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The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring

10 best books like The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring (Parker J. Palmer): Original Blessing, Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart, Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict, The Artist's Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom, The Way of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments, Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day, Radical Hospitality: Benedict's Way of Love, The Wisdom Way of Knowing: Reclaiming an Ancient Tradition to Awaken the Heart, The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages, The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World

Original Blessing
AuthorMatthew Fox
ISBN1585420670
Here is a reissue of the critically acclaimed bestseller, named one of the "20 books that changed the world" in New Age Journal's Annual Source Book for 1995. Maverick theologian Matthew Fox provides a daring view of historical Christianity and a theologically sound basis for personal discovery of...
Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart
AuthorStephen Levine
ISBN1594863814
Unattended sorrow is unresolved grief that has never been given a chance to heal. This lovely, spiritual book from one of the nation's most trusted grief counselors offers a series of techniques to help heal this pain so readers can lead full and joyful lives. The book not only guides those who have experienced...
Seeking God: The Way of St. Benedict
AuthorEsther de Waal
Bestseller!

For over fifteen hundred years St. Benedict's Rule has been a source of guidance, support, inspiration, challenge, comfort and discomfort for men and women. It has helped both those living under monastic vows and those living outside the cloister in all the mess and muddle of...
The Artist's Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom
AuthorChristine Valters Paintner
ISBN1933495294
Summarized in the phrase "pray and work," "The Rule of St. Benedict" provides the inspiration for Christine Valters Paintner's newest exploration of the mutually nourishing relationship between contemplative practices and creative expression. Artists of all stripes and stations in life—poets...
The Way of Transition: Embracing Life's Most Difficult Moments
AuthorWilliam Bridges
William Bridges' lifelong work has been devoted to a deep understanding of transitions and to helping others through them. When his own wife of thirty-five years died of cancer, however, he was thrown head-first into the kind of painful and confusing abyss he had known before only in theory. An honest...
Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day
AuthorDavid Steindl-Rast
ISBN1569752974
Read this little book in preparation for and on a Quiet Retreat. It was a helpful overview of the monastic hours of the day and the gifts each hour brings. A great book to read to help re-cover a sense of the rhythms of our days and years.

I particularly like the chapter on the hour of Prime in that it...
Radical Hospitality: Benedict's Way of Love
AuthorDaniel Homan
ISBN1557254419
Today's culture is increasingly hostile and suspicious toward anyone who appears to be different--especially when tragedy strikes. Our instinct is to bolt our doors and protect the ones we love. But deep within the heart of Benedictine spirituality lies a remedy to hatred, fear, and suspicion: hospitality....
The Wisdom Way of Knowing: Reclaiming an Ancient Tradition to Awaken the Heart
AuthorCynthia Bourgeault
"Drawing on resources as diverse as Sufism, Benedictine Monasticism, the Gurdjieff Work, and the string theory of modern physics, Cynthia Bourgeault has crafted her own unique vision of the Wisdom way in this very accessible book, nicely balanced between concept and practice."
--Gerald May,...
The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages
AuthorJoan D. Chittister
ISBN0824525035
The Rule of Benedict was originally written more than 1,500 years ago. Chittester's book reproduces the rule (73 rules actually)with commentary for the modern reader.

The material is good and I would have given the book five stars if not for Chittester's insistence on making everything "gender...
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 Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation
AuthorKathleen Dowling Singh
ISBN0062515659
Unless you believe that when we die, we cease to exist (period, end of life), and whether or not you work with the terminally ill, this book is a must read. This book does not tell us other people's stories, nor is it for those who are dying, or dealing with the immediate death of a loved one. It is for the rest...
A Sunlit Absence: Silence, Awareness, and Contemplation
AuthorMartin Laird
ISBN0195378725
"The practice of contemplation is one of the great spiritual arts," writes Martin Laird in A Sunlit Absence. "Not a technique but a skill, it harnesses the winds of grace that lead us out into the liberating sea of silence."
In this companion volume to his bestselling Into the Silent Land, Laird focuses...
The December Project: An Extraordinary Rabbi and a Skeptical Seeker Confront Life's Greatest Mystery
AuthorSara Davidson
ISBN0062281747
In the tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Last Lecture, New York Times bestselling author Sara Davidson met every Friday with 89-year-old Rabbi Zalman Shachter-Shalomi, the iconic founder of the Jewish Renewal movment, to discuss what he calls The December Project. "When you can feel in your...
What Is God?
AuthorJacob Needleman
ISBN1585427403
In his most deeply personal work, religious scholar Needleman cuts a clear path through today?s clamorous debates over the existence of God, illuminating an entirely new way of approaching the question of how to understand a higher power.

I n this new book, philosopher Jacob Needleman? whose...
Spiritual Classics: Selected Readings on the Twelve Spiritual Disciplines
AuthorRichard J. Foster
ISBN0060628723
The Brightest Lights of the Christian Tradition

St. Augustine, Thomas Merton, Fredrick Buechner, Evelyn Underhill, A.W. Tozer, G.K. Chesterton, Thomas More, Martin Luther King, Jr., Amy Carmichael, Simone Weil, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Hildegard of Bingen, John Milton, Dorothy...
A Cat Named Darwin: Embracing the Bond Between Man and Pet
AuthorWilliam Jordan
ISBN0618382283
In this endearing memoir, William Jordan's reluctant adoption of a stray cat leads to an unexpectedly deep bond, one that will be immediately recognizable to anyone who has ever fallen under the spell of a pet. When Jordan brings Darwin into his home, he is forced into a commitment more devoted and sincere...
A Private History of Awe
AuthorScott Russell Sanders
ISBN0865477345
An original and searching memoir from "one of America's finest essayists" (Phillip Lopate)

When Scott Russell Sanders was four, his father held him in his arms during a thunderstorm, and he felt awe--"the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything." He says, "The search...
So Far from Home: Lost and Found in Our Brave New World
AuthorMargaret J. Wheatley
ISBN1609945360
AN INVITATION TO WARRIORSHIP

I wrote this book for you if you offer your work as a contribution to others, whatever your work might be, and if now you find yourself feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and sometimes despairing even as you paradoxically experience moments of joy, belonging, and...
The Hauerwas Reader
AuthorStanley Hauerwas
ISBN0822326914
Stanley Hauerwas is one of the most widely read and oft-cited theologians writing today. A prolific lecturer and author, he has been at the forefront of key developments in contemporary theology, ranging from narrative theology to the “recovery of virtue.” Yet despite his prominence and the...
The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation
AuthorMarion Woodman
ISBN0919123201
First quarter of the book: “Oh!!” Folding pages, scribbling notes in the margins, getting really excited that I’ll learn about psychological transformation and the concept of metamorphosis from a Jungian/feminist perspective.

Second quarter of the book: “I’m not afraid of...
The Geography of Loss: Embrace What Is, Honor What Was, Love What Will Be
AuthorPatti Digh
ISBN0762778946
This extraordinary book is borne of loss: the loss of love, of certainty and assuredness, of knowing where we are or who we are, of beauty and youth, of health, of life itself, of privacy, and of roles and of knowing.

When someone or something we love leaves us, we suddenly walk alone into new territory...
Reversed Thunder: The Revelation of John and the Praying Imagination
AuthorEugene H. Peterson
ISBN0060665033
WELL, I DREAMED I SAW THE SILVER SPACESHIPS FLYIN’
THE LOADING HAD BEGUN
THEY WERE TAKING MOTHER NATURE’S SILVER SEED
TO A NEW HOME IN THE SUN.
-Neil Young

The suppressed but blatantly unbearable urban myth of the Apocalypse is a widely-held, nightmarish archetype of...
In the Shadow of Memory
AuthorFloyd Skloot
ISBN0803293224
In December 1988 Floyd Skloot was stricken by a virus that targeted his brain, leaving him totally disabled and utterly changed. In the Shadow of Memory is an intimate picture of what it is like to find oneself possessed of a ravaged memory and unstable balance and confronted by wholesale changes in both...
Opening to God: Lectio Divina and Life as Prayer
AuthorDavid G. Benner
Most Christians want to experience spiritual transformation. But many are frustrated by the limited progress of our spiritual self-improvement efforts. We find our praying burdened by a sense of obligation and failure.

But prayer is not merely something we do; prayer is what God does in...
The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life
AuthorJames Hillman
ISBN0345424050
In his powerful bestseller The Soul's Code, James Hillman brilliantly illuminated the central importance of character to our spiritual and emotional lives. Now, in this magnificent new book, Hillman completes his exploration of character with a profound and revolutionary reflection on life's...
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