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Peaceful Piggy Meditation

by Kerry Lee MacLean

Kerry Lee MacLean brings her experience as a children's meditation therapist to this unique storybook guide, and her bright, gently whimsical paintings show how this simple ritual can do so much for children and their families.

Hardcover
The Invisible String by Patrice Karst

The Invisible String

by Patrice Karst

The Invisible String is a very simple approach to overcoming the fear of loneliness or separation from parents, with an imaginative flair that children can easily identify with and remember. Here is a warm and delightful lesson teaching young and old that we aren’t ever really alone.

Hardcover
Your Life Is Your Message by Eknath Easwaran

Your Life Is Your Message

Finding Harmony with Yourself, Others & the Earth

by Eknath Easwaran

You are making a difference

This practical and inspiring book shows how you can live in harmony with your highest ideals.

You can find harmony with yourself by gaining mastery of your internal environment, a world within of thoughts, desires, and feelings as real as the world outside.

You can build harmony in your relationships with family, neighbors, and colleagues by learning to love more fully than you had thought possible.

You can establish harmony with the physical environment by living your life to ensure, in every way, a bright future for all our children.

You can learn to make your life a message of hope, love, and purpose.
The Prayer Chest by August Gold and Joel Fotinos

The Prayer Chest

A Novel about Receiving All of Life's Riches

by August Gold and Joel Fotinos

Joseph Hutchinson is a man who knows the reality of tragedy all too well; his life has been filled with misfortune and adversity. A widowed father of two, living on a farm that is about to be taken from him, Joseph embarks on an unexpected journey that will bring him face-to-face with his greatest fears, and ultimately with his greatest discovery - a mysterious wooden box hidden in his attic more than one hundred years earlier. This box, the Prayer Chest, contains the Three Secrets of Prayer that will change his life and the lives of everyone around him.

What starts out as a journey to save his children and himself turns into a quest through which he - and every reader who has ever struggled - discovers the power to make every prayer come true.

Rich in romance, mystery, and spiritual insight, The Prayer Chest is a wise and warm tale that will revolutionize everything we've ever thought about prayer - and the meaning of our lives here on earth. a parable for people of all faiths - or none - it is to be read, enjoyed, and above all, lived.

A hardcover book
Grace, Gaia, and the End of Days by Stuart Wilde

Grace, Gaia, and the End of Days

An Alternative Way for the Advanced Soul

by Stuart Wilde

"The divine wind of grace offers you hope and good fortune; it can cure everything. It can grant you an invisible protection, a miraculous healing; it can offer you visions through what I call 'pure information,' which is downloaded data that comes to you directly as visions, extrasensory perception, and dreams. Grace can carry you to dimensions and places of learning far beyond anything discovered by human beings before. Grace can grant you clemency for your darkness and liberate you. Grace is pure love, a great gift, the Sacred Healer, but it is one that is poorly understood." -- Stuart Wilde
Learning from the Heart by Daniel Gottlieb (January 2010)

Learning from the Heart

by Daniel Gottlieb

Lessons on Living, Loving, and Listening

Learning from the Heart is the book chosen to accompany the Center for Spiritual Living Santa Rosa's theme for the Month of January 2010

The answers are in these pages.

With gentle and guiding voice that has endeared him to millions of readers and listeners, Dan describes how we gain deeper wisdom and understanding from the unexpected events in our lives. A classic storyteller, Dan provides tender and deeply affecting "lessons" that reveal his own very human vulnerability as well as the love and generosity of others.

These revelations come from an author who has experienced many forms of loss in his own life. From the moment he suffered a spinal cord injury that left him quadriplegic at the age of thirty-three, Dan found himself facing the kinds of questions that most people encounter over the course of a lifetime. In the process of rebuilding his career, his family, and his life, Dan made discoveries about what all humans have in common, including a longing for love, understanding, and security. And he learned that the speed of life only takes us further away from what we long for.

In these chapters, Dan is unstintingly generous in sharing the thoughts and feelings that heve touched the lives of so many. From "Our Orphanhood" (why the universality of loneliness can make us feel less alone) and "We, the Wounded" (how wounds may be inevitable, but so is healing) to "What Our Children See" (how parental stress can shape a child's future) and "Holding My Mother's Hand" (a moving recollection on the death of a parent), Dan reflects on the challenges that all of us face as humans and the feelings that, too often, we do not allow to surface.

And, finally, Dan succeeds in answering the primary question: What does it mean to be human? His answers - challenging and reassuring, humorous and transcendent - are sure to touch the heart of every reader.
Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup

Here If You Need Me

by Kate Braestrup

Stunned and grieving, Kate decided to pursue what had been her husband's dream and bacame a minister. And soon she found a most unusual calling: serving as chaplain for search-and-rescue missions in the Maine woods, giving comfort to people whose loved ones are missing - and to the wardens who sometimes have to deal with dreadful outcomes. Whether with parents whose six-year-old daughter has vanished into the woods, with wardens as they search for a snowmobiler trapped under the ice, or with a man whose sister left an infant seat and a suicide note in her car by the side of the road, Braestrup provides solace, understanding, and spiritual guidance when they're needed most.

Here If You Need Me recounts Kate Braestrup's remarkable journey from grief to faith to happiness. Dramatic, funny, deeply moving, and simply unforgettable - it is a story about finding God by helping others and offers proof of the miracles that happen every day when a heart is grateful and life and love are restored.