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Angeles Arrien |
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Book Title: Four Fold Way, The: Walking the Paths of Warrior, |
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Description: A leading expert on native spirituality and shamanism reveals the four archetypal principles of the Native American medicine wheel and how they can lead us to a higher spirituality and a better world.
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Book Title: Gathering Medicine: Stories, Songs, and Methods fo |
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Description: Join this respected anthropologist and folklorist as she bridges the past with the present to find powerful methods for gaining clarity and direction in your life – methods based on the shamanic tradition. The shamans' way, offers Angeles Arrien, is to "gather medicine" by reconnecting with yourself on the deepest internal level. This "soul work" utilizes imagery, reflective questioning, dream work, and storytelling to help you integrate inner and outer experiences. Thus you travel the "fourfold path" of the ancients to find your personal truth - the way back home.
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Book Title: Nine Muses, The: A Mythological Path to Creativity |
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Description: In The Nine Muses, Arrien illustrates how we can inspire ourselves and see clearly the muses that abound in our own lives. She follows the stories of the Muses from Olympus, Mount Helicon, and the springs of Hippocrene that flowed from the spot struck by the hooves of Pegasus, explaining how to awaken and cultivate our gifts and talents. Like Apollo, who led the chorus of the Muses, Arrien directs readers in developing the qualities we crave to develop more fully: Instinct, Wisdom, Imagination, Life Force, and Intuitive Understanding. |
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Book Title: Passionate Pilgrimage, A |
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Description: Using poetry and lively commentary, David talks about the importance of finding thresholds of possibility, redemption, emancipation and celebration in everyday life.
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Book Title: Second Half of Life, The |
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Description: This collection of teachings, reflections, and stories from around the world open us to the challenge and deeper mysteries of the "great crossing" at midlife. Working with the images, poetry, metaphors, and other forms of symbolic language from diversified cultures, Angeles Arrien introduces us to the Eight Gates if Initiation. Readers are taken step-by-step through each gate to learn more about: How to effectively cope with the natural challenges of health and an aging body, Your secret longings: how they give you direction and inspiration to begin a project that is connected with your life dream, The gate of intimacy: two dangers that can stop your crossing, Ways to balance the two distinct meanings of life: your external, quantitative and material experiences, with the internal, qualitative, sensory experiences, Retirement – from what toward what, and more.
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Book Title: Second Half of Life, The |
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Description: In every culture, in every age, there is a turning point in human life. At this threshold, when you see fewer days ahead than have already passed, you begin the greatest adventure: the second half of your life. On The Second Half of Life, anthropologist and author Angeles Arrien retrieves the world's vital wisdom teachings that have opened people at midlife to the deeper mysteries of who we really are, and why we are truly here.
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Book Title: Signs of Life: The Five Universal Shapes & How to |
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Description: "The soul never thinks without an image," claimed Aristotle. Indeed, as Angeles Arrien displays in this reissued edition of Signs of Life, shapes have significant psychological and mythological meanings embedded in our minds. Understanding the messages they convey and our attraction to them opens up a door to the secret workings of our inner selves and to a fuller appreciation of the art itself. As in her widely popular The Tarot Handbook, Arrien applies her background as a cultural anthropologist to the import human beings attribute to shapes. Examining her results, she has developed an effective tool to determine the connection between a person's preferences for certain shapes and the same person's inner, subjective states. In the course of using Arrien's book, individuals, parents, teachers, and therapists will experience the universal processes of growth embodied in images and myths.
Life, we discover, is art, and through Arrien's fascinating journey in Signs of Life, we gain a new perception of the omnipresent patterns and symbols that surround us.
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Book Title: Tarot Handbook, The: Practical Applications of Anc |
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Description: This book examines each card in great detail, and includes numerology and astrology as well. Arrien's approach is excellent. |
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Book Title: Working Together: Producing Synergy by Honoring Di |
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Description: Working Together looks at the issue of diversity as an adventure to be utilized, not a problem to be solved. With 18 chapters on the creative results and synergetic applications of diversity, it is a practical guide to both theory and application. The contributing authors, including some very well-known names, each bring his or her unique viewpoint based on his or her own nationality, race, cultural roots, gender, and vocation. From the political arena, the former leader of the communist world and a man who had a major role in ending the Cold War, Mikhail Gorbachev makes a case for diversity being a key factor in creating a much-needed "new civilization." Anthropologist Raine Eisler proposes a partnership approach. Television genius Norman Lear makes a brilliant case for how we can create unity for the good of all, without becoming uniformly the same. As the book’s editor, Angeles Arrien, writes in the Introduction, "Our challenge is to foster creativity that supports cooperative economics for the purpose of creating a global society that values diversity and universal common ground." |
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Rumi/Coleman Barks |
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Book Title: Soul of Rumi, The |
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Description: When Rumi was born in Afghanistan in 1207, it was a time of tremendous political turmoil in the Near East. Paradoxically, it was also a time of "brilliant mystical awareness," writes translator Coleman Barks in The Soul of Rumi. This brilliance shines through in every passage, as Barks celebrates the ecstatic nature of Rumi's poetry. Barks (The Essential Rumi) has been given much credit for leading modern Westerners to this astounding poet. His sensitivity to the reader is evidenced in how he organizes the poetry according to themes. Since Rumi is often quoted at public gatherings, such as weddings and memorial services, this makes referencing especially easy. In the section entitled "When Friend Meets Friend," readers find the poem "The Soul's Friend":
The most living moment comes when those who love each other meet each other's eyes and in what flows between them then. To see your face in a crowd of others, or alone on a frightening street, I weep for that….
Barks offers a gracefully rendered introduction to each section, providing personal and historical background of the poetry. Elegantly designed and printed on cream-colored, heavy-stock paper, this is a delight for Rumi fans. --Gail Hudson--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Marina Belica |
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Book Title: October Project |
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Book Title: One Sky |
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Description: Singer/composer Marina Belica, lead singer of October Project, further reveals her talents as a composer on the instrumental album "one sky." Described by Marina as "modern, intimate chamber music," the album features ten tracks arranged for acoustic ensembles that feature a unique palette of string, wind and percussion instruments. The music is contemplative and relaxing, with shades of different ethnic and folk music traditions. Marina plays keyboards and adds vocal textures throughout, including solo piano on the closing track, "A Way Home. Romantic, lyrical and relaxing
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Thomas Berry |
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Book Title: Dream of the Earth, The |
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Description: Paperback:
This first volume in a new series, the Sierra Club Nature and Natural Philosophy Library, explores human-earth relations and seeks a new, non-anthropocentric approach to the natural world. According to cultural historian Berry, our immediate danger is not nuclear war but industrial plundering; our entire society, he argues, is trapped in a closed cycle of production and consumption. Berry points out that our perception of the earth is the product of cultural conditioning, and that most of us fail to think of ourselves as a species but rather as national, ethnic, religious or economic groups. Describing education as "a process of cultural coding somewhat parallel to genetic coding," he proposes a curriculum based on awareness of the earth. He discusses "patriarchy" as a new interpretation of Western historical development, naming four patriachies that have controlled Western history, becoming progressively destructive: the classical empires, the ecclesiastical establishment, the nation-state and the modern corporation. We must reject partial solutions and embrace profound changes toward a "biocracy" that will heal the earth, urges the author who defines problems and causes with eloquence.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Book Title: Great Work, The |
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Description: Paperback:
The future can exist only if humans understand how to commune with the natural world rather than exploit it, explains author and renowned ecologist Thomas Berry (The Dream of the Earth, The Universe Story). "Already the planet is so damaged and the future is so challenged by its rising human population that the terms of survival will be severe beyond anything we have known in the past."
This may make him sound like a scolding, doomsday prophet, but Berry is an optimistic soul, hopeful that humans will rise to the challenge of cherishing the natural world in the third millennium. "Our future destiny rests even more decisively on our capacity for intimacy in our human-Earth relations." Berry predicts. From this premise, Berry reveals why we need to adore our blessed planet, while also examining why we are culturally driven toward exploiting nature. Because Berry has a science background as well as a spiritual orientation (he is the founder of the History of Religions Program at Fordham University), he brings a balanced and fresh voice to social ecology. Even though he writes for the masses, Berry is by no means a lightweight--chapters include "Ecological Geography," "The Extractive Economy," "The Corporation Story," and "Reinventing the Human." --Gail Hudson--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Robert Bly |
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Book Title: Eating the Honey of Words |
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Type: Paperback |
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Description: This landmark 1999 selection features 200 poems chosen by Bly as the vital core of his work. Many previously unpublished or revised poems illuminate more familiar poems in this revelatory retrospective of one of America's most essential poets. If you own only a single Bly collection, this should be the one. |
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Book Title: Insanity of Empire, The |
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Description: This book against the Iraq War is illuminated by Bly’s insights into the mass psychology of the war and its spiritual roots in the Islamic concept of the nafs, or “greedy soul.” “We can surmise,” says Bly, “that the greedy longing for 95 TV channels is related to the greedy longing for a new war.” To some of his earlier poems written during the Vietnam War, Bly has added five new poems in the ghazal form, a form that contributed to the power of his book The Night Abraham Called to the Stars, published by HarperCollins in 2001. These poems include the now-famous poem "Call and Answer," which was one of the first poems written against the war, published in The Nation in August of 2002. Bly's new poems reach for that larger voice to which he has always been committed. Available for purchase online via PayPal at Ally Press. |
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Book Title: Iron John |
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Description: Bly, a major American poet who won a National Book Award in 1968, appears regularly at workshops for men. The book's title refers to a mentor-like figure in a Grimms fairy tale who serves as Wild Man, initiator, and source of divine energy for a young man. This marvelous folktale of resonant, many-layered meanings is an apt choice for demonstrating the need for men to learn from other men how to honor and reimagine the positive image of their masculinity. Bly has always responded to Blakean and Yeatsian intensities, preferring to travel the path lit by mythic road signs. His intent here is to restore a lost heritage of emotional connection and expose the paltriness of a provisional life. For many men capable of responding imaginatively to allegory and myth this will be an instructive and ultimately exculpating book. Others may regard it as an inscrutable attempt, intuitive at best, to find merit in male developmental anxieties. For all collections emphasizing family or gender studies.
- William Abrams, Portland State Univ. Lib., Ore.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. |
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Book Title: Little Book on the Human Shadow |
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Description: Paperback:
Robert Bly, renowned poet and author of the ground-breaking bestseller Iron John, mingles essay and verse to explore the Shadow -- the dark side of the human personality -- and the importance of confronting it.
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Book Title: Morning Poems |
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Description: In this 1997 collection, Bly pays homage to his mentor William Stafford, who wrote a poem every morning. Playful and improvisatory, this book presents a side of Bly not seen before in his poetry . Probably the most concentrated glimpse of Bly's agile, restless creativity captured in a single volume |
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Book Title: Night Abraham Called, The |
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Description: Densely allusive, imaginatively bold, and sometimes darkly funny, each of the 48 poems in The Night Abraham Called to the Stars shares the same form of six three-line stanzas, Bly’s adaptation of the Eastern ghazal form. Bly’s approach is unique in its muscular leaping, a power Bly has developed from the beginning of his literary career in the 1950s. One can feel Bly “doubling the madness,” ratcheting the already considerable intensity of his art up a few more notches, to electrify and challenge the reader in his most powerful collection to date.
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Book Title: Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart, The |
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Description: This anthology, divided into 16 sections representing aspects of the rites of manhood, grows out of Bly and coeditor Michael Meade's presentations to men's support groups of storytelling and poetry. Contributing insightful introductions to each section, the editors select more than 300 Jungian-intuitive poems (more effectively heard aloud) by such writers as Lorca, Neruda, Ponge, Rilke, and Vallejo. These writers are receptive to the archetypal wisdom of the unconscious, "that vision which is the ground of all initiations." Shopworn anthology pieces like "Miniver Cheevy" don't capture "moments when we feel outside time, seized by a longing" as effectively as works by unfamiliar authors (Olav H. Hauge, Gyula Illyes, Haki Madhubuti, Heinz Pasman), songs of primitive peoples, and dreamlike prose excerpts expressing the conflicting emotions that comprise a man's New Age identity.
- Frank Allen, West Virginia State Coll., Institute
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Book Title: Selected Poems of Rilke |
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Description: Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper in the 21st century and beyond. In Good to Great, the most widely anticipated management book of the year, Jim Collins presents nothing less than a recipe book on how to make a good company great. Following the success of his international blockbuster Built to Last, where he and co-author Jerry Porras discovered the secrets of companies that were outstanding at their founding and then sustained greatness, Collins wondered what could be done for the company that is good or mediocre at best? He questioned whether there have been companies that started weak and finished strong, and if so, what can be said about these companies that might help managers turn a mediocre organization into a great one? So Collins and his research team undertook a massive five year study of every company that has made the Fortune 500 since the advent of that listing in 1965, and has crafted a book as practical and insightful as BUILT TO LAST. This exclusive deluxe box set brings together the two most important business books of the last decade from Jim Collins, the leader in modern business theory.
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Book Title: Sibling Society, The |
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Description: Poet and storyteller Robert Bly takes the baby boomers to task in this highly charged exposure of midlifers' values. Having become jaded by the abuses of authority, the boomers of North America have torn down the traditional hierarchy within their families and within their communities. What's left is a "cultural flatness," says Bly, where adults cling to self-absorbed adolescent values, television talk shows have more clout than elders, children are spiritually abandoned to fend for themselves, and in the place of community we have built shopping malls. As always, Bly relies on mythology, legends, and poetry to illustrate the morals of his stories. Ultimately this is a hopeful piece of work, nudging midlifers to take on the responsibilities (and therefore the rewards) of adulthood.
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Raechel Bratnick |
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Book Title: Awakening the Dreamer |
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Description: Provides creative and useful tools to help the dreamer work with and integrate their dreams into their consciousness. |
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Bruce Chilton |
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Book Title: Mary Magdallene: A Biography |
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Description: With the popularity of The Da Vinci Code, Mary Magdalene has become the "it girl" of biblical studies. Bard professor of religion Chilton (Rabbi Jesus; Rabbi Paul) adds another volume to the already groaning shelves of books on the enigmatic woman. As Chilton admits, the gospels contain very little explicit information about her, but he uses what fragments are there to imaginatively reconstruct her life and world. Mary's hometown, Magdala, was a wealthy Roman outpost, but contrary to legend, there is no indication that she was affluent. In fact, as Chilton points out, she came to Jesus in the garb of the poor; she was likely demon-possessed; and she was an outcast from her community. Drawing from the gospels (especially Luke 8), Gnostic writings and later Christian legends, Chilton shows the ways in which the Christian traditions have maligned Mary. Far from being simply the prostitute of legend, Chilton argues, Mary of Magdala offers us the spiritual gifts of dissolving evil (exorcism), providing unguents for sickness and sin (anointing) and understanding the truth of Resurrection (vision). While Chilton's rather stilted book is mostly speculative and offers little new information, it offers a satisfactory survey of attitudes toward Mary from the Middle Ages to today. (Nov.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Book Title: Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography |
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Description: Bruce Chilton presents Rabbi Jesus as "the first comprehensive, critical biography of Jesus to date." Though historical Jesus scholars have "demolished the secularist myth that Jesus was a figment of faith," and have begun to describe his ministry in the context of first century Judaism, Chilton (a professor of religion at Bard College and an Episcopal priest) believes they have not gone far enough. He argues that Jesus was "an inspired rabbi with an exclusively Jewish agenda." Thus, "everything Jesus did was as a Jew, for Jews, and about Jews." Rabbi Jesus patiently explores these notions in a straightforward, accessible style, drawing on a wealth of Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Coptic, and Syriac texts. Many of his arguments are new, and many of them are convincing. Most of them will also make the majority of both Christians and Jews sufficiently uncomfortable as to justify Chilton's striking description of his own work, taken from the book's Foreward: "I sometimes feel as if I am cross-dressing: transgressing basic categories that define who we are [as Christians and as Jews] and how we differentiate ourselves in the world." --Michael Joseph Gross |
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Book Title: Rabbi Paul: An Intellectual Biography |
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Type: Hardback |
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Description: This is a great, historical biography.
If you have an interest in Paul's life, you'll find this book to be very enjoyable. |
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Pema Chodron |
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Book Title: Pema Chodron Audio Collection |
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Type: CD |
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Description: CD's:
Pema Chödron, one of the West’s most beloved teachers of Buddhism, makes the Tibetan vajrayana tradition accessible in today’s world. Now three of her most popular teachings are available in one boxed set. The Pema Chödrön Collection includes:
Pure Meditation—step-by-step instruction in Tibetan Buddhism’s pinnacle practice for transformation and letting go;
Good Medicine—teachings in tonglen, an elegant meditation that allows us to use our troubles to befriend ourselves and widen our circle of compassion; and
From Fear to Fearlessness—offers an antidote to fear in the four noble aspirations—maitri (lovingkindness), compassion, joy, and equanimity.
For the first time, enjoy over seven hours of Ani Pema’s trademark humor and a down-to-earth style in one collectors edition.
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Book Title: Places That Scare You, The |
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Description: Paperback:
Pema Chödrön may have more good one-liners than a Groucho Marx retrospective, but this nun's stingers go straight to the heart: "The essence of bravery is being without self-deception"; "When we practice generosity, we become intimate with our grasping"; "Difficult people are the greatest teachers." These are the punctuations to specific teachings of fearlessness. In The Places That Scare You, Chödrön introduces a host of the compassionate warriors' tools and concepts for transforming anxieties and negative emotions into positive living. Rather than steeling ourselves against hardship, she suggests we open ourselves to vulnerability; from this comes the loving kindness and compassion that are the wellsprings of joy. How do we achieve it? Through meditation, mindfulness, slogans, aspiration, and several other practices, such as tonglen, which is taking in the pain and suffering of others while sending out happiness to all--emphasis on the all. Chödrön introduces each of these practices in turn, backing them up with succinct practical reasoning and a framework of ideas that offers fresh interpretations of familiar words like strength, laziness, and groundlessness. Chödrön is the type of person you'd like to have with you in an emergency, and to deal with the extremes of daily life. In her absence, The Places That Scare You will do nicely. --Brian Bruya --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Book Title: Start Where You Are |
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Description: Paperback:
Pema Chodron is a Buddhist nun for regular folks. Having raised a family of her own, she doesn't shy away from persistent troubles and the basic meatiness of life. In fact, in Start Where You Are, Chodron tries to get us to see that the faults and foibles in each of us now are the perfect ingredients for creating a better life. No need to wait for a quieter time or a more settled mind. The trick Chodron says is to repattern ourselves, to transform bad habits into good by first opening ourselves to the groundlessness of existence. When the cliff dissolves beneath our feet, fear has a way of actually lessening. Fearlessness opens the way to recognizing our pushy egos and that rather than being cursed with original sin, we are blessed with an original soft spot--the squishy feeling inside that we all have, that is the seat of true compassion, and that we all do our best to armor over. Chodron is the kind of teacher who has seen it all and keeps pushing us back into ourselves until there's no one left to wrestle with but a certain recalcitrant image in the mirror. --Brian Bruya--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Book Title: When Things Fall Apart |
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Much like Zen, Pema Chodron's interpretation of Tibetan Buddhism takes the form of a nontheistic spiritualism. In When Things Fall Apart this head of a Tibetan monastery in Canada outlines some relevant and deceptively profound terms of Tibetan Buddhism that are germane to modern issues. The key to all of these terms is accepting that in the final analysis, life is groundless. By letting go, we free ourselves to face fear and obstacles and offer ourselves unflinchingly to others. The graceful, conversational tone of Chodron's writing gives the impression of sitting on a pillow across from her, listening to her everyday examples of Buddhist wisdom. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Shulamit Elson |
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Book Title: Kabbalah of Prayer |
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Type: Paperback |
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Description: In this remarkable, groundbreaking book, Shulamit Elson writes with eloquence and authority about our soul’s journey, our place in the universe, and our relationship to God through prayer. This is a practical book that gives individual exercises as well as offering help on meeting specific challenges, including spiritual struggles, feelings of meaninglessness, and harsh self-judgment, as well as illness, fear, and anxiety. |
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Masaru Emoto |
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Book Title: Hidden Messages in Water |
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Description: Paperback:
The Hidden Messages in Water is an eye-opening theory showing how water is deeply connected to people's individual and collective consciousness. Drawing from his own research, scientific researcher, healer, and popular lecturer Dr. Masaru Emoto describes the ability of water to absorb, hold, and even retransmit human feelings and emotions. Using high-speed photography, he found that crystals formed in frozen water reveal changes when specific, concentrated thoughts are directed toward it. Music, visual images, words written on paper, and photographs also have an impact on the crystal structure. Emoto theorizes that since water has the ability to receive a wide range of frequencies, it can also reflect the universe in this manner. He found that water from clear springs and water exposed to loving words shows brilliant, complex, and colorful snowflake patterns, while polluted water and water exposed to negative thoughts forms incomplete, asymmetrical patterns with dull colors. Emoto believes that since people are 70 percent water, and the Earth is 70 percent water, we can heal our planet and ourselves by consciously expressing love and goodwill.
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Andrew Harvey |
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Book Title: Direct Path, The |
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Description: ANDREW HARVEY There is a path to divine union that requires no temple, no money ... of the mystic. On The Direct Path, the revered teacher and author Andrew Harvey confronts 2,000 years of distortion about the mystical life, and ... path. By disregarding the human agendas of institutionalized religion, Harvey teaches, you free yourself to follow this true path to the "highest ... |
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Book Title: Direct Path, The: Creating a Personal Journey to t |
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Description: Harvey is concerned that the world is on an incorrect path, one that will lead to its destruction instead of to a world where we can all reach our highest potential. He believes that the direct path, where people reach out to the divine in each of us instead of to a god or guru, is the best way for us to create a place where there is peace and joy. Here Harvey attempts to provide listeners with guides to help them find the direct paths within their soul. Some of the quotes from Rumi, Beede Griffiths, and Mother Teresa are wonderful touchstones, as are some of the ideas about releasing the self from stereotypes and from finding true love with another. |
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Book Title: Gospel of Thomas, The: A Guidebook for Spiritual P |
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Type: Paperback |
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Description: by Ron Miller & Stevan Davies. Partner to The Gospel of Thomas introduced by Andrew Harvey. |
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Book Title: Gospel of Thomas, The: Annotated & Explained |
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Description: Translated by Stephen L. Davies. |
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Book Title: Light Upon Light: Inspirations from Rumi |
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Type: Hardback |
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Description: Mystical scholar Andrew Harvey offers fresh interpretations of more than 250 selections from Rumi's major works.
The works of Sufi mystic and poet Jalad-ud-Din Rumi have been revered in the East for centuries. Now, Western seekers and lovers of poetry are discovering Rumi in unprecedented numbers. Harvey uses these poems, quotations, and parables from Rumi's major works, the Discourses, the Diwan, the Mathnawi, the Odes, and the Rubiyat, as well as excerpts from his letters to re-create the stages of the spiritual journey into Love.
Anyone interested in spirituality will find Light Upon Light a rich source of guidance, encouragement, and profound inspiration. |
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Book Title: Passion for Action: Nine Important Steps Along My |
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Book Title: Radiant Heart |
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Description: Twenty centuries have passed since Jesus first spoke of a glorious "kingdom" at hand. And yet for theologians, as well as everyday seekers, the question remains: what can we do to realize the full promise of Christianity for ourselves and for our world? The answer, teaches Andrew Harvey, lies with the Christian mystics who used the life of Jesus as a spiritual template to become "like a sun, the source of abundant life, whose waves incessantly wash, infuse, and purify the cosmos."
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Book Title: Son of Man: The Mythical Path to Christ |
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Type: Paperback |
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Description: Andrew Harvey's Son of Man: The Mystical Path to Christ is a strange and wonderful book about learning to become like Jesus. Harvey, a scholar, poet, novelist, and translator (he's perhaps best known for helping incite a resurgence of interest in the 12th-century Turkish poet Rumi), draws on his extensive knowledge and experience of Christian and Eastern spiritual practices to create a profound and wide-ranging meditation on who Jesus was and why Jesus matters today. The connection between this book's beginning (a summary of historical-Jesus research) and its end (a series of meditations to help believers grow more Christ-like) is perhaps best summarized by the following passage, which also conveys the sweeping momentum of Harvey's prose:
Paying attention to how Jesus acted and in what context and to what he really said--and not on the dogmas surrounding his divinity--can have the paradoxical effect of making us take him and his actions and words even more seriously and, above all, and in the highest, most urgent sense, practically.
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Book Title: Son of Man: The Mythical Path to Christ, Audio |
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Type: Cassette |
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Description: Designed as both a practical guide and a call to action, and taught by Andrew Harvey himself, the Son of Man audio edition brings to life a revolutionary vision of the historical Jesus that is intended to transform the sacred imagination of the world. Harvey builds a cathedral of words and invites you inside, where you will discover the spiritual riches that have been left unclaimed for 2,000 years.
While sharing new research into the original gospel as Jesus taught it, Andrew Harvey examines centuries of distortions, bringing into focus the most treasured fruits of the entire Christian mystical tradition. What emerges from this myth-cleansing process and restoration in no way diminishes Jesus, but instead presents him as a mystical, political, radical revolutionary of infinite importance to the human race. Now it can be told: the one story that is far richer and more compelling to our spirits than the story of the Son of God and that is Andrew Harvey's Son of Man.
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Book Title: Song of the Sun |
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Type: Cassette |
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Description: On Song of the Sun, Andrew Harvey, the Oxford-trained authority on Rumi and bestselling author of several modern spiritual classics, takes us inside the extraordinary life and teachings of this legendary prophet and poet. Harvey sifts through the many tales associated with Rumi's life to fashion this rich and inspiring portrait of what a human being in love and empowered by God can become. From the way Rumi's life was transformed by the mystic teacher Shams ("Sun"), to his founding of the Mevlevi order of Sufis, to his most sumptuous odes and quatrains – here is the full mystery of Rumi's life and love as we have never heard it before.
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Book Title: Teachings of Christian Mystics |
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Type: Paperback |
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Description: An introductory anthology of wisdom from two thousand years of Christian mystical writings. The Christian mystics are the treasure of Western civilization -- yet they remain little known among those of us who are potentially their spiritual heirs. Andrew Harvey's anthology confronts us with the mystics in their own words, to show us how well they serve, even now, as guides for the spiritual life -- and to challenge our preconceived ideas about the path of Christianity. He has chosen selections that represent all eras of the Christian tradition, as well as the amazing range of people who have embodied it, people like Francis of Assisi, Meister Eckhart, Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Avila, Thomas Merton, Bede Griffiths, and many others. The book includes selections from:
The Gospel of Thomas Gregory of Nyssa Dionysius the Areopagite Symeon the New Theologian Augustine of Hippo Julian of Norwich Mechtild of Magdeburg Angela of Foligno Francis of Assisi John Ruusbroec Meister Eckhart Teresa of vila John of the Cross Mirna Navour Bede Griffiths and many others
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Book Title: Walk with Four Spiritual Guides, A: Krishna, Buddh |
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Type: Hardback |
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Description: A Walk with Four Spiritual Guides is Andrew Harvey’s very personal introduction to Krishna’s lessons on the immortality of the soul, Buddha’s description of the fundamental role of mental conditioning in making us who we are, Jesus’ portrayal of the Kingdom of God as a present fact about the world, and Ramakrishna’s teachings on the truth of all religions. Enhanced with accessible translations of each guide’s essential teachings and facing pages of guided commentary from experts, Harvey offers his own joyful experiences of learning from their wisdom and gives you deeper insight into their message for today.
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Book Title: Way of Passion, The: A Celebration of Rumi |
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Type: Paperback |
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Description: Harvey is probably best known for Hidden Journey (Viking, 1991), in which he details his spiritual surrender to the Indian mystic Mother Meera. He has since found in the mystic poetry of the 13th-century Sufi master Rumi a distillation of the message that he believes Mother Meera embodies and that the world cannot afford to ignore. "I believe we are all in the last moments of a civilization," Harvey writes. "What is at stake is the whole human experiment." Some will find this fixation on the imminent apocalypse distracting. Taken from a series of lectures given in 1993, the book is probably of greatest interest to those having some prior familiarity with the poetry. Harvey's passion and enthusiasm often lead to hyperbole, and his interpretation of Rumi, while compelling, needs to be absorbed slowly and with a critical eye. |
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Brugh Joy |
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Book Title: Avalanche: Heretical Reflections on |
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Type: Paperback |
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Description: In his powerful bestselling book Joy's Way, Dr. W. Brugh Joy shared the story of the spiritual transformation that led him to abandon his medical practice and indeed his whole way of life. In the ten years since, Dr. Joy has experienced the dramatic second stage of his spiritual evolution and Avalanche is the result. In this iconoclastic book, Dr. Joy challenges the idealistic vision of spirituality as an experience of love, light, and harmony. He dares to appreciate the dark, shadow side of human nature that, if left unintegrated, can wreak havoc in our lives.
In fact, Dr. Joy sees shadow work as essential for the evolution of consciousness. He explores the dynamic of the shadow in such issues as multiple personalities as the basis of self, the collapse of exclusively masculine spiritual values, the emergence of the divine feminine and the counter forces that are set in motion in backlash against it, the power of destruction as a purging and healing force, and the battle of the individual with the collective. To access our hidden dark side, Dr. Joy offers as tools dreamwork, archetypes, rituals, and rites of passage, which can set the stage for transformation. Sure to generate controversy, Avalanche demands -- and rewards -- readers who are willing to experience their own deep psyche.
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Book Title: Joy's Way |
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Type: Paperback |
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Description: Brugh Joy combines a tale of his own personal spiritual journey with fairly mainstream yogic ideas concerning body energy, chakras, spiritual plane, etc. |
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Satish Kumar |
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Book Title: No Destination |
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Type: Paperback |
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Description: Paperback:
At the age of nine, Satish Kumar renounced the world and became a wandering Jain monk. Leaving the monkhood when eighteen, he joined Vinoba Bhave's campaign for land reform, working to turn Gandhi's vision into reality. He undertook an 8,000 mile pilgrimage, walking from India to America without any money, through deserts, mountains, storms and snow. Since 1973 he has lived in Britain, becoming the guiding light behind a number of ecological, spiritual and educational ventures. Written with a penetrating simplicity, No Destination is an exhilarating account of an extraordinary life.
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Book Title: You Are, Therefore I am |
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Type: Paperback |
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Description: Paperback:
This book traces the spiritual journey of Satish Kumar--child monk, peace pilgrim, ecological activist, and educator. In it he traces the sources of inspiration that formed his understanding of the world as a network of multiple and diverse relationships.
You Are, Therefore, I Am is in four parts. The first describes the author’s memories of conversations with his mother, his teacher, and his guru, all of whom were deeply religious. The second part recounts his discussions with the Indian sage Vinoba Bhave, J. Krishnamurti, Bertrand Russell, Martin Luther King, and E. F. Schumacher. These five great activists and thinkers inspired him to engage with social, ecological, and political issues. In the third part Satish narrates his travels in India, which have continued to nourish his mind and reconnect him with his roots.
The fourth part brings together his worldview, which is based in realtionships and the connections between all things, rather than the philosophy of dualism, division, and separation that are found in René Descartes’ famous maxim “I think, therefore, I am.” Satish Kumar holds an emergent worldview encapsulated in a fundamental Sanskrit dictum, So Hum, well known in India but not in the West, which can be translated as “You are, therefore, I am.” This mantra underpins all the experiences brought together in this book.
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Hafiz/Daniel Ladinsky |
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Book Title: Gift, The |
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Type: Paperback |
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Description: Hafiz, a secret Sufi, came to prominence in his day as a writer of love poems. That love transformed into an all-consuming passion for union with the divine. In The Gift, Daniel Ladinsky bestows on us the impassioned yet whimsical strains of Hafiz's ecstasy. Never forced or awkward, Ladinsky's Hafiz whispers in your ear and pounds in your chest, naming God in a hundred metaphors.
I once asked a bird,
"How is it that you fly in this gravity
Of darkness?"
She responded,
"Love lifts
Me."
Like Fitzgerald's version of Khayyam's Rubaiyat, the language of The Gift strikes a contemporary chord, resonating in the reader's mind and then in the heart. Ladinsky's language is plain, fresh, playful--dancing with an expert cadence that invites and surprises. If it is true, as Hafiz says, that a poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, reading Ladinsky's Hafiz is like gulping down the sun. --Brian Bruya
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Jacob Neusner |
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Book Title: Judaism: An Introduction |
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Type: Paperback |
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Description: In this comprehensive and engaging work, internationally recognized scholar Jacob Neusner explains how the ancient tales of Judaism form an integral part of the faith, emphasizing how these timeless narratives shape the lives of all those who practice Judaism today. Encompassing theology, law, history, sociology, and biblical study, Judaism explores various facets of Judaism in everyday life, its emergence, and how it is adapted today. This wide-ranging study will be a valuable guide for anyone wishing to learn more.
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John O'Donohue |
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Book Title: Anam Cara |
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Type: Cassette |
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Description: On Anam Cara ("soul friend" in Gaelic), Irish poet, priest, and scholar John O'Donohue guides you through Ireland's remarkable spiritual landscape, yielding a treasure trove of insights, stories, and teachings. In the oral tradition so beloved of the Celts, O'Donohue shares a philosophical, intuitive approach to spirituality that takes you beyond psychological and religious "programs" to a place where your heart can be truly nourished and healed. You will learn authentic Irish prayers and blessings; how to discover your individual nature; how to awaken the senses as "thresholds of the spirit"; the "secret divinity" in your relationships; how the Irish "hospitality" toward death can help you become more compassionate, generous, and fearless; and much more.
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Book Title: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom |
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Type: Paperback |
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Description: The Treasure of Celtic Spirituality - When St. Patrick came to Ireland in the fifth century, he encoun-tered the Celts – a dynamic people who found divinity all around them: in the rivers and hills, the sea and sky, in home and village; and within their own souls. On Anam Cara, Irish poet and Catholic scholar John O’Donohue guides you through Ireland’s remarkable spiritual landscape, yielding a treasure trove of insights, stories, and teachings. Presented on six tapes in the oral tradition so beloved of the Celts.
Anam Cara covers: Authentic Irish prayers and blessings • The "secret divinity" in our relationships • Attuning yourself to sacred silence • The Celtic understanding of the afterlife • Why God’s "wild, passionate" side should be acknowledged • And much more.
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Book Title: Beauty |
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Type: CD |
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Description: The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere—in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves. When we experience the Beautiful, there is a wonderful sense of homecoming; we feel fully alive. Our lives become illuminated and we come to glimpse behind the shudder of appearances, the sure form of things.
Beauty is the true priestess of individuation. But our times are dominated by anxiety and by what is vulgar, coarse, and artificial. Were Beauty to awaken in the fields of politics, religion, planning, discourse, and seeing, our world would heal and fresh wells of hope would refresh us. Kathleen Raine, the English poet says: “Strangest of all is the ease with which the vision is lost, consciousness contracts, we forget over and over again, until recollection is stirred by some icon of that beauty. Then we remember and wonder why we ever forgot.”
On Beauty: The Invisible Embrace, Irish poet and philosopher John O’Donohue invites us to remember and to awaken the Beautiful; it is always secretly there, awaiting but our attention and reverence to come alive.
4 CDs, 5.25 hours
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Book Title: Beauty: The Invisible Embrace |
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Type: Hardback |
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Description: Beauty is a gentle but urgent call to awaken. O'Donohue opens our eyes, hearts, and minds to the wonder of our own relationship with beauty. Rather than "covering" this theme, he uncovers it, exposing the infinity and mystery of its breadth. His words return us to the dignity of silence, the profundity of stillness, the power of thought and perception, and the eternal grace and generosity of beauty's presence. In this masterful and revelatory work, O'Donohue encourages our greater intimacy with beauty and celebrates it for what it really is: a homecoming of the human spirit.
As he focuses on the classical, medieval, and Celtic traditions, on art, music, literature, nature, and language, O'Donohue reveals how beauty's invisible embrace invites us toward new heights of passion and creativity.
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Book Title: Beauty: The Invisible Embrace |
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Type: Paperback |
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Description: Beauty is a gentle but urgent call to awaken. O'Donohue opens our eyes, hearts, and minds to the wonder of our own relationship with beauty. Rather than "covering" this theme, he uncovers it, exposing the infinity and mystery of its breadth. His words return us to the dignity of silence, the profundity of stillness, the power of thought and perception, and the eternal grace and generosity of beauty's presence. In this masterful and revelatory work, O'Donohue encourages our greater intimacy with beauty and celebrates it for what it really is: a homecoming of the human spirit.
As he focuses on the classical, medieval, and Celtic traditions, on art, music, literature, nature, and language, O'Donohue reveals how beauty's invisible embrace invites us toward new heights of passion and creativity. |
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Book Title: Conamara Blues: Poems |
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Type: Paperback |
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Description: In this new collection of poetry, John O'Donohue explores the natural and emotional landscape of his native Conamara County, revealing a pastoral vision that is both personal and universal, mystical and of this world. O'Donohue's instinctive awareness of the contrasts of his land -- its places of light and darkness, its movements and its stillness -- is magically brought to life in his richly lyrical yet deceptively transparent language.
Translating the beauty and splendor of Conamara into a language exquisitely attuned to the wonder of the everyday, O'Donohue takes us on a moving journey through real and imagined worlds. Divided into three parts -- Approachings, Encounters, and Distances -- Conamara Blues at once reawakens a sense of intimacy with the natural world and a feeling of wonder at the mystery of our relationship to this world. Whether exploring the silent, eternal memory of Conamara or focusing on the power of language and the vagaries of human need and passion, O'Donohue tenderly reveals the fragile vulnerability of love and friendship. |
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Book Title: Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning |
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Type: Paperback |
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Description: Following his popular Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom, O'Donohue offers a soaring, eloquent meditation on the art of living. In most people, he maintains, an innate, deep-seated hunger for belonging and relatedness is frustrated by our high-pressured, isolating consumerist culture. Distilling guideposts of Celtic spirituality from traditional Irish legends, fairy lore, lyric poetry and Druidic nature-worship, he also tosses into the pot some Zen Buddhism, Jewish mysticism and quotes from Simone Weil, Nietzsche, Yeats, Auden, Neruda, Merleau-Ponty and Romanian philosopher E.M. Cioran. O'Donohue invites readers to make their lives a constant pilgrimage of discovery.
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Book Title: To Reclaim the Futu | |