The reader in search of spiritual guidance and elucidation will delight in THE BEST AMERICAN SPIRITUAL WRITING 2004. Philip Zaleski, seasoned editor of spiritual books and publications, has gathered a selection of the most outstanding recent works in this field. From Zen to Islam, from pan-Hindu to Jesuit study, this anthology collects a broad ...
This text shows how people can enrich their spiritual lives and well-being with the wisdom and practices of the world's great religions, Eastern and Western, while coming to a deeper participation in their own tradition. Focusing on the essentials of human living - from everyday activities like waking up and eating to major life passages - the ...
Amid the chaos of work, family, and the myriad responsibilities that dominate our lives, the need for retreat remains ever-present. Calling us to solitude, reflection, and quiet, Philip Zaleski offers his monastic prescription for how to properly and effectively find spiritual refreshment. "The Recollected Heart" offers readers all the tools ...
Zeleski brings together the best of Jewish, Christian, Native American, and Buddhist writings on the spirit and spirituality. Contributors include Terry Tempest Williams, Wendell Berry, and Simon Winchester.
This essential, profoundly moving collection contains the deepest spiritual, religious, and psychological teachings of Christianity--the fruit of 2,000 years of inner experience and insight from Christians of all walks of life and all denominations.
Focusing on extraordinary stories of lives changed by prayer and on great works of literature and art inspired by it, the authors map the vast world of prayer from the sacred pipe to the rosary, from Neanderthal funerals to Pentecostal revivals.
In every culture, in every epoch, human beings have yearned for heaven--the kingdom of God, abode of the elect, fount of enlightenment, mirror of hopes and desires. Now, in The Book of Heaven, Carol and Philip Zaleski provide the first wide-ranging anthology of writings about heaven, drawing from scriptures, myths, epics, poems, prayers, sermons, ...
Presents a collection of essays, articles, and poems from a variety of religious and spiritual traditions, including the writings of Toni Morrison, Wendell Berry, Brett Lott, Czesslaw Milosz, and Alicia Ostriker.
It seems very easy, especially for us in the West, to forget that, in this life at least, God - the Ultimate Reality, the Source of all being - is a Mystery that human reason cannot penetrate nor words express. While we are here on Earth, we can only see God "as in a mirror darkly" (1 Corinthians 13:12). We cannot understand or "solve" this ...
A second installment of a well-received anthology, this title includes prose and poetry on love, prayer, and other spiritual topics, by such writers as Ursula K. LeGuin, Philip Levine, and Thomas Moore.
The newest addition to the acclaimed Best American series brings readers the year's best writing about faith and spirituality and is sure to enrich the lives of all readers. Includes writings that reflect Christian, Muslim, Jewish, secular, and pan-Hindu perspectives.
Throughout the last 2000 years, the Lord's Prayer has been at the center of every form and rule of prayer among Christians. But many of us recite the Lord's Prayer. We have all heard it countless times, but when have we listened to it? This book will encourage readers to turn towards the words of the Lord's Prayer again, this time with their ...
The 2000 edition of this annual collection, containing 39 poems, essays, and stories from contributors such as Pico Iyer, William Gass, and Annie Dillard, is an inspiring meditation on many forms of spirituality.
Two powerful motives weave beneath the surface of our spiritual history: the desire to know and the desire to love. The secret history of the West is the story of saints, mystics, alchemists, poets, and philosophers trying to unite these two streams and celebrate-in the world and in their own persons-the sacred marriage of Logos and Sophia, Word ...
Provides concise biographical sketches by key writers and religious leaders of many of the world's most revered religious figures, including the Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad, in a volume that features the writings of such contributors as Elie Wiesel, Zora Neale Hurston, and Mother Teresa..
A guide to spiritual retreat. Zaleski, a professor of religion and literature at Smith College and Wesleyan University, suggests locations, equipment and reading material, and schedules for a three-day retreat. He also discusses his own retreats, and those of historical figures and people he knows.
The reader in search of spiritual guidance and elucidation will delight in THE BEST AMERICAN SPIRITUAL WRITING 2004. Philip Zaleski, seasoned editor of spiritual books and publications, has gathered a selection of the most outstanding recent works in this field. From Zen to Islam, from pan-Hindu to Jesuit study, this anthology collects a broad ...
This little book is about beginnings and sequels. It's the story of the birth, thirteen years ago, of two monasteries, fraternal twins, and their history to date. It is the story of St. Scholastica Priory and St. Mary's Monastery, written by a friend who shares the hopes and joys of all involved in the building up of the Benedictine community, at ...
For more than a decade, Zaleski has collected into single volumes the best spiritual essays and poetry of each. The 2010 edition includes contributions by John Updike, Diane Ackerman, Seamus Heaney, Mary Jo Bang, Amanda Shaw, and many others.
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