Recommended Reading
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Spirituality

• A Path With Heart : A Guide Through the Perils And Promises Of The Spiritual Life , Jack Kornfield

In undertaking a spiritual life, we must make certain that our path is connected with our heart, according to author and Buddhist monk Jack Kornfield. Since 1974 (long before it gained popularity in the 1990s), Kornfield has been teaching westerners how to integrate Eastern teaching into their daily lives. Through generous storytelling and unmitigated warmth, Kornfield offers this excellent guidebook on living with attentiveness, meditation, and full-tilt compassion. 

• Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice Of Vocation, Parker Palmer

The old Quaker adage, "Let your life speak," spoke to author Parker J. Palmer when he was in his early 30s.Thirty years later, Palmer now understands that learning to let his life speak means "living the life that wants to live in me." It involves creating the kind of quiet, trusting conditions that allow a soul to speak its truth. It also means tuning out the noisy preconceived ideas about what a vocation should and shouldn't be so that we can better hear the call of our wild souls. There are no how-to formulas in this extremely unpretentious and well-written book, just fireside wisdom from an elder who is willing to share his mistakes and stories as he learned to live a life worth speaking about.

• Finding Your Own Spiritual Path : AnEveryday Guidebook , Peg Thompson

This is an excellent practical guidebook for exploring your own spirituality. The author assumes no particular faith commitment, but shows how spiritual experiences are a part of our every day world and spiritual practices can be developed to enhance our life journey.