To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
10 best books like To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings (John O'Donohue): Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, Walking Meditation [With CD and DVD], Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith, Sun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the World, Change Your Life Without Getting Out of Bed: The Ultimate Nap Book, The Dance: Moving To the Rhythms of Your True Self, Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life, Jesus Freak: Feeding, Healing, Raising the Dead, Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice, Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life
| Author | Kathleen Norris |
| ISBN | 1573227218 |
Struggling with her return to the Christian church after many years away, Kathleen Norris found it was the language of Christianity that most distanced her from faith. Words like "judgment," "faith," "dogma," "salvation," "sinner"—even "Christ"—formed what she called her "scary vocabulary,"...
Walking Meditation [With CD and DVD]
| Author | Nguyen Anh-Huong |
| ISBN | 1591794730 |
What if every step you took deepened your connection with all of life and imprinted peace, joy, and serenity on the earth? With Walking Meditation, listeners enjoy the first comprehensive instructional program in this serene spiritual practice to help them walk with presence and peace of mind whether...
| Author | Diana Butler Bass |
| ISBN | 0060836946 |
For decades the accepted wisdom has been that America's mainline Protestant churches are in decline, eclipsed by evangelical mega-churches. Church and religion expert Diana Butler Bass wondered if this was true, and this book is the result of her extensive, three-year study of centrist and progressive...
| Author | Geoffrey Moorhouse |
| ISBN | 0156006022 |
Visible on a clear day off the west coast of Ireland, the Skellig Islands, a cluster of cruel rocks, rise spectacularly from the Atlantic Ocean. A sanctuary to birds and seals today, for over six hundred years during the middle ages it was a center for a particularly intense form of monastic life, one that...
| Author | S.A.R.K. |
| ISBN | 0684859300 |
Recently I went home to visit my parents, and I found – in the basement – this little book about napping. At my parents’ house, every object and book that cannot be classified is taken down to an old “wreck-room,” full of miscellaneous bits and pieces.
“Change Your Life Without Getting...
| Author | Oriah Mountain Dreamer |
| ISBN | 0062516930 |
Welcome to The Dance, the wise and practical book that expands on Oriah Mountain Dreamer′s new moving prose poem. In this compelling book the acclaimed author of The Invitation challenges readers to live with passion, energy, and honesty. The key, says Oriah, is to savour the everyday world of family,...
| Author | Irwin Kula |
| ISBN | 1401301924 |
"Irwin Kula shows us how to to live our humanness -- the pleasures and the challenges, the messiness and the triumphs -- with a profound acceptance of our desires and foibles and a joy that can only come from understanding." --Deepak Chopra "Yearning. After twenty-three years as a rabbi, I can think of...
| Author | Sara Miles |
| ISBN | 0470481668 |
"I came late to Christianity," writes Sara Miles, "knocked upside down by a mid-life conversion centered around eating a literal chunk of bread. I hadn't decided to profess an article of doctrine, but discovered a force blowing uncontrollably through the world."In this new book, Sara Miles tells...
| Author | Christina Baldwin |
| ISBN | 0553352024 |
In this classic book you will discover the intimate journey of personal and spiritual development that is possible through the practice of journal writing. In Life’s Companion, acclaimed author Christina Baldwin offers readers guidance and inspiration to this powerful way of expanding our inner...
| 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 | Erika Lopez |
| ISBN | 1878067966 |
An intelligent and self-deprecating romp through the out there humor of one of today's funniest womenA collection of comic narratives that are hilariously incisive and illustrated in her splashy, apropos style, Lap Dancing for Mommy runs riot with mainstream perceptions of underground lifestyles...
| Author | Caitlín Matthews |
| ISBN | 1592330436 |
Mirroring the ancient formulaic prayers to the elements found in the Celtic tradition, along with the wondrous invocations and declarations of the bards of the Scottish, Irish and Welsh traditions, Celtic Devotional provides a mystical doorway through which the modern person can re-invest their...
| Author | Judith Duerk |
| ISBN | 1880913631 |
Long ago before the patriarchal period, in many places on Earth, the Goddess was worshipped. Circle of Stones draws us into a meditative experience of the lost Feminine and creates a space for us to consider our present lives from the eyes of women's ancient culture and ritual. Incorporating the most...
| Author | Kristin Ohlson |
| ISBN | 0452286409 |
I picked up this book because I recently read an interesting essay written by Kristin Ohlson and thought I'd like to see what else she had written. (The essay, by the way, about memories in childhood, is here:
http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/wh... )
From the cover, I see that this...
| Author | Selina Lake |
| ISBN | 1845976266 |
If you love rummaging through markets for unusual fabrics, and can’t pass an antique or second-hand shop without popping in, Bazaar Style is for you. Stylist Selina Lake and experienced interiors writer Joanna Simmons show you real homes furnished with intriguing pieces from different eras...
| Author | Gregg Levoy |
| ISBN | 0609803700 |
How do we know if we're following our true callings? How do we sharpen our senses to cut through the distractions of everyday reality and hear the calls that are beckoning us?
is the first book to examine the many kinds of calls we receive and the great variety of channels through which they come to us....
| Author | Parker J. Palmer |
| ISBN | 0787971006 |
In A Hidden Wholeness, Parker Palmer reveals the same compassionate intelligence and informed heart that shaped his best-selling books Let Your Life Speak and The Courage to Teach. Here he speaks to our yearning to live undivided lives--lives that are congruent with our inner truth--in a world filled...
| Author | Christine Valters Paintner |
| ISBN | 1933495294 |
Summarized in the phrase "pray and work," "The Rule of St. Benedict" provides the inspiration for Christine Valters Paintner's newest exploration of the mutually nourishing relationship between contemplative practices and creative expression. Artists of all stripes and stations in lifepoets...
| Author | Joyce Rupp |
| ISBN | 0877933707 |
Everyone has unique goodbyes--times of losing someone or something that has given life meaning and value. With the touch of a poet, Joyce Rupp offers her wisdom on "these experiences of leaving behind and moving on, the stories of union and separation that are written in all our hearts." Praying Our...
| Author | Thomas Merton |
| ISBN | 1933495057 |
This book is set up in the daily liturgical cycle, but instead of prayers from a lectionary or scripture readings, it is entirely composed of Thomas Merton's thoughts on silence, contemplation, nature, and listening to God. It's a great way to silence your soul to listen to God, and a good balance to something...
| Author | Brian D. McLaren |
| ISBN | 0849901146 |
Shines a practical light on the spiritual disciplines that have been in use since the time of Abraham. In a sense, every day of our lives is labor. It is questionable if you can ever be exactly the same person waking up on two consecutive days. How are spiritual sojourners to cope with the constant change?...
| Author | George G. Hunter III |
| ISBN | 0687085853 |
Celtic Christianity--the form of Christian faith that flourished among the people of Ireland during the Middle Ages--has gained a great deal of attention lately. George G. Hunter III points out that, while the attention paid to the Celtic Christians is well deserved, much of it fails to recognize...
Churches have tried all kinds of ways to attract new and younger members - revised vision statements, hipper worship, contemporary music, livelier sermons, bigger and better auditoriums. But there are still so many people who aren't being reached, who don't want to come to church. And the truth is...
| Author | Gerald G. May |
| ISBN | 0060750553 |
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...
| Author | The Northumbria Community |
| ISBN | 0060013249 |
The Ancient Paths of Northumbria in northeastern England have been trod by generations of men and women who loved God and followed Jesus, bringing faith, hope, and love to vast numbers of people. Today, the Northumbria Community remains a living expression of this monastic, contemplative stream...
