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As we evolve, so do our prayers; as our prayers evolve, so do
we. This is the evolution of illumination, the collective voice of
the soul of the world.
"How Do You Pray?" was born from a vision in which Celeste
Yacoboni was told to ask the world, "How Do You Pray?" She reached
out to leading spiritual, shamanic, scientific teachers, guides,
and activists and asked for their response. Culled from those
responses is an original and deeply personal collection of essays.
Talking intimately and candidly about how they pray, these
personalities encourage the reader to contemplate the intention of
prayer in their own life.
This collection speaks to the reader's heart and asks "What is
your soul's expression? How do you dance in ecstasy, bare your soul
to the divine? Bow in gratitude? Merge with nature? Cry out for
guidance? How do you pray?"
This groundbreaking and moving book gathers responses from
leaders of diverse spiritual and religious traditions ranging from
Buddhism to Islam to Christianity, as well as those who do not
claim one or any particular walk of faith. Contributors include
Brother David Steindl-Rast, Matthew Fox, James O'Dea, Llewellyn
Vaughan-Lee, Tessa Bielecki, Lama Surya Das, Hank Wesselman, Father
Bede Griffiths, Byron Katie, Joan Halifax, Normandi Ellis, Andrew
Harvey, Dan Millman, Kristena Prater, Nicki Scully, Mirabai Starr,
and more.
This book is a beautiful gift package with matte laminate cover
and red ribbon.
"Ablaze with passion for the one essential task of the monk:
total inner transformation." --Brother David Stendl-Rast
"Libraries offering titles on mysticism, inner transformation,
or dealing with grief will find this a unique and welcome
addition."--"Library Journal"
This powerful book, written by an Episcopal priest, tells of her
intense relationship with Brother Raphael Robin, a seventy-year-old
Trappist monk and hermit. Both believed that a relationship can
continue beyond this life, and here Cynthia Bourgeault describes
her search for that connection before and after Robin's death.
Bourgeault's previous books include "The Wisdom Jesus" and
"Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening."
The talks presented in this volume, first published in 1977, were
originally delivered during a retreat in New York, in which
speakers from a variety of spiritual traditions were represented.
It aims to show the value of yoga in everyday life, and its
relation to many other religions and philosophies.
The talks presented in this volume, first published in 1977, were
originally delivered during a retreat in New York, in which
speakers from a variety of spiritual traditions were represented.
It aims to show the value of yoga in everyday life, and its
relation to many other religions and philosophies.
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.
Spiritual teacher and bridge-builder Brother David Steindl-Rast
translates the Apostles' Creed for today, uncovering the deeper
universal truths that can be an inspiration to all people.
In "Deeper than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed," Brother David
reexamines the words with which the early followers of Jesus
summarized their faith. Reading line-by-line with an open
perspective, he reveals the often overlooked message of trust,
compassion, peace, love, and awareness contained in this widely
known but rarely examined statement.
"Deeper than Words" moves beyond ritual and exclusivity and
instead finds a deeper faith based in real human experience and the
sense of limitless belonging that is shared by all people who seek
to understand themselves and the world. The words of the Apostles'
Creed are Christian, but its heart is a universal and timeless
guide to fullness of life. From this transformation perspective,
developed over a lifetime of contemplation, Brother David presents
a powerful call to renewal through reconnection with the spiritual
and a reawakening to shared sacred truths.
Through his books and appearances, Brother David Steindl-Rast has
shared the blessings of the thankful heart with millions. In this
uncommon writing journal, he invites us to find greater depth and
richness amid our daily challenges and burdens. These inspiring
pages will help to spark our own thankfulness, transform our
"dismissible" moments into fresh delights, dance with both the
light and dark, and merge with the natural world and with others.
"The mystic is not a special kind of human being," writes Brother
David, "rather, every human being is a special kind of mystic." No
matter how ordinary we might feel, May Cause Happiness is sure to
invoke the joy within us as it reveals portals to the extraordinary
all around us.
Through anecdotes, scripture references, and teachings from both
traditions, this book compiles the thoughts of a world-renowned
Buddhist who points to mindfulness as an integral part of all
religious practice and teaches how to cultivate it in life.
Exploring the spiritual crossroads where the traditions of
Christianity and Buddhism meet, this work reawakens the
understanding of the connection between them. A traves de
anecdotas, referencias de los textos y la ensenanza de ambas
tradiciones, este libro contiene las ensenanzas de un budista
famoso que demuestra que ser consciente es una parte integral de
toda practica religiosa y ensena como cultivarlo en la vida.
Mientras explora la interseccion espiritual entre las tradiciones
del cristianismo y budismo, esta obra renueva el entendimiento de
la conexion entre ambas.
Each meditation in this volume reflects what the author calls "the
spiritual work of our time"--cultivating grateful living, the key
to joy. The selections explore the broad range of issues that have
been at the core of a lifetime of meditation and teaching.
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
A personal, surprising, and heart-warming book wherein two
spiritual masters of our time advance the central questions of life
and faith."Brother David Steindl-Rast and Father Anselm Grun are
figures of hope, people who by the power of their example can offer
an orientation in a world that has become too complex to
comprehend. The spirituality they radiate is an everyday thing that
is nevertheless both profound and vivid. . . . "Our conversations,
on which this book is based, could be read as a 'crash course' in
Christian spirituality. This book will be an inspiration and an aid
to spiritual life for many people of our time, whether they are
believers or not."Johannes KaupFrom the Introduction
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.
We are surrounded by treasures, so obvious, we cannot see them.
These treasures are the words of common sense passed through the
ages throughout many cultures in the form of maxims, proverbs and
wise sayings. They may be taken for granted but, upon examination,
it is clear how much wisdom they contain. Brother David
Steindl-Rast takes us on a journey of discovery by identifying the
wonder of the ordinary found in common sense. In a humble and
insightful way he illuminates the teachings that are passed from
one generation to the next. These words of common sense bring to
light the important virtues and ethics that are valued by human
beings worldwide. "When you drink from a stream, remember the
spring," says a wise Chinese proverb that evokes thanksgiving and
reflection. "A contented heart is a continual feast" directs a
person to look within for their happiness rather than without.
Words Of Common Sense helps to make a rewarding life possible
within the trials of everyday living as one discovers that within
the ordinary can be found the keys to living a life of meaning.
When we look to the words of common sense that are around us, we
can begin to make sense of things for ourselves. These words can
guide, illuminate, and inspire us.
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