Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America
10 best books like Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America (Natalie Goldberg): When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals, Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future, Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It, Adam Bede, A Circle of Stones: Journeys & Meditations for Modern Celts, Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames, Tales of Mystery and Madness, Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness, Yoga and the Quest for the True Self, Bringers of the Dawn: Teachings from the Pleiadians
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals
| Author | Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson |
| ISBN | 0385314280 |
This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by Jane Goodall.
The popularity of When Elephants Weep has swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson appeared on Dateline NBC, Good Morning...
| Author | Bron Taylor |
| ISBN | 0520261003 |
In this innovative and deeply felt work, Bron Taylor examines the evolution of “green religions” in North America and beyond: spiritual practices that hold nature as sacred and have in many cases replaced traditional religions. Tracing a wide range of groups—radical environmental activists,...
Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates and What You Can Do About It
| Author | Dr. Gabor Maté |
| ISBN | 0452279631 |
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) has quickly become a controversial topic in recent years. Whereas other books on the subject describe the condition as inherited, Dr. Gabor Maté believes that our social and emotional environments play a key role in both the cause of and cure for this condition. In...
| Author | George Eliot |
| ISBN | 0375759018 |
Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time.
The story's plot follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community...
A Circle of Stones: Journeys & Meditations for Modern Celts
| Author | Erynn Rowan Laurie |
| ISBN | 1573531065 |
In many times and cultures, people have used meditation and journeying as powerful tools in their spiritual quests. Modern westerners often lose sight of these ancient ways as they hurry through life, dashing from one day to the next. Some adventures souls seek to reclaim these techniques and make...
Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 1573229377 |
It was under the bodhi tree in India twenty-five centuries ago that Buddha achieved the insight that three states of mind were the source of all our unhappiness: wrong knowing, obsessive desire, and anger. All are difficult, but in one instant of anger—one of the most powerful emotions—lives can...
Tales of Mystery and Madness
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 0689848374 |
A sweet little cat drives a man to insanity and murder.... The grim death known as the plague roams a masquerade ball dressed in red....
A dwarf seeks his final revenge on his captors....
A sister calls to her beloved twin from beyond the grave....
Prepare yourself. You are...
| 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...
Millions of Americans know yoga as a superb form of exercise and as a potent source of calm in our stress-filled lives. Far fewer are aware of the full promise of yoga as a 4,000-year-old practical path of liberation—a path that fits the needs of modern Western seekers with startling precision. Now...
Compiled from more than four hundred hours of channeling by Barbara Marciniak, Bringers of the Dawn imparts to us the wisdom of the Pleiadians, a group of enlightened beings who have come to Earth to help us discover how to reach a new stage of evolution.
Master storytellers and humorists, they...
| Author | Barbara Hand Clow |
| ISBN | 1879181304 |
Noted astrologer and spiritual teacher Barbara Hand Clow channels the voice of Satya, a Pleiadian goddess. Satya describes the huge cosmic drama taking place simultaneously in nine dimensions, with Earth as the chosen theater. The Pleiadians are a group of enlightened beings who believe that the...
| Author | Bhikkhu Bodhi |
| ISBN | 0861713311 |
This volume offers a complete translation of the Samyutta Nikaya, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, the third of the four great collections in the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali Canon. The Samyutta Nikaya consists of fifty-six chapters, each governed by a unifying theme that binds together the Buddha's...
The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness
| Author | Maureen Murdock |
| ISBN | 0877734852 |
This book is DATED. Which is interesting because it was published 18 years ago. It's kind of wild that a book like this can seem so old because it indicates to me that quite a lot has happened in the last 18 years. This book came out when I was beginning my most radical feminist years and if I'd read it then, I'd...
If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways.
| Author | Daniel Quinn |
| ISBN | 1586421263 |
In Ishmael, Daniel Quinn offered new ways of seeing and understanding human history, and our collective future. His message was transformative for millions of people, and Ishmael continues to attract tens of thousands of new readers each year. Subsequent works, such as The Story of B and My Ishmael,...
The Way of Rest: Finding The Courage to Hold Everything in Love
The Way of Rest gathers nearly 200 of Jeff Foster’s most inspiring essays, poems, and reflections on restoring and reviving ourselves when we feel exhausted or defeated. Drawing from his personal journey—including his own struggles with illness and depression—Jeff invites us to contemplate...
| Author | John V. Davis |
| ISBN | 1570624062 |
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| Author | Mike Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0062220756 |
All You Could Ask For, debut novel by Mike Greenberg, cohost of ESPN's Mike and Mike in the Morning, is a tender and insightful story of friendship and love, heartbreak and renewal, played out in the lives of three unforgettable women.
Brooke has been happily married to her college sweetheart...
The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices
| Author | Claude Lecouteux |
| ISBN | 1620551055 |
Examines how the ancient customs of constructing and keeping a house formed a sacred bond between homes and their inhabitants
• Shares many tales of house spirits, from cajoling the local land spirit into becoming one’s house spirit to the good and bad luck bestowed by mischievous house...
