Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
10 best books like Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (Joanna Macy): Men Explain Things to Me, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life, Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage, Reflections On A Mountain Lake: Teachings On Practical Buddhism, Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West, Women Of Wisdom, The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary, Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness
| Author | Rebecca Solnit |
| ISBN | 1608463869 |
In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don’t, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works,...
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...
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
| Author | Priya Parker |
| ISBN | 1594634920 |
A transformative exploration of the power, purpose, and benefits of gatherings in our lives: at work, at school, at home and beyond.
Every day we find ourselves in gatherings, Priya Parker says in The Art of Gathering. If we can understand what makes these gatherings effective and memorable,...
Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
| Author | Dani Shapiro |
| ISBN | 0802121403 |
"Everything I know about life, I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write."
From the best-selling author of Devotion and Slow Motion comes a witty, heartfelt, and practical look at the exhilarating and challenging process of storytelling. At once a memoir, meditation on the...
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
| Author | Dani Shapiro |
| ISBN | 0451494482 |
The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love.
Hourglass is an...
| Author | Tenzin Palmo |
| ISBN | 1559391758 |
This book is a spiritual classic, instantly and deeply meaningful to any reader who is looking for real guidance on the path towards meaning and purpose in life.
Although REFLECTIONS ON A MOUNTAIN LAKE isn't the global best seller that it deserves to be, Tenzin Palmo herself is fairly well-known...
| Author | Michaela Haas |
| ISBN | 1559394072 |
What drives a young London librarian to board a ship to India, meditate in a remote cave by herself for twelve years, and then build a flourishing nunnery in the Himalayas? How does a surfer girl from Malibu become the head of the main international organization for Buddhist women? Why does the daughter...
| Author | Tsultrim Allione |
| ISBN | 1559391413 |
Women of Wisdom explores and celebrates the spiritual potential of all women, as exemplified by the lives of six Tibetan female mystics. These stories of great women who have achieved full illumination, overcoming cultural prejudices and a host of other problems which male practitioners do not encounter,...
| Author | Angeles Arrien |
| ISBN | 0062500597 |
It doesn't matter that the scholarship is suspect at best; Angeles Arrien's take on shamanic paths is a great filter to add to your collection. I use it all the time in my work.
Arrien is best-known for her work on tarot and astrology. Her interpretations in those areas are a) always geared toward...
| Author | Marion Woodman |
| ISBN | 1570623139 |
Dark, earthy, and immensely powerful, the Black Goddess has been a key force in world history, manifesting in images as diverse as the Indian goddess Kali and the Black Madonnas of medieval Europe. She embodies the energy of chaos and creativity, creation and destruction, death and rebirth. Images...
| Author | Vicki Mackenzie |
| ISBN | 1582340455 |
This is the incredible story of Tenzin Palmo, a remarkable woman who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas.
At the age of 20, Diane Perry, looking to fill a void in her life, entered a monastery in India--the only woman amongst hundreds of monks---and began her battle against...
Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master
| Author | Amy Schmidt |
| ISBN | 0974240559 |
This book is a series of stories written by people who knew Dipa Ma, a renowned meditation master within the Theravada tradition. Dipa Ma was acknowledged to have fully developed the 'supranatural powers'. She continued through cultural and institutionalized obstacles along her path as a female...
Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine
| Author | Lama Tsultrim Allione |
| ISBN | 1501115030 |
Through her own story of loss and spiritual seeking, paired with mandala meditations and rituals, bestselling author of Feeding Your Demons Lama Tsultrium Allione teaches you how to embody the enlightened, fierce power of the sacred feminine—the tantric dakinis.
Ordained as one of the...
My Conversations with Canadians
| Author | Lee Maracle |
| ISBN | 1771663588 |
On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn’t possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless similar questions, all of them too big to answer, but not too large...
