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Art and Soul - Notes on Creating by Audrey Flack
Category: Art and Design | Series: Compass Ser.
One of our foremost female artists conducts us on a visionary journey into the heart of the creative process At a time when the art world is dominated by trendy egotists and art itself is marketed like toothpaste, Audrey Flack is both an anachronism and a revolutionary: a photorealist painter and sculp ...Show more
Be As You Are by Sri Maharshi, Sri Ramana Maharshi, David Godman And Sri Maharshi
Category: Spirituality | Series: Compass Ser.
The essential teachings of one of India's most revered spiritual masters.
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by G.I. Gurdjieff
Category: Spirituality | Series: Compass Ser.
"Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" is Gurdjieff's world-famous cosmological epic. It examines human life on Earth from the viewpoint of beings belonging to a distant world, led by the 'all-wise Beelzebub'. Through this cosmological allegory - rich in humour, anecdote and linguistic elaboration - Gurdji ...Show more
IF THE BUDDHA DATED by KASL CHARLOTTE DAVIS
Category: MBS/NEW AGE | Series: Compass Ser.
In this practical, playful, yet spiritual guide, Charlotte Kasl, author of the highly successful "Finding Joy: 101 Ways to Free Your Spirit and Dance with Life," shows you what it would be like to have the ancient wisdom of the Buddha to guide you through the dating process. Kasl brings a compassionate ...Show more
Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West
Category: Poetry | Series: Compass Ser.
In both eastern and western spiritual traditions, it is believed that certain mystics and saints receive a gift from God that makes them poetic conduits of the divine, bearers of 'love poems from God'. Twelve of these timeless spiritual poets, six from the East and six from the West, are beautifully pre ...Show more
Magus of Strovolos by Kyriacos C. Markides
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Compass Ser.
In this vivid account, Kryiacos C Markides introduces to us the rich and intricate world of Daskalso, The Magus of Strovolos. In what appears at first to be an exercise in fantasy, we see Daskalos draw on seemingly unlimited mixture of esoteric teachings, psychology, reincarnation, demonology, cosmology ...Show more
Myths to Live By by Campbell Joseph
Category: Religion | Series: Compass Ser.
What is a properly functioning mythology and what are its functions? Can we use myths to help relieve our modern anxiety, or do they help foster it? In Myths to Live by, Joseph Campbell explores the enduring power of the universal myths that influence our lives daily and examines the myth-making process ...Show more
Reluctant Saint - The Life of Francis of Assisi by Donald Spoto
Category: Religion | Series: Compass Ser.
"Don't make a saint of me," Francis of Assisi told a friend-even as his charisma and holiness were dazzling his contemporaries and generating a legend that has lasted almost a millennium. In Reluctant Saint, Donald Spoto, author of the acclaimed The Hidden Jesus, shows us a Saint Francis who transcends ...Show more
Subject Tonight is Love by Hafiz; Daniel Ladinsky (Translator)
Category: Poetry | Series: Compass Ser.
To Persians, the fourteenth-century poems of Hafiz are not classical literature from a remote past, but cherished love, wisdom, and humor from a dear and intimate friend. Perhaps, more than any other Persian poet, it is Hafiz who most fully accesses the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. Daniel Lad ...Show more
The Gift - Poems by Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky (Translator); Hafiz of Shiraz; Hafiz
Category: Poetry | Series: Compass Ser.
Chosen by author Elizabeth Gilbert as one of her ten favorite books, Daniel Ladinsky's extraordinary renderings of 250 unforgettable lyrical poems by Hafiz, one of the greatest Sufi poets of all timeMore than any other Persian poet--even Rumi--Hafiz expanded the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. B ...Show more
The Jewish Book of Why by Alfred J. Kolatch
Category: Judaica | Series: Compass Ser.
Why do Jews eat gefilte fish? Why are shrimp and lobster not cosher? Why do Jews fast on Yom Kippur? Why is a glass broken at the end of a Jewish wedding ceremony? If you have ever asked or been asked any of these questions, The Jewish Book of Why has all the answers. The hardback edition of The Jewish ...Show more
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe by Arthur Koestler
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Compass Ser.
This title presents a thought-provoking account of the scientific achievements and lives of cosmologists from Babylonians to Newton.
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