The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions
10 best books like The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions (Wayne Teasdale): Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, The Night Sister, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever, Mortality, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Islam: A Short History, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, The Writing Life, Seven Sacred Pauses: Living Mindfully Through the Hours of the Day
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
| Author | Anne Lamott |
| ISBN | 0385480016 |
"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and...
| Author | Jennifer McMahon |
| ISBN | 0385538510 |
Once the thriving attraction of rural Vermont, the Tower Motel now stands in disrepair, alive only in the memories of Amy, Piper, and Piper's kid sister, Margot. The three played there as girls until the day that their games uncovered something dark and twisted in the motel's past, something that ruined...
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
| ISBN | 0306816083 |
From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for...
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
| ISBN | 1455502758 |
On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens was stricken in his New York hotel room with excruciating pain in his chest and thorax. As he would later write in the first of a series of award-winning columns for "Vanity Fair," he suddenly found himself...
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
An innovative thinker tackles the controversial question of why we believe in God and how religion shapes our lives and our future.
For a growing number of people, there is nothing more important than religion. It is an integral part of their marriage, child rearing, and community. In this...
El Islam es, probablemente, la religión más incomprendida y malinterpretada de la modernidad. Una curiosa ignorancia prevalece en Occidentes desde las cruzadas, cuando empezó a cultivarse una visión distorsionada del Islam como una religión violenta e intolerante. Sin embargo, los imperios...
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
| Author | Sam Harris |
| ISBN | 0393327655 |
In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and religion in the modern world. He offers a vivid, historical tour of our willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs—even when these beliefs inspire the worst human atrocities. While warning...
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
| Author | Karen Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0517223120 |
Over 700,000 copies of the original hardcover and paperback editions of this stunningly popular book have been sold. Karen Armstrong's superbly readable exploration of how the three dominant monotheistic religions of the world - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - have shaped and altered the conception...
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| ISBN | 0060919884 |
This is a brief yet intense essay on the art, or as Dillard would say, the burden of writing that will delight readers and aspiring writers alike.
Writing is a way of life, and Dillard’s relationship with words is, to say the least, controversial.
Her lucid ponderings on the obsessive nature...
| Author | Macrina Wiederkehr |
| ISBN | 1933495103 |
Author and retreat leader Macrina Wiederkehr opens the monastery door and invites readers to come in and learn how the practice of consciously pausing for prayer at the seven sacred moments of each day can make their daily passage through time a more sacred pilgrimage. Using scripture, poetry, reflections....
| Author | Karen Armstrong |
| ISBN | 0143034367 |
With such bestsellers as A History of God and Islam, Karen Armstrong has consistently delivered "penetrating, readable, and prescient" (The New York Times) works that have lucidly engaged a wide range of religions and religious issues. In Buddha she turns to a figure whose thought is still reverberating...
| Author | Frederic Brussat |
| ISBN | 0684835347 |
A book that belongs in every seeker's home, Spiritual Literacy answers the universal question, "How can I live a spiritual life every day?" Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat reveal a way to read the texts of our lives and of the world around us for sacred meaning.
Using more than 650 brief examples from...
| Author | J. Philip Newell |
| ISBN | 0809137593 |
Very readable. Newell discusses the differences between the theologies of Pelagius and Augustine, and how the former influenced Celtic Christianity, which blended with the pre-existing Druid religion. Augstine's idea of sin being transmitted from one generation to the next through sex, [which...
Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us
| Author | Adele Ahlberg Calhoun |
| ISBN | 0830833307 |
Have you heard about these practices and wanted to try them? Have you wandered from one practice to another not sure quite what to do? Are you overwhelmed by all the to-dos of your spiritual life? We have good desires--for a more intimate prayer life, perhaps, or deeper insight from God's Word--but we...
The Healthy Mind Cookbook: Big-Flavor Recipes to Enhance Brain Function, Mood, Memory, and Mental Clarity
| Author | Rebecca Katz |
| ISBN | 1607742985 |
A collection of more than 120 recipes formulated to optimize brain health, boost memory, improve mood, sharpen the central nervous system, and more.
Feed your mind.
Depression, ADHD, memory loss, agitation: These may seem like inevitable byproducts of modern lives spent multitasking,...
Coping with Concussion and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Guide to Living with the Challenges Associated with Post Concussion Syndrome a nd Brain Trauma
| Author | Diane Roberts Stoler |
| ISBN | 1583334769 |
A comprehensive guide for improving memory, focus, and quality of life in the aftermath of a concussion.
Often presenting itself after a head trauma, concussion— or mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI)— can cause chronic migraines, depression, memory, and sleep problems that can...
Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind
| Author | Roger Walsh |
| ISBN | 0471392162 |
Essential Spirituality beautifully articulates the benefits of spiritual living in the material world.-Dan Millman, author, Everyday Enlightenment and The Way of the Peaceful Warrior""Deceptively simple. Its power is rooted not only in Dr. Walsh's formidable intellectual capacity to deal...
Ten Fun Things to Do Before You Die
| Author | Karol Jackowski |
| ISBN | 0786885475 |
Once you get your hands on this heavenly book you won't be able to resist its inspirational instructions on how to live life--like you have nothing to lose. Ten Fun Things to Do Before You Die blends humor, insight, and wisdom in a way that's accessible and irresistible. Nothing exhilarates and sends...
