Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World
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| ISBN | 1401939295 |
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| ISBN | 0767907736 |
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| ISBN | 0767904613 |
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| 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...
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| ISBN | 0375705635 |
In the highly praised memoir Things Seen and Unseen, Nora Gallagher reflected on a year of spiritual renewal and the fact of mortality with uncommon wisdom and grace. We rejoin her in Practicing Resurrection as Gallagher searches for direction in the wake of her brother’s death. A desire to reclaim...
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| 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 | Leslie Leyland Fields |
| ISBN | 1608995925 |
Description: You are invited to a feast for the senses and the spirit! Thirty-four adventurous writers open their kitchens, their recipe files, and their hearts to illustrate the many unexpected ways that food draws us closer to God, to community, and to creation. All bring a keen eye and palette to...
| 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 | Carolyn G. Heilbrun |
When she was a young woman, distinguished author and critic Carolyn Heilbrun made a solemn resolution not to live past "three score years and ten." Taking her own life at the age of seventy, she reasoned, would give closure to a life well lived. But on the advent of her seventieth birthday she realized...
| Author | Anne D. LeClaire |
| ISBN | 0061353353 |
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A meditation on silence,...
| Author | Sue Monk Kidd |
| ISBN | 0824947061 |
This book was the breath of fresh air I've been needing for a long time. I love SMK's writing, especially her spiritual writings. This book is a compilation of all the short narratives she wrote for Guideposts when she was just starting out as a writer. I usually write down quotes that I love from books I'm...
| Author | Lynn Kiele Bonasia |
| ISBN | 1416550593 |
Thirty-nine-year-old Rose is content with her safe life: both her job writing manuals for appliances and her long-term boyfriend are reasonably satisfying. But when Mr. Almost Right betrays her, Rose decides there has to be more to it than writing succinct descriptions about how to use the timer on...
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| ISBN | 0743245202 |
Creating True Peace is both a profound work of spiritual guidance and a practical blueprint for peaceful inner change and global change. It is the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh's answer to our deep-rooted crisis of violence and our feelings of helplessness, victimization, and fear. As a world-renowned...
| Author | Nancy Makin |
| ISBN | 0525951377 |
A moving, funny, tongue-in-cheek, and deadly serious story about how one woman lost and found herself by going online.
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| Author | Sara Maitland |
| ISBN | 1847080421 |
A Book of Silence
Sara Maitland (2008)
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| Author | Donna Freitas |
| ISBN | 0195311655 |
Based on dozens of face-to-face interviews, Sex and the Soul explores the sexual and spiritual lives of today's college students. Donna Freitas crisscrossed the country, visiting a range of America's colleges and universities--from public to private, Catholic to evangelical--to find out what...
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| Author | Patricia Raybon |
| ISBN | 0140244360 |
I picked this book up on the spur of the moment - the title caught my eye. Once I got started reading, I was very glad I gave into the impulse, although I didn't really need another book.
I found Patricia Raybon to be amazingly honest in her examination of race relations. She looks at her family, her...
Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve.
Award-winning author and columnist Cathleen Falsani says, “People regularly ask me why I believe in God. The simple answer … is grace.” In Sin Boldly:...
| Author | Tsoknyi Rinpoche |
| ISBN | 0307888207 |
In Open Heart, Open Mind, Tsoknyi Rinpoche--one of the most beloved of the contemporary generation of Tibetan Buddhist meditation masters--explains that a life free of fear, pain, insecurity, and doubt is not only possible, it's our birthright. We long for peace, for the ability to love and be loved...
