David Whyte Essentials
By: David Whyte
4.64
Format: 119 pages, Paperback
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1. The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
By: J. Drew Lanham
4.23
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
"In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. Al… read more
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"In driving creatures to extinction and decimating habitats without so much as a backward glance or lingering regret, human hands create disharmony. That, to me, is evil."-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
"To save wildlife and wild places the traction has to come not from the regurgitation of bad-news data but from the poets, prophets, preachers, professors, and presidents who have always dared to insp…"-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
"But on far too many Sundays I was pulled from the roaming rhythm and natural worship that truly fulfilled me. A church Sunday meant that God was suddenly confined to something that seemed much less m…"-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
"I am a man in love with nature. I am an eco-addict, consuming everything that the outdoors offers its all-you-can-sense, seasonal buffet. I am a wildling, born of forests and fields and more comforta…"-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
2. Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.99
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a wor… read more
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- philosophy
- essays
"We are winning,"-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"The moon is profound except when we land on it."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
"Waiting until everything looks feasible is too long to wait."-Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
3. The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
By: Francis Weller , Michael Lerner
4.40
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of … read more
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- philosophy
- self help
- spirituality
- mental health
"Grief keeps the heart flexible, fluid, and open to others."-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
"Ritual is able to hold the long-discarded shards of our stories and make them whole again. It has the strength and elasticity to contain what we cannot contain on our own, what we cannot face in soli…"-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
"Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning. Their kinship reminds us that there is no love that does not contain loss and no loss that is not a reminder of the love we carry for wh…"-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
"To alter the amnesia of our times, we must be willing to look into the face of the loss and keep it nearby. In this way, we may be able to honor the losses and live our lives as carriers of their unf…"-Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
4. To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
By: John O'Donohue
3.91
Format: None pages,
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- poetry
- spirituality
5. Upstream: Selected Essays
By: Mary Oliver
2.43
Format: None pages,
Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more
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- poetry
- essays
6. Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
By: Anne Lamott
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
New York Times-bestselling author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to co… read more
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- spirituality
- self help
7. Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
By: John O'Donohue
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
Discover the Celtic Circle of Belonging. John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you… read more
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- poetry
- philosophy
- spirituality
8. Take Me with You
By: Andrea Gibson
3.57
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
For readers of Rupi Kaur (Milk and Honey) and Atticus (Love Her Wild), a book small enough to carry… read more
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- poetry
9. The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys
By: James Fadiman
3.64
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Psychedelics for spiritual, therapeutic, and problem-solving use - Presents practices for safe and … read more
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- philosophy
- spirituality
- self help
10. My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
By: Christian Wiman
4.16
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetrymagazine, wrote a now-f… read more
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- poetry
- spirituality
11. Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Joanna Macy , Anita Barrows
4.12
Format: 29 pages, Paperback
At the beginning of this century, a young German poet returned from a journey to Russia, where he h… read more
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- poetry
- philosophy
- spirituality
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- philosophy
- essays
13. Free Will
By: Sam Harris
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think abo… read more
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- philosophy
14. Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
By: Richard Rohr
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Based on decades of work, travel, and experience, Rohr, a Franciscan brother and best-selling autho… read more
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15. The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
By: Pico Iyer
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Hardcover
A follow up to Pico Iyer's essay "The Joy of Quiet," The Art of Stillnessconsiders the unexpected a… read more
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16. Book of Life, The: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti
By: J. Krishnamurti
3.76
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
365 Daily Meditations on Freedom, Personal Transformation, Living Fully, and Much More, from the Ma… read more
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17. Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
By: Martha N. Beck
4.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
"Explorers depend on the North Star when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationsh… read more
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18. New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
By: Mary Oliver
4.33
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Features previously published and new poems that explore the natural world and how it is connected … read more
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19. The Story of Christianity: Volume 2: The Reformation to the Present Day
By: Justo L. González
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
This highly informative, narrative history covers the events, persons, external influences, and for… read more
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20. The Case of the Canterfell Codicil (Anty Boisjoly Mysteries, #1)
By: P.J. Fitzsimmons
4.13
Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition
In The Case of the Canterfell Codicil, Wodehousian gadabout and clubman Anty Boisjoly takes on his … read more
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- fiction
21. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- philosophy
- spirituality
- essays
- self help
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
22. The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.99
Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition
At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the … read more
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- philosophy
- spirituality
- essays
"The great cultural project... may very well be to rescue what we have of the art and aesthetic of religion while discarding the supernatural."-Christopher Hitchens, The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
23. Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
By: Anne Lamott
3.86
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we nee… read more
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- spirituality
- essays
- self help
"So, writing. What a bitch."-Anne Lamott, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
"... expectations are resentments under construction."-Anne Lamott, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
"It is okay to fear death. Many people who don’t can be a little too pleased with themselves."-Anne Lamott, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
"We can change. People say we can't, but we do when the the stakes or the pain is high enough."-Anne Lamott, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
24. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
By: Mary Oliver
4.58
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more
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- poetry
- spirituality
"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
25. Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more
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- poetry
26. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
4.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers imme… read more
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- spirituality
- essays
27. How We Live Is How We Die
By: Pema Chodron
4.30
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
As much as we might try to resist, endings happen in every moment—the end of a breath, the end of a… read more
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- spirituality
- self help
28. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
By: Margaret Renkl
4.30
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and… read more
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- poetry
- essays
"The loss you don't know about is no less a loss, but it costs you nothing and so it causes you no pain."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
"When I didn't die, however, and then didn't die some more, I came one day to understand: I wasn't dying; I was grieving. I wasn't dying. Not yet."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
"Back on the caregiving roller coaster, I struggled to remember the lesson I had just learned so painfully with Mom: the end of caregiving isn't freedom. The end of caregiving is grief."-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
29. David Whyte Essentials
By: David Whyte
4.64
Format: 119 pages, Paperback
It is not a coincidence that this book will slide easily into your jacket pocket; you ll want to ke… read more
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30. Making Sense
By: Sam Harris
4.14
Format: None pages, Audiobook
FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF 'WAKING UP' and 'THE END OF FAITH', AN ADAPTATION OF HIS WILDLY POP… read more
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- philosophy
- self help
"Every person is a puppet who didn't pick his own strings and those strings reach back to the big bang."-Sam Harris, Making Sense
"If your denial of death is sufficiently explicit and persuasive that you believe death isn't real, then what you deny isn't death but the significance of life."-Sam Harris, Making Sense
"The fascist says, "It's not what you think, or what you think you know, that is important. The only truth is whether or not you feel subjectively, spiritually, part of a larger national community __ …"-Sam Harris, Making Sense
31. Gold (New York Review Books Classics)
By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
4.38
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
A vibrant selection of poems by the great Persian mystic with groundbreaking translations by an Ame… read more
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- poetry
- philosophy
- spirituality
- fiction
