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The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

10 best books like The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd (Mary Rose O'Reilley): Earth Prayers: From Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth, A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness, Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality, A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons In Simplicity, Service, And Common Sense, The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna, A Woman's Journey to God, Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation, Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life

Earth Prayers: From Around the World: 365 Prayers, Poems, and Invocations for Honoring the Earth
AuthorElizabeth Roberts
In forest clearings, beneath star-filled skies, in cathedrals, and before the hearth... women and men have always given voice to the impulse to celebrate the world that surrounds and sustains them. Now, as we face a diminished present and an uncertain future, the need to honor the interconnection...
A Heart as Wide as the World: Stories on the Path of Lovingkindness
AuthorSharon Salzberg
ISBN1570624283
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...
Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality
AuthorJ. Brent Bill
ISBN1557254206
People of all faiths and backgrounds are drawn to silence. They yearn for it in these busy and difficult times, but often, when silence becomes available, we don't know what to do with it. For centuries, Quakers have taught that when we are silent, God grants us insights, guidance, and spiritual understanding...
A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons In Simplicity, Service, And Common Sense
AuthorRobert Lawrence Smith
ISBN0688172334
The most valuable aspect of religion," writes Robert Lawrence Smith, "is that it provides us with a framework for living. I have always felt that the beauty and power of Quakerism is that it exhorts us to live more simply, more truthfully, more charitably."Taking his inspiration from the teaching of...
The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground
AuthorRosemary Mahoney
ISBN0618446656
The Singular Pilgrim is a riveting account of one woman's personal quest to find the root of belief among modern religious pilgrims. The intrepid Rosemary Mahoney undertakes six extraordinary journeys: visiting an Anglican shrine to Saint Mary in Walsingham, England; walking the five-hundred-mile...
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ
AuthorMatthew Fox
ISBN0060629150
The idea that an omnipotent, conscious entity would will the universe into existence and populate it with free-willed beings only to fixate on their hygienic and sexual proclivities and punish offenses with death and damnation is ridiculous on its face, and yet in the United States (the "most Christian"...
Longing for Darkness: Tara and the Black Madonna
AuthorChina Galland
ISBN0140195661
Read China Galland's posts on the Penguin Blog

With this book, China Galland brought increased attention to the spiritual traditions of the Black Madonna and other cross-cultural expressions of the feminine divine. The popularity of recent works by authors like Sue Monk Kidd and Kathleen...
A Woman's Journey to God
AuthorJoan Borysenko
ISBN1573228354
“Women’s spirituality is as wild and free as that little girl. It is natural, earthy, relational, mystical, embodied, intuitive, sensuous, and compassionate. Slowly but surely, women’s poems, psalms, songs and liturgy are being written and prayed, sung and danced in a way of our own, suitable...
Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss and Transformation
AuthorMirabai Starr
ISBN1622034139
On the day her first book came out—a new translation of Dark Night of the Soul by Saint John of the Cross—Mirabai Starr’s daughter, Jenny, was killed in a car accident. “My spiritual life began the day my daughter died,” writes Mirabai. Even with decades of spiritual practice and a deep immersion...
Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life
AuthorPatricia Hampl
ISBN0865477167
A gifted writer's inquiry into one of the most profound yet least discussed issues of contemporary American life: the individual's search for faith. It tells of Hampl's quest to escape the indelible brand of a Catholic upbringing, following her to the "old world" of Catholocism in Spain and France,...
Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth
AuthorLauren Artress
ISBN1573225479
Walking a Sacred Path reintroduces the ancient Labyrinth, a walking meditation that transcends the limits of still meditation. Walking the Labyrinth has emerged today as a metaphor for the spiritual journey and a powerful tool for transformation. This walking meditation is an archetype, a mystical...
A Whole New Life: An Illness and a Healing
AuthorReynolds Price
ISBN0743238540
Reynolds Price has long been one of America's most acclaimed and accomplished men of letters -- the author of novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, and a memoir. In A Whole New Life, however, he steps from behind that roster of achievements to present us with a more personal story, a narrative as intimate...
Balancing Heaven and Earth: A Memoir of Visions, Dreams, and Realizations
AuthorRobert A. Johnson
ISBN0062515063
One of this century's most popular psychology scholars, Robert A.Johnson was among the first to present Carl Jung's rich but complex theories with simple elegance and grace,opening them to an entirely new and hungry audience. His masterful works--including the best selling He, She, Inner Work,...
Awakening to the Sacred: Creating a Personal Spiritual Life
AuthorSurya Das
ISBN0767902750
Lama Surya Das, author of the bestselling Awakening the Buddha Within, is the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition. In this elegant, inspiring book, he integrates essential Buddhist practices with a variety of other spiritual philosophies and wisdom traditions, to show you...
Merton's Palace of Nowhere
AuthorJames Finley
ISBN0877930414
This excels my expectations and then some. I appreciate and reveled in the concepts and deep spiritual analysis of what comprises the true self as opposed to the false self. This quote struck a cord in me:

"We run and run in our squirrel cage, thinking the constant squeaking of the wheel of our...
The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom
AuthorJoan Halifax
ISBN0802140718
In this “masterwork of an authentic spirit person” (Thomas Berry), Buddhist teacher and anthropologist Joan Halifax Roshi delves into “the fruitful darkness”—the shadow side of being, found in the root truths of Native religions, the fecundity of nature, and the stillness of meditation....
Hats & Eyeglasses: A Family Love Affair with Gambling
AuthorMartha Frankel
ISBN1585425583
A gloriously written memoir of growing up in a family of hard- core gamblers-Martha Frankel thought the gambling gene had passed her by, until she found herself addicted to online poker and knee-deep in debt.

Most weekends when Martha Frankel was a kid, her mother had a mah-jongg game going...
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...
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...
One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism
AuthorJoseph Goldstein
ISBN0062517015
The Dharma Of Freedom

Joseph Goldstein has written an ambitious, short book which attempts to synthesize the wisdom and teachings of various Buddhist traditions and which offers thoughts on the possible future course of Buddhism in the West. The book is also a practitioner's guide and a manual...
Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
ISBN0938077570
Things find their way into my life at the most perfect times. This book made its way to me, traveling seven hundred and some odd miles from central CA to Northern Oregon, on the very day that I was ready for it. In the middle of a snow storm at that! The perfect time to stay in and reflect.

I didn't get...
In Search of Buddha's Daughters: A Modern Journey Down Ancient Roads
AuthorChristine Toomey
An award-winning journalist vividly reports her two-year, 60,000-mile global odyssey in the company of exceptional women who choose to dedicate their lives to Buddhism. In 2011, Christine Toomey met an unforgettable group of Tibetan Buddhist nuns. After hearing their stories of prison, extreme...
Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life
AuthorPhilip Simmons
Now I find myself in late August, with the nights cool and the crickets thick in the fields. Already the first blighted leaves glow scarlet on the red maples. It's a season of fullness and sweet longings made sweeter now by the fact that I can't be sure I'll see this time of the year again....
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