else changes? The Fixed Point is a collection of fifty meditations on sovereignty, orientation, perception, stillness, meaning, release, and the enduring self. Written in a spare, contemplative style and paired with a symbolic visual system, the book explores the part of a person that remains intact beneath changing roles, relationships, expectations, systems, language, and time. The meditations move through ten domains: Identity. Perception. Love & Proximity. Power, Systems, and Control. Stillness. Time. Voice. Sovereignty. Meaning. Release. Each meditation examines a different form of movement, pressure, distortion, or change. Together, they ask a single question from many angles: What remains? The Fixed Point is not a book about certainty, control, or resistance. It is a book about recognition. It explores the difference between adaptation and erasure, silence and failure, love and surrender, proximity and intimacy, meaning and approval, release and disappearance. For readers drawn to philosophy, reflection, symbolism, personal sovereignty, emotional clarity, and the quiet architecture of the self, The Fixed Point offers a meditative path through change without losing orientation. The world moves. The fixed point remains.
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About The Author


Lisa J. Scott is a writer, publisher, attorney, and systems thinker whose work explores the relationship between change, meaning, identity, and human experience. Her books examine the hidden structures beneath everyday life, asking what remains when circumstances shift, roles evolve, certainty dissolves, and the world continues to move. Drawing from philosophy, symbolism, observation, and lived experience, her writing seeks clarity without simplification and reflection without prescription. Lisa is the founder of Lisa J. Scott Publishing and the author of numerous works spanning memoir, meditation, fiction, education, systems thinking, and the Operating System Collection. She lives in Dallas, Texas, where she continues to write, publish, and build new worlds through books. The Fixed Point is part of her Core Trilogy, alongside The Woman from Frog Creek and Following the Compass, a series exploring origin, orientation, and the enduring self.
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