Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life
10 best books like Hand Wash Cold: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life (Karen Maezen Miller): Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness, Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America, The Bread of Angels: A Memoir of Love and Faith, Devotion: A Memoir, The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time, A Woman's Book of Life, Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master, Planting Dandelions: Field Notes From a Semi-Domesticated Life, Learning to Breathe: My Yearlong Quest to Bring Calm to My Life, Calm and Compassionate Children: A Handbook
| Author | Ariel Gore |
| ISBN | 0374114897 |
CAN A WOMAN BE SMART, EMPOWERED, "AND "HAPPY ?
Happiness has become a serious business. Where twentiethcentury psychology focused on depression and illness, in the new millennium scientists have begun focusing on "positive psychology"--the study of happiness. Ariel Gore first became intrigued...
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 0553373153 |
I fell in love with Natalie Goldberg when I first read her book Writing Down the Bones in college. This memoir of finding her zen teacher and learning what he was trying to teach her is beautifully written. I didn't always relate to her, because she had the freedom to quit jobs, leave the world behind, and...
| Author | Stephanie Saldana |
| ISBN | 0385522002 |
A riveting memoir about one woman's journey into Syria under the Baathist regime and an unexpected love story between two strangers searching for meaning.
When Stephanie Saldana arrives in Damascus, she is running away from a broken heart and a haunted family history that she has crossed...
| Author | Dani Shapiro |
| ISBN | 0061628344 |
“Devotion’s biggest triumph is its voice: funny and unpretentious, concrete and earthy—appealing to skeptics and believers alike. This is a gripping, beautiful story.” —Jennifer Egan, author of The Keep
“I was immensely moved by this elegant book.” —Elizabeth Gilbert,...
| Author | Judith Shulevitz |
| ISBN | 1400062004 |
“Everyone curls up inside a Sabbath at some point or other. Religion need not be involved.”
The Sabbath is not just the holy day of rest. It’s also a utopian idea about a less pressured, more sociable, purer world. Where did this notion come from? Is there value in withdrawing from the world...
| Author | Joan Borysenko |
| ISBN | 1573226513 |
A Woman's Book of Life teaches women how to align with the physical changes that occur at every stage of life in order to maximize health and well-being. In the growth of early childhood, hormonal ups and downs, the possibility of childbearing, and growing older are powerful keys to unlocking a woman's...
| Author | Irina Tweedie |
| ISBN | 0963457454 |
A friend lent me this book the past week. Sometimes with spiritual books I like to just open them up to a random page and see if the book speaks to me. That’s what I did with this book the past week.
There are so many beautiful paths in the world, and this book reminds me of the commonalities between...
| Author | Kyran Pittman |
| ISBN | 1594488002 |
Introducing a writer with a keen eye, a wicked tongue, and an appealing take on family.
In the family of Jen Lancaster and Elizabeth Gilbert, Kyran Pittman is the laid-back middle sister: warm and witty and confiding, with an addictively smart and genuine voice-but married with three kids...
| Author | Priscilla Warner |
| ISBN | 1439181071 |
Priscilla Warner has had a great life: a supportive husband, a flourishing marriage, two loving sons, and a bestselling book, The Faith Club. Despite all her good fortune and success, she suffers from anxiety and panic attacks so debilitating that they leave her unable to breathe. She’s tried self-medicating—in...
| Author | Susan Usha Dermond |
| ISBN | 1587612763 |
Building on such inherent qualities as openheartedness and trust, parents and teachers can help children develop empathy and integrity as they grow and mature. From nature activities to conscious quiet time to tips on daily routines, CALM AND COMPASSIONATE CHILDREN provides practical guidance...
| Author | Rachel Neumann |
| ISBN | 1937006239 |
The book is a memoir of how a skeptical, fast-talking New Yorker became Thich Nhat Hanh's editor, turned forty, realized she was aging, and slowly and reluctantly started to absorb mindfulness practice and grow up. Scenes with Thich Nhat Hanh and the author’s two vividly exuberant older parents,...
| Author | Robert Aitken |
| ISBN | 0865471584 |
In Taking the Path of Zen, Robert Aitken provided a concise guide to zazen (Zen meditation) and other aspects of the practice of Zen. In The Mind of Clover he addresses the world beyond the zazen cushions, illuminating issues of appropriate personal and social action through an exploration of the philosophical...
| Author | Sharman Apt Russell |
| ISBN | 0465005179 |
“Everything is connected, and the web is holy.” So wrote Marcus Aurelius, the starting point of Sharman Apt Russell’s wise and haunting new memoir about her life as a pantheist. Perhaps no other religious philosophy is as simple and inclusive as pantheism. What is, right now, is divine; there...
A combination of personal narrative and stories gathered from mothers, this guide shows how spiritual and mindful parenting can help all mothers—Buddhists and nonBuddhists—be more open, attentive, and content. By guiding mothers on a spiritual path, this evocation also helps them...
| Author | Katrina Kenison |
| ISBN | 0446409480 |
The Gift of an Ordinary Day is an intimate memoir of a family in transition-boys becoming teenagers, careers ending and new ones opening up, an attempt to find a deeper sense of place, and a slower pace, in a small New England town. It is a story of mid-life longings and discoveries, of lessons learned in...
| Author | George Crane |
| ISBN | 0553379089 |
In 1959 a young monk named Tsung Tsai (Ancestor Wisdom) escapes the Red Army troops that destroy his monastery, and flees alone three thousand miles across a China swept by chaos and famine. Knowing his fellow monks are dead, himself starving and hunted, he is sustained by his mission: to carry on the...
| Author | Jack Kornfield |
| ISBN | 1590309138 |
If you want to find inner peace and wisdom, you don't need to move to an ashram or monastery. Your life, just as it is, is the perfect place to be. Jack Kornfield, one of America's most respected Buddhist teachers, shares this and other key lessons gleaned from more than forty years of committed study and...
| Author | Dainin Katagiri |
| ISBN | 0877734313 |
For twenty-five hundred years Buddhism has taught that everyone is Buddha—already enlightened, lacking nothing. But still there is the question of how we can experience that truth in our lives. In this book, Dainin Katagiri points to the manifestation of enlightenment right here, right now, in...
| Author | Emily Belle Freeman |
| ISBN | 1606411438 |
Do you need a miracle? Most of us experience unmet needs at one time or another. Perhaps you are lonely and long for an abundance of love. Maybe you suffer from an illness and long for an abundance of health. Some may long for an abundance of peace, or an abundance of comfort. Others may find that they long...
| Author | Surya Das |
| ISBN | 0767902750 |
Lama Surya Das, author of the bestselling Awakening the Buddha Within, is the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition. In this elegant, inspiring book, he integrates essential Buddhist practices with a variety of other spiritual philosophies and wisdom traditions, to show you...
| Author | Ezra Bayda |
| ISBN | 1590300130 |
We can use whatever life presents, Ezra Bayda teaches, to strengthen our spiritual practice including the turmoil of daily life. What we need is the willingness to just be with our experiences whether they are painful or pleasing opening ourselves to the reality of our lives without trying to fix or...
