Firebird
This is a work of extraordinary power and eloquence, echoing the prophetic voice of Rumi for our time. Aptly subtitled 'a poetic journey of awakening…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy Spirituality
Finding Zen in the Ordinary
This is a wonderful bedside book consisting of 48 brief stories, prose poems, dialogues with a Zen teacher and moments of awakening where we see…… Read More »
Women of Ideas
Authors: Edmonds David, Nigel Warburton, Suki Finn
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Philosophy Spirituality
This book features 29 interviews from the podcast Philosophy Bites with leading women philosophers, beginning with an interesting chapter on what it is like being…… Read More »
In Praise of Ageing
Subtitled 'awakening to old age with wisdom and compassion', these reflections are divided into four sections – reality, vulnerability, identity and meaning – with individual…… Read More »
Quaker Quicks - in STEP with Quaker Testimony
The STEP in the title stands for simplicity, truth, equality and peace - principles at the heart of Quakerism and in the writings of Margaret…… Read More »
Ensoulment
This is a book of remarkable spiritual and cosmological insight based on the author's own unfolding deep purificatory process of what she calls ensoulment, 'the…… Read More »
The Black Madonna
This is an extraordinary overview and guidebook to the Black Madonna that includes short descriptions of 450 Black Madonnas in France -- there is even…… Read More »
From a Mountain in Tibet
This book tells the harrowing story of a young boy's escape with his older brother from Tibet, after the Chinese invasion of 1959. It chronicles…… Read More »
Why We Are Restless
Authors: Benjamin Storey, Jenna Silber Storey
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Philosophy Spirituality
As indicated by the subtitle, this culturally significant book engages our quest for contentment through the genealogical lenses of four French moralists -- Montaigne, Pascal,…… Read More »
This Life
At first glance this seems to be a book of two halves. The first half deals with our basic understanding of life in terms of…… Read More »