On our Summer Bookshelf..
Quarterly Edition

FindtheDivine is now offering a quarterly book review: Our clients and friends are welcome to recommend a book or list their own at no charge on our fall edition.

Let the reading begin..
The Artist's Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic 
Wisdom  by Christine Valters Paintner






Christine Valters Paintner, author of  Water, Wind, Earth, and Fire, invites readers to discover and develop their creative gifts in a spirit of prayer and reflection.  This twelve-week course draws on the insights and practices of Benedictine spirituality to explore the interplay between contemplation and creativity.

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of 
Decluttering and Organizing  by Marie Kondo

Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles?  This #1  New York Times   best-selling guide to decluttering your home from Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes readers step-by-step through her revolutionary KonMari Method for simplifying,
organizing, and storing.

The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the 
Power of Love  by Ilia Delio

The award-winning author of Christ in Evolution and The Emergent Christ breaks new ground with this capstone in a trilogy that opens our eyes to the everywhere active, all powerful, all intelligent Love that guides and directs our new awareness of interrelatedness and interbeing.

Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness b y Robert Sardello

Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness  opens our eyes to the importance of cultivating the nurturing aspects of silence in our personal relationships and enables us to awaken the inner currents of spirituality that ultimately lead to a path of universal compassion, service, and healing.  With its beautifully rich prose, Robert Sardello's newest book invites us to experience silence as a companion presence, a creative heart-felt experience that renews, restores, and deepens the body's response to the internal and external world. 

Milk and Honey  by Rupi Kaur

Milk and Honey  is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.
The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.

The Mystical Imagination: Seeing the Sacredness of All of Life  by 
Mark Votava

T here is a lot of talk these days of community and mission, but formation is sometimes forgotten in the midst of it all. This seems to be the most difficult part of our lives to practice because it is embedded in mystery, paradox, and is beyond the intellect. The Mystical Imagination takes you on a path into the depths of the interior life where our concepts of God unravel and our true self comes to life. We start to live into a more countercultural way of life where a contemplative spirituality is our greatest longing and our deepest expression of love in the world.


Starve the Ego: Feed the Soul!
Souldrama: Ignite Your Spiritual Intelligence!  by Connie Miller

What keeps people stuck in relationships, careers, addictions? Souldrama helps us to move past the resistance in our lives preventing us from accessing our higher purpose. Souldrama integrates all three levels of intelligences, our rational, emotional, and spiritual, through a group process that puts spirituality into action. The end result helps us to create spiritually intelligent leadership. Souldrama moves group therapy and psychodrama to another level, that of the transpersonal.

The Art of Living Your Destiny  by Ronda LaRue
A powerful guidebook for those seeking to directly experience - within themselves - how to awaken to soul, move beyond the fear-based ego self, and live more fully and authentically in every day real life. This book will be especially helpful to those seeking the surprising gifts of personal spiritual growth and wisdom hidden behind life's most difficult challenges, crossroads and life transitions through engaging the SoulArts Process of Awakening(tm) - a life-transforming creative tool for leading a life of awakened purpose, peace and passion
 
Pure Act:The Uncommon Life of Robert Lax by Michael N. McGregor

Pure Act tells the story of poet Robert Lax, whose quest to live a true life as both  an artist and a spiritual seeker inspired Thomas Merton, Jack Kerouac, William Maxwell and a host of other writers, artists and ordinary people.  Known in the U.S. primarily as Merton's best friend and in Europe as a daringly original avant-garde poet, Lax left behind a promising New York writing career to travel with a circus, live among immigrants in post-war Marseilles and settle on a series of remote Greek islands where he learned and recorded the simple wisdom of the local people.

 
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age 
by Sherry Turkle

Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has been studying digital culture for over thirty years. Long an enthusiast for its possibilities, here she investigates a troubling consequence: at work, at home, in politics, and in love, we find ways around conversation, tempted by the possibilities of a text or an email in which we don't have to look, listen, or reveal ourselves.

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