Earth Prayers: From Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth
10 best books like Earth Prayers: From Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth (Elizabeth Roberts): Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Imagine a Woman in Love With Herself: Embracing Your Wisdom and Wholeness, Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania, The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God, Cries of the Spirit: More Than 300 Poems in Celebration of Women's Spirituality, Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth, Intimacy with God: An Introduction to Centering Prayer, The Book of Goddesses & Heroines, News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness, The Peyote Dance
| Author | Jane Hirshfield |
| ISBN | 0060925760 |
A combination of spiritual poetry and history of the poets. Really expansive, beautiful, informative collection.
My favorites were:
p 21, Zi Ye
All night I could not sleep / because of the moonlight on my bed. / I kept on hearing a voice calling: / Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered...
| Author | Patricia Lynn Reilly |
| ISBN | 1573241695 |
Imagine A Woman In Love With Herself is based on twenty stanzas of Patricia Lynn Reilly's popular poem "Imagine a Woman." The book holds up a womanaffirming mirror and invites women to look upon themselves with loving kindness. The book empowers women to move from selfloathing to selflove, from selfcriticism...
| Author | Jerome Rothenberg |
| ISBN | 0520049128 |
Since its first publication in 1968, Jerome Rothenberg's Technicians of the Sacred has educated a generation of poets, artists, and readers to the multiple faces and possibilities of poetry throughout the world. Hailed by Robert Creeley as "both a deeply useful work book and an unequivocal delight,"...
| Author | Rupert Sheldrake |
| ISBN | 0892815108 |
Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's preeminent biologists, has revolutionized scientific thinking with his vision of a living, developing universe--one with its own inherent memory. In The Rebirth of Nature, Sheldrake urges us to move beyond the centuries-old mechanistic view of nature, explaining...
| Author | Marilyn Sewell |
| ISBN | 0807068497 |
Brimming over with the inspirational words and thoughts of some of our finest writers, Cries of the Spirit is a beautiful sourcebook of poetry and prose in praise of life and all that it entails. Here women's voices fill the age-old silence about matters central to their experience-from menstruation,...
| Author | Lauren Artress |
| ISBN | 1573225479 |
Walking a Sacred Path reintroduces the ancient Labyrinth, a walking meditation that transcends the limits of still meditation. Walking the Labyrinth has emerged today as a metaphor for the spiritual journey and a powerful tool for transformation. This walking meditation is an archetype, a mystical...
| Author | Thomas Keating |
| ISBN | 0824515889 |
This book was recommended to me by a monk in his eighties in a meeting of spiritual direction with me. I had been feeling very attracted to the practice of Zen meditation for its focus on the present moment, breathing, and acceptance of change, pain, emotional ups and downs, etc. I had felt that my prayer...
| Author | Patricia Monaghan |
| ISBN | 0875425739 |
دوستانِ گرانقدر، زنده یاد بانو <مانوگان> پژوهشِ بسیار خوب و نسبتاً کاملی را انجام داده است
بسیاری از موضوعاتی که در این کتاب آورده شده با اخبار و...
| Author | Robert Bly |
| ISBN | 0871563681 |
Acclaimed poet and translator Robert Bly here assembles a unique cross-cultural anthology that illuminates the idea of a larger-than-human consciousness operating in the universe. The book’s 150 poems come from around the world and many eras: from the ecstatic Sufi poet Rumi to contemporary...
| Author | Antonin Artaud |
| ISBN | 0374230900 |
Artaud received a grant to travel to Mexico, where he met his first (Mexican) Parisian friend, the Painter Federico Cantú in 1936 when he gave lectures on the decadence of Western civilization. He also studied and lived with the Tarahumaran people and experimented with peyote, recording his experiences,...
| Author | Carl Sandburg |
| ISBN | 0156391252 |
Can four dollars buy you happiness?
Yes. Yes, it can.
Four dollars bought me this book, and this book brought me happiness. So, $4.00=Happiness.
And, in case you think I'm a cheap date, I've a list of references that will tell you otherwise.
But, I can't speak of dating...
Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth/Healing the Mind
| Author | Theodore Roszak |
| ISBN | 0871564068 |
This pathfinding collection has become a seminal text for the burgeoning ecopsychology movement, which has brought key new insights to environmentalism and revolutionized modern psychology. Its writers show how the health of the planet is inextricably linked to the psychological health of humanity,...
Pagan Spirituality: A Guide to Personal Transformation
| Author | Joyce Higginbotham |
| ISBN | 0738705748 |
In a world filled with beginner books, deeper explanations of the Pagan faith are rarely found. Picking up where their critically acclaimed first book Paganism left off, bestselling authors Joyce & River Higginbotham offer intermediate-level instruction with Pagan Spirituality.
Respected...
| Author | Ted Loder |
| ISBN | 0806690542 |
Ah. Poetry. Worship. Honesty. Vulnerability. Prayer. I love it all. This book is all of that together. It's beautiful. Our worship leader Paige shared one of Loder's poems during a recent worship set at church and I absolutely fell in love with it, and texted her right afterward to find out what it was....
Pagan Ways: Finding Your Spirituality in Nature
| Author | Gwydion O'Hara |
| ISBN | 1567183417 |
Pagan Ways by Gwydion O'Hara is a complete introduction to the history, traditions, and practices of the Old Religion.
The many traditions of Paganism form one of the fastest-growing spiritual paths today. If you want to explore Paganism, this book is an ideal resource. If you think that Paganism...
| Author | Lorraine Anderson |
| ISBN | 1400033217 |
Sisters of the Earth is a stirring collection of women’s writing on nature: Nature as healer. Nature as delight. Nature as mother and sister. Nature as victim. Nature as companion and reminder of what is wild in us all. Here, among more than a hundred poets and prose writers, are Diane Ackerman on the...
| Author | Ted Kooser |
| ISBN | 0822953137 |
I love Ted Kooser. That said, when reading one of his poems after another, his Nebraska farming vibe can come off as shticky as Bukowski’s drunk as hell badass persona. That said, like Bukowski, his poems work for me! Here are my favorites from this collection…
The Widow Lester
Selecting...
A World Full of Gods: An Inquiry Into Polytheism
| Author | John Michael Greer |
| ISBN | 0976568101 |
In this book John Michael Greer turns his attention to the intellectual underpinnings and superstructures of the Pagan and magical movements. Pagan religions have tended to be more concerned with practice than with theory and in a system that has no dogma - no legislated doctrine - that is as it should...
| Author | Phyllis A. Tickle |
| ISBN | 0385492863 |
The first volume in a trilogy of prayer manuals compiled by "Publishers Weekly" religion editor Phyllis Tickle as a contemporary Book of Hours to guide Christians gently yet authoritatively through the daily offices.
The Divine Hours is the first major literary and liturgical reworking of the...
| Author | Gary Snyder |
| ISBN | 0811201953 |
As a poet," Snyder tells us, "I hold the most archaic values on earth. They go back to the late Paleolithic; the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying intuition and rebirth; the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe." He develops,...
| Author | T.M. Luhrmann |
| ISBN | 0674663241 |
To find out why reasonable people are drawn to the seemingly bizarre practices of magic and witchcraft, Tanya Luhrmann immersed herself in the secret lives of Londoners who call themselves magicians. She came to know them as friends and equals and was initiated into various covens and magical groups....
| Author | William Stafford |
| ISBN | 0472063715 |
If you want to better understand how William Stafford approaches writing, this book may help with that. Through a combination of essays, poetry and interviews, Stafford presents what I can only describe as a kind of philosophy of writing, including his approach to helping others find their own voice....
| Author | Ursula Goodenough |
| ISBN | 0195136292 |
This volume reconciles the modern scientific understanding of reality with our timeless spiritual yearnings for reverence and continuity. Looking at topics such as evolution, emotions, sexuality, and death, Goodenough writes with rich, uncluttered detail about the workings of nature in general...
| Author | Starhawk |
| ISBN | 0060000937 |
America's most renowned witch and eco–feminist offers a sequel to her bestselling classic The Spiral Dance, weaving together the latest findings in environmental science with magical spells, chants, meditations and group exercises to create the ultimate primer on our relationship to the earth.
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