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Amazing Grace: 13 Conversations About the Life of the Soul
This special To The Best of Our Knowledge collection contains 13
Embracing Your Tara Brach is a psychologist, Buddhist meditation teacher, and author of Radical Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.
The Gift of Parker Palmer is a Quaker writer, educator, activist, and author of Let Your Life Listening for the Voice of Vocation.
Alone in a Tenzin Palmo was one of the first Western women ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun.
Divine Jazz singer Kurt Elling talks about reaching for the divine through his music.
In Praise of the Pattiann Rogers tells Jim Fleming that naming things is the way to notice and appreciate them.
Evening M.J. Ryan wants to revive the custom of saying grace before meals.
The Path of Gregg Krech talks about the Japanese tradition of Naikan-conscious thankfulness for everything that positively impacts your life.
The Town that Talks to the Christine Wicker talks about the small upstate NY town that has the world's largest community of Spiritualists.
Love Never Justine Picardie's book chronicles her efforts to contact her sister Ruth's spirit in the year after Ruth's death from breast cancer.
Life Without Novelist Jim Crace (Being Dead) says he's an atheist and wanted to find a way of talking about death that doesn't depend on God.
A Leap of Yann Martel (Life of Pi) says researching his book turned him into a churchgoer.
Jimmy Santiago Baca was illiterate and in a maximum security prison when he fell in love with poetry.
Living a Good Rabbi Harold Kushner says that people need to believe their lives are meaningful.
Embracing Your Tara Brach is a psychologist, Buddhist meditation teacher, and author of Radical Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.
The Gift of Parker Palmer is a Quaker writer, educator, activist, and author of Let Your Life Listening for the Voice of Vocation.
Alone in a Tenzin Palmo was one of the first Western women ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun.
Divine Jazz singer Kurt Elling talks about reaching for the divine through his music.
In Praise of the Pattiann Rogers tells Jim Fleming that naming things is the way to notice and appreciate them.
Evening M.J. Ryan wants to revive the custom of saying grace before meals.
The Path of Gregg Krech talks about the Japanese tradition of Naikan-conscious thankfulness for everything that positively impacts your life.
The Town that Talks to the Christine Wicker talks about the small upstate NY town that has the world's largest community of Spiritualists.
Love Never Justine Picardie's book chronicles her efforts to contact her sister Ruth's spirit in the year after Ruth's death from breast cancer.
Life Without Novelist Jim Crace (Being Dead) says he's an atheist and wanted to find a way of talking about death that doesn't depend on God.
A Leap of Yann Martel (Life of Pi) says researching his book turned him into a churchgoer.
Jimmy Santiago Baca was illiterate and in a maximum security prison when he fell in love with poetry.
Living a Good Rabbi Harold Kushner says that people need to believe their lives are meaningful.
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First published January 1, 2005
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October 20, 2007
I read this when struggling with the death of a friend and the beginning stages of what would be a pretty severe depression. It helped. I'm always fascinated to hear disparate views on what being alive means and this held some wonderful interviews from lovely people.
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