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Bringing the Sacred to Life

Author : John Daido Loori
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834823500
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Bringing the Sacred to Life written by John Daido Loori and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zen rituals—such as chanting, bowing, lighting incense before the Buddha statue—are ways of recognizing the sacredness in all of life. A ritual is simply a deliberate and focused moment that symbolizes the care with which we should be approaching all of life, and practicing the Zen liturgy is a way of cultivating this quality of attention in order to bring it to everything we do. Here, John Daido Loori demystifies the details of the Zen rituals and highlights their deeper meaning and purpose. We humans are all creatures of ritual, he teaches, whether we recognize it or not. Even if we don’t make ritual part of some religious observance, we still fall into ritual behavior, whether it be our daily grooming sequence or the way we have our morning coffee and paper. We run through our personal rituals unconsciously most of the time, but there is great value to introducing meaningful symbolic rituals into our lives and to performing them deliberately and mindfully—because the way we do ritual affects the way we live the rest of our lives. The book includes instructions for a simple Zen home liturgy, as it is practiced by students of the Mountains and Rivers Order of Zen.

Spiritual Ecology

Author : Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Publisher : The Golden Sufi Center
ISBN 13 : 1941394183
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Ecology written by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and published by The Golden Sufi Center. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritual Ecology: 10 Practices to Reawaken the Sacred in Everyday Life offers inspiring and practical guidance for reconnecting to the sacred in every day life and transforming our relationship with the Earth. Describing the power of simple, daily practices such as Walking, Gardening, Cooking with Love, and Prayer, this small book supports profound changes in how we think about and respond to the ecological crisis of our times. Our groundbreaking book, Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth, (now in its second edition)—which included spiritual perspectives on climate change, species loss, deforestation, and other aspects of our present environmental crises from renowned spiritual teachers, scientists, and indigenous leaders—drew an overwhelmingly positive reaction from readers, many of whom are asking: "What can I do?" Spiritual Ecology: 10 Practices to Reawaken the Sacred in Everyday Life answers that question with inspiring, personal anecdotes from the author—Sufi teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee—and simple practices we all can do. Rooted in the mystical foundation of the world's great spiritual traditions, with a particular connection to Sufism, these timeless practices remind readers of our deep connections to life, each other, and the Earth, and invite a return of meaning to our desecrated world. As Rumi says, "there are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground," and it is this sacred ground that is calling to us, that needs our living presence, our attentiveness. This small book offers simple ways to reconnect so that we can once again feel the music, the song of our living connection with the Earth. "This small book, exquisite in its luminous simplicity, brings me home to my life. Even in a dark time, its practices center me in a sense of the sacred, our birthright." —JOANNA MACY, teacher, activist, and author of Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects “Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee's book on practices for Spiritual Ecology in everyday life awakens us to the potential to take small steps towards big transformation. It overcomes the artificial divide between nature and humans, and spirituality and action. No matter who we are, where we live, these are steps each of us can take.” —VANDANA SHIVA, activist and author “A beautiful book. Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee and Hilary Hart do a brilliant job sharing simple and powerful practices that help readers connect to the sacredness within nature, the earth, and our own daily lives.” —SANDRA INGERMAN, author, Walking in Light: The Everyday Empowerment of Shamanic Life

Sacred Passages

Author : Bert Ghezzi
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 : 9780385503402
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Passages written by Bert Ghezzi and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Passages takes an entirely new approach to the way we understand and experience the sacraments. Foregoing dry, technical explanations, Bert Ghezzi explores the meaning and benefits of the sacraments in a practical and highly personal manner. Interweaving scripture, the writings of the saints, and personal stories, Ghezzi reveals the dynamic realities that the sacraments provide believers. In chapters devoted to each of the seven sacraments--Baptism, Communion, Confirmation, Reconciliation, Marriage, Holy Orders, and the Anointing of the Sick--Ghezzi restores a sense of wonder and excitement in the sacraments and instills an understanding of what is really happening. For example, in the section devoted to Communion, the effectiveness of the sacrament is explained: The eating of the bread and wine cleanse, strengthen, and nourish the spirit. Reconciliation is seen as an opportunity for direct access to God through prayer and the continued participation in Christ's ministry. Each chapter includes practical teachings on applying the grace of the sacraments in daily life, inspiring believers to participate fully in all the stages and important moments of the Christian life, from birth, growth, and coming-of-age, through vocation and service, and finally to death. One of America's most popular writers on topics of interest to Catholics, Ghezzi's engaging prose, easy-to-understand explanations, and thoughtful insights offer readers a life-changing vision of the role of the sacraments, and helps them experience the practical and spiritual rewards of each sacred passage.

Bringing the Sacred to Life

Author : John Daido Loori
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1590305337
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Call to Connection

Author : Carole Kammen
Publisher : Commune-a-Key Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9781881394204
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (942 download)

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Book Synopsis Call to Connection by : Carole Kammen

Download or read book Call to Connection written by Carole Kammen and published by Commune-a-Key Pub.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores ways to bring ancient values to our contemporary lifestyles. It offers simple tools for community building with family, friends, intimate relationships, in the workplace, and with the self.

Sacred Dying

Author : Megory Anderson
Publisher : Marlowe & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781569244340
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Dying written by Megory Anderson and published by Marlowe & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author instructs readers in the art of dying, providing useful advice on how to create rituals around death that encourage sacredness and spirituality, while exploring difficult questions surrounding the act of dying and attendant care and offering thoughtful rituals and prayers to support the needs of the dying while comforting the living. Reprint.

Sacred Time

Author : Christine Valters Paintner
Publisher : Sorin Books
ISBN 13 : 9781932057225
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Time written by Christine Valters Paintner and published by Sorin Books. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world where there never seems to be enough time for all we want and need to do. In Sacred Time: Embracing an Intentional Way of Life, Christine Valters Paintner guides us as we move beyond our own lives and embrace a world that urges us toward rest, reflection, and growth. In Sacred Time, Paintner, abbess of the online Abbey of the Arts, shows us how by becoming in tune with the rhythms of the natural world, we can live more intentionally and experience a conversion toward a more expansive way of being. Paintner introduces us to the eight cycles of sacred time that exist in our everyday lives. These cycles that can ground us through our busy lives are breath, rhythms of the day, weekly rhythms and Sabbath rest, waxing and waning lunar cycles, seasons of the year, seasons of a lifetime, ancestral time, and cosmic time. Each cycle encourages us to mindfully consider the time that passes as quickly as each breath and as slowly as the passing of generations. Within each cycle, we find wisdom from sacred tradition and the saints, including St. Benedict, St. Ignatius of Loyola, and St. Hildegard of Bingen; room for growth; and the presence of the Divine. Along the way, we are also given scriptural guidance, and we are invited to spiritual practices and creative explorations that will help deepen our understanding of each cycle, allow that understanding to take root in our lives, and expand our lives beyond the pressures of each da

The Way of Silence

Author : David Steindl-Rast
Publisher : Franciscan Media
ISBN 13 : 1632530171
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book The Way of Silence written by David Steindl-Rast and published by Franciscan Media. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The tranquility of order is a dynamic tranquility, the stillness of a flame burning in perfect calm, of a wheel spinning so fast that it seems to stand still. Silence in this sense is not only a quality of the environment, but primarily an attitude, an attitude of listening. " Let us give to one another that gift of silence, so that we can listen together and listen to one another. Only in this silence will we be able to hear that gentle breath of peace, that music to which the spheres dance, that universal harmony to which we, too, hope to dance." Austrian-born Benedictine monk David Steindl-Rast is one of the most influential and beloved spiritual teachers of our time. For decades, Brother David has divided his time between periods of monastic life at the Mount Saviour Monastery in New York and extensive lecture tours on five continents. He has brought spiritual depth into the lives of countless people, whom he touches through his lectures, his workshops and his writings. Brother David was one of the first Roman Catholics to participate in Buddhist-Christian dialogue, studying under Zen teachers and building bridges between religious traditions. His newest book, The Way of Silence, draws heavily on Buddhist teachings to cultivate the practice of “deep” listening: turning away from noise and distraction, paying attention, and embracing quiet. The Way of Silence embraces paradox: absence versus presence in silence. Dynamic tranquility. The all-oneness of aloneness. Humbly, trusting in God, you’ll practice emptying your mind in order to receive wisdom, insight, and understanding. You’ll learn to listen deeply, with a trusting heart—and you’ll joyously discover a new, interior freedom that will make you feel more vibrant, and more fully alive.

Seeking the Sacred

Author : Roméo Dallaire
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1550227246
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Seeking the Sacred written by Roméo Dallaire and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking from experience--where things can go wrong and wrongs can remain unrighted--the five modern thinkers in this collection offer ways to maintain a spiritual life outside of a strictly religious context. (Practical Life)

A Cup of Sunlight

Author : Juliet Batten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781869416775
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book A Cup of Sunlight written by Juliet Batten and published by . This book was released on 2005-02-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing guidance and practical help for discovering a sense of the sacred in the midst of our daily lives, opening us up to creative renewal, better relationships, improved health, spiritual growth and a deeper sense of meaning. The author relates her personal quest for the sacred, as well as bringing in examples from other New Zealanders. She covers subjects as diverse as how to create sanctuary, connection with others, and ways to restore hope when catastrophe strikes. Simply told in lucid prose that breathes with light, A Cup of Sunlight may be used as a practical workbook or enjoyed as an inspiring read. It is a must for anyone seeking integration, balance and a deeper sense of purpose in a busy life. The book will especially speak to: * Those whose lives have become mundane, over-stressed and lacking in meaning or vitality. * Those who are already on a spiritual path who wish to integrate their practices more fully into their daily lives. * Those who would like to share the values of connectedness, spirituality, caring, creativity, and full enjoyment of life with children. Juliet Batten is a well-known psychotherapist, writer and artist. She has taught extensively in the areas of creativity, ritual and personal growth, and has had a private psychotherapy practice in Auckland for fourteen years. She has meditated for 22 years and is a meditation teacher and trainer. Previous publications include Power from Within, Celebrating the Southern Seasons, Rituals for Aotearoa, Releasing the Artist Within, The Visual Diary, and more.

This Sacred Life

Author : Norman Wirzba
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316515648
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book This Sacred Life written by Norman Wirzba and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Sacred Life redescribes the meaning of this world and the value and purpose of human life within it.

Holistic Spaces

Author : Anjie Cho
Publisher : Ryland Peters & Small
ISBN 13 : 1782497730
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Holistic Spaces written by Anjie Cho and published by Ryland Peters & Small. This book was released on 2018-12-06 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transform your home into a calm, balanced and harmonious oasis using architect Anjie Cho's helpful advice, drawing on her background in green design and feng shui. You don't have to get rid of all your possessions and become an ascetic to change your space and discover the benefits that living in a considered, organic way can bring. The easy suggestions in Holistic Spaces show you how to implement the principles of feng shui and green design in your home. Written for the way we live today, as we move toward a more mindful approach to health, diet and the way that we choose the objects in our homes, this is the perfect guide to help you to clear and refresh your living environment. Learn how to make every room in your home serve its highest purpose, create eco-friendly spaces, bring nature indoors, choose colours for maximum impact, select a space for meditation practice, and overall, create a peaceful and organic home. From the bedroom to the home office, these intuitive, straightforward tips will teach you to how improve your spaces to boost the flow of energy through your life.

Suffering Is Optional

Author : Gail Brenner
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
ISBN 13 : 168403017X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Suffering Is Optional written by Gail Brenner and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you struggle with self‐defeating thoughts and feelings of inadequacy, you are not alone. We’ve all felt inadequate, believing that we’re broken or otherwise unworthy. But this doesn’t have to be a life sentence. Presenting four guiding principles and five core practices based in deep spiritual wisdom, Suffering Is Optional reveals how to liberate yourself from the prison of false self‐beliefs holding you back. Millions of people feel that they are not good enough. They may struggle every day, seeing themselves as deficient, pathetic, or damaged, and destined to fail. They convince themselves they aren’t worthy of love or respect, and view themselves with self-hatred. When you believe and cling to painful, self-defeating thoughts like “I can’t do it,” “It won’t work,” or “I’m a loser,” they become your personal reality—and the more you repeat them, the more you believe them, until they come to define you. Sadly, these limiting self-definitions lead to even more pain and suffering: hidden shame, problems in relationships, opportunities lost, and a life not fully lived. In Suffering Is Optional, clinical psychologist Gail Brenner offers practical ways to discover that you are not what your thoughts tell you you are. Rather than showing you how to become a better version of yourself, this book goes straight to the heart of the problem—that you’ve mistakenly identified yourself as broken and undeserving—to guide you out of these limiting thoughts and into an investigation of the nature of reality that ultimately liberates you from your suffering. With these exercises, experiments, reflections, practices, and inspiring stories, you’ll have a spiritual solution to your personal problem of limitation and self-sabotage. Using the four guiding principles and five core practices presented in this book—including turning toward direct experience, grounding in aware presence, losing interest in thoughts, welcoming feelings, and the sacred return to presence—you’ll be able to shed your false identity and wake up to the inherent peace and happiness that is available to you in any given moment.

Sacred Rhythms

Author : Ruth Haley Barton
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830878297
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Rhythms written by Ruth Haley Barton and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picking up on the monastic tradition of creating a "rule of life" that allows for regular space for the practice of spiritual disciplines, Ruth Haley Barton takes you more deeply into understanding seven key spiritual disciplines along with practical ideas for weaving them into everyday life.

Invitation to Retreat

Author : Ruth Haley Barton
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830873937
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Invitation to Retreat written by Ruth Haley Barton and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we choose retreat we make a generous investment in our friendship with Christ. Seasoned spiritual director Ruth Haley Barton gently and eloquently leads us into an exploration of retreat as a key practice that opens us to God, guiding us through seven invitations to retreat. You will discover how to say yes to God's winsome invitation to greater freedom and surrender.

This Sacred Moment

Author : Albert Haase, OFM
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830868348
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book This Sacred Moment written by Albert Haase, OFM and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be a holy person? The answer might surprise you. This delightful yet challenging book from spiritual director Albert Haase provides practical wisdom for becoming holy--right in the midst of "ordinary" life. With brief, engaging chapters that include a few reflection questions, this book is designed to fit into our full lives.

Transform Your Life Through Sacred Geometry

Author : Ivan Rados
Publisher : Namaste Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781897238448
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Transform Your Life Through Sacred Geometry written by Ivan Rados and published by Namaste Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many struggle to reach enlightenment, Ivan Rados believes that everyone has the capacity to experience the state of freedom from the illusionary egoic mind, without all of the struggle. This capacity is realized not by following rules, performing rituals, or imitating enlightened masters, but by bringing awareness to the mind’s attachments. Through his stunning yantras and clear explanations, Rados offers a simple way to still the mind and become deeply aware of the Infinite Consciousness at the heart of one's own being. The included yantras feature Rados's stellar artwork which flows from his profoundly rich experience of present moment awareness. The 52 yantras match the number of weeks in the year, offering a variety of ways to use the cards for the development of divine consciousness, along with tips for gaining specific insight and guidance. Topics range from the pitfalls of the ego and its mindset to discovering peace and harmony, confronting fears, facing insecurities, seeking guidance, and experiencing fulfilling relationships.