The pages turn themselves."
Charles Scribner III
Jesse Walker is a twelve-year-old boy who is just trying to adjust to his new life in Eufala, Alabama, with his father and little sister after the death of his mother. But when Jesse finds a mysterious note from his mother in his backpack one morning, he suddenly finds himself questioning everything he has ever known. What is the Land of Miriam, and what does it have to do with him? And why is...
As a spiritual pilgrim for more than half a century, Jon Sweeney has practiced with teachers of many religious traditions. He's gone looking for wisdom, beauty, and truth wherever it can be found. But recently he's found himself learning closer to home--from the teacher-cats he lives with. What he discovered is that our greatest spiritual teachers are at our feet. Literally. They are the cats we love and treasure. Nearly 60 million cats live i...
Im Hier und Jetzt leben: Beobachtungen eines Katzenfreunds
Mit voller Überzeugung das tun, wonach einem gerade ist, sich vollkommen entspannen lernen und mehr Leichtigkeit erleben: Es gibt vieles, was wir uns von unseren vierbeinigen Wegbegleitern abschauen können. Jon M. Sweeney hat bereits mit neun Katzen zusammengelebt. Jede von ihnen hat ihn Dinge gelehrt, die man nicht aus Büchern erfahren kann, Lektionen, die einem nur zufrieden schnurr...
Author has 30 years of relationships in Jewish, Christian, body-mind-spirit, and multifaith spirituality publishing.Author has broad social media following: 10K followers @Twitter, 5K @Facebook, 950 @Instagram.His three volumes of Meister Eckhart poems coauthored with Mark S. Burrows (see comps) have garnered a growing following in both the U.S. and UK.After authoring nearly 50 books, this is his first book about books.Author lectures, reading...
The Irish Giants Poetry Chapbook combines poetry with photography made while journeying across the Emerald Isle. All poems, photography, and art contained within are by Laura Sweeney. Includes Haiku, free form, and metered poems. Assembled by Avant Garde Books.
Our greatest spiritual teachers may just be the furry companions right in our own homes--the cats we love and treasure. They live in the present moment, approach life with playfulness, sit in the sun, and know how to trust others. From the author of The Pope's Cat comes a warm, delightful book with lessons from our nearest spiritual companions."--
Within each of us is a divine treasure, and if we hope to discover it we need to go deep into the heart of who we are."-Meister Eckhart Meister Eckhart has been a huge influence on spirituality for more than 800 years, including to philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, Eckhart Tolle, Richard Rohr, D. T. Suzuki, Rudolf Steiner, and Matthew Fox-all crediting Eckhart as being an important influence on their thought. This book of Meister Eckhart medita...
Der Wolf von Gubbio und der Wolf in uns: Ängste überwinden
Franz von Assisi zählt zu den beliebtesten Heiligen der Welt. Er war besonders für seine Tierliebe bekannt. Das belegt auch die Geschichte über den Wolf von Gubbio, der die Bevölkerung lange Zeit bedrohte: Franziskus begegnete dem Tier furchtlos und ohne Gewalt. Er sprach mit ihm und fand Lösungen, die für die Menschen von Gubbio annehmbar waren.
Jon. M. Sweeney hat sich bereits in meh...
Most people living in the last quarter of the twentieth century knew Mother Teresa by name and appearance. They could also identify her as the saint of the gutters of Calcutta. Two years after her death, she was still recognized as "the most admired person of the century." So, what is there still to say about her? Quite a bit, as it turns out. The story of both her public and private lives remains little known, and we continue to grapple with ...
Yep, you've guessed it. Another over-dramatic twenty- something struggling to come to terms with their reality and trying to make sense of it through a collection of passive aggressive observations and anecdotes, which have somehow been threaded together to become Kind Regards (Life of the Extraordinary Ordinary).I've found myself living a life where I am striving to be a somebody, the star of my own show, only to realise that the only thing e...
Turn from fear and find peace. In Feed the Wolf, author and Saint Francis scholar Jon M. Sweeney explores fifteen spiritual practices from the essential wisdom of Saint Francis for us to apply to our twenty-first-century lives.