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Summary: A BOOK OF JOY AND WONDER!
Review: Imagine my pure glee at finding this book on a $5 sale table at Wal-Mart! I bought all five copies there and gave them to my daughters and closest friends. This book is full of jewels and small treasures that make you stop, think and appreciate the everyday miracles in your life. Many of my favorite authors are excerpted or quoted in these pages. A must read for every book lover and those with a seeker's heart. A very comtemplative, heartfelt book that feeds my soul and spirit each time I pick it up. I highly recommend it to everyone looking for a book that can bring you joy and enlightenment on every page.
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Summary: A BOOK OF JOY AND WONDER!
Review: Imagine my pure glee at finding this book on a $5 sale table at Wal-Mart! I bought all five copies there and gave them to my daughters and closest friends. This book is full of jewels and small treasures that make you stop, think and appreciate the everyday miracles in your life. Many of my favorite authors are excerpted or quoted in these pages. A must read for every book lover and those with a seeker's heart. A very comtemplative, heartfelt book that feeds my soul and spirit each time I pick it up. I highly recommend it to everyone looking for a book that can bring you joy and enlightenment on every page.
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Summary: Shows the reader how to see the spiritual side of life.
Review: Oprah said, "I keep Spiritual Literacy right on my bedside table. I love this book!" when she introduced the segment devoted to it on her show last year. Well, I beat her to it. I fell in love with the uncorrected advance proof which landed on my editor's desk because the Brussats are regular columnists for the magazine I work for, The Lutheran. It wonderfully teaches the reader how to see the spirituality already present in each of our daily lives--if only we know what to look for. That's given in a primer of spiritual literacy, from A for attention, B for beauty and C for connections straight through to X for the mystery, Y for yearning and Z for zeal. You don't have to retreat from the mundane to find spiritual truth. You have, rather, to plumb it. My copy of Spiritual Literacy still sits on my bookshelf headboard. This is a book to last a lifetime. And a marvelous bonus: Among the 600 some excerpts and passages you find authors that are old friends and are introduced to others destined to become new teachers.
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Summary: Comprehensive and excellent!
Review: This book is arranged in a series of topics, covering the gamut from the simple (the spirituality of the things in our life, ordinary objects we take for granted), to the most complex (the spirituality of community) and all the steps in between. What is especially marvellous about this book is the way that it doesn't merely state a concept or a lesson. It deomstrates it, via the several quotes and story-lets per topic taken from all spiritual traditions and ways. If it were possible to rate a book with six stars, I would rate this book that high.
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Summary: The Essence of Accumulated Wisdom
Review: This book summarizes the accumulated wisdom of human kind. It deals with final and fundamental principles of the genetic urge to find meaning. It teaches us once again that the need for religion--connection, love,beauty, to be listened to--is a natural biological urge reflected in many sects and domination all searching for the same things, the things discussed iin this book.
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Summary: Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life
Review: This is an excellent thought provoking book. The authors spent a great deal of effort collecting meaningful spiritual anecdotes, stories, memories, etc. They then convey how important each of these are no matter what dogma or religion one follows. We can all draw closer to each other, as fellow beings upon this planet, by reading this book. It is a moving and heart-warming book.
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