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The Way to Love (Image Pocket Classics)

by Anthony De Mello

Anthony De Mello was the director of the Sadhana Insitute of Pastoral Counseling in Poona, India, and has authored serveral books. The Way to Love is his last.

The Language of Letting Go (Hazelden Meditation Series)

The Language of Letting Go (Hazelden Meditation Series)

Reflecting on the core issues of codependency, Melody Beattie encourages readers to trust themselves on their journey to self-care. Each meditation is filled with the personal warmth and insight Beattie brings to all of her books.

Meditations (Penguin Classics)

by A. S. L. Farquharson, Marcus Cornelius Fronto, Gregory Hays, R. B. Rutherford, Marcus Aurelius, George Long, Aurelius Marcus, G. M. A. Grube

A new translation of the philosophical journey that has inspired luminaries from Matthew Arnold to Bill Clinton Written by an intellectual Roman emperor, the Meditations offer a wide range of spiritual reflections developed as the leader struggled to understand himself and the universe. Marcus Aurelius covers topics as diverse as the question of virtue, human rationality, the nature of the gods,... (more)

Meditations: Creative Visualization and Meditation Exercises to Enrich Your Life

Meditations: Creative Visualization and Meditation Exercises to Enrich Your Life

by Shakti Gawain

First published in 1991, this new edition is twice as long and includes all the original meditations as well as those from more recent works that focus on intuition and prosperity. These meditations can be used to help readers and practitioners tap into creativity; connect with their inner guide; explore the male and female within; and much more. With a new introduction by the author, this is a perfect companion... (more)

Madeleine L'Engle Walking on Water Reflections on Faith and Art

Madeleine L'Engle Walking on Water Reflections on Faith and Art

Religion and Inspiration. Madeleine explores the awesome relationship between Christianity and Art. She writes that true art is incarnational. The artist is a servant willing to be a birth giver.

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee : 365 Daily Doses of Reality

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee : 365 Daily Doses of Reality

by Andrew Frothingham

Enough with the upbeat books filled with hopeful thoughts. The time has come for meditations on reality. In the same humorous tradition as Jack Handy's irreverent observations on life (Deep Thoughts), this collection offers 365 days of cynical, earthbound non-inspiration--a perfect antidote to today's "feel-good" culture.

A Heart's Thoughts: Love Walk Meditations Series

A Heart's Thoughts: Love Walk Meditations Series

by Shalonda "Treasure" Williams

Questions? Questions? So many questions we ask ourselves. We even dare to sometimes ask another. "Why is my blessing taking so long?" "Why can't I know my entire purpose at once?" "Why does God always seem so far away when trouble comes?" Even... "Why don't I understand myself?" In this book Shalonda "Treasure" Williams will dare to share some answers with you that are sure to ease your mind and lift... (more)

The Treasure of His Company: A Collection of Devotional Poetry & Meditations Vol. 1

The Treasure of His Company: A Collection of Devotional Poetry & Meditations Vol. 1

by Jan Howlett

The Treasure of His Company

A Collection of Devotional Poetry & Meditations, Volume 1

by Jan Howlett

To dwell in His Presence, is to cherish His Holy Word and to learn of His beauty, His character and all that He is. Jan's personal journey in discovering The Treasure of His Company will never be exhausted, but she shares some of those precious times within the pages of this heartwarming book. Whether writing or painting, her desire is to glorify her Saviour and cause others to long to get to know this wonderful... (more)

Love Walk Meditations:: Back to the Basics

Love Walk Meditations:: Back to the Basics

by Shalonda Williams

Every day, we witness a church full of people professing to know God. There are those who feel the need to let others know how long they’ve been members of their congregation. “I’ve been here since the foundation was laid. I know more about God than you do.”…“I was born in this church, so you can’t tell me anything about how ‘we’ should run it.” The idea of what God wants from us has been lost for so many... (more)

Circle of Quiet

by Madeleine L'Engle

This journal shares fruitful reflections on life and career prompted by the author's visit to her personal place of retreat near her country home.

Around the Year with Emmet Fox: A Book of Daily Readings

Around the Year with Emmet Fox: A Book of Daily Readings

by Emmet Fox

Here in this collection of 365 daily meditations lives the essence of a great spiritual teacher -- one who truly understood the wellspring of life. The keen insights I captured here speak as freshly to the everyday needs of humanity as they did the day Fox first wrote them. Culled from Fox's published and unpublished lecture notes and manuscripts, this guide for daily living also includes much-loved passages, from... (more)

A Book of Pagan Prayer

by Ceisiwr Serith

"It is you who will be talking to the gods. Be clear. Be careful in how you pray. Take care how you come before the gods. Give them your best." There are many reference books on elaborate pagan rituals but never - until now - a guide to the most basic of practices: prayers and offerings. A Book of Pagan Prayer provides the pagan community a comprehensive and thoughtful selection of prayers - and shows readers... (more)

Markings

by Dag Hammarskjo?ld

A book of meditations. A revealing spiritual self-portrait by one of the great peacmakers of our times. Maturity: Among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play who takes it for granted that he is at one with his playmates. Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions. The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the... (more)

The Book of Jewish Values: A Day-by-Day Guide to Ethical Living

The Book of Jewish Values: A Day-by-Day Guide to Ethical Living

by Joseph Telushkin

In The Book of Jewish Values , Rabbi Joseph Telushkin has combed the Bible, the Talmud, and the whole spectrum of Judaism's sacred writings to give us a manual on how to lead a decent, kind, and honest life in a morally complicated world. Telushkin speaks to the major ethical issues of our time, issues that have, of course, been around since the beginning. He offers one or two pages a day of pithy, wise, and... (more)

The Road to San Giovanni (Vintage International)

The Road to San Giovanni (Vintage International)

by Italo Calvino

A major testament by an essential 20th century writer composed of five strikingly elegant "memory exercises" about his life and work--now available in paperback. With visionary passion, the author traces pieces of his childhood and adolescence, his experiences during WWII, and more. "Storytelling at its best."--Chicago Tribune.

Love Set Free: Meditations on the Passion According to JohnMartin L Smith SSJE

Love Set Free: Meditations on the Passion According to John

by Martin Lee Smith

Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

by Henri J. M. Nouwen

This spiritual classic began as a simple request from one friend to another. Fred Bratman, a secular journalist and writer, asked friend and reowned author Heri Nouwen to write a book explaining the spiritual life in terms that he and his friends could understand, avoiding theology and technical language. "Speak to us about a vision larger than our changing perpectives and about a voice deeper than the clamorings... (more)

Our Greatest Gift: Meditation on Dying and Caring, A

Our Greatest Gift: Meditation on Dying and Caring, A

by Henri J. M. Nouwen

One of the best-loved spiritual writers of our time takes a moving, personal look at human mortality.As he shares his own experiences with aging, loss, grief, and fear, Nouwen gently and eloquently reveals the gifts that the living and dying can give to one another.

Descartes: Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Meditations on First Philosophy; Objctions against the Meditations and Replies; The Geometry. Spinoza: Ethics (Great Books of the Western World, 31)

Descartes: Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Meditations on First Philosophy; Objctions against the Meditations and Replies; The Geometry. Spinoza: Ethics (Great Books of the Western World, 31)

by Rene Descartes, Bernard Arthur Owen Williams, Donald A. Cress

This authoritative translation by John Cottingham of the Meditations is taken from the much acclaimed three-volume Cambridge edition of the Philosophical Writings of Descartes. It is based on the best available texts and presents Descartes' central metaphysical writings in clear, readable modern English.

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by Anthony De Mello

by Melody Beattie

by A. S. L. Farquharson, Marcus Cornelius Fronto, Gregory Hays, R. B. Rutherford, Marcus Aurelius, George Long, Aurelius Marcus, G. M. A. Grube

by Shakti Gawain

by Andrew Frothingham

by Shalonda "Treasure" Williams

by Jan Howlett

A Collection of Devotional Poetry & Meditations, Volume 1

by Jan Howlett

by Shalonda Williams

by Madeleine L'Engle

by Emmet Fox

by Ceisiwr Serith

by Dag Hammarskjo?ld

by Joseph Telushkin

by Italo Calvino

by Martin Lee Smith

by Henri J. M. Nouwen

by Henri J. M. Nouwen

by Rene Descartes, Bernard Arthur Owen Williams, Donald A. Cress