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The Way of Silence
- Engaging the Sacred in Daily Life
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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.
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With his trademark blend of storytelling, faith and psychological insight, New York Times best-selling author Thomas Moore turns his attention to the most enduring story of them all: the birth of Christ in Bethlehem. Moore uses passages from the Gospels, archetypal stories and ancient myths to explore the idea that Christmas can only be fully understood as belonging to everyone - as a plan for the entire human race. This may be the most profound reflection on the meaning of Christmas in a generation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not a prostilitizing tome
- By Ellen Krechel on 12-02-20
By: Thomas Moore
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Into the Silent Land
- A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
- By: Martin Laird
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Sitting in stillness, the practice of meditation, and the cultivation of awareness are commonly thought to be the preserves of Hindus and Buddhists. Martin Laird shows that the Christian tradition of contemplation has its own refined teachings on using a prayer word to focus the mind, working with the breath to cultivate stillness, and the practice of inner vigilance or awareness.
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A top-five selection
- By M. James on 04-25-15
By: Martin Laird
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The Divine Dance
- The Trinity and Your Transformation
- By: Richard Rohr
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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The Trinity is supposed to be the central doctrine grounding Christianity, yet we're often told that we shouldn't attempt to understand it because it's a mystery. But what if we breached that mystery? How might it transform our relationship with God?
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Phenomenal!
- By Garrison G. Schrauger on 01-22-18
By: Richard Rohr
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Finding Our Way Again
- The Return of the Ancient Practices
- By: Brian McLaren
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Brian McLaren guides us on this quest for an explanation of these spiritual practices, many of which go all the way back to Abraham and the establishment of Israel. In the midst of contemporary Christianity, we discover the beauty of these ancient disciplines and the transformation through Christ that each can provide.
By: Brian McLaren
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Dante's Divine Comedy
- A Guide for the Spiritual Journey
- By: Mark Vernon
- Narrated by: Mark Vernon
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Dante Alighieri was early in recognizing that our age has a problem. His hometown, Florence, was at the epicenter of the move from the medieval world to the modern. The Divine Comedy was born in a time of troubling transition, which is why it still speaks today. In this narrative retelling and guide, from the gates of hell, up the mountain of purgatory, to the empyrean of paradise, Mark Vernon offers a vivid introduction and interpretation of a book that, 700 years on, continues to open minds and change lives.
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3 out of 5 stars
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An Inversion of Dante
- By A.B.D. on 09-24-22
By: Mark Vernon
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The Listening Life
- Embracing Attentiveness in a World of Distraction
- By: Adam McHugh
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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In this noisy, distracting world, it is difficult to truly hear. People talk past each other, eager to be heard but somehow deaf to what is being said. Listening is an essential skill for healthy relationships, both with God and with other people. But it is more than that: listening is a way of life. Adam McHugh places listening at the heart of our spirituality, our relationships and our mission in the world. God himself is the God who hears, and we, too, can learn to hear what God may be saying through creation, through Scripture, through people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A refreshing and compelling approach to listening
- By Mary Crombie on 10-08-18
By: Adam McHugh
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A Religion of One's Own
- A Guide to Creating a Personal Spirituality in a Secular World
- By: Thomas Moore
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The New York Times best-selling author and trusted spiritual adviser offers a follow up to his classic Care of the Soul. Something essential is missing from modern life. Many who've turned away from religious institutions - and others who have lived wholly without religion - hunger for more than what contemporary secular life has to offer but are reluctant to follow organized religion's strict and often inflexible path to spirituality. In A Religion of One' s Own, best-selling author and former monk Thomas Moore explores the myriad possibilities of creating a personal spiritual style, either inside or outside formal religion.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Powerful and Inspiring
- By Amazon Customer on 05-25-16
By: Thomas Moore
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Resurrecting Jesus
- Embodying the Spirit of a Revolutionary Mystic
- By: Adyashanti
- Narrated by: Adyashanti
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Original Recording
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The life of Jesus offers each one of us a map to the direct realization of our eternal and divine nature. On Resurrecting Jesus, Adyashanti excavates the deep, mythic underpinnings of the Gospels to show how we can all find in the story of Jesus the spark for our own spiritual unfolding. Jesus crossed all of the boundary lines that separated the people of his time because he viewed the world from the perspective of what unites us, not what divides us.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Review of Resurrecting Jesus
- By Gina Lake on 04-08-14
By: Adyashanti
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The Heart of Centering Prayer
- Nondual Christianity in Theory and Practice
- By: Cynthia Bourgeault
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Centering prayer is the path to a wonderful and radical new way of seeing the world. It is not, as is sometimes thought, simply an act of devotional piety, nor is it a Christianized form of other meditation methods. Cynthia Bourgeault here cuts through the misconceptions to show that centering prayer is in fact a pioneering development within the Christian contemplative tradition.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A gift for the centering prayer movement
- By JThomso on 09-13-17
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The Heretic's Handbook
- By: Jonathan Black
- Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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In The Heretic’s Handbook, the internationally bestselling author of The Secret History of the World has collected and codified ancient, secret wisdom from around the world, formulating a complete philosophy on how to live a happy and successful life. An acclaimed author and public speaker, Black shows how this body of knowledge has been declared ‘heretical’ both by the established church and by today’s atheistic intellectual elite.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great
- By Amazon Customer on 08-01-23
By: Jonathan Black
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Asian Journals
- India and Japan (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
- By: Joseph Campbell
- Narrated by: Fred Stella
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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At the beginning of his career, Joseph Campbell developed a lasting fascination with the cultures of the Far East, and explorations of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy later became recurring motifs in his vast body of work. However, Campbell had to wait until middle age to visit the lands that inspired him so deeply. In 1954, he took a sabbatical from his teaching position and embarked on a year-long voyage through India, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and finally Japan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a journey!
- By Anonymous User on 08-11-18
By: Joseph Campbell
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When Poets Pray
- By: Marilyn McEntyre
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Two dozen select prayer poems to learn from and live with. Poetry and prayer are closely related. We often look to poets to give language to our deepest hopes, fears, losses - and prayers. Poets slow us down. They teach us to stop and go in before we go on. They play at the edges of mystery, holding a tension between line and sentence, between sense and reason, between the transcendent, and the deeply, comfortingly familiar. When Poets Pray contains thoughtful meditations by Marilyn McEntyre on choice poems/prayers and poems about prayer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed greatly!
- By Marsh Family on 04-01-20
By: Marilyn McEntyre
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The Seeker's Guide
- By: Elizabeth Lesser
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Lesser
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
- Original Recording
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America has given birth to a wisdom tradition entirely its own, a spirituality that is as diverse as its people, and that respects the freedom and uniqueness of each individual. Judeo-Christian traditions and the meditation practices of Asia and India...modern science and Native American teachings...Sufism and transpersonal psychology - The New American Spirituality explores what happens when these and other traditions cohabitate our unique cultural landscape.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very thorough and enlightening
- By Pony on 08-30-14
By: Elizabeth Lesser
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Paths to God
- Living the Bhagavad Gita
- By: Ram Dass
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Now, in a fascinating series of reflections, anecdotes, stories, and exercises, Ram Dass gives us a unique and accessible road map for experiencing divinity in everyday life. In the engaging, conversational style that has made his teachings so popular for decades, Ram Dass traces our journey of consciousness as it is reflected in one of Hinduism's most sacred texts. The Gita teaches a system of yogas, or "paths for coming to union with God."
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well, I guess that's this books work taken care of
- By Jeremy Teeter on 11-30-17
By: Ram Dass
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- Tweete
- 03-26-20
A way to heal
A new way to heal, reset or grow after grief. Adults need timeouts too! Peace
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- Lawrence A Peccatiello
- 08-20-21
Fantastic
This book was incredible start to finish. I will start giving it as a gift to my loved ones.
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- Someone who buys too much
- 07-24-16
Really, really bad
Would you try another book from David Steindl-Rast and/or Douglas James?
Based on this, no. There was no central thesis whatsoever, it was largely from-the-hip, politically correct babbling that referenced multiple religions, and did not at all teach one how to engage the sacred in daily life until, perhaps, the last chapter.
What was most disappointing about David Steindl-Rast’s story?
It has no thesis, and no linear layout.
Would you be willing to try another one of Douglas James’s performances?
Not really, the speaking is monotone.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
No.
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