The Translator of Desires
This is a collection of 61 love poems, regarded as a lyrical masterwork from the late 12th and early 13th century, and represents the first…… Read More »
Category: Philosophy Spirituality
The Art of Celtic Seership
Caitlin is a world authority on the practice of Celtic spiritual traditions and the author of over 80 books and card decks. The meaning of…… Read More »
Letters to a young poet
First published in 1929, three years after the death of Rilke, this is a book I have been meaning to read for many years, and…… Read More »
Everything is Your Fault
Readers might baulk at the last word in the title of this book, in which case you can substitute responsibility – which appears in the…… Read More »
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 »
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 »