Spiritual Wisdom

Many of our assumptions about empathy, sensual pleasure, and the essence of work, community, country, race, and the divine have germinated in Bob Dylan's need to know what's blowing in the wind and how it feels. Tracing his work and vision through themes that have shaped religious and cultural history for millennia, Stephen Daniel Arnoff uncovers how Bob Dylan has re-enchanted ancient questions of meaning and purpose throughout popular culture, inspiring a pantheon of prophetic musicians along the way.

These days, everyone is looking for peace. But too often we look in all the wrong places. In Finding Peace Here and Now, award-winning Catholic author Eric A. Clayton shows listeners that we should be looking inside ourselves. He reveals that peace starts within by discovering and embracing who we are meant to be in God.

Step into a transformative journey of enlightenment. This compelling exploration invites you to delve into the depths of ancient wisdom embedded within the Torah, the first 5 books of the Old Testament. Unlock the profound insights that transcend time and resonate with the core of human spirituality. This beacon guides you toward spiritual illumination, offering a roadmap for personal growth, inner peace, and profound spiritual understanding. Through an engaging narrative with accessible language, this book transcends religious boundaries, speaking to seekers of wisdom from all walks of life.

There is a church not too far from us that recently added a $25 million addition to their building. Our local newspaper ran a front-page story not too long ago about a study revealing that one in five people in our city lives in poverty. This is a book about those two numbers. It's a book about faith and fear, wealth and war, poverty, power, safety, terror, Bibles, bombs, and homeland insecurity, It's about what happens when Christians support, animate, and participate in the very things Jesus came to set people free from.

In this highly anticipated conclusion to Father Rolheiser’s spiritual classics, The Holy Longing and Sacred Fire, and with characteristic attentiveness and care, Rolheiser accompanies listeners on a spiritual journey through life’s final years and the mellowing of our souls. In these years, bitterness can give way to forgiveness, mere imagination to profound and subtle faith, wishful optimism to virtuous hope, and control to surrender.

Sylvia Browne, the world-renowned psychic and best selling author, offers a comforting glimpse into the afterlife, where lessons of great wisdom await to help us live more joyously here on earth. Let Blessings from the Other Side be your guide to remembering how beautiful your life can be.

What is karma? What is the soul’s true journey? In Karma and the Soul, Dr Bhaskar Bora blends timeless spiritual philosophy with modern insight to reveal how our choices shape destiny. This inspiring audiobook invites you to reflect on life’s deeper purpose, offering clarity on reincarnation, self-realization, and the eternal nature of consciousness. Both thought-provoking and uplifting, it is an essential listen for seekers of truth, wisdom, and inner peace.

Fr. Gallagher draws from real-life stories and his experience as a spiritual director to explain the core principles of the examen prayer: What is the examen and how can we begin to pray it? How can we adapt it to our individual lives? What are its fruits?

This audiobook is filled with Dr. Wayne Dyer's incomparable wisdom. It guides us to new levels of self-awareness. Includes: There Is A Spiritual Solution to Every Problem, Dr. Wayne Dyer's 10 Secrets to Success and Inner Peace, Improve Your Life Using the Wisdom of the Ages, and How to Get What You Really, Really, Really Want.

In modern Taoist practice, the emphasis is often on “going with the flow” (wu-wei) and not following any fixed rules of any kind. This may work well for an already enlightened Taoist Sage, but for the rest of us, following a spiritual path involves ethical, moral, and practical guidelines. As author and translator Gregory Ripley (Li Guan, 理觀) explains, the little-known 6th-century Taoist text called the Bai Yao Lu (Statutes of the Hundred Remedies) was created as a practical guide to what enlightened or sagely behavior looks like.

Is there a way to walk into the final chapters of life with peace and confidence, and with support and wisdom? We all are living an earthly story with a beginning, middle, and end. While aspects of our story's closing hold mystery, we do not have to feel lost as we move toward it. We instead can lean on the support and wisdom of others who know the path ahead. In Anticipating Heaven, Dr. Pyle offers that same practical advice and spiritual comfort to you and your loved ones as you navigate a serious illness.

Are you ready to strengthen your faith, deepen your connection with God, and walk confidently in His divine plan for your life? As a Black woman, you carry a unique and powerful spiritual legacy—one of resilience, faith, and divine favor. Yet, in the midst of daily struggles, self-doubt, and life’s challenges, it can be easy to feel disconnected from God’s promises. You may feel exhausted from carrying so much, waiting on His timing, or wondering if He hears your prayers.

Christians believe many myths about emotions: Emotions lead you astray. Emotions aren’t spiritual. And the biggest myth: God is not emotional. These myths, combined with a lack of training work together to create Christians who are fragile, reactive, and emotionally immature.

If Jesus took time away from the demands of life for stillness, rest, and prayer, shouldn’t His followers do the same? Yet living in a whirlwind of constant motion is all too familiar. Our many responsibilities and relationships are important: we want to go to our child’s game and say yes to that assignment at work and help lead that group at church. But when we go, go, go at the world’s pace, the anxiety and burnout start to weigh on our souls. Laura Smith invites you to pause, exhale, and explore what the Bible says about slowing down.

Every day we have an inner battle going on between two parts of ourselves: our ego and our soul. When we view the world through our ego lens, life can seem tragic, random, meaningless, and painful. When viewed from our soul’s perspective, we find divine order and soul agreements in every event of our lives. In this guide to aligning with your soul and seeing life through a divine lens, Sue Frederick presents mindful practices and spiritual tools to shift your perspective and step into your power.

We were created by God and for God, and the only way to find true joy, peace, and contentment is by understanding and embracing his wisdom. Wisdom is not some highbrow philosophical concept, but rather a highly practical tool for living the best possible life. The Wisdom of God captures Tozer's teaching on this topic as a way to understand the well-lived Christian life.

Selfistry offers a fresh take on embodying authentic spiritual principles. It is an innovative and integrative framework for self-reflection—an opportunity for the genuinely curious to reconsider their relationship with themselves and the cosmos. Listeners will learn about the nature of the “self” as described in ancient texts as well as modern science. They will come to understand what it means to observe oneself and engage in mindfulness in daily life, as well as how to address their assumptions about the fundamental nature of existence.

In The Spirituality of Dreaming, leading dream scholar and expert Dr. Kelly Bulkeley brings us a set of time-honored methods to stimulate innate dreaming capacities and amplify their impact in our waking lives. Relying on years of research, data analysis, and interviews, Bulkeley offers wisdom and strategies from "big dreamers"—people who have vivid, intense dreams and remember them.

"Whatever else I do, I must pray," emphasized R. A. Torrey. This strong conviction runs through the writings of all seven of the renowned Christian authors featured in this book. A Passion for Prayer offers spiritual and practical advice on how to effectively enter into prayer, live a life infused with prayer, and see profound answers to your petitions. It includes the writings of R. A. Torrey, Charles Spurgeon, E. M. Bounds, George Müller, Andrew Murray, Charles Finney, and D. L. Moody.

On Living Well collects some of Eugene Peterson's best never-before-published short writings to help you walk in the way of Jesus with a little more courage, passion, and hope - by offering new ways to practice generosity, community, prayer, simplicity, worship, inner peace, and so much more...even with the challenges of today. This book is a rich feast for the soul, ideal as a daily spiritual touchpoint or simply to nourish a heart hungry for pastoral wisdom.