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Soul Food: Stories to Nourish the Spirit and the Heart
Edited by Jack Kornfield, Christina Feldman, and Jon Kabat-Zinn
Soul Food is a wonderful collection of parables and teaching stories from Christian, Buddhist, Sufi, Zen, Hasidic, Native American, African, and other traditions. (Check out Sufi and Zen story excerpts.) Great bed time reading!
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart & Rekindle the Spirit
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen
My friend Marvin gave me this book to cheer me up one day when I was feeling particularly blue. It worked. It is filled with wonderfully inspiring stories that will make you laugh, cry, and appreciate life. Check out a couple excerpts from the book, one on the rules for being a human, and another on a little boy's courage.
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A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life.
Jack Kornfield, Bantam New Age Books, 1993.
To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring to them the transformative power of our heart.
From the back cover..."Written by a teacher, pyschologist, and meditation master of international renown, this warm inspiring, and expert book touches on a wide range of essential issues including many rarely addressed in spiritual books. From compassion, addiction, and pyschological and emotional healing, to dealing with problems involving relationships and sexuality, to the creation of a Zen-like simplicity and balance in all facets of life, it speaks to the concerns of many modern spiritual seekers, both those beginning on the path and those with years of experience. A Path with Heart is filled with practical techniques, quided meditations, stories, koans, and other gems of wisdom that can help ease your journey through the world....It is a wise and gentle guidebook for an odyssey into the soul that enables us to achieve a deeper, more satisfying life in the world."
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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche, Harper Collins, 1992.
Sogyal Rinpoche was born in Tibet and raised by one of the most revered spiritual masters of this century, Jamyan Khyentse Chokyi Lodro. With the Chinese occupation of Tibet, he escaped into exile in India. He went to university in Cambridge, England, and has been teaching Tibetan Buddhism in the West since 1974. Rinpoche writes frankly, with both reverance and even humor, about life and living, and death and dying, and in so doing allows us to look at those aspects of what it means to be alive and human that we are often afraid to examine closely. Now a classic, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying provides a clear exposition of how to live every moment fully.
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Autobiography of a Yogi
By Paramhansa Yogananda
Reprint of the original edition published in 1946
From the introduction..."Paramhansa Yogananda was the first yoga master of India whose mission it was to live and teach in the West...Only rarely does a sage of Paramhansa Yogananda's stature write a first-hand account of his life experiences. Childhood revelations, his visits to saints and masters of India, the years of training he received in the ashram of his guru, and long-secret teachings of self-realization are all made available to the Wester reader....for all its depth, it [Autobiography of a Yogi] is full of gentle humor, lively stories, and practical common sense."
Autobiography of a Yogi is an extraordinary account of the early life and training of an Indian yogi who was one of the first to bring Indian spiritual traditions to the US in the 1920s. I found it at times moving and hilarious. It doesn't surprise me that it has been deemed by some to be a spiritual classic.
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