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Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Mind, body, spirit: thought & practice > Meditation
Translated by renowned Rumi expert Nader Khalili, over 120 poems
about love from the Persian mystic poet and Sufi master have been
carefully collected and curated in this beautifully illustrated
edition. For more than eight centuries, Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi
Rumi-commonly referred to simply as Rumi-has enchanted and
enthralled readers from every faith and background with his
universal themes of love, friendship, and spirituality, which he
seamlessly wove into resplendent poetry. The verses herein
perfectly express and are centered on the theme of love, along with
the quest, desire, and deeper meanings of love for not only
ourselves, but also of our fellow humankind. The Sweetheart the
sweetheart who is blocking my sleep demands tears on my knees
throwing me silently into the waves changing the water to liquid
sweet With intricately designed and richly colored covers that
mirror the beauty of the words within, the Timeless Rumi series
presents themed collections of poems from the great Sufi mystic
Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi that serve as cherished tools for
self-reflection.
The Comfort Book is a collection of consolations learned in hard times
and suggestions for making the bad days better. Drawing on maxims,
memoir and the inspirational lives of others, these meditations offer
new ways of seeing ourselves and the world.
This is the book to pick up when you need the wisdom of a friend, the
comfort of a hug or a reminder that hope comes from unexpected places.
An exquisite gem of a book, this deceptively simple technique of
contemplation can be learned in a single day, and yet it will change
your life forever. Taking us through there 3 levels of contemplation -
pausing, pivoting and merging, Richard Rudd invites us to hone the art
of contemplation in our everyday lives, to gain insight into any issue
or problem, to heal deep-seated trauma and ultimately to find peace and
clarity.
In her stunning debut, the creator of Black Liturgies weaves stories from three generations of her family alongside contemplative reflections to discover the “necessary rituals” that connect us with our belonging, dignity, and liberation.
“From the womb, we must repeat with regularity that to love ourselves is to survive. I believe that is what my father wanted for me and knew I would so desperately need: a tool for survival, the truth of my dignity named like a mercy new each morning.”
So writes Cole Arthur Riley in her unforgettable book of stories and reflections on discovering the sacred in her skin. In these deeply transporting pages, Arthur Riley reflects on the stories of her grandmother and father, and how they revealed to her an embodied, dignity-affirming spirituality, not only in what they believed but in the act of living itself. Writing memorably of her own childhood and coming to self, Arthur Riley boldly explores some of the most urgent questions of life and faith: How can spirituality not silence the body, but instead allow it to come alive? How do we honor, lament, and heal from the stories we inherit? How can we find peace in a world overtaken with dislocation, noise, and unrest? In this indelible work of contemplative storytelling, Arthur Riley invites us to descend into our own stories, examine our capacity to rest, wonder, joy, rage, and repair, and find that our humanity is not an enemy to faith but evidence of it.
At once a compelling spiritual meditation, a powerful intergenerational account, and a tender coming-of-age narrative, This Here Flesh speaks potently to anyone who suspects that our stories might have something to say to us.
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