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1) Soul to soul
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Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Explores essential issues about the human experience and daily life, addressing the reasons that people typically suffer difficult lives and have trouble trusting others, in a spiritual guide that suggests how to shift one's perspective for greater life fulfillment
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"Inviting, accessible and personal. . . . A reminder of an overlooked truth: faith leads to joy." -James Martin, SJ, author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything
Fox News analyst Father Jonathan Morris challenges the wisdom espoused by New Age self-help experts with the time-tested counsel found in the Bible. Readers who may have sought solace in popular self-help books like Eckart Tolle's A New Earth, Rhonda Byrne's The Secret, or Deepak...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF 10% HAPPIER
Too busy to meditate? Can’t turn off your brain? Curious about mindfulness but more comfortable in the gym? This book is for you.
You’ll also get access to guided audio meditations on the 10% Happier app, to jumpstart your practice from day one.
ABC News anchor Dan Harris used to think that meditation was for people who collect crystals,...
Too busy to meditate? Can’t turn off your brain? Curious about mindfulness but more comfortable in the gym? This book is for you.
You’ll also get access to guided audio meditations on the 10% Happier app, to jumpstart your practice from day one.
ABC News anchor Dan Harris used to think that meditation was for people who collect crystals,...
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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In this book the author demonstrates how to navigate life challenges in four common areas including relationships, success, health, and personal growth, providing compassionate recommendations for achieving balance and handling conflicts. Life is full of challenges, both big and small. Spirituality is here to offer solutions. Over the course of his career as physician, teacher, the author has received thousands of questions from people facing every...
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INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“[I've Been Thinking…] is beautiful...I felt your soul on these pages.” –Oprah Winfrey
“If you are feeling stuck, lost, or you just need a pick-me-up, this is the book for you. Shriver’s wisdom will fill you up.” —Hoda Kotb, coanchor, The Today Show
The ideal book for those seeking wisdom, guidance, encouragement,...
“[I've Been Thinking…] is beautiful...I felt your soul on these pages.” –Oprah Winfrey
“If you are feeling stuck, lost, or you just need a pick-me-up, this is the book for you. Shriver’s wisdom will fill you up.” —Hoda Kotb, coanchor, The Today Show
The ideal book for those seeking wisdom, guidance, encouragement,...
10) Daring greatly: how the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead
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English
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Discusses how to embrace vulnerability in order to live whole, courageous lives, explaining that traits typically regarded as character flaws and weaknesses are actually clear paths to engagement and meaningful connections.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Life, like a poem, is a series of choices." In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman's personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist...
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** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ** ARE YOU READY TO LIVE IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE UNIVERSE ANDTHE LIFE YOU WANT TO LIVE? The #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Universe Has Your Back shows you how.
SUPER ATTRACTOR WILL TEACH YOU ESSENTIAL METHODS FOR MANIFESTING A LIFE BEYOND YOUR WILDEST DREAMS
Identified as “a new role model” by The New York Times and featured on Oprah’s...
SUPER ATTRACTOR WILL TEACH YOU ESSENTIAL METHODS FOR MANIFESTING A LIFE BEYOND YOUR WILDEST DREAMS
Identified as “a new role model” by The New York Times and featured on Oprah’s...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"From the legendary music producer, a savant at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book, many years in the making, that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. "I set out to write a book about what to do to make a great work of art. Instead, it revealed itself to be a book on how to be." -Rick Rubin Many famed music producers, however brilliant, become known for a particular sound which...
14) The power
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Explains how to draw on the force of love to realize positive changes in every aspect of one's life.
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Coming September 22nd from the worldwide bestselling author of Eat Pray Love: the path to the vibrant, fulfilling life you've dreamed of. Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert's books for years. Now this beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant generosity, she offers potent insights...
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Pollan, a radical challenge to how we think about drugs, and an exploration into the powerful human attraction to psychoactive plants -- and the equally powerful taboos Of all the things humans rely on plants for--sustenance, beauty, fragrance, flavor, fiber--surely the most curious is our use of them is to change consciousness: to stimulate or calm, fiddle with or completely alter, the qualities...
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"A guide to defining and then creating a flourishing life, based on the popular class at Yale What makes a good life? The question is inherent to the human condition, asked by people across generations, professions, and social classes, and addressed by all schools of philosophy and religions. This search for meaning, as Yale professors Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz argue, is at the crux of a crisis that is facing Western...
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2024.
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English
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""Love is our only hope," Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. "It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks." In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. "Love just won't...
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