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Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1989
Physical Desc
255 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the evolution of man from a species that pursues external power, power based upon the perceptions of the five senses, into a species that pursues authentic power, power based upon spiritual perceptions and values.
Author
Series
Publisher
Felony & Mayhem
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Felony & Mayhem ed.
Physical Desc
412 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the charming Master of a New Age commune is prematurely transported into the Other World, a riotous murder takes off. It's up to Chief Inspector Barnaby and Sergeant Troy to sort through the tangled relationships.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
293 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It wasn't the rain that upset Carole Seddon during her walk on the West Sussex Downs, nor was it the dilapidated barn in which she sought shelter. What upset her was the human skeleton she discovered there, neatly packed into two blue fertilizer bags. Thus begins the mystery for strait-laced Carole and her more laid-back neighbor Jude, whose investigation takes them to the small hamlet of Weldisham. There gossips quickly identify the corpse as Tamsin...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 278 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In his follow-up to Full Catastrophe Living--a book in which he presented basic meditation techniques as a way of reducing stress and healing from illness--here Jon Kabat-Zinn goes much more deeply into the practice of meditation for its own sake."
Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xiv, 400 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Terry Patten asserts that we are living at the center of a multidimensional and radical revolution. Recasting current problems as emergent opportunities, he points out humans' natural tendency to evolve during periods of acute crisis and offers creative responses, practices, and conscious conversations for tackling the profound inner and outer work we must do to build an integral future. In this book for seekers and change agents, Terry Patten makes...
6) Daring greatly: how the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on twelve years of research, thought leader Dr. Brené Brown argues that vulnerability is not weakness, but rather our clearest path to courage, engagement, and meaningful connection.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris's new book is a guide to meditation as a rational spiritual practice informed by neuroscience and psychology. Waking Up is for the 30 percent of Americans who follow no religion, but who suspect that Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and the other saints and sages of history could not have all been epileptics, schizophrenics, or frauds. Throughout the book, Harris argues...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
Lamott explores how we find meaning and peace when life lurches out of balance; where we start again after personal and public devastation; how we recapture wholeness after loss; and how we locate our true identities in this frazzled age. We begin, Lamott says, by collecting the ripped shreds of our emotional and spiritual fabric and sewing them back together, one stitch at a time.
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Language
English
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Description
The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.
"What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on...11) The secret
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
The worldwide bestselling phenomenon that has helped millions tap the power of the law that governs all our lives to create—intentionally and effortlessly—a joyful life.
In 2006, a groundbreaking feature-length film revealed the great mystery of the universe—The Secret—and, later that year, Rhonda Byrne followed with a book that became a worldwide bestseller.
Fragments of a Great Secret have been found...
In 2006, a groundbreaking feature-length film revealed the great mystery of the universe—The Secret—and, later that year, Rhonda Byrne followed with a book that became a worldwide bestseller.
Fragments of a Great Secret have been found...
12) Practicing the power of now: essential teachings, meditations, and exercises from The Power of Now
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eckhart Tolle is rapidly emerging as one of the world's most inspiring spiritual teachers, sharing the enlightenment he himself experienced after a startling personal transformation. His views go beyond any particular religion, doctrine, or guru. This book extracts the essence from his teachings in The Power of Now, showing us how to free ourselves from "enslavement to the mind." The aim is to be able to enter into and sustain an awakened state of...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Anne Lamott's new book, she confronts the harsh truth that many of us grapple with every day: How can we recapture the confidence we once had in the world and in the future as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad news piles up every day -- from climate crises to threats to democracy to daily assaults on civility -- how can we mere mortals cope? Where, Lamott asks, "do we start to get our joy and hope and our faith...
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Language
English
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Description
"A child of the '50's, Sas Carey was raised to marry and rear children. She did that, but with the care and morals shared by her parents, along with a lust for life, learned she could follow her own path, strewn with heartache, yet leading to transcendence. Her story is one of empowerment. In overcoming expectations, Sas becomes a healer of body and soul, learning that she need not devote herself to a single person to substantiate herself."
Sas...
Sas...
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Language
English
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Description
In The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra distills the essence of his teachings into seven simple yet powerful principles that can easily be applied to create success in all areas of your life. Based on natural laws that govern all of creation, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success shatters the myth that success is the result of hard work, exacting plans, or driving ambition. Instead, Deepak Chopra offers a life-altering perspective on the...
16) Greenlights
Author
Language
English
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Description
"I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to...
Author
Language
English
Description
Like many others, around the time Elizabeth Gilbert turned 30, she went through an early-onslaught midlife crisis. Although she had everything an educated, ambitious American woman was supposed to want, including a husband, a home, and a successful career as a magazine writer, she was consumed with panic, grief, and confusion. This is an account of her yearlong worldwide pursuit of pleasure, spiritual devotion, guidance, and what she really wanted...
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents advice on ways to free oneself from habitual thoughts, emotions, and energy patterns that limit one's consciousness
"Who are you really? What would it be like to free yourself from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to find this kind of inner peace and serenity? The Untethered Soul offers a simple, profoundly intuitive answers to these questions. Whether this is your first exploration of inner space, or...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Life, like a poem, is a series of choices." In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman's personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist...
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