The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom
10 best books like The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom (Joan Halifax): Travels with Herodotus, The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science, The Lost Words, Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying, In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying, The Empath's Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People, Old Indian Days, The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft, You Are a Dream, The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life
| Author | Ryszard Kapuściński |
| ISBN | 1400043387 |
From the master of literary reportage whose acclaimed books include Shah of Shahs, The Emperor, and The Shadow of the Sun, an intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond the Iron Curtain.
Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his editor that he’d like to go abroad. Dreaming...
The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science
| Author | Culadasa (John Yates) |
| ISBN | 0990847705 |
Providing step-by-step guidance for every stage of the meditation path, this uniquely comprehensive guide for a Western audience combines the wisdom from the teachings of the Buddha with the latest research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Clear and friendly, this in-depth practice...
| Author | Robert Macfarlane |
| ISBN | 0241253586 |
From Acorn to Weasel: a gorgeous, hand-illustrated, large-format spellbook celebrating the magic and wonder of the natural world
All over the country, there are words disappearing from children's lives. Words like Dandelion, Otter, Bramble, Acorn and Lark represent the natural world...
Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying
We all sit on the edge of a mystery. We have only known this life, so dying scares us—and we are all dying. But what if dying were perfectly safe? What would it look like if you could approach dying with curiosity and love, in service of other beings? What if dying were the ultimate spiritual practice?
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In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
| Author | Yongey Mingyur |
| ISBN | 0525512535 |
At thirty-six years old, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche was a rising star within his generation of Tibetan masters and the respected abbot of three monasteries. Then one night, telling no one, he slipped out of his monastery in India with the intention of spending the next four years on a wandering retreat,...
The Empath's Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People
| Author | Judith Orloff |
| ISBN | 1622036573 |
What is the difference between having empathy and being an empath? "Having empathy means our heart goes out to another person in joy or pain," says Dr. Judith Orloff. "But for empaths it goes much further. We actually feel others' emotions, energy, and physical symptoms in our own bodies, without the...
| Author | Charles Alexander Eastman |
| ISBN | 0803267185 |
The stories in Old Indian Days focus mainly on Sioux bands of the Upper Midwest in prereservation times, when contact with whites was minimal. Charles A. Eastman, a mixed-blood Sioux who earned renown as the author of nearly a dozen books, was on home ground in writing about the traditional life of his...
The Anthropology of Religion, Magic, and Witchcraft
| Author | Rebecca L. Stein |
| ISBN | 0205718116 |
This concise introductory textbook emphasizes the major concepts of both anthropology and the anthropology of religion. It is aimed at students encountering anthropology for the first time. Reviewers describe the text as vivid, rich, user-friendly, accessible, and well-organized. The text...
| Author | Guillaume Wolf |
| ISBN | 1975815459 |
You Are a Dream is a book for creatives asking: "How do you make your dreams come true?" In order to find a meaningful answer, You Are a Dream challenges you to go beyond your comfort zone by bringing full awareness to your creative work and your life. Designed as a mini-workshop, and packed with exercises,...
The Creative Tarot: A Modern Guide to an Inspired Life
| Author | Jessa Crispin |
| ISBN | 1501120239 |
A hip, accessible, and practical guide for artists and creative people looking to tarot for guidance and inspiration in the tradition of The Secret Language of Birthdays and Steal Like an Artist.
What if the path to creativity was not as challenging as everyone thinks? What if you could find...
“Rachel beautifully illustrates that loving fiercely and grieving deeply are often two halves of the same whole. Her story will break you down and lift you up.” —Glennon Doyle, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Love Warrior and founder of Together Rising
While on her way to teach...
HABITACIONES DE SOLEDAD Y MIEDO (Investigación)
El presente libro ofrece una narración apasionada y conmovedora que describe los más erráticos comportamientos humanos en situaciones límite: desde las guerras de Vietnam o Angola hasta la epidemia de ébola en Sierra Leona en 2014 y los conflictos bélicos actuales en Somalia o Siria, pasando...
Forgotten Queens of Islam
| Author | Fatema Mernissi |
| ISBN | 0816624399 |
This is a great non-fiction book about 15 Muslim women who held political power over a nation. After the electoral win of Benazhir Bhutto in Pakistan, her opponents refused the results based on the claim that no Muslim women ever held potilical power before. Thus, the author investigated the 15 centuries...
Como los perros, felices sin motivo
| Author | María Castilla |
| ISBN | 9789584226 |
La primera novela de MARÍA CASTILLA
Han pasado varios años sin que Sofía logre olvidar. La herida que le dejó el desamor supura y no ha encontrado el remedio que la sane: ni la negación, ni los amores fugaces y simultáneos, ni la depresión que la lleva a una suerte de locura, tampoco ese...
| Author | Elvira Navarro |
| ISBN | 8439728069 |
Elvira Méndez trabaja como correctora para un gran grupo editorial. Sus escasos ingresos la obligaron a mudarse a un piso al sur de Madrid, y para poder pagar el alquiler aceptó como inquilina, por recomendación de su amigo Germán, a su antigua colega Susana, una estrambótica e inmensa rubia con...
| Author | Almudena Grandes |
| ISBN | 8472237486 |
Sumida todavía en los temores de una infancia carente de afecto, Lulú, una niña de quince años, sucumbe a la atracción que ejerce sobre ella un joven, amigo de la familia, a quien hasta entonces ella había deseado vagamente. Después de esta primera experiencia, Lulú, niña eterna, alimenta...
Política y geopolítica para rebeldes, irreverentes y escépticos (Investigación)
Dirigido a un público joven de 18 a 90 años, en las páginas de este libro se desgranan los conceptos, las teorías y los protagonistas que han dado y dan forma al contexto sociopolítico que nos rodea. De las proyecciones cartográficas a la Guerra Fría, de los «Estados fallidos» a los «Estados...
| Author | Wayne W. Dyer |
| ISBN | 8425323665 |
Wayne Walter Dyer was a popular American self-help advocate, author and lecturer. His 1976 book Your Erroneous Zones has sold over 30 million copies and is one of the best-selling books of all time. It is said to have "[brought] humanistic ideas to the masses".
He received his D.Ed. degree in...
