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The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind

10 best books like The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind (Cynthia Bourgeault): The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See, The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith, The Big Book of Christian Mysticism: The Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality, Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian, Original Blessing, The Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation, Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening, Intimacy with God: An Introduction to Centering Prayer, Putting on the Mind of Christ: The Inner Work of Christian Spirituality, The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages

The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See
AuthorRichard Rohr
ISBN0824525434
For Christians seeking a way of thinking outside of strict dualities, this guide explores methods for letting go of division and living in the present. Drawn from the Gospels, Jesus, Paul, and the great Christian contemplatives, this examination reveals how many of the hidden truths of Christianity...
The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith
AuthorMarcus J. Borg
In The Heart of Christianity, world-renowned Jesus scholar and author of the bestseller Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time argues that the essential ingredients of a Christian life—faith, being born again, the kingdom of God, the gospel of love—are as vitally important today as they have...
The Big Book of Christian Mysticism: The Essential Guide to Contemplative Spirituality
AuthorCarl McColman
ISBN1571746242
In popular usage, "mysticism" typically refers to New Age or Eastern forms of spirituality. However, the mystical tradition is also an important component of the Christian tradition. At its heart--and much like its expression in other faith traditions--Christian mysticism is an ancient practice...
Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian
AuthorPaul F. Knitter
ISBN1851686738
Being a Christian isn’t easy. Sustaining belief without any doubts for one’s entire life is a very rare accomplishment. Indeed, many would say that examining one’s faith at least once is a central part of the Christian condition. In this landmark work, esteemed theologian Paul Knitter explains...
Original Blessing
AuthorMatthew Fox
ISBN1585420670
Here is a reissue of the critically acclaimed bestseller, named one of the "20 books that changed the world" in New Age Journal's Annual Source Book for 1995. Maverick theologian Matthew Fox provides a daring view of historical Christianity and a theologically sound basis for personal discovery of...
The Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation
AuthorKabir Edmund Helminski
ISBN1570625662
As human beings we stand on the threshold between two realities: the world of material existence and the world of spiritual Being. The "knowing heart" is the sacred place where these two dimensions meet and are integrated.

In Sufi teaching the human heart is not a fanciful metaphor but an objective...
Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening
AuthorDiana Butler Bass
ISBN0062003739
Diana Butler Bass, one of contemporary Christianity’s leading trend-spotters, exposes how the failings of the church today are giving rise to a new “spiritual but not religious” movement. Using evidence from the latest national polls and from her own cutting-edge research, Bass, the visionary...
Intimacy with God: An Introduction to Centering Prayer
AuthorThomas Keating
ISBN0824515889
This book was recommended to me by a monk in his eighties in a meeting of spiritual direction with me. I had been feeling very attracted to the practice of Zen meditation for its focus on the present moment, breathing, and acceptance of change, pain, emotional ups and downs, etc. I had felt that my prayer...
Putting on the Mind of Christ: The Inner Work of Christian Spirituality
AuthorJim Marion
What does it mean to follow the path of Christ today? "Putting on the Mind of Christ" is the first book to offer an integral understanding of the Christian spiritual path--one that examines the basic stages of spiritual development described by the great saints and sages, along with the psychological...
The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages
AuthorJoan D. Chittister
ISBN0824525035
The Rule of Benedict was originally written more than 1,500 years ago. Chittester's book reproduces the rule (73 rules actually)with commentary for the modern reader.

The material is good and I would have given the book five stars if not for Chittester's insistence on making everything "gender...
The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation
AuthorThomas Merton
ISBN0060593628
Now in paperback, revised and redesigned: This is Thomas Merton's last book, in which he draws on both Eastern and Western traditions to explore the hot topic of contemplation/meditation in depth and to show how we can practice true contemplation in everyday life.

Never before published...
Resurrecting Jesus: Embodying the Spirit of a Revolutionary Mystic
AuthorAdyashanti
The story of Jesus has not waned in its power to change lives. Yet today, even though the majority of us grew up in a culture suffused by the mythos of Jesus, many of us feel disconnected from the essence and vitality of his teachings. With Resurrecting Jesus, Adyashanti invites us to rediscover the life...
The Dark Night of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Explores the Connection Between Darkness and Spiritual Growth
AuthorGerald G. May
ISBN0060750553
A distinguished psychiatrist, spiritual counsellor and bestselling author shows how the dark sides of the spiritual life are a vital ingredient in deep, authentic, healthy spirituality.

Gerald G. May, MD, one of the great spiritual teachers and writers of our time, argues that the dark...
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,...
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...
Listening for the Heartbeat of God: A Celtic Spirtuality
AuthorJ. Philip Newell
ISBN0809137593
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...
The Cloud of Unknowing and The Book of Privy Counseling
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0385030975
Originally written in Middle English by an unknown mystic of the fourteenth century, The Cloud of Unknowing represents the first expression in our own tongue of the soul's quest for God. A literary work of great beauty in both style and message, it offers a practical guide to the path of contemplation....
Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
AuthorMartin Laird
ISBN0195307607
Sitting in stillness, the practice of meditation, and the cultivation of awareness are commonly thought to be the preserves of Hindus and Buddhists. Martin Laird shows that the Christian tradition of contemplation has its own refined teachings on using a prayer word to focus the mind, working with...
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