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Ask and It Is Given
Ask and It Is Given
Learning to Manifest Your Desires
by Esther and Jerry HicksThis fascinating book by Esther and Jerry Hicks, which presents the teachings of the nonphysical entity Abraham, will help you learn how to manifest your desires so that you`re living the joyous and fulfilling life you deserve. As you read, you`ll come to understand how your relationships, health issues, finances, career concerns, and more are influenced by the Universal laws that govern your time-space-reality - and you`ll discover powerful processes that will help you go with the positive flow of life. It`s your birthright to live a life filled with everything that is good - and this book will show you how to make it so in every way!
Foreword by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Comfortable with Uncertainty by Pema Chödrön
Comfortable with Uncertainty
by Pema Chrödrön
108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
This book offers short, stand-alone readings designed to help us cultivate compassion and awareness amid the challenges of daily living. More than just a collection of thoughts for the day, Comfortable with Uncertainty offers a progressive program of spiritual study, leading the reader through essential concepts, themes, and practices on the Buddhist path. This book will be cherished by Pema Chödrön readers, since it offers pithy and stirring passages gleaned from her previous books.Faith and Will by Julia Cameron
Faith and Will
by Julia Cameron
Weathering the Storms in Our Spiritual Lives
THIS INSPIRING NEW BOOK from the bestselling author of The Artist`s Way explores one of the most vital questions that spiritual seekers encounter on the journey to enlightenment: Where do I turn when my soul is urging me to keep growing toward God but my mind and being, stubbornly, will not follow?The author of twenty eight books that deftly trace the intersection between art and faith, between creativity and spirit, Julia Cameron has earned millions of fans around the world. In this, her most inward-leaning book to date, she provides a heartbreakingly honest and insightful depiction of her struggle to reconnect to her faith and her realization that having faith, of necessity, means relinquishing will. A wise and passionate book, Faith and Will guides readers through the process of learning to let go and, in turn, learning to live.
Hardcover Edition
Finding Water by Julia Cameron
Finding Water
The Art of Perseverance
by Julia Cameron
This powerful installment in Julia Cameron`s groundbreaking body of work on the creative process will guide readers to discover enduring inspiration - it will lead them to water.
Finding Water offers guidance on weathering the periods in an artist`s life when inspiration appears to have run dry. It gives advice and wisdom about tackling the greatest challenges artists face, such as:
- Making the decision to begin a new project
- Persevering when a new approach to your art does not bear immediate fruit
- Staying focused when other parts of your life threaten to distract you from your art
- Finding possibilities for artistic inspiration in the most unlikely places
With its revolutionary twelve-week program for artistic renewal from a foremost authority on the creative process, Finding Water is essential reading for any artist.
Forgive for Good by Dr. Fred Luskin
Forgive for Good
A PROVEN Prescription for Health and Happiness
by Dr. Fred Luskin
Forgive for Good was the book chosen to accompany the Center for Spiritual Living Santa Rosa theme for March 2009 Based on scientific research, this groundbreaking study from the frontiers of psychology and medicine offers startling new insight into the healing powers and medical benefits of foregivness. Through vivid examples (including his work with victims from both sides of Northern Ireland`s civil war), Dr. Fred Luskin offers a proven nine-step forgiveness method that makes it possible to move beyond being a victim to a life of improved health and contentment.
How Can I Help? by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman
How Can I Help?
Stories and Reflections on Service
by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman
*** This is a book to accompany Spirit is Calling for September 2008
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 really helps, anyway?"
In this practical helper`s companion, the authors explore a path through these confusions and provide support and inspiration for us in our efforts as volunteers, as members of the helping professions, or simply as friends and family trying to meet each other`s needs. Here too are deeply moving personal accounts: A housewife brings animals to lift the spirits of nursing home residents; a police officer talks a desperate father out of leaping from a roof with his child; a nurse allows an infant to spend its last moments of life in her arms rather than on a hospital machine. From many such stories and the authors` reflections, we can find strength, clarity, and wisdom for those times when we are called on to care for one another. How Can I Help? reminds us just how much we have to give and how doing so can lead to some of the most joyous moments of our lives.
I Need Your Love - Is That True? by Byron Katie
I NEED YOUR LOVE --IS THAT TRUE?
How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead
by Byron Katie
I Need Your Love -- Is that True? was the book chosen to accompany the Center for Spiritual Living Santa Rosa theme for May 2009.
FROM THE CREATOR OF THE WORK, HERE IS YOUR KEY TO FINDING MEANINGFUL LOVE AND CONNECTION
In Loving What Is, bestselling author Byron Katie introduced thousands of people to her simple and profound method of finding happiness through questioning the mind. Now, I Need your Love --Is That True? examines a universal, age-old source of anxiety: our relationships with others. In this groundbreaking book, Katie helps you question everything you have been taught to do to gain love and approval, and in the process find a genuine connection, revealing:
- Why the ways we have learned to seek love and approval only lead to disappointment
- How love is different from need
- How to achieve greater solf-love and acceptance through The Work
I Need Your Love --Is That True? helps you illuminate every area in your life where you seem to lack what you long for most - the love of your spouse, the respect of your child, a lover`s tenderness, or the esteem of your boss. Katie reveals how unraveling the knots in the search for love, approval, and appreciation brings real love and puts you in charge of your own happiness.
Living a Life that Matters by Harold S. Kushner
Living a Life That Matters
by Harold S. Kushner
Living a Life That Matters was the book chosen to accompany the Center for Spiritual Living Santa Rosa theme for August 2009In this luminous yet practical book of spiritual advice, bestselling author Harold Kushner shows us how even our smallest daily actions can become stepping stones toward integrity.
Drawing on the stories of his own congregants, on literature, on current events, and above all, on the Biblical story of Jacob - The worldly trickster who evolves into a man of God - Kushner addresses some of the most persistent dilemmas of the human condition. Why do decent people so often violate their moral standards? How can we pursue justice without giving in to the lure of revenge? How can we turn our relationships with family and friends into genuine sources of meaning? Persuasive and sympathetic, filled with humanity and warmth, Living a Life That Matters is a deeply rewarding book.
Loving What Is by Byron Katie
Loving What Is
Four questions that can change your life
by Byron Katie with Stephen Mitchell
*** This is a book to accompany Spirit is Calling for August 2008
Out of nowhere, like a fresh breeze in a marketplace crowded with advice on what to think and believe, comes Byron Katie and what she calls "The Work". In the midst of a normal life, Katie became increasingly depressed and desperate. Then one morning, she woke up in a state of absolute joy, filled with the realization of how her own suffering had ended. The freedom of that realization has never left her, and now in Loving What Is you can discover the same fredom through The Work.The Work is simply four questions that, when applied to a specific problem, enable you to see what is troubling you in an entirely different light. As Katie says, "It`s not the problem that causes our suffering: it`s our thinking about the problem." Contrary to the popular belief, trying to let go of a painful thought never works; instead, once we have done The Work, the thought lets go of us. At that point, we can truly love what is, just as it is.
Loving What is will show you step by step, through clear and vivid examples, exactly how to use this revolutionary process for yourself. You`ll see people do The Work with Katie on a broad range of human problems, in their relationships, at work, and on their deepest anxieties and fears. Once they have done The Work, they experience a sense of lasting peace and find the clarity and energy to act, even in situations that had previously seemed impossible.
Mindful Loving by Henry Grayson, Ph.D.
MINDFUL LOVING
10 Practices for Creating Deeper Connections
by Henry Grayson, Ph.D.
In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Henry Grayson shares his breakthrough techniques for creating deeper and more lasting connections with our loved ones.
Henry Grayson, a psychologist, relationship counselor, psychoanalyst, and former minister who has been working with couples and individuals to improve their relationships for more than thirty years, has found that most people are actually more unhappy after marriage counseling or couples therapy. In Mindful Loving he sets aside the traditional methods of therapy to show you how to look at your relationships from a completely different perspective. By getting to the root of our relationship problems, Grayson creates a whole new framework in which to view intimacy - one where psychology, spirituality, and science meet. He shows you how to:- Break the vicious cycles of interaction that trap you in patterns of resentment and isolation
- Identify the six forms of counterfeit "love" and nine barriers to love
- Practice ten characteristics of Empowering Love
- Create a spiritual marriage rather than an ego-based one
Filled with technigques, exercises, meditations, and inspirint case studies, here is an indispensable guide to creating healthy and fulfilling relationships that is destined to become a classic in the field.
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B Rosenberg, Ph.D.Nonviolent COMMUNICATION
A Language of Life
by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Create your life, your relationships and your world in harmony with your values
Most of us have been educated from birth to compete, judge, demand, and diagnose - to think and communicate in terms of what is "right" and "wrong" with people. At best, communicating and thinking this way can create misunderstanding and frustration. And still worse, it can lead to anger, depression, and even emotional or physical violence.In this international bestseller, Rosenberg uses stories, conversation role-plays, and real-world examples to introduce this world-renowned, four-part Nonviolent Connumication (NVC) process. Far more than a communication technique, you`ll learn to transform the thinking, language, and the moralistic judgments that keep you from the enriching relationships that you dream of. You`ll start to resolve conflicts with ease, more easily get what you want without using demands, begin to hear the needs of others with less struggle, strengthen your personal and professional relationships, and start living your fullest potential.
With Nonviolent Connunication, you`ll learn to:
- Put your primary focus on connection through empathic listening rather than "being right" or "getting what you want"
- Transform conflict into mutually satisfying outcomes
- Defuse anger and frustration peacefully
- Create personal and professional relationships grounded in mutual respect, compassion, and emotional safety
- Break patterns of thinking that lead to arguments or depression
- Move beyond power struggles to cooperation and trust
Nourishing Connections by Cathryn Couch and JoEllen DeNicolaNourishing Connections
The Healing Power of Food & Community
by Cathryn Couch and JoEllen DeNicola
More than simply a cookbook, Nourishing Connections is the inspiring story of how a community gathered its resources to creatively address a multitude of needs. The book`s publisher, The Ceres Community Project, provides 25,000 beautiful, delicious and nourishing free meals each year to individuals and families living with a life-threatening illness such as cancer. The program`s chefs are hundreds of teens from more than eighteen local schools. The young chefs gain culinary and leadership skills, knowledge, and the inspiration to make cooking and eating whole foods a part of their life.The book`s more than one hundred recipes represent those most loved by the Ceres Community Project`s clients and all have been home tested by people living with serious illness. For those with limited energy, each recipe comes with suggestions for how to break down the preparation tasks into smaller steps over several days, as well as a wealth of suggestions for how to nourish your self well with almost no cooking.
Nourishing Connections includes vital information for everyone about the link between what we eat and our health. The book includes a wealth of simple, practical suggestions about how to improve your own diet and a rich resource section of books, websites and specialty food sources to support your journey.
Real Life Rituals by Karyl HuntleyREAL LIFE RITUALS
By Karyl Huntley
The pivotal events of our lives go by largely uncelebrated: children pass into adulthood, two people become parents, a family moves to a new home. Karyl Huntley`s Real Life Rituals is a hands-on guide that offers you a way to celebrate the significant moments and passages of life. Designed to be adapted for large groups or parties of one, Huntley`s rituals include spiritually grounded ways to:- Celebrate the birth of a child
- Honor a school graduate
- Bless a new home
- Commemorate an anniversary
- Release or enhance romantic relationships
Real Life Rituals also provides celebrations for those special times of the year -- solistices, equinoxes, and holidays -- that have been acknowledged by people through the ages.
Real Life Rituals -- a powerful, timeless, and joyous opportunity to genuinely experience the times of your life.
Renewal by Eknath EaswaranRenewal
A Little Book of Courage & Hope
by Eknath Easwaran
This is a little book of hope - wise, warm suggestions to help us change ourselves to change our world. Read it whenever you need some courage, some inspiration, and some peace in your heart. Read it when you need an answer to the question, "But what can I do?"Hardback cover.
Seeing Good at Work by Dr. Joyce Duffala and Rev. Dr. Edward ViljoenSeeing Good at Work
by Dr. Joyce Duffala and Rev. Dr. Edward Viljoen
YOU ARE A GOOD-HEARTED PERSON WITH GOOD INTENTIONS, surrounded by good-hearted people with good intentions. Yet with the pressures of daily life, especially in the workplace, this is not always your experience. Seeing Good At Work provides 52 weekly steps to transform your experience in the workplace. Short readings and exercises, simple yet profound, point you in the direction of seeing the best in yourself and others in any situation.
Start Where You Are by Pema ChödrönSTART WHERE YOU ARE
A Guide to Compassionate Living
by Pema Chödrön
START WHERE YOU ARE is an indispensable handbook for cultivating fearlessness and awakening a compassionate heart. With insight and humor, Pema Chödrön, author of The Wisdom of No Escape and When Things Fall Apart, presents down-to-earth guidance on how to make friends with ourselves and develop genuine compassion toward others. The author shows how we can "start where we are" by embracing rather than denying the painful aspects of our lives. Pema Chödrön frames her teachings on compassion around fifty-nine Tibetan Buddhist maxims, or slogans, such as:- "Always maintain only a joyful mind"
- "Don`t seek others` pain as the limbs of your own happiness"
- "Always meditate on whatever provokes resentment"
- "Be grateful to everyone"
Working with these slogans and through the practice of meditation, Start Where You Are shows how we can all develop the courage to work with our own inner pain and discover joy, well-being, and confidence.
That Which You are Seeking Is Causing You To Seek by Cheri Huber (March_2010)THAT WHICH YOU ARE SEEKING IS CAUSING YOU TO SEEK
by Cheri Huber
Includes "One Less Act of Violence"
That Which You Are Seeking Is Causing You To Seek is the book chosen to accompany the Center for Spiritual Living Santa Rosa`s theme for the month of March 2010
What we are looking for is causing us to look. That`s why we need not to go anywhere, do anything, learn more, figure anything out or worry about going wrong. We need only to stop, sit down, be still and pay attention. We feel this simple little book will assist you in doing just that.
Cheri Huber has been a student and teacher of Zen for over thirty years. She founded the Zen Monastery Peace Center in Murphys, CA; the Zen Center in Palo Alto, CA; and Living Compassion (www.livingcompassion.org), a nonprofit dedicated to peace and service.
The Abundance Book by John Randolph PriceTHE ABUNDANCE BOOK
by John Randolph Price
Includes the 40-Day Prosperity Plan
John Randolph Price draws from personal experiences in his bestselling books to demonstrate that consciousness is the key to life, and that truly, nothing is impossible - and that includes the manifestation of unlimited wealth and financial independence!In The Abundance Book John provides a road map to the Land of Affluence within each one of us. It is a journey of joy to that glorious inner realm of limitless certainties where every true desire is fulfilled.
John Randolph Price is an internationally known visionary, philosopher, lecturer, and bestselling author of books on the dynamics of living a whole, full, and rich life. His writings, published in many languages, combine the ageless wisdom of East and West with personal experiences to reveal the unlimited potential we all have to achieve mastery over the world of illusion.
The Answer is You by Michael Bernard BeckwithThe Answer is YOU
Heart Sets & Mind Sets for Self-Discovery
by Michael Bernard Beckwith
Based on the Public Television Special - Michael Bernard Beckwith: THE ANSWER IS YOU
In times of challenge and change, there are key questions that many share: Do we search for meaning, or grasp for survival? How can we prosper and grow? What is genuine happiness and how may we experience it?As one of the most respected visionary teachers of our time, Michael Bernard Beckwith addresses these profound questions in his first public television special. In this book, Beckwith explores in depth these topics and more.
Beckwith`s unwavering conviction about creating a world that works for everyone is contagious, encouraging and convincing. Readers will experience greater self-awareness, courage and self-reliance.
Hardcover Edition
The Art of Being by Dennis Merritt JonesThe Art of Being
100 Ways to Practice Purpose in Your Life
by Dennis Merritt Jones, D.D.
Would you like to live in the now, but don`t know how? For our busy lives of "doing," popular spiritual teacher Dennis Merritt Jones gives practical and simple ideas for living in the present moment and bringing forth purpose and meaning in life.The Art of Being is filled with 101 delightful, uplifting essays that bring Jones`s unique viewpoint to topics such as harmonious relationships, greater health and well-being, forgiveness, and gratitude. At the end of each short chapter, he provides a simple yet profound "Mindfulness Practice," designed to allow the lesson to be appplied directly to your life.
"Our soul recognizes who we really are," Jones writes. "The amazing thing is that as you strive to consciously be who you have come here to be, life takes on a richer, deeper meaning and purpose than you ever dreamed possible. Your every action becomes a sacred act and a spiritual experience."
The Art of Being is an inspirational guidebook for all those who would like to experience more purpose, joy, and meaning in their lives.
Hardback Edition.
The Heartmath Solution by Doc Childre and Howard MartinTHE HEARTMATH SOLUTION
by Doc Childre and Howard Martin with Donna Beech
The Intelligent Heart
Access the power of your heart`s intelligence to improve your focus and creativity, elevate your emotional clarity, lower your stress and anxiety levels, strengthen your immune system, promote your body`s ottimal performance, and slow the aging process.Discover How You Can:
- Immediately lower stress hormones
- Raise anti-aging DHEA hormone levels
- Improve your heart rate for maximum longevity
- Maintain emotional clarity in the midst of chaos
- Achieve peak mental and intuitive performance
The Power of a Broken-Open Heart by Julie Interrante, MAThe Power of a BROKEN-OPEN HEART
Life-Affirming Wisdom from the Dying
by Julie Interrante, MA
Foreword by Hugh Prather
What if life, beneath the surface, were composed of a series of transitions with the potential to break open our hearts? And what if our broken-open hearts could ease our approach to living?Building on her decades of work in hospital and hospice care, in this illuminating book Julie Inerttante weaves together insights from those facing great challenge with her own discoveries to reveal the importance of embracing pain. Whether sparked by the loss of a friend or loved one, a pet or long-held belief, a job or a marriage, a home and community, or physical capacity, pain breaks open the heart, catalyzing great courage, trust, and creativity for living life joyfully. It also heightens our attunement to nature`s cycle of seasons, as well as our own, which moves us full tilt into our living and eventually into our dying.
The Power of a Broken-Open Heart is not an instruction manual. Nor is it a set of religious guidelines. Rather, it is a down-to-earth exploration of vulnerability and change. Ultimately it offers a new lens on life`s gift of transitions.
The Power of Kindness by Piero Ferruccithe power of kindness
The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life
by Piero Ferrucci
The Power of Kindness was the book chosen to accompany the Center for Spiritual Living Santa Rosa theme for February 2009A leading transpersonal psychologist reveals the surprising secret to a happy life: acting with kindness.
The Power of Kindness is a stirring examination of a simple but profound concept. Piero Ferrucci, one of the world`s most respected transpersonal psychologists, explores the many surprising facets of kindness and argues that it is this trait that will not only lead to our own individual happiness and the happoness of those around us, but will guide us in a world that has become cold, anxious, difficult, and frightening. In eighteen interlocking chapters, each devoted to a single aspect of kindness, Ferrucci reveals that the kindest people are the most likely to thrive, to enable others to thrive, and to slowly byt seadily turn our world away from violence, self-centeredness and narcissism - and toward love."We were not born for the purpose of causing trouble and harming others. for out life to be of value, as piero Ferrucci amply demonstrates here - and I am grateful to him for expressing it so clearly - we need to foster and nurture such basic good human qualities as warmth, kindness, and compassion. If we can do that, our lives will become more meaningful, happier, and more peaceful; we will make a positive contribution to the world around us."
- from the foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
There Is Nothing Wrong With You by Cheri HuberTHERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU
Going Beyond Self-Hate
by Cheri Huber
Most people live and die completely trapped in self-hate and never know it. So much more is possible. This book reveals how self-hate works and how to let go of it.Revised Edition
Undefended Love by Jett Psaris, PH.D. and Marlena S. Lyons, PH.D.Undefended Love
By Jett Psaris, PhD. and Marlena S. Lyons, PhD
Undefended Love: The way that you felt about yourself when you first fell in love is the way that you can feel all the time
Walking in this World by Julia CameronWalking in This World
The Practical Art of Creativityby Julia Cameron
In this long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller The Artist`s Way, Julia Cameron presents the next step in her course of discovering and recovering the creative self.
Walking in This World picks up where Julia Cameron`s bestselling book on the creative process, The Artist`s Way, left off to present readers with a second course-Part Two in an amazing journey toward discovering our human potential. Full of valuable new strategies and techniques for breaking through difficult creative ground, this is the "intermediate level" of the Artist`s Way program.
A profoundly inspired work by the leading authority on the subject of creativity, Walking in This World is an invaluable tool for artists.
You Can Heal Your Life by Louise L. HayYou Can Heal Your Life
By Louise L. Hay
This New York Times Bestseller has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. Louise’s key message in this powerful work is: “If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.” Louise explains how limiting beliefs and ideas are often the cause of illness, and how you can change your thinking…and improve the quality of your life! Packed with powerful information—you`ll love this gem of a book!"I`ve written this book to share what I know with you, my readers. It incorporates portions of my little book, Heal Your Body, which has become widely accepted as an authoritative work on the mental patterns that create dis-eases in the body. If you do the exercises in You Can Heal Your Life progressively as they appear, by the time you finish, you will have begun to change your life. I suggest you read through the book once, then slowly read it again, but this time do each exercise in depth. If you can, work through the exercises with a friend or family member. Know that when you work with these ideas, my loving support is with you." -- Louise L. Hay
Your Life Is Your Message by Eknath EaswaranYour Life Is Your Message
Finding Harmony with Yourself, Others & the Earth
by Eknath Easwaran
Everything you do influences those around you - and everything you think and feel influences what you do.You are making a difference This practical and inspiring book shows how you can live in harmony with your highest ideals.
You can find harmony with yourself by gaining mastery of your internal environment, a world within of thoughts, desires, and feelings as real as the world outside.
You can build harmony in your relationships with family, neighbors, and colleagues by learning to love more fully than you had thought possible.
You can establish harmony with the physical environment by living your life to ensure, in every way, a bright future for all our children.
You can learn to make your life a message of hope, love, and purpose.
