TOPIC

Presence & spiritual lifebooks

Below are the best books we could find on Presence and spiritual life.

FindCenter Video Image

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.

1

FindCenter Video Image

Living Presence: The Sufi Path to Mindfulness and the Essential Self

With unique clarity, this book describes how presence can be developed to vastly improve our lives. Drawing on the work of the beloved Sufi poet, Rumi, as well as traditional material and personal experience, this book integrates the ancient wisdom of Sufism with the needs of contemporary life.

Kabir Edmund Helminski

FindCenter Video Image

Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self

Sufism is a centuries-old spiritual psychology leading to presence in life. Presence is our capacity to be whole in the moment, in alignment with our deepest wisdom. With unusual clarity, this book describes how presence is different from ordinary habits of mind, and how it can be developed.

Kabir Edmund Helminski

FindCenter Video Image

Falling in Love with Where You Are: A Year of Prose and Poetry on Radically Opening Up to the Pain and Joy of Life

As we open up to life and love and each other, as we awaken from our dream of separation, we encounter not just the bliss of existence, but its pain, too; not only life’s ecstasy, but also its agony.

1

FindCenter Video Image

Deep Is the Hunger

Meditations by Howard Thurman on timeless religious themes: A Sense of History, A Sense of Self, A Sense of Presence, and For the Quiet. Originally written for the bulletin at the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples in San Francisco.

FindCenter Video Image

Essence with The Elixir of Enlightenment: The Diamond Approach to Inner Realization

Essence has been combined with The Elixir of Enlightenment, a short introductory text directed toward students on the path who are frustrated by either the spiritual or psychological barriers that Western life can present.

FindCenter Video Image

Going on Being: Buddhism and the Way of Change

The bestselling author of Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart combines a memoir of his own journey as a student of Buddhism and psychology with a powerful message about how cultivating true self-awareness and adopting a Buddhist understanding of change can free the mind.

1

FindCenter Video Image

Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior

“Not only is there more to life than basketball, there’s a lot more to basketball than basketball.” —Phil Jackson Eleven years ago, when Phil Jackson first wrote these words in Sacred Hoops, he was the triumphant head coach of the Chicago Bulls, known for his Zen approach to the game.

Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty

FindCenter Video Image

The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down: How to Be Calm in a Busy World

Is it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind? The world moves fast, but that doesn’t mean we have to.

1

1

WHAT MIGHT HELP

The information offered here is not a substitute for professional advice. Please proceed with care and caution.

Sound Bath Meditation

UP NEXT

Mindfulness