Authors
Martin Buber
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Dorothy Day
Bede Griffiths
J. Krishnamurti
Henri J.M. Nouwen
Rainer Maria Rilke
Thich Nhat Hanh
Alan W. Watts
Simone Weil
Ken Wilber
Various

Martin Buber's Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings
Martin Buber (1947) 127pages US$6.95 C$9.95

"For there is no rung of being on which we cannot find the holiness of God everywhere and at all times." This book contains a small selection of hasidic sayings of this nature. They all revolve around a single question: How can we fulfill the meaning of our existence on earth? And so, dear reader, these pages are not concerned with the mysteries of heaven, but with your life and mine, in this hour and the next. These sayings were scattered through hundred of books, in versions largely distorted in the speeches and writings of the disciples who transmitted them. I have selected, reduced to the quintessence of meaning, and arranged them according to major themes, not because they are beautiful and interesting, but because of my belief that, in this selection, arrangement and form, they may serve to show even the reader who is very remote from their origins the way to the true life. - from the author's Preface (Citadel)

The Divine Milieu
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1960) 160pages US$12.50 C$18.50

This little book does no more than recapitulate the eternal lesson of the Church in the words of a man who, because he feels himself to feel deeply in tune with his own times, has sought to teach how to see God everywhere, to see him in all that is most hidden, most solid, and most ultimate in the world. These pages put forward no more than a practical attitude - or, more exactly perhaps, a way of teaching how to see. - from the author's Introduction (Harper Perennial)

The Dorothy Day Book: A Selection from Her Writings & Readings
Ed. by Margaret Quigley & Michael Garvey (1982) 124pages US$ 10.95 C$

Lord. did she read! Not just the expected bibliography of Christian revolution, either; along with Berdyaev, Pascal, Tolstoy, and Chesterton, she read the Lives of the Saints. literary gossip, Berlitz language courses, Murray Kempton, Dickens, Henry Miller, Dorothy Sayers, D.H.Lawrence, garden columns and, apparently, any travel book she could get her hands on. She read back issues of The Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor, gleaned by a roommate from the trashcans of Manhattan. Reading was not only an activity she thoroughly enjoyed (and she was fond of quoting Teresa of Avila: "One must do something to make life bearable.") but a wellspring of spiritual life which her vocation both engendered and required: "The books will always be there. If we give up many other distractions, we can turn to them. We can browse among the millions of words written and often just what we find can nourish us, enlighten us, strengthen us - in fact, be our food just as Christ, The Word, is also our food." The purpose of this book is to provide some examples of those wordsand, we hope a taste of that Food. - from the editors' Introduction (Templegate)

Marriage of East & West: A Sequel to The Golden String
Bede Griffiths (1982) 224pages US$12.95 C$19.95

When I wrote The Golden String, telling the story of my search for God, which led me to the Catholic Church and to a Benedictine monastery, I thought that I had reached the end of my journey, at least as far as this world was concerned. But in fact, even while I was writing The Golden String , a new era was about to begin in my life, which was to bring about changes, as profound as any that had gone before...All these came about through my meeting with an Indian Benedictine monk, who was planning to make a monastic foundation in India. For years I have been studying the Vedanta and had begun to realize its significance for the Church and the world. Now I was given the opportunity to go to the source of this tradition, to live in India and discover the secret of the wisdom of India. It was not merely the desire for new ideas which drew me to India, but the desire for a new way of life. I remember writing to a friend at the time: 'I want to discover the other half of my soul.' I had begun to find that there was something lacking not only in the Western world but in the Western Church. We were living from one half of our soul, from the conscious, rational level and we needed to discover the other half, the unconscious, intuitive dimension. I wanted to experience in my life the marriage of these two dimensions of human existence, the rational and intuitive, the conscious and unconscious, the masculine and feminine. I wanted to find the way to the marriage of East and West. - from the author's 1st chapter -The Discovery of India (Templegate)

Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti
J. Krishnamurti (1895-19 ) 370pages US$18 C$26.50
(HarperSanFrancisco, 1996)

The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom
Henri J.M. Nouwen (1996) 118pages US$9.95 C$14.95
(Image Books/Doubleday)

Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
Rainer Maria Rilke (1905) Translated by Anita Barrows & Joanna Macy (1996) 166pages US$21 C$28.50

Rilke's Book of Hours shares with the reader a new kind of intimacy with God, or the divine, that is solely lacking for most of us. And of the many revelations, what finally touches us is the reciprocal relationship between the divine and the ordinary; in other words, God needs us as much as we need God. Rilke influenced generations of writers with his Letters to a Young Poet, and now the Book of Hours carries the inspiration that our role in the world is to love it and thereby love God into being. These fresh translations by Joanna Macy, a mystic and spiritual teacher, and Anita Barrows, a skilled poet, capture Rilke's spirit in a way in which no one has been able to capture it before. (Riverhead)

The Rose Window and Other Verse from New Poems (Bilingual Edition)
Rainer Maria Rilke (1907/8) Selected & Illustrated by Ferris Cook (1997) 149pages

Rainer Maria Rilke was born in 1875 in Prague and died in 1926 in Switzerland. Rilke developed a rich poetic style characterized by striking symbolism and visual imagery, and is generally regarded as the greatest lyric poet of modern Germany. Most of New Poems was written in Paris, where Rilke admired and was influenced by, Rodin. The Rose Window and Other Verse from New Poems is a selection of poetry taken from New Poems, published in two parts: the first in December, 1907 and the second in August 1908. (Bulfinch Press)

Living Buddha, Living Christ
Thich Nhat Hanh (1995) 208pages US$11 C$16

"Discussing God is not the best use of our energy," Thich Nhat Hanh writes. "If we touch the Holy Spirit, we touch God not as a concept but as a living reality." With a gentle but firm hand, this monk leads us again and again from theory to practice. He continues: "When we see someone overflowing with love and understanding, someone who is keenly aware of what is going on, we know that they are close to the Buddha and to Jesus Christ." How would you feel if you met a person like that? Overjoyed? Of course. Comfortable. Perhaps not. Reading Living Buddha, Living Christ , I felt the same challenge. The challenge I felt was personal. It came not from any thing Thay said, but from his silence, from between the lines. I felt a bit like the almond tree confronted by St. Francis. "Start blooming, frozen Christian!" the mystic Angelus Silesius called out. "Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom if not here and now?" Thich Nhat Hanh words entered me like a Zen koan: "Speak to me of God!" This is the challenge that Thich Nhat Hanh offers us: Come alive, truly alive! - from the Foreword by Brother David Steindl-Rast (Riverhead)

The Way of Zen
Alan W. Watts (1957) 236pages US$11 C$14.95

This book is intended both for the general reader and for the more serious student. The book is divided into two parts, the first dealing with the background and history of Zen, and the second with its principles and practice. The sources of information are of three types. I have, firstly, used almost all the studies of Zen in European languages. Naturally, I have made considerable use of the works of Professor D.T.Suzuki. Secondly I have based the essential view of Zen here presented upon a careful study of the more important of its early Chinese records, with special reference to the Hsin-hsin Ming, the T'an Ching or Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, the Lin-chi Lu, and the Ku-tsun-hsu Yu-lu. Thirdly, my information is derived from a large number of personal encounters with teachers and students of Zen, spread over more than twenty years. -from the author's Preface (Vintage)

Waiting for God
Simone Weil (1909-43) Translated by Emma Craufurd (1951) 227pages US$ C$18.50
(HarperPerennial)

The Marriage of Sense and Soul: Integrating Science and Religion
Ken Wilber (1998) 224pages US$13 C$17.95

Fact and meaning, truth and wisdom, science and religion. It is a strange and grotesque coexistence, with value-free science and value-laden religion, deeply distrustful of each other, aggressively attempting to colonize the same small planet. it is a clash of Titans, to be sure, yet neither seems strong enough to prevail decisively nor graceful enough to bow out altogether. The trial of Galileo is repeated countless times, moment to moment, around the world, and it is tearing humanity, more or less, in half. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread; therefore the integration of science and religion is the theme of this book.... From the depths of a Kosmos too miraculous to believe, from the heights of a universe too wondrous to worship, from the insides of an astonishment that has no boundaries, an answer begins to suggest itself, and whispers to us lightly. If we listen very carefully, from within this infinite wonder, perhaps we can hear the gentle promise that, in the very heart of the kosmos itself, both science and religion will be there together to welcome us home. - from the author's Introduction (Broadway)

One Taste: The Journals of Ken Wilber
Ken Wilber (1999) 386pages US$25 C$38

In the past I have strenuously resisted going public. I am not a private person, in the sense of secretive; I's just not a public person, in the sense of seeking the limelight. Nonetheless, as one who has written extensively about the interior life, it seemed appropriate, at some point, to share mine. The following pages therefore contain, a fair amount of what would ordinarily be considered private material. Still, in the last analysis, this is a philosophical more than a personal journal: it deals primarily with ideas, and especially those ideas that orbit the sun of the perennial philosophy (or the common core of the world's great wisdom traditions). In one area, however, this is a very personal journal: extensive descriptions of meditation practices and various mystical states , based on my own experience...If there is a theme to this journal it is that body, mind, and soul are not mutually exclusive. The desires of the flesh, the ideas of the mind, and the luminosities of the soul - are perfect expressions of the radiant Spirit that alone inhabits the universe, sublime gestures of that Great perfection that alone outshines the world. There is only One Taste in the entire Kosmos, and that taste is Divine, whether it appears in the flesh, in the mind, in the soul. Resting in that One Taste, transported beyond the mundane, the world arises in the purest Freedom and radiant Release, happy to infinity, lost in all eternity, and hopeless in the original face of the unrelenting mystery. From One Taste all things issue, to One Taste all things return - and in between, which is the story of this moment, there is only the dream, and sometimes the nightmare, from which we would do well to awaken. -from the author's A Note to the Reader (Shambhala)

An Interrupted Life (The Diaries 1941-43) and Letters from Westerbork
Etty Hillesum Translated by Arnold J. Pomerans ( 1982/1986) US$ C$
(Owl Books)

Radical Optimism: Rooting Ourselves in Reality
Beatrice Bruteau (1996) 139pages US$ C$
(Crossroad)

Spirituality by the Numbers
Georg Feuerstein (1994) 252pages US$11.95 C$15.75
(Jeremy P.Tarcher/Putnam)

The Trouble with Being Born
E.M.Cioran (1973) Translated by Richard Howard (1976) 212pages US$13.95 C$18.95
(Arcade Publishing)

What We Can Learn From the East
Beatrice Bruteau (1995) US$11.95 C$
(Crossroad)