New World Library: 568 books
Still the Mind
An Introduction to Meditation
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2001
Mark Watts compiled this book from his father's extensive journals and audiotapes of famous lectures he delivered in his later years across the country. In three parts Alan Watts explains the basic philosophy of meditation how individuals can practice a variety of meditations and how inner wisdom grows naturally.
Girls Like Us
Forty Extraordinary Women Celebrate Girlhood in Story, Poetry, and Song
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
We all have moments from childhood that have molded our perceptions of ourselves and our lives. In Girls Like Us forty accomplished and influential women share these tender and uplifting moments from their own childhoods and teenage years. Isabel Allende tells of her parents' priceless gift in encouraging...
Christian Mystics
365 Readings and Meditations
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
As Matthew Fox notes when an aging Albert Einstein was asked if he had any regrets he replied I wish I had read more of the mystics earlier in my life. The 365 writings in Christian Mystics represent a wide-ranging sampling of these readings for modern-day seekers of all faiths or no faith. Fox is...
The Mystic Heart
Discovering Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
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.
A Way to God
Thomas Merton's Creation Spirituality Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This unique reflection was prompted by an invitation Matthew Fox received to speak on the centennial of Thomas Merton’s birth. Fox says that much of the trouble he’s gotten into — such as being excommunicated in 1993 from the Dominican Order by Cardinal Ratzinger (who later became Pope Benedict)...
Calm Surrender
Walking the Path of Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
How can individuals live a life of forgiveness in a world so full of injustice and indifference? This haunting question spurred author Kent Nerburn to write Calm Surrender. As he recounts the experiences of people who have suffered much and asked for little, he takes readers on a moving journey, urging them to remember that "forgiveness cannot be a disengaged, pastel emotion."
The Art of Healing
Uncovering Your Inner Wisdom and Potential for Self-Healing
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
In 1979, Dr. Bernie S. Siegel, a successful surgeon, took a class from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross that focused on crayon drawing for healing, especially with patients facing life-threatening disease. Siegel incorporated into his practice these techniques — many of which were laughed at by others in...
The Last Frontier
Exploring the Afterlife and Transforming Our Fear of Death
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Knowledge of the afterlife can trigger dazzling transformations in body, mind, and spirit. It unleashes our authentic selves, radically resets our values, and deepens our sense of life purpose. From it we discover that the real nature of the universe is the very essence of benevolence. In this comprehensive...
The Gift
Understand and Develop Your Psychic Abilities
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
For thirty-five years, best-selling author and popular workshop leader Echo Bodine has been using her psychic powers to help people gain clarity and find healing. Now she presents an accessible guide to understanding and exploring one's own psychic abilities. The book begins by dispelling common myths...
Angel Animals Book of Inspiration
Divine Messengers of Wisdom and Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Some of these extraordinary true stories will make you smile and others will bring tears to your eyes, but each one will open your heart to new revelations of love in its many forms and shapes. Dogs, cats, horses, ferrets, birds, rabbits, snakes, dolphins, llamas — the animals in this book reveal...
by Barbara Ardinger Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2011
This is a handbook on how to perform sacred ceremonies in the tradition of Goddess spirituality in one's own home with ordinary household items. An annual cycle of celebrations is included, as is advice on how to set up an altar and use simple tools. The author, a practitioner of Wicca (witchcraft),...
Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate
A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
How does a real-life Zen master — not the preternaturally calm, cartoonish Zen masters depicted by mainstream culture — help others through hard times when he’s dealing with pain of his own? How does he meditate when the world is crumbling around him? Is meditation a valid response or just another...
Sex Sin and Zen
A Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2010
With his one-of-a kind blend of autobiography pop culture and plainspoken Buddhism Brad Warner explores an A-to-Z of sexual topics from masturbation to dating gender identity to pornography. In addition to approaching sexuality from a Buddhist perspective he looks at Buddhism emptiness compassion...
It Came from Beyond Zen!
More Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Vol. 2 of Brad Warner’s Radical but Reverent Paraphrasing of Dogen’s Treasury of the True Dharma Eye
In Japan in 1253, one of the great thinkers of his time died — and the world barely noticed. That man was the Zen monk Eihei Dogen. For centuries his main work, Shobogenzo, languished...