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The Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation

10 best books like The Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation (Kabir Edmund Helminski): Basic Judaism, The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology of Writings By and About the Dalai Lama, The Illuminated Prayer: The Five-Times Prayer of the Sufis, Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story, The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind, The Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures, Women Of Wisdom, The Soul's Religion: Cultivating a Profoundly Spiritual Way of Life, Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master, Prayers of the Cosmos: Reflections on the Original Meaning of Jesus's Words

Basic Judaism
AuthorMilton Steinberg
ISBN0156106981
This is really helpful for someone who knows very little about Judaism. Steinberg breaks the book up into helpful sections, and it’s not a big commitment; it’s a fairly short read. Some of the most interesting things to me were the latitude of beliefs within Judaism, the lack of effort to convert...
The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology of Writings By and About the Dalai Lama
AuthorDalai Lama XIV
ISBN0937938912
Who is the Dalai Lama? Beginning with his Nobel Peace Prize lecture, this collection of addresses, interviews, and biographical essays affords readers an in-depth view of His Holiness's personal life, his wide-ranging interests, and his thoughts on issues of global concern. The portrait that emerges...
The Illuminated Prayer: The Five-Times Prayer of the Sufis
AuthorColeman Barks
ISBN0345435451
The Prayer is a drawing of the curtain, an invitation to a secret place that is discovered and explored. . . .
According to tradition and the testimony of Sufi mystics, The Prayer--or Salat--was first taught by the angels, who themselves practiced it in celestial adoration. The Prayer is God's gift...
Red Hot and Holy: A Heretic's Love Story
AuthorSera Beak
ISBN1622030532
When one person dares to speak her truth, it challenges us all to live our own. With Red Hot and Holy, Sera Beak offers a provocative and intimate view of what it means to get up close and personal with the divine in modern times.

With a rare combination of audacious wit, scholarly acumen, and tender...
The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
AuthorCynthia Bourgeault
ISBN1590305809
If you put aside what you think you know about Jesus and approach the Gospels as though for the first time, something remarkable happens: Jesus emerges as a teacher of the transformation of consciousness. Cynthia Bourgeault is a masterful guide to Jesus's vision and to the traditional contemplative...
The Soul Is Here For Its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures
AuthorRobert Bly
Robert Bly's ground-breaking anthology of spiritual poems, the result of over a decade of personal research, celebrates the ongoing role of the divine in literature. For as long as people have lived together in communities and built enduring cultures, they have sung and written about their relationship...
Women Of Wisdom
AuthorTsultrim Allione
ISBN1559391413
Women of Wisdom explores and celebrates the spiritual potential of all women, as exemplified by the lives of six Tibetan female mystics. These stories of great women who have achieved full illumination, overcoming cultural prejudices and a host of other problems which male practitioners do not encounter,...
The Soul's Religion: Cultivating a Profoundly Spiritual Way of Life
AuthorThomas Moore
ISBN0060930195
In this, companion volume to his worldwide bestseller, Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore offers a way of living in this new and confusing century. Drawing on faiths front all over tile world, as well as from his own vast well of knowledge and personal experience, Moore shows its ]low religion can be used to...
Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master
AuthorIrina Tweedie
ISBN0963457454
A friend lent me this book the past week. Sometimes with spiritual books I like to just open them up to a random page and see if the book speaks to me. That’s what I did with this book the past week.

There are so many beautiful paths in the world, and this book reminds me of the commonalities between...
Prayers of the Cosmos: Reflections on the Original Meaning of Jesus's Words
AuthorNeil Douglas-Klotz
ISBN0060619953
Neil Douglas-Klotz offers a radical new translation of the words of Jesus Christ with Prayers of the Cosmos. Reinterpreting the Lord’s Prayer and the Beatitudes from the vantage of Middle Eastern mysticism, Douglas-Klotz, the Sufi Founder of the worldwide network of the Dances of Universal Peace,...
The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions
AuthorWayne Teasdale
This book is both a summary of various mystic traditions and practices, as well as a guidebook to a life in mystic spirituality. It is well-written, well-researched, with a style and tone equally balanced between scholarly neutrality and personal conviction. It is a book worthy of re-reading.

Compared...
Women of Sufism: A Hidden Treasure
AuthorCamille Helminski
ISBN1570629676
The luminous presence of women who follow the Sufi Way—the mystical path of Islam—is brought to life here through their sacred songs and poetry, their dreams and visions, and stories of their efforts as they witness the Truth in many realms. These writings reflect the honor and respect for the feminine...
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...
This Incredible Need to Believe
AuthorJulia Kristeva
ISBN0231147848
"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics, that the history of Christianity prepared the world for humanism."

So writes Julia Kristeva...
When the Trees Say Nothing: Writings on Nature
AuthorThomas Merton
ISBN1893732606
This first collection of Thomas Merton's nature writings serves as a primer on eco-spirituality. Thomas Merton: millions know him as the author of The Seven Storey Mountain, the international bestseller and a modern spiritual classic. Now, in the first collection of his writings on nature, Merton...
The Gentle Art of Blessing: A Simple Practice That Will Transform You and Your World
AuthorPierre Pradervand
How can a blessing change the world? According to Pierre Pradervand, making the conscious choice to bless every person or being around you can truly make a world of difference in yourself and in others around you. In The Gentle Art of Blessing, Pradervand shows that the practice of blessing has the power...
Coming Closer to Ourselves: Making Everything the Path of Awakening
AuthorPema Chödrön
ISBN1604077948
How to Befriend Your Most Challenging Emotions and Experiences

In challenging times, why do so many of us turn to Pema Chödrön for guidance? Many say that it’s her honest and caring way of communicating the core teachings of Buddhism—not just conceptually, but directly from her heart...
Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey
AuthorRumi
ISBN1590305329
Although alone, the lover is never lonely,
Forever hidden with the Beloved.

Love is the meaning of our existence, the raw material of transformation, the glorious way of access to Divine intimacy. This teaching infuses the lyric verse of Rumi (1207–1273), the greatest of the Sufi poets....
Sufism: The Transformation of the Heart
AuthorLlewellyn Vaughan-Lee
ISBN0963457446
Sufism, the Transformation of the Heart gives a clear and accessible outline of Sufism: its basic principles, historical background, and recent development in the West. While exploring the spiritual and psychological processes of transformation, this book offers practical guidelines to help...
Tree Spirited Woman
AuthorColleen Baldrica
ISBN1592981445
Embark on a personal journey of spiritual awakening and life enrichment as you discover Tree Spirited Woman's unique perspective on lessons for life. Written as a narrative, Tree Spirited Woman takes you through one woman's intimate transformation from the death of her maternal grandmother to the...
Right Here with You: Bringing Mindful Awareness into Our Relationships
AuthorAndrea Miller
ISBN1590309049
In recent years scientists have discovered that mindfulness can reduce stress, improve mood, and enhance our sense of well-being. In this book, readers learn how mindfulness can be brought to bear in our relationships to increase intimacy, strengthen communication, and help us to find greater fulfilment....
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