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Foundation list for SSH
Finding Sanctuary: Monastic steps for Everyday LifeFinding Sanctuary: Monastic steps for Everyday Life by Christopher Jamison
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Inspiration for the Signposts to Sanctuary Hour, especially the role of reading in our development of inner quiet.
Everyday Spiritual Practice: Simple Pathways for Enriching Your LifeEveryday Spiritual Practice: Simple Pathways for Enriching Your Life
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Essays on practices that set everyday activities in a spiritual context. Useful essay on making reading sacred.
Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You FeelMolecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel by Candace Pert
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The credible science, though not yet widely known, that shows that "how your body is" definitely affects how you feel; and vice versa. For SSH this points at the need to attend to physical peace.
The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life WorkThe Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work by Dan Millman
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Distillation of ages-old wisdom. An affirming book; an eye-opener for both those without a religious faith and those who have a religious faith.
Simpler WaySimpler Way by Margaret J. Wheatley
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A poetic book challenging us to think holistically about our relationships with change and other people.
Utopian DreamsUtopian Dreams by Tobias Jones
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The story of a search to find communities that have found the way to restore the human spirit. For the SSH, an open challenge to live in community wherever we are.
Flow: Psychology of HappinessFlow: Psychology of Happiness by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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A scholarly study on why and how doing things in particular ways will make us happier than doing other things.
The Perennial Philosophy (P.S.)The Perennial Philosophy (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley
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A classic, setting religious beliefs together in what might be the first encounter of interfaith dialogue for those coming from a particular religious background.
How to Know God: The Soul's Journey into the Mystery of MysteriesHow to Know God: The Soul's Journey into the Mystery of Mysteries by Deepak Chopra
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A medical doctor's scientific view that our range of responses to the universe are "hard-wired" into being human, showing how we can flex between different metaphors that we use as signposts to God.