Sacred Lives

The bestselling author of Stones From the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but flawed, Italian American family. In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parent's Studebaker, the Paradise...

This book is a transformative journey into the heart of Freemasonry, where timeless principles offer profound guidance for personal growth. Here, we explore the timeless teachings of Freemasonry and how they can help us lead more fulfilling lives. In this insightful listen, we journey through various aspects of daily modern life, from embracing change and cultivating resilience to practicing gratitude and forgiveness. Each chapter offers relatable examples of how Masonic principles can be applied to our everyday experiences, making it easier to navigate the complexities of modern life.

A practical and compassionate guide to rekindling your connection with nature and opening up to plant consciousness for guidance and inspiration to enrich your path. This is a heart-centered journey of discovery, rewilding, and enchantment, inspired by the author’s experiences with plants while running a flower farm.

Across time and across the world, an ancient serpent cult once dominated mankind. Then a great battle ensued and Christianity stamped its authority on the face of the planet. Now, after years of research, the real religious history of the world can be told. In Secrets of the Serpent, Philip Gardiner for the first time reveals the secret of the Holy Grail and Elixir of Life, and how the world's most mysterious places were once sacred to the serpent cult.

Whether you are aware of it or not, there is an underlying current in your life - a divine flow - that is continually guiding you toward the effortless fulfillment of your heart's desires. The challenge is learning how to recognize and cooperate with that flow. And that's what Row, Row, Row Your Boat will teach you how to do. In a refreshingly clear and memorable manner, you will find out how to stop blocking the experience of the divine flow in your life...and you will discover what you can do to experience the flow's miracles more freely and more frequently.

“Sacred Gifts of a Short Life” chronicles the end of life journeys of several of Dr. Liz’s patients in a way that allows us all to see death from the perspective of both profound sadness, and precious sacredness. Sacred Gifts of a Short Life takes us on an exploration of some of the difficult questions surrounding the end of life journeys of our furry loved ones. Honest, pragmatic, compassionate, empowering and refreshing, it answers questions such as: Is it time?

Grigori Rasputin began life as a peasant in the poorest reaches of Siberia and ended his life as the virtual second-in-command of Tsarist Russia. How did he achieve such a rapid change in fortunes? Was it through palace intrigue or magic and mind control? Or perhaps, the causes were a combination of hypnosis and hemophilia? The tsar’s son Nicholas had been born with the dreaded “royal disease” otherwise known as the blood clotting deficiency named hemophilia. The self-proclaimed healer managed to convince the royal family that he was the only way that their son would stay alive.

When one thinks of the Kabbalah, they often think of the 10 emanations of the tree of life. It is by far the most popular of the Kabbalistic symbols and rightfully so. It is also the one most, how shall I say, comprehensible of the Kabbalistic principles. Of course, it contains deep mysteries but if one were to attempt to describe its function, it can be done so with ease. This is the aspect of Kabbalah most people are exposed to.

This is unlike any other book I have written to-date. For some, this will be incredibly controversial, especially within certain Jewish groups that are more traditional in their practices. I will get a ton of hate mail for this book, in fact I may even get death threats because the use of Tefillin that I will recommend will be a sacrilege to many people, but also a liberation to some as well. This is okay, because it is my job in this world to provide my listeners with magick that works.

Tras analizar en profundidad el Dao de jing, Wayne W. Dyer ha escrito 81 capítulos en los que aplica al mundo moderno la sabiduría ancestral que contiene la obra maestra de Lao Zi. Cada uno de ellos está pensado para que experimentemos de manera efectiva el Tao o «gran camino». Nuevos pensamientos para una vida mejor es un libro que debe leerse pausadamente, a razón de un capítulo por día. En palabras del autor, «cambiará para siempre tu manera de ver la vida, y como resultado seguirás el curso del mundo de una manera acorde con la Naturaleza».

One with God: Book 1 gives an intimate and candid portrait of three women who were determined to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit as promised in A Course in Miracles. Now they do. As a practice of forgiveness, they have taken back layers of ego projections and thus experience the constancy and love of Spirit in every aspect of their lives.

Do you feel a little insecure in your personal life? Do you feel unloved or not accepted by your partner? While everyone has their own personality, there are emotional needs that we all need to feel. When it comes to emotional security with your partner, these needs are desire, passion, respect, security, love, and acceptance. If you do not feel all of them, your emotions are not going to be fully met. The purpose of this audiobook is to focus on the lack of security in a relationship.

The Moral Compass is the inspiring and instructive companion volume to William J. Bennett's bestselling work, The Book of Virtues, offering many more examples of good and bad, right and wrong, in great works from literature and in exemplary stories from history. Organized by the stages along...

The Great Unlearning: Awakening to Living an Aligned and Authentic Life is an invitation and initiation your soul has been craving. It's time to flip the narrative and concepts of self-help and personal development by doing something different, with actionable steps. Phi Dang boldly reveals within this audiobook that we do not need to learn more in our human experience. In fact, now is the time to unbecome and unlearn a great deal from our past in order to become our best selves.

By the time he was 30, Syd Kessler was a millionaire many times over, the epitome of the poor kid making good. But inside him, a hollowness was taking hold, and later, in middle age, he fell seriously ill. In the dark days of a long recovery, Kessler explored the Kabbalah and the discoveries of quantum physics, developing a system of moral principles from the truths of how the universe began and operates. His set of principles - from Big Bang to Moral Cause and Effect to Selfless Selfishness to Closure and Energy - are revolutionary.

We do not have even fragments of the teachings of former World Teachers given prior to certain knowledge of Their existence. We do not have the teachings of a Christ, or a Buddha, or a Krishna, except seen through the eyes of later followers. For the first time, we are given the flavor of the thoughts and insights of a Being of immeasurable stature, to enable us to understand the path of evolution stretching ahead of us which He has come to outline for us.

At loose ends with her daughter leaving home and her husband on the road, Sue Halpern decided to give herself and Pransky, her under-occupied Labradoodle, a new leash - er, lease - on life by getting the two of them certified as a therapy dog team. Smart, spirited, and instinctively compassionate, Pransky turned out to be not only a terrific therapist but an unerring moral compass. In the unlikely sounding arena of a public nursing home, she led her teammate into a series of encounters with the residents that revealed depths of warmth, humor, and insight Halpern hadn't expected.

Jenny Kutz Papapostolou, who accepted God’s assignment to run a children’s home in Greece, knows from experience that to achieve greatness in God’s Kingdom, you must first learn humility. In Sacred Smallness, Jenny points out that while Christian culture often heralds fame and wealth as the ultimate success, God is delighted in humble surrender—even when it leads to sacred smallness and holy hiddenness.

During its 2,500-year life, the book of Genesis has been the keystone to almost every important claim about reality, humanity, and God in Judaism and Christianity. And it continues to play a central role in debates about science, politics, and human rights. With clarity and skill, acclaimed biblical scholar Ronald Hendel provides a panoramic history of this iconic book, exploring its impact on Western religion, philosophy, science, politics, literature, and more.

Life as a pastor's wife offers meaningful opportunities to play a significant part in God's work, to witness and participate in the beauty of changed lives. Yet it also carries the potential for deep wounds and great conflict that can drain the joy out of service. Is it worth it? Oh, yes, says Kay Warren, wife of Pastor Rick Warren and cofounder of Saddleback Church. It is more than worth the risk - it's a sacred privilege.