Organized around timeless themes, this book assembles more than 250 millennial benedictions by prominent spiritual leaders and visionaries from around the world.
Encompassing spirituality and social concerns, relationships and personal growth, and life's beginnings and endings, this all-new anthology offers a year's worth of richly eclectic texts from around the world in the popular Earth Prayers format. Includes works by Gary Snyder, Hildegard of Bingen, Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King, Jr., and from classical Chinese and Japanese verse, Native American chants, and more. Line drawings.
In forest clearings, beneath star-filled skies, in cathedrals, and before the hearth... women and men have always given voice to the impulse to celebrate the world that surrounds and sustains them. Now, as we face a diminished present and an uncertain future, the need to honor the interconnection between people and the planet is heightened. From Walt Whitman, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Black Elk, to Margaret Atwood, the Rig Veda, and the chant of a ...
