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Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

10 best books like Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words (Peace Pilgrim): Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World, Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to His Life and Work, Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story, Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine, Mythologies, The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring, A House in the Sunflowers, Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master, Dreamwalker: The Path of Sacred Power: The Path of Sacred Power, The Life of Merlin

Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World
AuthorHelen Nearing
ISBN0805233636
Living the Good Life, like Walden Pond, is deeply rooted in an enduring American tradition of dissent from the majority and respect for the land. Moreover, it is the distillation of twenty--not two--years in the woods, and it offers wisdom and practical guidance to city dweller and prospective homesteader...
Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to His Life and Work
AuthorGary Lachman
ISBN1585425435
The first truly popular biography of the influential twentieth-century mystic and educator who-while widely known for founding the Waldorf schools and other educational and humanitarian movements-remains a mystery to many who benefit from his ideas.

People everywhere have heard of...
Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story
AuthorOnnie Lee Logan
ISBN0452265568
I purchased this book because it was required for a doula training that I completed. At first I was skeptical that a memoir/oral history would be helpful, but I was pleasantly surprised. In fact, I think I gained more from this book than I did from any of the (excellent) "how-to" type books about labor and...
Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine
AuthorJean Shinoda Bolen
ISBN0062502727
A Midlife Quest For The Grail And The Goddess

Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen's extraordinary memoir celebrates the pilgrimage that heralded her spiritual awakening and leads readers down the path of self-discovery. In this account of her journey to Europe in search of the sacred feminine, she unveils...
Mythologies
AuthorW.B. Yeats
ISBN0684826216
Banshees and faeries, demons and curses, village ghosts and mystic poets work their Gaelic magic in this enthralling collection of supernatural tales from the pen of William Butler Yeats. Based on Irish country beliefs, traditions, and folk tales, the stories were first published at the height of...
The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring
AuthorParker J. Palmer
ISBN0787949345
The Active Life is Parker J. Palmer's deep and graceful exploration of a spirituality for the busy, sometimes frenetic lives many of us lead. Telling evocative stories from a variety of religious traditions, including Taoist, Jewish, and Christian, Palmer shows that the spiritual life does not mean...
A House in the Sunflowers
AuthorRuth Silvestre
ISBN0749015985
I really loved this book! I felt like I really got to know the author and her family and the friends they made when they spent summers at their sunny house in southwestern France next to fields and a pond. The book covers several years of summers, so there is a progression through various projects, times...
Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master
AuthorIrina Tweedie
ISBN0963457454
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...
Dreamwalker: The Path of Sacred Power: The Path of Sacred Power
AuthorMary Summer Rain
What is a Dreamwalker? They are the rare few who, as Mary Summer Rain describes them, are "led by the spirit,' have "shed the yoke of desire and self-want," and have discarded the need for material gain and all evidence of negative thought. Without any personal goals, they travel the path of knowledge...
The Life of Merlin
AuthorGeoffrey of Monmouth
ISBN0708305202
The VITA MERLINI (LIFE OF MERLIN) is an often-overlooked, but nonetheless important and fascinating, account of the life of Merlin, the good wizard of the Arthurian legendarium. In this volume, we have the original Latin poem (from the 12th century), an English translation thereof, and copious notes...
The Peyote Dance
AuthorAntonin Artaud
ISBN0374230900
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,...
The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
AuthorJulia Butterfly Hill
ISBN0062516590
On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from "Luna," a thousandyear-old redwood in Humboldt County, California.

Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree high on a mountain on December 10, 1997, for what she...
I Want to Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth
AuthorBrenda Peterson
ISBN0306818043
In Brenda Peterson’s unusual memoir, fundamentalism meets deep ecology. The author’s childhood in the high Sierra with her forest ranger father led her to embrace the entire natural world, while her Southern Baptist relatives prepared eagerly and busily to leave this world. Peterson survived...
The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World
AuthorPaul H. Ray
ISBN0609808451
ARE YOU A CULTURAL CREATIVE?

Do you dislike all the emphasis in modern culture on success and “making it,” on getting and spending, on wealth and luxury goods?

Do you care deeply about the destruction of the environment and would pay higher taxes or prices to clean it up and to stop...
The Woman of Wyrrd
AuthorLynn V. Andrews
ISBN0060974109
"Words are a sacred tool and must be honored as such. When used carefully, words have magical healing properties. When used to judge, to hate, or to separate, words are deadly. The words you will be using in this workbook are your basic tools for healing on this journey. Treat them with respect. Honor...
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: My Adventures in Life and Food
AuthorMoira Hodgson
ISBN0767912705
The daughter of a British Foreign Service officer, Moira Hodgson spent her childhood in many a strange and exotic land. She discovered American food in Saigon, ate wild boar in Berlin, and learned how to prepare potatoes from her eccentric Irish grandmother. Today, Hodgson has a well-deserved reputation...
Pieces of White Shell
AuthorTerry Tempest Williams
ISBN0826309690
This unusual book is an introduction to Navajo culture by a storyteller. Steeped in the lore of the Navajo reservation, where she worked as a teacher, the author came to see Navajo legend and ritual as touchstones for evaluating her own experience. She presents them here as a means for all people to locate...
Providence
AuthorDaniel Quinn
ISBN0553375490
PROVIDENCE" is Quinn's fascinating memoir of hislife-long spiritual voyage. His journey takes him from a childhood dream inOmaha setting him on a search for fulfillment, to his time as a postulant inthe Trappist order under the guidance of eminent theologian Thomas Merton.Later, his quest took...
The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun: A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form
AuthorMartin Prechtel
ISBN1556436009
Author and illustrator Martín Prechtel is internationally known for his explorations of ancient folklore and uncovering the lessons therein for modern readers. In The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun, he revives a hitherto unknown Guatemalan Tzutujil Mayan tale of the beginnings of the...
Mary Magdalen: Myth and Metaphor
AuthorSusan Haskins
ISBN1573225096
Mary Magdalen has always been a predominant and fascinating figure for Christianity. But who was she really? The Gnostics hailed her as the companion of the Savior and the woman He loved most. Early Christian writers called her the Bride of Christ and the apostle to the apostles. But for centuries her...
Here I Stand: My Struggle for a Christianity of Integrity, Love, and Equality
AuthorJohn Shelby Spong
Disclaimer: I'm a Spong fan and perhaps even a Spongian in my personal theology, so I am predisposed to like (almost) anything that the Bishop writes ... and this biography is no exception. It's an honest look at his life - far more candid than many I have read for such a public figure - and I found it to be a...
The Hunger: A Story of Food, Desire, and Ambition
AuthorJohn Delucie
ISBN0061579246
“Hot grease, sharp knives, infidelity, and white truffles….The Hunger has all the right ingredients….The best memoir by a chef since Kitchen Confidential.”
—Jay McInerney

 

The Hunger is the page-turning memoir from John DeLucie, chef of THE celebrity hot spot...
Too Many Cooks: 4 Kids, 1 Mom, 102 New Recipes
AuthorEmily Franklin
ISBN1401340830
"I love my mom and I'm a good cook, and still I can't help wishing that Emily Franklin would adopt me--or maybe send me a care package. But at least I've got her recipes now. And this book, which is the perfect mix of heartwarming and mouthwatering. Yum." --Catherine Newman, author of Waiting for Birdy"Emily...
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