Author: Daphne Athas
Publisher: e-reads.com
Keywords: ephesus, entering
Number of Pages: 468
Published: 1971-12-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0759205523
ISBN-13: 9780759205529
This novel, about three school-aged sisters, originally published by Viking Press 20 years ago, was hailed by the critics, made Time magazines Ten Best Fiction List in 1971, and won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction in 1972. A British edition by Chatto and Windus in 1972 was equally praised, as the following review excerpt attests: As formulas for happiness go, theres a lot to be said for shared adversity; and if this can be enriched with a touch of group paranoia, so much the happier for one and all. Hence, when in 1939 the Bishop family have to leave their loved and lovely house on th
Author: Rikki Ducornet
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Keywords: fire, entering
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0872863557
ISBN-13: 9780872863552
This startling and brilliantly comic novel tells the stories of two men: a father and his estranged son. Lamprias de Bergerac is a gentle mystic and amateur botanist who spends his middle-aged years in an erotic utopia deep in the Amazonian jungle, collecting specimens of rare orchids and ultimately finding Cucla, the young and free-spirited native woman who has become the love of his life. Meanwhile, his demented son Septimus is raised by his mother in prewar Europe, seething with hatred of the father who abandoned him. He rises to power in Nazi-occupied France, where he goes mad in an obsess
Author: Stratford Caldecott
Publisher: The Crossroad Publishing Company
Keywords: god, mysteries, entering, sacraments, seven
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0824523768
ISBN-13: 9780824523763
A bold new elegant invitation to enter into the mysteries of the Christian faith. This graceful book explains to Catholics and non-Catholics alike the mystical heart of the Catholic faith: the Seven Sacraments.
Author: Eckhart Tolle
Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
Keywords: series, teaching, power, entering
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1591790980
ISBN-13: 9781591790983
Bestselling author Eckhart Tolle has captivated nearly a million readers with his lessons on discovering the profound state of being he calls "presence". On Entering the Now, an all-new title in the "Power of Now" teaching series, this remarkable speaker shares practices and insights to take listeners into "the timeless dimension" a luminous place found only in this very moment that transcends the struggles and anxiety of our busy lives. A walk in nature. A personal crisis. A moment of laughter. These can all serve as "portals" that lead us to the depth and wonder of the Now. In two c
Author: Hua-Ching Ni
Publisher: Shambhala
Keywords: cultivation, guidance, master, tao, entering
Number of Pages: 158
Published: 1997
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1570621616
ISBN-13: 9781570621611
Taoist Master Hua-Ching Ni uses straightforward language and personal experiences, as well as traditional stories and teachings of the ancient masters, to impart the wisdom of Taoism, the Heavenly Way. Master Ni emphasizes that it is important to first establish a good understanding of basic spiritual principles and then begin to realize this wisdom in daily life.
Author: Jane Hirshfield
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: poetry, mind, entering, gates, nine
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0060929480
ISBN-13: 9780060929480
A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays. Nine Gates begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in "the mind of concentration" and concludes by exploring the writer’s role in creating a sense of community that is open, inclusive and able to bind the individual and the whole in a way that allows each full self-expression. in between, Nine Gates illumines the nature of originality, translation, the various strategies by which meaning unfol
Author: C. W. McPherson
Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
Keywords: entering, stillness, practices, christian, silence, keeping
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2002-10-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 081921910X
ISBN-13: 9780819219107
C.W. McPherson explores the positive effects that practicing silence has on body, soul, and mind. He provides historical background and easy-to-follow instructions for a variety of Christian practices. Among the practices included are Benedictine rumination, psalm repetition, the Jesus prayer, Ignatian meditation, meditation on icons or candles, walking the labyrinth or the Stations of the Cross, and more. This book is written to be used by individuals or groups.
