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In times of uncertainty and suffering, finding joy and gratefulness
in daily life is challenging. Wake Up Grateful provides a practical
and inspiring roadmap to making grateful living a daily practice,
with guiding principles, reflective questions, affirmations, and
exercises. Drawing from her own cancer experience along with her
life work with The Network for Grateful Living, Kristi Nelson
explores how to develop gratefulness as a way of being. She
examines ten core areas where many people need support and guides
readers in finding presence and perspective in these aspects of
life, opening to greater possibilities, and uncovering the
abundance and love that's possible in every moment.
Take a journey by map through your inner landscape to discover a
life of awe, enchantment, and radical aliveness * Explains how
experiencing awe and wonder can transform our lives, leading us to
feel more satisfied, peaceful, and open to others * Offers
contemporary and time-honored practices--from mindfulness to
dreamwork and working with plants--that help you reconnect with
Nature and your imagination, open your heart, and find vitality and
enchantment * Explores ways of examining and embracing our shadow,
deepening our relationships, and creating meaningful personal
rituals Where Wonder Lives invites you on a journey, an expedition
through your own inner landscape to reawaken to the mystery of
life. The travels are by way of an imaginary map through 9 distinct
territories. In each, you explore the terrain, then are led to a
rich set of contemporary and time-honored practices--from
mindfulness to dreamwork, cloudscapes, and working with
plants--that help you rebuild a life of vitality, connection, and
enchantment. There is no prescribed order in which to explore the
map. Rather, the invitation is to begin at the territory that calls
to you, or perhaps that which is most challenging. Each territory
reflects and amplifies the others, and you will instinctively
arrive at the practices that you need most. The Jungle delves into
our original deep kinship with Nature and helps you rekindle your
inner wildness. The Garden takes you on a journey through your
senses, and the River unfurls your imagination. The Mountaintop
presents a bird's-eye view of your life, while the Swamp delves
into your inner shadow and delivers gold. The Village helps us
deepen our bonds and relationships, the Lighthouse teaches us to
quiet our minds, and the Fire inspires us to create meaningful
ceremonies and personal rituals. The Ocean looks into the
topography of the heart and offers practices to awaken the heart's
most powerful emotions: awe, joy, compassion, gratitude, and love,
the mother of them all. Throughout the journey you are immersed in
a world of wonder and awe, discovering new possibilities for
learning and expansion in ordinary life. Face to face with the
mystery of life, Where Wonder Lives makes you feel at once both
infinitely small and part of a vast, unfathomable universe--all
while helping you to see the world anew.
Music of Silence shows how to incorporate the sacred meaning of
monastic living into everyday life by following the natural rhythm
of the hours of the day. The book tells how mindfulness and prayer
can reconnect us with the sources of joy. An invitation to join in
quiet ecstasy, to rediscover sacred rhythms. Jack Kornfield, author
of A Path with Heart
The Porallel Sayings; No matter how different the world's religions
appear, at their core are universal messages that transcend time,
culture and faith. This book reveals the parallel sayings of two
orthe world's greatest spititual teachers-Jesus and LaoTzu (the
father of taoism and author of The Tao Te Ching). Side by side,
page after page the parallels are presented with minimal clarifying
explanation so readers can witness the striking similaries between
the teachings and meditate on their shared message. In series that
began with Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings; Offers the first
comprehensive collection of parallel sayings from Jesus and Lao Tzu
ever compiled; Offers evidence of a universally shared spirituality
-- a hot trend in modern religion; Written and formatted in an
enlightening, straightforward fashion for lay readers, not
academics; Jesus and Lao Tzu briefly explores the origins of these
amazing parallels. it looks at the lives of the two great teachers
and the traditions that they belonged to as well as the religions
they creared.Westerners unfamiliar with The Tao Te Ching are
provided with a short, clear explanation of its signiticance and
place in the culture of the East. However the core of-the book is
the parallels. Many passages exhibit remarkably similar sentiments
and language, often using the same metaphors. They are then divided
into a number of sections, each beginning with a brief look at the
religious and historical importance of that particular set of
parallels: Humility, love and Forgiveness, Materialism and Wealth,
innocence and Simpiicity, as well as Hypocrisy and Violence. Like
the teachings it voices, the book is both simple and profound.
Reveals how psychedelics can facilitate spiritual development and
direct encounters with the sacred • With contributions by Albert
Hofmann, Huston Smith, Stanislav Grof, Charles Tart, Alexander
“Sasha” Shulgin, Brother David Steindl-Rast, and many others
• Includes personal accounts of Walter Pahnke’s Good Friday
Experiment as well as a 25-year follow-up with its participants
Modern organized religion is based predominantly on secondary
religious experience--we read about others’ extraordinary
spiritual encounters with God but have no direct experience
ourselves. Yet there exist powerful sacraments to help us directly
experience the sacred, to help us seek out the meaning of being
human and our place in the universe, and to help us see the sacred
in the world that surrounds us. In this book, more than 25
spiritual leaders, scientists, and psychedelic visionaries examine
how we can return to the primary spiritual encounters at the basis
of all religions through the guided use of psychedelics. With
contributions by Albert Hofmann, Huston Smith, Stanislav Grof,
Charles Tart, Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin, Brother David
Steindl-Rast, Myron Stolaroff, and many others, this book explores
protocols for ceremonial and spiritual use of psychedelics,
including LSD, psilocybin, ayahuasca, and MDMA, and the challenges
of transforming entheogenic insights into enduring change. It
examines psychoactive sacraments in the Bible, myths surrounding
the use of LSD, and the transformative ayahuasca rituals of Santo
Daime. The book also includes personal accounts of Walter
Pahnke’s Good Friday Experiment as well as a 25-year follow-up
with its participants.
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