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Tao Te Ching

Tao Te Ching

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A translation by Jonathan Star of Lao Tzu's classic work. Enjoy this wonderful wisdom that awakens us to the nature of all things!

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The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully

The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully

Not only accepting but celebrating getting old, this inspirational and illuminating work looks at the many facets of the aging process, from purposes and challenges to struggles and surprises.

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Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent: Sacred Teachings_Annotated & Explained (SkyLight Illuminations)

Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent: Sacred Teachings_Annotated & Explained (SkyLight Illuminations)

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The spiritual teachings of many faith traditions can help you step beyond the limits of any one tradition to the reality that can't be named.The fastest growing spiritual movement in the United States today is that of the religiously unaffiliated. These spiritual seekers make up 20 percent of the ad...

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The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World’s Religions

The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World’s Religions

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Drawing on experience as an interreligious monk, Brother Wayne Teasdale reveals the power of spirituality and its practical elements. He combines a profound Christian faith with an intimate understanding of ancient religious traditions.

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The Myth of Certainty…and Other Great News

The Myth of Certainty…and Other Great News

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Certainty is a myth and this is such great news. In an era of unprecedented access, opportunity and social connection, why is it so many of us are disillusioned by loneliness, frustration and lack of meaning? Could it be we’re searching for happiness in the wrong places?The Myth of Certainty read...

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Here I Stand – A Life Of Martin Luther

Here I Stand – A Life Of Martin Luther

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This early work on Martin Luther is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the life of the monk responsible for translating the Bible from Latin into German and for inspiring the Lutheran movement. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone interest...

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The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’s Final Days in Jerusalem

The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’s Final Days in Jerusalem

Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan join together to reveal a radical and little-known Jesus. As both authors reacted to and responded to questions about Mel Gibson's blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, they discovered that many Christians are unclear on the details of even...

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The Coming Interspiritual Age

The Coming Interspiritual Age

This book details the vision of interspirituality within a comprehensive and powerful synthesis of world religions and spirituality, the discoveries of modern science, and the developmental and evolutionary view of history. It is the first book to review and predict the ongoing history of world reli...

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The Religions Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained)

The Religions Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained)

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Surveying the world's religions, from Buddhism to Zoroastrianism, and providing succinct yet thought-provoking insight into the philosophy and practices of each, The Religions Book is ideal for anyone seeking to gain a better understanding of the world's religions. With intriguing artwork, flow char...

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A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

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Why does God exist? How have the three dominant monotheistic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—shaped and altered the conception of God? How have these religions influenced each other? In this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain's foremost commentators on religi...

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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

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One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rom...

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Resurrection: Myth or Reality?

Resurrection: Myth or Reality?

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Using approaches from the Hebrew interpretive tradition to discern the actual events surrounging Jesus' death, Bishop Spong questions the hitorical validity of literal narrative concerned the Ressurection. He asserts that the resurrection story was born in an experience that opened the disciples' ey...

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The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith

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How to have faith—or even think about God—without having to stifle modern rational thought is one of the most vital challenges facing many of us today. Marcus J. Borg, author of the bestselling Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, traces his personal spiritual journey to the discovery of an a...

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The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices

The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices

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In the spirit of both Eastern and Western traditions, Dr. David Simon shows how changing our mindset from commandment to personal commitment can help us make the life transformations we want and need. We were raised on the Ten CommandmentsÑand unfortunately most of us use the philosophy of "thou sh...

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Love and Living

Love and Living

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A posthumously published collection of Merton’s essays and meditations centering on the need for love in learning to live. “Love is the revelation of our deepest personal meaning, value, and identity.” Edited by Naomi Burton Stone and Brother Patrick Hart.

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The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment

The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment

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"Money is congealed energy," said Joseph Campbell. And releasing it releases life's possibilities. . . .Thousands of people worldwide have learned how to build a powerful new relationship with their money and bring their dreams to fruition through Dr. Maria Nemeth's dynamic workshops. Now you can, t...

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Openings: A Daybook of Saints, Sages, Psalms and Prayer Practices

Openings: A Daybook of Saints, Sages, Psalms and Prayer Practices

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Move closer to God one day at a time by reading the Psalms and practicing prayer in ways you may not have imagined before.This is a prayer book for every day of the year for people who don't usually think about using a prayer book. Drawing on a wide variety of resources―lives of saints and sages f...

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Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason

Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason

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New York Times best-selling author Caroline Myss draws from her years as a medical intuitive to show that healing is not only physical; it is also a mystical phenomenon that transcends reason. Inspired by ordinary people who overcame a wide array of physical and psychological ailments from rheumatoi...

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This Thing Called You

This Thing Called You

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The beloved classic that has awakened generations to the power within. One of Ernest Holmes’s cornerstone works, This Thing Called You is an intimate guide through which readers learn the important lesson of how they are an immutable part of the flow of life, and how they may fulfill the longing,...

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Finding Yourself in Transition: Using Life’s Changes for Spiritual Awakening

Finding Yourself in Transition: Using Life’s Changes for Spiritual Awakening

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Our culture offers little help in coping with and overcoming the enormous personal, social and economic changes that are occurring around us and within our lives. Finding Yourself in Transition explores the spiritual opportunities inherent in life's changes and helps us discover how to use them as ...

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The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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It's no wonder that The Power of Now has sold over 2 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 30 foreign languages. Much more than simple principles and platitudes, the book takes readers on an inspiring spiritual journey to find their true and deepest self and reach the ultimate ...

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The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring

The Active Life: A Spirituality of Work, Creativity, and Caring

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The Active Life is Parker J. Palmer's deep and graceful exploration of a spirituality for the busy, sometimes frenetic lives many of us lead. Telling evocative stories from a variety of religious traditions, including Taoist, Jewish, and Christian, Palmer shows that the spiritual life does not mean ...

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A Hidden Wholeness/The Visual World of Thomas Merton

A Hidden Wholeness/The Visual World of Thomas Merton

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A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

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A guide to reconciling Buddhist spirituality with the American way of life addresses the challenges of spiritual living in the modern world and offers guidance for bringing a sense of the sacred to everyday experience.

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The Dark Side of the Light Chasers

The Dark Side of the Light Chasers

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The bestselling, beloved classic on how to go into the dark side of yourself to bring out the light -- now with new material.Debbie Ford believes that we each hold within us a trace of every human characteristic that exists, the capacity for every human emotion. We are born with the ability to expre...

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How Can I Help?

How Can I Help?

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Not a day goes by without our being called upon to help one another--at home, at work, on the street, on the phone. . . . We do what we can. Yet so much comes up to complicate this natural response: "Will I have what it takes?" "How much is enough?" "How can I deal with suffering?" "And what real...

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Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir

Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir

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Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir is Sr. Joan Chittister's most personal and intense writing to date. Alive with the raw energy of a journal and polished with the skill of a master storyteller, each chapter is an engaging dialogue between Sr. Joan and many different wisdom sources about such to...

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Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

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The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in paperback. From thought leader Dr. Brené Brown, a transformative new vision for the way we lead, love, work, parent, and educate that teaches us the power of vulnerability. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man st...

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The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

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In The Gifts of Imperfection, Brené Brown, a leading expert on shame, authenticity, and belonging, shares ten guideposts on the power of Wholehearted living—a way of engaging with the world from a place of worthiness. Each day we face a barrage of images and messages from society and the media te...

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How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives

How Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives

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We all long to experience a sense of inner wholeness and guidance, but today's notions of healing and recovery too often keep us focused on our brokenness, on our deficiencies rather than our strengths. Wayne Muller's luminous new book gently guides us to the place where we are already perfect, alre...

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The I of the Storm: Embracing Conflict, Creating Peace

The I of the Storm: Embracing Conflict, Creating Peace

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In this book we learn to go beyond merely managing the conflict in our lives to actually embracing the conflict, allowing it to teach us what we otherwise might not learn. This process leads to peacemaking ... whether it be within ourselves, in our relationships, or as a result of outside circumstan...

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Entering the Castle: Finding the Inner Path to God and Your Soul’s Purpose

Entering the Castle: Finding the Inner Path to God and Your Soul’s Purpose

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Internationally renowned motivational teacher and popular theologian Caroline Myss has created a transcendent work of unique insight and revelation in Entering the Castle. A highly original inner path to self-knowledge, the Castle is also the road to spiritual knowledge of God and your own soul. In ...

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Jesus, CEO: Using Ancient Wisdom for Visionary Leadership

Jesus, CEO: Using Ancient Wisdom for Visionary Leadership

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Following the example of Jesus, a "CEO" who built a disorganized "staff" of twelve into a thriving enterprise, a handbook for corporate success details a fresh, profound approach to motivating and managing others that translates to any business.

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Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

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You are not doomed by your genes and hardwired to be a certain way for the rest of your life. A new science is emerging that empowers all human beings to create the reality they choose. In Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, renowned author, speaker, researcher, and chiropractor Dr. Joe D...

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I and Thou, by Martin Buber

I and Thou, by Martin Buber

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2010 Reprint of 1937 American Edition. "I and Thou", perhaps Buber's most famous work, was first published in 1923, and translated to English in 1937. Buber's main proposition is that we may address existence in two ways: [1] that of the "I" towards an "It", towards an object that is separate in its...

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Love You Forever

Love You Forever

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A young woman holds her newborn sonAnd looks at him lovingly. Softly she sings to him: "I'll love you forever I'll like you for always As long as I'm living My baby you'll be." So begins the story that has touched the hearts of millions worldwide. Since publication in l986, Love You Forever has sold...

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In the Flow of Life

In the Flow of Life

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The inlet and outlet of the infinite flow of God are within you. With extraordinary clarity, Eric Butterworth reveals life-transforming spiritual principles to keep you in the flow.Getting into the flow of life allows you to:Live life from within-out.Heal yourself by altering your consciousness.Rece...

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Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now

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Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time, shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this best-selling spiritual classic. This is Maya Angelou talking from the heart, down to earth and real, but also inspiring. This is a book to treasured, a book about being in all ways a woman, about ...

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No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

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The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. In No Mud, No Lotus, Thich Nhat Hanh offers practices and inspiration transforming suffering and finding true joy.Thich Nhat Hanh acknowledges that because suffering can feel so bad, we try to run away from ...

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Man’s Search for Meaning

Man’s Search for Meaning

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When Beacon Press first published Man's Search for Meaning in 1959, Carl Rogers called it "one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years." In the thirty-three years since then, this book - at once a memoir, a self-help book, and a psychology manual - has becom...

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Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

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New York Times-bestselling author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult days and the hardships of daily life.Readers of all ages have followed and cherished Anne Lamott’s funny and perceptive writing about her own faith through decades...

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To Lead Is To Serve: How to Attract Volunteers & Keep Them

To Lead Is To Serve: How to Attract Volunteers & Keep Them

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To Lead Is to Serve is about a quick and easy way to transform a group of volunteers into a thriving organization.Organizations have increased volunteers as much as 500% using this book. Triple your membership. Increase attendance. Make it easy for people to say YES to you.To Lead is to Servehas ...

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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)

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In The Four Agreements, bestselling author don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of fr...

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Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind

Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind

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Essential Spirituality beautifully articulates the benefits of spiritual living in the material world.-Dan Millman, author, Everyday Enlightenment and The Way of the Peaceful Warrior""Deceptively simple. Its power is rooted not only in Dr. Walsh's formidable intellectual capacity to deal effectively...

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The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

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“Gay Hendricks is a great role model for true success. He enjoys abundance and a deep connection with his own spiritual essence, and at the same time has lived for three decades in a thriving marriage. Now, he shows us how to do it for ourselves.” — Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of Cracking th...

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Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife

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A Scientist's Case for the Afterlife... Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by br...

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The Illustrated World’s Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions

The Illustrated World’s Religions: A Guide to Our Wisdom Traditions

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Retaining all the beloved qualities of Huston Smith's classic The Religions of Man and the current fully revised and updated The World's Religions, this stunning pictorial presentation refines the text to its wonderful essentials. In detailed, absorbing, richly illustrated, and highly readable chapt...

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The World’s Religions (Plus)

The World’s Religions (Plus)

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The World’s Religions, by beloved author and pioneering professor Huston Smith (Tales of Wonder), is the definitive classic for introducing the essential elements and teachings of the world's predominant faiths, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, as w...

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Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program

Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program

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Thousands of years prove it, and Western science backs it: Meditation sharpens focus. Meditation lowers blood pressure, relieves chronic pain, reduces stress. Meditation helps us experience greater calm. Meditation connects us to our inner-most feelings and challenges our habits of self-judgment. Me...

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The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

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“If there is a candidate for ‘Living Buddha’ on earth today, it is Thich Nhat Hanh.”                                                                                                 – Richard Bak...

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The Four Foundations of Mindfulness in Plain English

The Four Foundations of Mindfulness in Plain English

In simple and straightforward language, Bhante Gunaratana shares the Buddha's teachings on mindfulness and how we can use these principles to improve our daily lives, deepen our mindfulness, and move closer to our spiritual goals.Based on the classic Satipatthana Sutta, one of the most succinct yet ...

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Wherever You Go, There You Are

Wherever You Go, There You Are

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When Wherever You Go, There You Are was first published in 1994, no one could have predicted that the book would launch itself onto bestseller lists nationwide and sell over 750,000 copies to date. Ten years later, the book continues to change lives. In honor of the book's 10th anniversary, Hyperion...

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The Here-and-Now Habit: How Mindfulness Can Help You Break Unhealthy Habits Once and for All

The Here-and-Now Habit: How Mindfulness Can Help You Break Unhealthy Habits Once and for All

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Bad habits can take a hefty toll on your health and happiness. In The Here-and-Now Habit, mindfulness expert Hugh Byrne provides powerful practices based in mindfulness and neuroscience to help you rewire your brain and finally break the habits that are holding you back from a meaningful life.Have y...

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Light on Light Magazine

Digital Magazine from the Interspiritual Network

Light on Light from the Interspiritual Network, a member of the UNITY EARTH network, is a free digital magazine dedicated to illuminating the light of wisdom, inspiration, and transformation found within spiritual practices and inspired lifestyles for the flourishing of health, mind, and spirit every day. Featuring renowned contributors across the myriad of pathways of world wisdom traditions, interfaith, and interspirituality communities, Light on Light honors the light found within all pathways and the inner light within each person.