Christie, Douglas E.
Summary: "What might it mean to behold the world with such depth and feeling that it is no longer possible to imagine it as something separate from ourselves, or to live without regard for its well-being? To understand the work of seeing things as an utterly involving moral and spiritual act? Such questions have long occupied the center of contemplative spiritual traditions. In The Blue Sapphire of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8 CHRPark, Keith
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 PARRohr, Richard.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Center for Action and Contemplation 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 248.34 ROHRohr, Richard.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Center for Action and Contemplation 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 248.48 ROHSummary: Thomas Keating: A Rising Tide of Silence is a reflective portrait of Father Thomas Keating, one of today's most influential spiritual leaders. Interweaving historical footage, interviews, and extensive conversations with Father Thomas, the film traces his spiritual journey from an affluent New York City childhood, to an austere Trappist monastic life, to his rise through the Order, and his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Syndicado 2015
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Baugher, John E.
Summary: "After author John Baugher's mother was murdered in 1987, he felt that he was fated to join her killer in life imprisonment--not behind bars, but behind psychological walls of unresolved grief and anger. Baugher turned to hospice volunteering as a way tochannel his experience, marking the beginning of a twenty-five year journey of exploration--in both public hospices and prison hospice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.02 BAUGroff, Kent Ira.
Contents: Orientation -- Observing : focus on awareness -- Wading : focus on wonder -- Swimming : focus on methods -- Diving : focus on depth -- Floating : focus on flow -- List of exercises.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abingdon Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.46 GROItzler, Jesse
Summary: Entrepreneur and one-time rapper (under the name Jesse Jaymes) Jesse Itzler's life is bold and risky until he realizes he's ready for a major change. He decides to take up residence with the New Skete monks, a Russian Orthodox religious order in upstate New York. What he learns about the monks-- and himself-- is the focus of this memoir.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 255.81 ITZMay, Gerald G.
Summary: The natural world has a power to inspire the best and soothe the worst in each of us. In his last work, beloved author Gerald May offers a memoir and spiritual guide that reveals the lessons available when we retreat from our busy lives to the serenity of the natural wilderness. He expresses the healing and wholeness of spending time in the wild--hiking, camping, canoeing, fishing, or just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 615.851 MAYKortge, Carolyn Scott.
Summary: Sometimes life’s hurdles literally stop us in our tracks, sapping vitality and preventing us from participating fully in our own lives and the lives of those we love. Carolyn Scott Kortge recognizes that a key to joyous re-engagement with the world can be—just as literally—to get moving again. With a focus on walking for wellness, Kortge outlines a compassionate, practical program for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trumpeter 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.7 KORPennington, M. Basil.
Summary: Centering Prayer is a precious part of the ancient spiritual traditions of the West. When this practical guide was first published in 1978, people all over the world welcomed its simple and beautiful form of meditative prayer. Reflections and advice on Centering Prayer's possibilities?and its pitfalls?are presented with clarity and simplicity, exposing a vision of the deeper life of the soul...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SkyLight Paths Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248 PENVegt, Mirjam Van der
Summary: "We all long for moments when we can slow down and for opportunities to be still. Life can get hectic, as we continuously hop from one thing to another. Days are often filled with too much noise, anxiety, and confusion. What do you do when the life you created isn't what you expected it to be? What can you do to slow it all down? Author Mirjam van der Vegt encourages each of us to focus on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Worthy 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.3 VANVandroogenbroeck, Joël.
Contents: Contemplation -- Gongs -- Meditative contemplation -- Meditation
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Cleopatra Records 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE VANChawner, Dave
Summary: "Looking at the day-to-day struggle of living with an eating disorder, Dave Chawner shares how he became anorexic, and how he has started to recover. This engaging and sharply funny book will give hope to anyone in a similar situation, and give insight into life with mental illness to those fortunate enough not to have it"--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAWNER, DAVE CHANix, Megan
Summary: "An inspiring memoir and work of fierce advocacy by a mother whose child is born deaf, leading her to investigate and expose a preventable virus that causes more childhood disabilities than any other--but is kept quiet by the medical community. One virus causes more birth defects and disabilities in children than any other infectious disease, yet 93% of Americans don't know it exists. In 2015,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIX, MEGAN NIXSilbey, Uma.
Contents: Quiet days -- Tibetan sunrise -- Jungle dream -- Lament -- Contemplation.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naturescapes Publishing Inc. 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE QUIHayes, Louis
Contents: In case you haven't heard -- Moontrane -- Contemplation -- Jean-Marie -- Bilad as Sudan.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: TCB Music 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HayesCrossan, John Dominic.
Summary: Celebrates the revolutionary nature of the Lord's prayer, showing that the only prayer Jesus ever taught deserves intense contemplation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 242.722 CROLuyken, Corinna
Summary: "From moments of great joy and exuberance to necessary times of quiet contemplation, your heart is your guide" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LUYKhlevniuk, O. V. (Oleg Vitalʹevich)
Summary: Josef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk’s estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were victims of famine directly resulting from Stalin's policies. What drove him toward such ruthlessness? This essential biography, by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STALIN, JOSEPH KHLKeating, Thomas.
Contents: An introduction / Thomas Keating and Richard Rohr -- Balancing time, space, and God / Thomas Keating -- Jesus' incarnation: eternal now meets time and space / Rohr -- Centering prayer: accessing he present moment / Keating -- The great doorway: an intersection of timelessness and time / Rohr -- Question & answer session / Keating and Rohr -- Integrating action and contemplation: the task of the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Center for Action and Contemplation 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 248.8 KEATyner, McCoy.
Contents: Passion dance (8:43) -- Contemplation (9:10) -- Four by five (6:35) -- Search for peace (6:28) -- Blues on the corner (6:05).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 1987