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I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion

10 best books like I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion (Dawna Markova): Loose End, Poetry as Survival, Love Cake, The Woman's Comfort Book, The Dance: Moving To the Rhythms of Your True Self, Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home, Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life, Cries of the Spirit: More Than 300 Poems in Celebration of Women's Spirituality, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields, The Crow: Shattered Lives & Broken Dreams

Loose End
AuthorIvan E. Coyote
Ivan E. Coyote has developed a reputation as one of North America’s most disarming storytellers; her tales of life as an out dyke on the roads and trails of the North as well as rural America are rich in their plainspoken, honest truths. In Loose End, her third story collection, Ivan focuses her attention...
Poetry as Survival
AuthorGregory Orr
ISBN0820324280
Intended for general readers and for students and scholars of poetry, Poetry as Survival is a complex and lucid analysis of the powerful role poetry can play in confronting, surviving, and transcending pain and suffering.Gregory Orr draws from a generous array of sources. He weaves discussions of...
Love Cake
AuthorLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
ISBN1894770692
Poetry. LGBT Studies. Asian American Studies. In these poems, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores how queer people of color resist and transform violence through love and desire. Remembering and testifying about the damage caused by the racial profiling of South Asian and Arab people post...
The Woman's Comfort Book
AuthorJennifer Louden
ISBN0062505319
With over 200 prescriptions for giving yourself a break, this book helps the reader to sort out guilty feelings about self–nurture and to define her comfort/self–nurture needs.

In this book the author delivers a host of creative and comforting programmes like the self–care schedule,...
The Dance: Moving To the Rhythms of Your True Self
AuthorOriah Mountain Dreamer
ISBN0062516930
Welcome to The Dance, the wise and practical book that expands on Oriah Mountain Dreamer′s new moving prose poem. In this compelling book the acclaimed author of The Invitation challenges readers to live with passion, energy, and honesty. The key, says Oriah, is to savour the everyday world of family,...
Everyday Sacred: A Woman's Journey Home
AuthorSue Bender
ISBN0062512900
A short book with small dimensions and wide margins, and peppered with simple ink drawings of dishes and animals. 165 pages of emptiness; that is the theme of the book. Sue says it right away in the preface, the printed words inside an inked empty bowl-like shape:

"This story is about a bowl.
A...
Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life
AuthorFrederic Brussat
ISBN0684835347
A book that belongs in every seeker's home, Spiritual Literacy answers the universal question, "How can I live a spiritual life every day?" Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat reveal a way to read the texts of our lives and of the world around us for sacred meaning.
Using more than 650 brief examples from...
Cries of the Spirit: More Than 300 Poems in Celebration of Women's Spirituality
AuthorMarilyn Sewell
ISBN0807068497
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,...
Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields
AuthorAshley Capps
ISBN1931968373
In her first book, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields, Ashley Capps sounds like the voice of a fresh generation of poets, where the familiar turns suddenly elliptical, straight talk goes engagingly crooked, and the lyric negotiates with the matter-of-fact. Desperate for something solid to believe...
The Crow: Shattered Lives & Broken Dreams
AuthorJames O'Barr
ISBN0345417127
I was looking for the comic and I found this.

The names Iggy Pop and Henry Rollins caught my interest. They had both submitted poems, and the poems are the more better submissions. The stories. though, (and a little bit the art) come across as fan fiction, which is probably inevitable, but gets...
Ballad Divine: Bhagavad-Gita
AuthorDev Bhattacharyya
ISBN1495969835
Ballad-Divine brings back the Bhagavad-Gita in a very easy to read composition. It is an accurate reference of the original and observed facts and uses the same systemic method to divinity. Ballad-Divine is organized around the mainstays of Krishna's philosophy. Themes are repeated throughout...
A Primer of Jungian Psychology
AuthorCalvin Springer Hall
ISBN0452011868
The contributions of Carl Jung to understanding of the human psyche are immense. Starting as Freud's most famous disciple, Jung soon broke away from his mentor to follow his own lines of investigation and discovery. Many of Jung's ideas are now considered fundamentals in the study of the mind, but other,...
Yoga for Anxiety: Meditations and Practices for Calming the Body and Mind
AuthorMary Nurriestearns
ISBN1572246510
Many of us face daily demands and overwhelming difficulties that cause seemingly uncontrollable feelings of anxiety and fear. When you feel this way, it's healing to calm yourself and to reclaim your sense of innate goodness and well-being. For centuries, yoga has offered a quiet retreat away from...
Creating a Life Worth Living
AuthorCarol Lloyd
ISBN0060952431
Dreaming is easy. Making it happen is hard. With a fresh perspective, Carol Lloyd motivates the person searching for two things: the creative life and a life of sanity, happiness and financial solvency. Creating a Life Worth Living is for the hundreds of thousands of people who bought Julia Cameron's...
Circle of Stones: Woman's Journey to Herself
AuthorJudith Duerk
ISBN1880913631
Long ago before the patriarchal period, in many places on Earth, the Goddess was worshipped. Circle of Stones draws us into a meditative experience of the lost Feminine and creates a space for us to consider our present lives from the eyes of women's ancient culture and ritual. Incorporating the most...
Stalking the Divine
AuthorKristin Ohlson
ISBN0452286409
I picked up this book because I recently read an interesting essay written by Kristin Ohlson and thought I'd like to see what else she had written. (The essay, by the way, about memories in childhood, is here:
http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/wh... )

From the cover, I see that this...
Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life
AuthorGregg Levoy
ISBN0609803700
How do we know if we're following our true callings? How do we sharpen our senses to cut through the distractions of everyday reality and hear the calls that are beckoning us?
is the first book to examine the many kinds of calls we receive and the great variety of channels through which they come to us....
Soultypes: Matching Your Personality and Spiritual Path
AuthorSandra Krebs Hirsh
ISBN0806651466
A spiritual life does not involve one path, type, or understanding. Using the MBTI as their foundation, Kise and Hirsh walk the readers through the perspectives of each personality type, their strengths and styles that will most connect to their spiritual language. Just as with the MBTI, one personality...
Sweat Your Prayers
AuthorGabrielle Roth
ISBN0874778786
In Sweat Your Prayers, internationally acclaimed movement and theater artist Gabrielle Roth translates to the printed page the insights of her nearly forty years of teaching personal and spiritual development. Her workshops, attended by thousands around the world, teach us to realize our potential...
The Artist's Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom
AuthorChristine Valters Paintner
ISBN1933495294
Summarized in the phrase "pray and work," "The Rule of St. Benedict" provides the inspiration for Christine Valters Paintner's newest exploration of the mutually nourishing relationship between contemplative practices and creative expression. Artists of all stripes and stations in life—poets...
Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami
AuthorGretel Ehrlich
ISBN0307907317
A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter...
The Elements Encyclopedia of the Celts
AuthorRodney Castleden
ISBN1435142365
The latest title in the much-loved Element Encyclopedia series, The Element Encyclopedia of Celts explores the history, culture, and mythology of these great peoples.A comprehensive guide of Celtic history and culture, The Element Encyclopedia of the Celts tells the stories of these grand peoples...
Irish Paganism
AuthorMorgan Daimler
ISBN1785351451
Irish Reconstructionist Polytheism is an often misunderstood path, but it is one with great richness and depth for those who follow it. This short introductory book touches on the basic beliefs and practices of Irish Polytheism as well as other important topics for people interested in practicing...
The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
AuthorAnaïs Nin
ISBN0156260352
“How often we make these circular journeys into the past, linking fragments of an incomplete puzzle, seeing a complete image…As we make the return journey it is not only to pass judgement on our past selves, it is to crystallize, reinforce, consolidate what we have gained.”
— The Diary...
Your Heart's Desire: Instructions for Creating the Life You Really Want
AuthorSonia Choquette
ISBN0609800116
This book changed my life. My sister and brother in law had just died and I had just run over a child with my car. Though it was not my fault, it was quite traumatic. I ended up quitting my job of 9 years that I loved very much, but needed a change. I read this book having no idea what my heart's desire really was....
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