American meditation writer · The Reflecting Pond (Hazelden, 1981)
Liane Cordes wrote The Reflecting Pond: Meditations for Self-Discovery, published in 1981 by Hazelden, the Minnesota publisher whose list serves people in addiction recovery and aftercare. The book is a set of short meditations arranged by subject — self-acceptance, fear, friendship, love — and it is the work she is known for; almost nothing else about her is on the public record, and no life dates are documented. The sentence the internet gives to Churchill is hers, written for readers doing slow, unglamorous, day-by-day work on themselves.