The Engaged Heart ~ An Activist’s Life is Zoe’s examined life revealed.  Recapitulating her life, weaving threads and themes, she searches.  Born just after the death of Gandhi, she hears an unrelenting call to service.  From a Catholic vocation to Liberation Theology, from the Peace Movement to Feminism, from LGBT rights to intersectionality, Zoe is plugged into Social Justice as it unfolds throughout her 70 years.  Only in conscious retrospect does she see that it is all the same – no matter the time or place, humanity longs for freedom, liberty and happiness.

Zoe’s experience confirms that change happens from the inside out.  After spending almost 12 years with a controversial teacher, focusing on discipline, mindfulness and meditation, she leaves on her own terms.  Never stepping away from spiritual practice, driven by her passion and hunger for justice, she embraces Engaged Buddhism.  For her it means living in the world awake and involved.

Zoe has made brave choices; fasting, marching, speaking loudly for Equality.  She is a teacher, activist and mentor.  She is a satyagrahi, a changemaker and visionary.  The Engaged Heart invites you in and sends you out inspired.
The Engaged Heart includes many of her speeches and 32 pages of photos.

The Engaged Heart will be
available for FREE download
in late 2026

The Engaged Heart is a profoundly intelligent book, written with passion and wit.  Zoe Nicholson vividly chronicles her experiences as a combatant in the struggle for Equality and the book thus constitutes a virtual manual for feminist & LGBT activism, complete with defeats and triumphs, mistakes and miracles.  For those who lived over the last 50 years, the book will spark wonderful memories; for those who didn’t, it might well inspire a volcanic eruption of serious commitment on the part of those of us who treasure dreams of justice.  Be ready, America!

Sally Miller Gearhart, Professor Emerita San Francisco State,
Author and self-described, “recovering political activist.”

The Engaged Heart ~ An Activist’s Life    ISBN 0-9723928-4-X

Paperback copies are also available. Should you want them, Contact:
Zoe@LuneSoleilPress.com