This book offers excellent pointers on living wisely and fully, clear insight into approaching therapy from a non-dual perspective, and a light touch with the ultimate truth. The author addresses a multitude of important questions: - How do we fully live in the world and yet avoid getting attached to it? - How do we deal with our painful thoughts and feelings? - What about personal responsibility and relationships? - What is truth? - How can we become truly happy? - Are we really in control of our lives? - Can we ever hope to get enlightened?

Rediscover the beauty in yourself by working with these nine seeds of the soul. Working with these nine seeds, you become a beauty in life experiences. By obtaining these seeds and cultivating them, you acquire strength as they grow into a garden of fruit trees of wisdom. The metaphors are life experiences as your seed grows from a seed to a fruit tree of wisdom. You develop character in how you respond to the metaphor of life with the seed you plant. You develop into beauty by combining the physical with the soul. You grow into beauty by growing from a seed of the soul into a fruit tree of wisdom.

Presents the journey of the Soul as it searches for freedom and liberation from its earthly bondage, seeking the Oneness and light from which it originally came. This book helps you to investigate the many aspects within yourself which opens the window of the viewing room to your Soul.

People today are starving for spiritual nourishment. They search for God in the most unusual places, in money, material goods, power, and sex to mention but a few. Their search requires an interior journey into their own hearts where God alone will speak to them. Unfortunately few have any real experience of this gift from God and as a result live partial lives. This collection of homilies, given by the author in his parish church, seeks to show the reader that God is already in their world and they need to look again at the world they live in and recognize his presence.

In this wide-ranging and thought-provoking study, Maryanne Cline Horowitz explores the image and idea of the human mind as a garden: under the proper educational cultivation, the mind may nourish seeds of virtue and knowledge into the full flowering of human wisdom. This copiously illustrated investigation begins by examining the intellectual world of the Stoics, who originated the phrases "seeds of virtue" and "seeds of knowledge." Tracing the interrelated history of the Stoic cluster of epistemological images for natural law within humanity--reason, common notions, sparks, and seeds--Horowitz presents the distinctive versions within the competing movements of Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity, Augustinian and Thomist theologies, Christian mysticism and Kabbalah, and Erasmian Catholicism and the Lutheran Reformation. She demonstrates how the Ciceronian and Senecan analogies between horticulture and culture--basic to Italian Renaissance humanists, artists, and neo- Platonists--influence the emergence of emblems and essays among participants in the Northern Renaissance neo-Stoic movement. The Stoic metaphor is still visible today in ecumenical movements that use vegetative language to encourage the growth of shared values and to promote civic virtues: organizations disseminate information on nipping bad habits in the bud and on turning a new leaf. The author's evidence of illustrated pages from medieval, Renaissance, and Enlightenment texts will stimulate contemporary readers to evaluate her discovery of "the premodern scientific paradigm that the mind develops like a plant."

"White liberals once marched arm-in-arm with black activists during the civil rights era. Since the 1970s, however, cooperation has dwindled. Why? Paul Griffin believes it is because some Northern white liberals still carry the seeds of racism. His book examines how pious New England Puritans sought to explain the different stations of the races as God's arrangement. One of the many consequences today, for example, is that white liberals and feminists may support affirmative action, but only because they believe that African Americans (and other minorities) are inferior."--BOOK JACKET.