Bridging personal and global transformation, this resource explores how psychosynthesis, a spiritual psychology, can help people participate more fully in the Great Turning toward a life-sustaining society.

A birthright Friend, Carolyn Treadway and her husband were founding members of Bloomington-Normal Friends Meeting. She is an accredited and certified pastoral counselor, family therapist, and social worker. Here with Molly Young Brown she has collected and edited, personal stories, amplified by poetry and photography from 72 contributors, (including many Quakers) that illustrate, though times and lives are changing, how inspiring real life can be. -- Quakerbooks description.

This delightful little book offers a vivid mix of inspirational thoughts and imagery on the life of the spirit-from celebrated and lesser-known writers and thinkers, ancient and modern-to guide all those seeking to deepen their spiritual lives. The collection includes reflections from Rainer Maria Rilke, Thich Nhat Hahn, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Charlotte Joko Beck, Gary Synder, Joanna Macy, Ram Dass, Deena Metzger, Jack Kornfield, Thomas Merton, Rumi, and many others. The quotations are arranged in four sections: Awakening; Embracing the Darkness; Love, Joy, and Interbeing; Action and...