Listening Below the Noise: A Meditation on the Practice of Silence
10 best books like Listening Below the Noise: A Meditation on the Practice of Silence (Anne D. LeClaire): Walking Meditation [With CD and DVD], Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry, Fingerprints of God: The Search for the Science of Spirituality, Together, Alone: A Memoir of Marriage and Place, Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World, Mystics, Mavericks, and Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls, Disquiet Time: Rants and Reflections on the Good Book by the Skeptical, the Faithful, and a Few Scoundrels, The Attentive Life: Discerning God's Presence in All Things, Seeking Enlightenment... Hat by Hat: A Skeptic's Path to Religion, God's Joyful Surprise: Finding Yourself Loved
Walking Meditation [With CD and DVD]
| Author | Nguyen Anh-Huong |
| ISBN | 1591794730 |
What if every step you took deepened your connection with all of life and imprinted peace, joy, and serenity on the earth? With Walking Meditation, listeners enjoy the first comprehensive instructional program in this serene spiritual practice to help them walk with presence and peace of mind whether...
Unpacking the Boxes: A Memoir of a Life in Poetry
| Author | Donald Hall |
| ISBN | 0618990658 |
Donald Hall’s remarkable life in poetry — a career capped by his appointment as U.S. poet laureate in 2006 — comes alive in this richly detailed, self-revealing memoir.
Hall’s invaluable record of the making of a poet begins with his childhood in Depression-era suburban Connecticut,...
| Author | Barbara Bradley Hagerty |
| ISBN | 1594488770 |
From the award-winning NPR religion correspondent comes a fascinating investigation of how science is seeking to answer the question that has puzzled humanity for generations: Can science explain God?
Is spiritual experience real or a delusion? Are there realities that we can experience...
| Author | Susan Wittig Albert |
| ISBN | 0292719701 |
What does it mean to belong to a place, to be truly rooted and grounded in the place you call home? How do you commit to a marriage, to a full partnership with another person, and still maintain your own separate identity? These questions have been central to Susan Wittig Albert's life, and in this beautifully...
| Author | Mary Pipher |
| ISBN | 1594488614 |
In this thoughtful and inspiring memoir, the author of the New York Times bestsellers Reviving Ophelia, The Shelter of Each Other, and Another Country explores her personal search for understanding, tranquility, and respect through her work as a psychologist and seeker.
“There are three...
| Author | Stephanie Wellen Levine |
| ISBN | 0814751970 |
From the ardently religious young woman who longs for the life of a male scholar to the young rebel who visits a strip club, smokes pot, and agonizes over her loss of faith to the proud Lubavitcher with a desire for a high-powered career, Stephanie Wellen Levine provides a rare glimpse into the inner worlds...
| Author | Jennifer Grant |
| ISBN | 1455578827 |
An engaging and hilarious collection that encourages readers to tackle those strange, awkward, worrying, yet endlessly compelling passages of the Bible. The Bible is full of not-so-precious moments, from murder and mayhem, to sex and slavery. Now, an incredible cast of contributors tackles the...
| Author | Leighton Ford |
| ISBN | 0830835164 |
Your attention, please. That's what God wants, Leighton Ford discovered. It's the path to becoming like Christ. Distractions, fear and busyness were keeping Ford from seeing God's work in and around him. He was missing God. So he began a journey of longing and looking for God. And it started with paying...
| Author | Nevada Barr |
| ISBN | 0425196038 |
A refreshingly honest spiritual exploration from the New York Times bestselling author of the Anna Pigeon novels.
Actor, adventuress, seeker of truth, and author of the New York Times bestselling Anna Pigeon mystery series, Nevada Barr beckons readers to share her spiritual search for...
| Author | Sue Monk Kidd |
| ISBN | 0060645814 |
The bestselling author's inspiring account of her spiritual journey into discovering the love of God.
"Beautifully written . . . the message and challenge of the book is profound. . . . This book will awaken your longing and set you off on your own spiritual journey."—Today's Christian Woman
"A...
| Author | Stephen Burt |
| ISBN | 1555975216 |
Essays and critical writings on contemporary poetry by Stephen Burt, "the finest critic of his generation" (Lucie Brock-Broido)
Stephen Burt's Close Calls with Nonsense provokes readers into the elliptical worlds of Rae Armantrout, Paul Muldoon, C. D. Wright, and other contemporary...
| Author | Camille Maurine |
| ISBN | 0062516973 |
Finally—an approach to meditation especially for women!
The benefits of meditations are manifold—but so few practices are tailored to the special needs and interests of women. Now, with Meditation Secrets for Women, you can discover how to love your body and find a time and place to tune...
Though Christians the world over make yearly preparations for Lent, there s a conspicuous lack of good books for that other great spiritual season: Advent. All the same, this four-week period leading up to Christmas is making a comeback as growing numbers reject shopping-mall frenzy and examine the...
| Author | Geralyn Lucas |
| ISBN | 1592408958 |
The author of Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy dares all women who have had a stumble in life to harness their fighting spirit and stand back up with courage and optimism.
Twenty years ago, Geralyn Lucas put on red lipstick before entering the operating room to show everyone that she planned...
| Author | Sara Maitland |
| ISBN | 1847080421 |
A Book of Silence
Sara Maitland (2008)
At first, I found myself totally immersed in this book – the need for silence, the difficulty in finding it, searching for it, gardening, reading, walking… the darker sides etc. A Book of Silence is full of very practical advice and examples of...
| Author | Michael Schut |
| ISBN | 1889108626 |
Simpler Living, Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective is a rich collection of voices that bring clarity to the confusion between our society's ideal of the material "good life" with the "abundant life, " modeled after the person of Jesus, the things he taught, and the way he lived. It invites...
| Author | Srivatsa Ramaswami |
| ISBN | 1569244022 |
A thorough and instructive guide to the yogasana teachings of the father of modern yoga
Sri T. Krishnamacharya (1888-1989) was the most influential figure in the last 100 years in the field of yoga. Many of today's best-known yoga teachers-including his brother-in-law B. K. S. Iyengar, his...
| Author | Josh Packard |
| ISBN | 1470725924 |
As millions of church members fall into inactivity each year, they've probably also started skipping church on Sunday.
We need answers—not statistics. We need to understand and hear from people who are leaving church so we can find a way to turn around the trend.
This book uses...
| Author | Daniel Gottlieb |
| ISBN | 1402749996 |
In the nearly 30 years since the accident that made radio personality and columnist Dan Gottlieb a quadriplegic, he developed a finely-tuned quality of awareness that most people never achieve: he became an outsider among us—”like a foreign correspondent,” as he puts it. From that vantage...
| Author | Sonia Johnson |
| ISBN | 1877617016 |
Forgive the length of this review; I have a lot to say about “Feminism.” I started reading classic feminist literature in my teens (Susan Fauldi, Germaine Greer, Mary Wollstonecraft, John Stuart Mill, Betty Friedan, Naomi Wolf, Gloria Steinem, Simone De Beauvoir, Kate Chopin, Henrik Ibsen,...
| Author | Paul Woodruff |
| ISBN | 0195157958 |
Reverence is an ancient virtue dating back thousands of years. It survives among us in half-forgotten patterns of behavior and in the vestiges of old ceremonies. Yet, Paul Woodruff says, we have lost sight of reverence. This short, elegiac volume makes an impassioned case for the fundamental importance...
| Author | Stephen Green-Armytage |
| ISBN | 0810933438 |
I was in Kew Gardens, in London, with my son and there were quite a few totally-unafraid golden pheasants doing their courting around our feet. I was so impressed by the primary-coloured beauty of them I got the book Extraordinary Pheasants. That was such a beautiful book covering the whole range of pheasants...
Walk in a Relaxed Manner: Life Lessons from the Camino
| Author | Joyce Rupp |
| ISBN | 1570756163 |
I love reading books about the Camino. And I love Joyce Rupp. Thus, this book was my annual “pilgrimage book of choice” for the end of Lent this year. I’m not a world traveler and I most likely never will be. Travel writing has always been as adventurous & worldly as I get (aside from running into...
Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life
| Author | Martha C. Nussbaum |
| ISBN | 0807041092 |
I would label Nussbaum a philosopher, but point out her official position as professor of law and ethics. This book's main premise, boiled down, is the importance of a literary/humanities education (and an ongoing one at that) in public life. That, frankly, to be judge (and/or jury really); to be able...
