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Before the Spiritual Aurobindo, the Political Aurobindo Ghose

By Adrija Roychowdhury — 2018

Seven decades after India freed itself from the clutches of British rule, how exactly is the political philosophy of Sri Aurobindo remembered?

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This Is It: And Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

Six revolutionary essays from "the perfect guide for a course correction in life, away from materialism and its empty promise" (Deepak Chopra), exploring the relationship between spiritual experience and ordinary life—and the need for them to coexist within each of us.

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Alan Watts
1973
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The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way

This “impassioned and genuine” (Publishers Weekly) collection of essays gathers the “lavishly gifted” (The New York Times) Alice Walker's wide-ranging meditations on our intertwined personal, spiritual, and political destinies.

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Alice Walker
2014
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The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

Spending all our time trying to anticipate and plan for the future and to lamenting the past, we forget to embrace the here and now. We are so concerned with tomorrow that we forget to enjoy today.

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Alan Watts
2011
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness

Drawing equally on Walker’s spiritual grounding and her progressive political convictions, each chapter concludes with a recommended meditation to teach us patience, compassion, and forgiveness.

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Alice Walker
2007
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Hildegard of Bingen: Essential Writings and Chants of a Christian Mystic

Hildegard of Bingen―visionary, abbess, composer, dramatist, poet and healer―was the brilliant and passionate precursor of many of the great women mystics of the Middle Ages.

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Dr. Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook (translator)
2016
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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

MLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott. A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the successful completion of the boycott.

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Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson (introduction)
2010
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A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A powerful collection of the most essential speeches from famed social activist and key civil rights figure Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This companion volume to A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Clayborne Carson, Kris Shepard (editors)
2002
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Strength to Love

"If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives, it is Strength to Love." So wrote Coretta Scott King. She continued: "I believe it is because this book best explains the central element of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King (foreword)
2010
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The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism

“Every age has its teachers, who keep the eternal truths alive for all of us,” writes Marianne Williamson, the best-selling author of The Age of Miracles. “In the case of Andrew Harvey, the light he sheds is like a meteor burst across the inner sky.

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Andrew Harvey, Caroline Myss (foreword)
2009
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No Future without Forgiveness

The establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. Never had any country sought to move forward from despotism to democracy both by exposing the atrocities committed in the past and achieving reconciliation with its former oppressors.

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Desmond Tutu
2000
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