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Buddha's Office: The Ancient Art of Waking Up While Working Well

Dan Zigmond - Running Press Adult
Format: Print Length

Can enlightenment be found at the office? From the co-author of Buddha's Diet comes another book that shows how the wisdom of Buddha can apply to our modern lives -- this time exploring how Buddha's guidance can help us navigate the perils of work life. Without setting foot in an office,...
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Faith Still Moves Mountains: Miraculous Stories of the Healing Power of Prayer

Harris Faulkner - Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

We need reminders of God's power now more than ever.We often think about prayer as a wish list, with God as Santa Claus. The reality is that the power of prayer reminds us not only how small we are, but also how big God is. Prayer is hope put into action. And prayer works. From FOX News...
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Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

Barbara Brown Taylor - HarperOne
Format: Hardcover

New York Times BestsellerThe renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world's religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia,...
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Living in the Light: Yoga for Self-Realization

Deepak Chopra MD - ?Harmony
Format: Hardcover

Reach your highest potential and a deeper understanding of self with Deepak Chopra's groundbreaking guide to the philosophy and practice of Yoga.Royal Yoga is the highest and most important of the yoga traditions - an all-embrracing path to personal transformation that reaches beyond...
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Living Kindness: Metta Practice for the Whole of Our Lives

Kevin Griffin - Shambhala
Format: Paperback

To live kindness is to express the essential Buddhist wisdom of selflessnessThrough stories from the ancient Pali canon of Buddhism and personal reflections on modern life, Dharma teacher Kevin Griffin reveals the richness and multifaceted nature of loving-kindness or metta on the Buddhist...
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Plant Witchery: Discover the Sacred Language, Wisdom, and Magic of 200 Plants

Juliet Diaz - Hay House Inc.
Format: Paperback

All it will take is for you to slow down and pay attention to the world around you and, I promise, you will find the world within you.

Indigenous seer, gifted plant whisperer, and Witchery author Juliet Diaz invites you to walk the path...

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Uncultured: A Memoir

DANIELLA MESTYANEK YOUNG - Macmillan Audio
Format: Book

Behind the tall, foreboding gates of a commune in Brazil, Daniella Mestyanek Young was raised in the religious cult The Children of God, also known as The Family, as the daughter of high-ranking members. Her great-grandmother donated land for one of The Family's first communes in Texas....

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The Vanishing: Faith, Loss, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets

Janine di Giovanni - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover

Some of the countries that first nurtured and characterized Christianity - along the North African Coast, on the Euphrates and across the Middle East and Arabia - are the ones in which it is likely to first go extinct. Christians are already vanishing. We are past the tipping point, now tilted...
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Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics

Mirabai Starr - Sounds True
Format: Paperback

Wild Mercy is essential reading for anyone ready to awaken the feminine mystic within and birth her loving, creative, and untamed power into the world."Mystical brilliance at its best." -- Caroline Myss"No one can take us into the fiery and tender depths of the sacred...
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Zen beyond Mindfulness: Using Buddhist and Modern Psychology for Transformational Practice

Jules Shuzen Harris - Shambhala
Format: Paperback

An effective new approach to Buddhist practice that combines the rigor of traditional meditation and study with the psychological support necessary for practice in modern life.Zen teacher Jules Shuzen Harris argues that contemporary American Buddhists face two primary challenges: (1) "spiritual...
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