The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality
10 best books like The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality (Belden C. Lane): Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Letters and Papers from Prison, Life and Holiness, Wellsprings, Prayer and Temperament, Awakening: Conversations with the Masters, Jesus, the Final Days: What Really Happened, What I Am Living For: Lessons from the Life and Writings of Thomas Merton, On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old, Awareness: A de Mello Spirituality Conference in His Own Words
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| ISBN | 0072434171 |
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall she watches a monarch...
Letters and Papers from Prison
| Author | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| ISBN | 0684838273 |
One of the great classics of prison literature, Letters and Papers from Prison effectively serves as the last will and testament of the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a young German pastor who was executed by the Nazis in 1945 for his part in the “officers’...
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| ISBN | 0385480482 |
Merton reminds Christians that they are not to withdraw from the world, but rather to live by Christ's example and engage it, through love, charity, embracing poverty, and giving themselves to the will of God. This is a considerable challenge to the follower of Christ in the modern dehumanized materialist...
| Author | Anthony de Mello |
| ISBN | 0385196172 |
One of the most important inspirational writers of our time, and an internationally acclaimed spiritual guide, Anthony de Mello here presents a way toward peace of mind, inner power, and joy through simple spiritual exercises that blend the ancient traditions of the East with the psychological and...
| Author | Chester P. Michael |
| ISBN | 0940136023 |
I enjoyed this book and the connection between temperament and prayer style. I found the assessment of prayer preferences to be spot on. I taught parts of this book to my Sunday school class and they enjoyed being introduced to new styles of prayer. If I had any criticism of the book is that it is extremely...
Awakening: Conversations with the Masters
| Author | Anthony de Mello |
| ISBN | 0385509952 |
From the bestselling author of Awareness and The Way to Love comes a classic reissue of lessons to inspire readers every day of the year.
With more than two million books sold and countless admirers throughout the world, Anthony de Mello is regarded as one of the most influential religious teachers...
Jesus, the Final Days: What Really Happened
| Author | Craig A. Evans |
| ISBN | 0664233597 |
One of the signs of a good book is the way it leaves you wanting more rather than wishing you had not wasted time on it. This is the sort of book where one would want more, a lot more, than one gets. The work of a symposium that seeks to bridge the divide between theologians and scholars of biblical history, this...
What I Am Living For: Lessons from the Life and Writings of Thomas Merton
| Author | Jon M. Sweeney |
| ISBN | 1594717419 |
"If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for."—Thomas Merton
Some of today's most popular spiritual writers—including...
On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old
| Author | Parker J. Palmer |
| ISBN | 1523095431 |
From beloved and bestselling author Parker J. Palmer (Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, Healing the Heart of Democracy), comes a beautiful book of reflections on what we can learn as we move closer to "the brink of everything."
Drawing on eight decades of life -- and his career as a writer,...
Awareness: A de Mello Spirituality Conference in His Own Words
| Author | Anthony de Mello |
| ISBN | 0385249373 |
The heart of Anthony de Mello's bestselling spiritual message is awareness. Mixing Christian spirituality, Buddhist parables, Hindu breathing exercises, and psychological insight, de Mello's words of hope come together in Awareness in a grand synthesis.
In short chapters for reading...
The Way To Love contains the final flowering of Anthony de Mello's thought, and in it he grapples with the ultimate question of love. In thirty-one meditations, he implores his readers with his usual pithiness to break through illusion, the great obstacle to love. "Love springs...
Rediscovering Life: Awaken to Reality
A companion to Anthony De Mello's all-time bestselling work of inspiration, Awareness.
Anthony De Mello was one of the most important spiritual writers of the 20th century. Since his death in 1987, his stature has only increased. His books, including Song of the Bird, Sadhana, and the international...
