Romancing the Ordinary: A Year of Simple Splendor
10 best books like Romancing the Ordinary: A Year of Simple Splendor (Sarah Ban Breathnach): Defiant Daughters: 21 Women on Art, Activism, Animals, and the Sexual Politics of Meat, Walking Meditation [With CD and DVD], Sweeping Changes: Discovering the Joy of Zen in Everyday Tasks, A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness, Living a Beautiful Life, What We Ache For: Creativity and the Unfolding of Your Soul, Motherpeace: A Way to the Goddess Through Myth, Art, and Tarot, Goddesses in Older Women, Living Juicy: Daily Morsels for Your Creative Soul, Living Color: Painting, Writing, and the Bones of Seeing
| Author | Wendy Lee |
| ISBN | 1590564197 |
When The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol J. Adams was published more than twenty years ago, it caused a immediate stir among writers and thinkers, feminists and animal rights activists alike. Never before had the relationship between patriarchy and meat eating...
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...
| Author | Gary Thorp |
| ISBN | 0767907736 |
Your home is an extension of yourself; therefore, when your home is in turmoil, your life is in turmoil. However, when you attend to your home, you begin to feel less hurried and more in tune with the world around you. There is delight and calm to be found in the midst of washing dishes or changing the water...
| Author | Sharon Salzberg |
| ISBN | 1570624283 |
The Buddhist teachings have the power to transform our lives for the better, says Sharon Salzberg, and all we need to bring about this transformation can be found in the ordinary events of our everyday experiences. Salzberg distills more than twenty-five years of teaching and practicing meditation...
| Author | Alexandra Stoddard |
| ISBN | 0380705117 |
With the publication of Living A Beautiful Life, Alexandra Stoddard originated the idea of creating an atmosphere of beauty and tranquility with simple touches that turn the ordinary into the extraordinary. As a world-famous interior decorator, she has worked her magic on interiors large and small,...
| Author | Oriah Mountain Dreamer |
| ISBN | 0060011963 |
In her previous books, Oriah Mountain Dreamer has challenged readers to live with passion and honesty, to embrace the true, fallible, human self. What We Ache For is a moving and eloquent call to delve deeply into our creative selves, to do our creative work, and offer it to the world.
The creative...
| Author | Vicki Noble |
| ISBN | 0062510851 |
For over a decade, Motherpeace has been an inspiration and oracle for women all over the world. Motherpeace recovers the positive, nurturing peace-oriented values of prepatriarchal times, and brilliantly combines art, history, mythology, folklore, philosophy, and comparative religion with...
| Author | Jean Shinoda Bolen |
| ISBN | 0060929235 |
"Knowing which archetypes are stirring and strong in you will help you to come into your own third phase with additional consciousness," says Jean Shinoda Bolen. When Bolen's earlier book Goddesses in Everywoman was first published, it became a surprise bestseller and an unexpected star in the womens'...
| Author | S.A.R.K. |
| ISBN | 0890877033 |
Readers are supposed to read one page a day of this book, because in each page the author talks abut something that should be thought about and practiced. But I couldn't, and kept reading until I finished it, in approximately half a month. Now I can reread it as it should be read.
Living juicy is...
| Author | Natalie Goldberg |
| ISBN | 1617690848 |
From fill-in art journals to self-help books on creativity, more than ever the public is striving to bring artistic enlightenment into their everyday lives. In Living Color, one of the country’s most celebrated writers expounds on her own path to artistic inspiration. Tailored to a new generation...
| Author | Harriet Lerner |
| ISBN | 0965007235 |
And another one for the "books that changed my life" - shelf.
In my opinion, there is no force more imperative in our lives and no topic more fascinating than family dynamics from a systems perspective. Literally everything in our lives,
from the macro - historic and geopolitical developments,...
| Author | Anaïs Nin |
| ISBN | 0804006946 |
A very thoughtful book indeed! What I liked most about the book is the voice that is so much hers. The thoughts expressed on a broad range of issues are heartfelt and lived. It is not like one theory is talking to another; it is more a zen-like person speaking to us a friend, and sharing what seems worth sharing....
"Our homes are mirrors of ourselves. Through them we can interface with the universe."
Everything in the universe is composed of constantly changing energy, including your home and its contents. This energy can profoundly influence your ability to be healthy, loving, creative and abundant....
| Author | Doreen Virtue |
| ISBN | 1401907717 |
Begin each morning by communing with your angels, using the 365 channeled meditations in Daily Guidance from Your Angels. Each page offers comforting and uplifting messages, to set a positive and healing tone for the day. The book also functions as a divination tool, as you can ask a question and open...
| Author | Elaine St. James |
| ISBN | 0786882425 |
If you've thought about simplifying, but don't know where to begin, LIVING THE SIMPLE LIFE is the blueprint you need. And if you've already started to simplify, it will give you new insights and ideas for what to do next on your journey to a more balanced, peaceful life.
In these pages, you'll...
| Author | Geneen Roth |
| ISBN | 0670022713 |
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of "Women Food and God" maps a path to meeting one of our greatest challenges-how we deal with money. When Geneen Roth and her husband lost their life savings in the Bernard Madoff debacle, Roth joined the millions of Americans dealing with financial turbulence,...
| Author | Susan Powter |
| ISBN | 0671522922 |
Take control of your life and stop the insanity!
You've seen Susan Powter on the "Home Show" and on her "Stop the Insanity" infomercial, explaining health and wellness to millions of viewers. Taken from the "insanity" she experienced with the diet and fitness industries, Susan's step-by-step...
| Author | Lotta Jansdotter |
| ISBN | 0811865479 |
Beloved designer Lotta Jansdotter's smart, organic design has earned her international acclaim. Now she shares her recipe for a stylish home: take a whole lot of Scandinavian influence, mix in a dash of flea-market finds, and then top it all off with expressive handmade touches. The result? An entirely...
| Author | Marianne Williamson |
| ISBN | 1401917194 |
The need for change as we get older—an emotional pressure for one phase of our lives to transition into another—is a human phenomenon, neither male nor female. There simply comes a time in our lives—not fundamentally different from the way puberty separates childhood from adulthood—when...
| Author | Julia Cameron |
| ISBN | 1585425710 |
From the bestselling author of The Artist's Way, a revolutionary diet plan: Use art to take off the pounds! Over the course of the past twenty-five years, Julia Cameron has taught thousands of artists and aspiring artists how to unblock wellsprings of creativity. And time and again she has noticed an...
| Author | Eknath Easwaran |
| ISBN | 0786882662 |
Here's the deal with Eknath Easwaran and my overall feelings about him and his books. I love the guy. I never had a real mentor in my life and I never had a grandfather so even though I never met him before, I still feel a close connection to him.
It all started many years ago when I was in limbo in my life...
| Author | Christine Avanti |
| ISBN | 1605299979 |
Packed with real-world advice for a real-life transformation, Skinny Chicks Don't Eat Salads shows that it's not only possible to shed weight while eating carbs, fats, and all your favorite foods--it's the ONLY way.
On the Skinny Chicks plan you will:
-Drop up to 7 pounds within the first...
| Author | Victoria Moran |
| ISBN | 0060929227 |
Even though Americans spend thousands on furniture, appliances and interior decoration, many of our homes have become little more than drop-off zones where we collapse after work, glued to the TV while gulping down a microwave dinner. The home can be so much more than that, says Victoria Moran. It can...
