A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times
10 best books like A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times (Jack Kornfield): A Single Thread, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience, The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World, Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste, Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening, Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives, Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother....
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 1570623449 |
The beautiful practicality of her teaching has made Pema Chödrön one of the most beloved of contemporary American spiritual authors among Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. A collection of talks she gave between 1987 and 1994, the book is a treasury of wisdom for going on living when we are overcome...
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
| Author | Jon Kabat-Zinn |
| ISBN | 1401307787 |
Dear Brother,
When you first asked me about how to practice meditation (was it last week?), I gave you a few vague answers and then dismissed it from my mind, thinking that while it is impressive that you consider it seriously, it is not really vital to you right now. But, yesterday when you...
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
2005 15th anniversary edition reprint
Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, is perhaps the best-known proponent of using meditation to help patients deal with illness. (The somewhat confusing title is from a line in Zorba...
| Author | Sharon Salzberg |
| ISBN | 1573223409 |
Faith by renowned meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg is one of those books that can change your entire perspective of the world. There are few books that can do that, that can challenge the foundation of your reality. For me, such books were On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche and Walden...
| Author | Pema Chödrön |
| ISBN | 0007190611 |
Massmarket edition of this spiritual guide to making the most of life, through bad times as well as good, from bestselling author Pema Ch?dr?n. This accessible book has been on the US bestseller lists consistently for four years now. In The Wisdom of No Escape, bestselling author Pema Ch?dr?n shows...
Zero Waste Home: The Ultimate Guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste
| Author | Bea Johnson |
| ISBN | 1451697686 |
Part inspirational story of Bea Johnson (the “Priestess of Waste-Free Living”) and how she transformed her family’s life for the better by reducing their waste to an astonishing one liter per year; part practical, step-by-step guide that gives readers tools and tips to diminish their footprint...
Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
The mind contains the seeds of its own awakening--seeds that we can cultivate to bring forth the fruits of a life lived consciously. With Mindfulness, Joseph Goldstein shares the wisdom of his four decades of teaching and practice in a book that will serve as a lifelong companion for anyone committed...
| Author | Michael Newton |
| ISBN | 1567184995 |
A pioneer in uncovering the secrets of life, internationally recognized spiritual hypnotherapist Dr. Michael Newton takes you once again into the heart of the spirit world. His groundbreaking research was first published in the bestselling Journey of Souls, the definitive study on the afterlife....
Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying
| Author | Ram Dass |
| ISBN | 1573228710 |
More than thirty years ago, an entire generation sought a new way of life, looking for fulfillment and meaning in a way no one had before. Leaving his teaching job at Harvard, Ram Dass embodied the role of spiritual seeker, showing others how to find peace within themselves in one of the greatest spiritual...
True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
How do you cope when facing life-threatening illness, family conflict, faltering relationships, old trauma, obsessive thinking, overwhelming emotion, or inevitable loss? If you’re like most people, chances are you react with fear and confusion, falling back on timeworn strategies: anger,...
The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
| Author | Mark Nepo |
| ISBN | 1573241172 |
Philosopher-poet and cancer survivor, Mark Nepo opens a new season of freedom and joy--an escape from deadening, asleep-at-the wheel sameness--that is both profound and clarifying. His spiritual daybook is a summons to reclaim aliveness, liberate the self, take each day one at a time, and to savor...
The Sisters of Glass Ferry
| Author | Kim Michele Richardson |
| ISBN | 1496709551 |
*EDITORS CHOICE* Historical Novel Society
SIBA Okra Pick, Fall 2017
Longlisted for the 2018 Southern Book Prize
Spanning several decades and written in an authentic voice both lyrical and wise, The Sisters of Glass Ferry is a haunting novel about small-town Southern secrets,...
If only she'd said no...
Katherine knew she’d had too many drinks, but they were only going a short distance. And as Eve pointed out, it was late, there was no traffic anyway...
Now, Katherine would do anything to turn back the clock. If anyone ever found out about the accident, it...
