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Perspectives is a book of contemplative art… poetic reflections on topics surrounding Self, Love, and God that humans have wrestled with for all time. It doesn’t offer answers or any solutions, just presence. In being with this book, you will find yourself experiencing FREEDOM and a reinvigorated spirit. Not in a striving way, but your soul will find more peace and permission to naturally express its truest truth.

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 223 This book examines the influence of members of the Society of the Sacred Mission at Kelham Hall on T. S. Eliot’s poetics, cultural criticism and his search for identity. It focusses particularly on Eliot’s friendship with Br George Every SSM, and the correspondence between them that led to a deep intellectual and spiritual relationship. The author builds his study on his own conversations and correspondence with Every, the archive of Society of the Sacred Mission papers in the Borthwick Institute in York, and the collection of papers and other material left to...

Discover the timeless classic that has inspired millions of people worldwide. Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is a collection of 26 fables that explore the depths of the human experience. From love and marriage to work and pleasure, this prose poetry masterpiece speaks to the soul of humanity. Gibran's inspiring and thought-provoking messages will stay with you long after you finish reading, providing you with an experience of profound insight.

Stones Before The Ocean is an anthology of poetry for use in prayer and worship, featuring over 200 poems from modern and classic poets.

On Being Human is a compilation of original poems by Ghazala Alam. Written in modern Urdu and English, each poem is introduced by an English preamble detailing her inspirations and insights. Accompanied by English transliteration, her poetry is informed by her experiences as an immigrant, woman, and a person of color.

The 97 free-verse poems in No Way are incredibly funny, but for seekers they may also seem paradoxical, heretical, penetrating, and insightful. If you’re lucky, you’ll recognize yourself in its words–it’s good to see when you’ve been taking yourself a little too seriously. One minute you’ll howl with laughter at people's pretenses, and the next you’ll squirm self-consciously as Ram Tzu gleefully points out that you, like the fabled emperor, also wear no clothes.

In this stunning new collection of poems, Rachel Hunt Steenblik (Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings) explores the deep, human longing for a divine mother to complement the male God that has long dominated our culture.

Chronology of Love is more than a book of poems to understand. Chronology of Love is a place where your soul and your senses can experience the goodness and fullness of the Lord God - creation's Master Gardener. The Spirit of God will touch you as you make your way through this book. He has breathed life into Keat's garden. Rather than rush your way through each chapter, let the Spirit breathe into you poem by poem.

Time Peels All to Original White is the debut poetry collection of a new lightning voice thta shows the epiphanic power of simplicity, reinventing popular thinking about the breadth of spirituality, and boldly addresses questions of perennial human concern. BookLife lauds it as, “richly emotional poems of faith, connection, and eternity.” Foreword calls it, “Inventive, beautiful, and deep, the poems muse on subjects of perennial relevance in fresh, literary ways.” Kirkus states, “From the first page to the last, the poems are dramatic and deeply spiritual." Xueyan, the young poet ...

Frances Chesterton, wife of British journalist G.K. Chesterton, was a gentle poet and playwright. Her sweet works long lay in obscurity, except for a few Christmas lyrics, which have never gone out of print. Her plays for children were in demand when she wrote them; there is a demand for them again today. Her poems and plays reveal a woman of deep thought, a spiritual woman, a woman longing for Christ, and especially drawn to Him at the Nativity, when He was a small baby. To read these works is to understand better G.K. Chesterton's wife and spiritual companion. And so, these works are ...

Ranging from the courage of the ordinary men and women of India who fought for their freedom, to the sublime perfection of the Siddha, this collection of poems is a tribute to the spirituality that is life itself! As one reader describes them, the poems based on the characters and legends of India, are so beautifully descriptive that they come alive as one reads them. The rage of Draupadi as she is being stripped in the full court, the dejection of Arjuna as he faces his cousins in war; the piety of the great poet saints of India..return to life in this skillful rendering of stories in ...

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 074 George Herbert’s anguish when he sensed that God was calling him to become a priest, his almost mystical vision of the priestly office, and the total dedication with which he finally embraced it, provide us with inspiration and encouragement in our own desire to serve God. In this perceptive study of four of Herbert’s best-loved poems, ‘The Collar’, ‘Love’, ‘Aaron’, and ‘The Flower’, Kenneth Mason shows how Herbert’s way with words illuminates God’s ways with the human heart. Kenneth Mason, born in 1931, was ordained priest in 1959. After ...

In soaring blank verse, Brighter and Brighter until the Perfect Day reimagines the entire scope of existence from premortal life through the creation, the fall, mortality, the Atonement, and beyond. This gorgeous epic poem blends theology (including the Latter-day Saint doctrine of a Heavenly Mother), science, and imagination in a way that is thoroughly engaging, elegant, and provocative.

Inside the Stretch of My Heart: From Morning to Night is a companion poetry collection to The Dream of Stairs: A Poem Cycle, which was privately printed as a posthumous memorial volume in 1975, a year after Susan Noble’s untimely death in 1974 at the age of 31. Susan wrote the poems in batches of half a dozen or more, from 1965 onwards, in what she described as manic bursts of creativity, announcing with her typically light-hearted ironic self-depreciation, ‘The muse has struck me!’ But these poems are anything but light-hearted, and even a first reading will reveal clearly that ...

On Yaje Nights is a tribute to yaje, ayahuasca, the Vine of The Dead. Using poems, songs and visions, the author reveals his experiences with the sacred remedy whilst working with Peruvian and Colombian healers.

Apples of Gold is a collection of twenty eight poems meant to inspire and uplift, and offer encouragement for Christians. It is written with the spirit to edify and perfect the faith of those who have been walking with God for a while and those who are new to the faith. In addition, I hope this poetry speaks to others who have not initiated a relationship with the Lord. Just as my first two books, Words Fitly Spoken and Words Fitly Spoken Book Two spoke of God’s mighty power, his faithfulness and his tender loving care for us, Apples of Gold continues along the same vein.

This collection of poems guides the listener in the unfoldment of their “self” (the egoic self) into the “oneself” (the soulful self). Each poetic life lesson radiates a divine carrier wave of healing vibration, a gentle and generous guide to pave the way toward self-transformation. The insights serve as a guide to explain the unfoldment of self through conscious awareness.

Poetry is an art form that oftentimes can be difficult for modern day audiences to interpret. However, the 101 poems contained in this book have been individually selected to speak directly to the heart in simple language that is easily understood by all. Although Napoleon Hill was not a poet, he read many of the poems contained in this volume and even referred to them in his books. Poets like Edgar Guest, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Jessie Rittenhouse, Walter Wintle and William Shakespeare were among Hill's favorites.

La realizzazione di questa Commedia di Dante si deve al contributo appassionato di diversi attori:Ivano Marescotti ha prestato la sua voce profonda...

Poetry, like religion, is the practice of wonder—a way of being open, a way of reaching out to touch the hem of the world’s garment. Like the great spiritual teachers, poetry invites us to be radically present, to inhabit the world a little more closely, to attend a little more lovingly, with an awareness beyond the mere mind. The numinous shines right before our eyes, nonchalantly hidden, poorly disguised. God lurks in the shadowy places.