A Poet’s Atlas: Symphony of Creation’s Convergence by Rubieny Torres is a 36-chapter meta-epic blending music, myth, and multiversal narrative. Four guardians—Julian (noir archivist), Rowan (reggae synesthete), Eleanor (steampunk keeper), Cleo (silent folk wanderer)—converge in a jazz-infused, steampunk Florence to wield the Celestial Score and Codex of Echoes, twin artifacts that compose or unravel reality. As the Reckoning threatens cosmic silence, their odyssey...

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us."--Samuel Smiles.In 365 daily meditations, here is spiritual and psychological guidance through the interior struggles we face every day. Drawn from the author's own personal growth over the last decade, each page of A New Day addresses a specific struggle--overcoming fear, compulsion, obsessive love, addiction--and offers practical advice that will set you on the path to self-i...

**The New York Times best-selling author of You Can Heal Your LifeYou can do it. You can change your life for the better—and the best part is that you already have the tools within you to do so!**In this concise yet information-packed book—which you can download the audio from the included link and listen to or read at your leisure—bestselling author Louise L. Hay shows you that you "can do it"—that is, change and improve virtuall...

Mind Platter is a compilation of reflections on life as seen through the eyes of an educator, student, and human who experienced her early days in silence. It is written in the words of a woman who came from Lebanon to Canada at the age of sixteen and experienced what it was like to have fate push her to a place where she didn't belong. It is written in the voice of every person who has felt unheard, mistreated, misjudged, or unseen.The book contains over 200 one-page refle...

"For anyone who's tired of feeling angry, depressed, or hurt, this book is a beacon of hope! The Love Mindset is a guide to healing yourself, no matter how hopeless and complicated things seem to be."~Christina Rasmussen, bestselling author of Second Firsts"As Vironika shared her own story, I saw pieces of myself and pieces of the people I care about. Many times the book brought me to tears and I had to put it down. It was like looking in the mirror and the...

Are you happy? What matters to you? Are you where you want to be in your life? What do you believe in? The Examined Life helps ask the questions that bring us back to the fundamental basics that influence the decisions we make, and, ultimately, our happiness. If you've ever contemplated making changes in your life, The Examined Life is your first step in the process.

If your father was absent when you were growing up — or if he was abusive, judgmental or emotionally unavailable — you almost certainly struggle in at least one of these areas: Achieving, Asserting, Sustaining Satisfying, Career Success, Yourself, Relationships.This book takes you on a step-by-step journey to healing your father-wound, beginning with the release of unresolved longing, sadness, and anger toward your dad. As you re-process the past and re-frame it, you will begin to ...

In The Alternative 12 Steps: A Secular Guide to Recovery, Martha Cleveland and Arlys G. show how the 12-Step program can be interpreted and worked by those who simply do not believe in an interventionist deity. At the same time the authors conscientiously maintain the intention and integrity of the program - its values, scope and depth. A chapter is devoted to each Step. The language is clear, engaging and personal. The Foreword to this Second Edition of the book begins with a striking quo...

"Why can't I just be happy?" We've all asked ourselves this question from time to time and we've all wondered why it's so hard. Considering that you probably include yourself in the vast majority of what I'll refer to as "us " you probably find yourself wondering this from time to time as well. From my years of observation and talking to people I've figured out that being a happy person is a pretty easy thing to accomplish if you can just set your sights on the right targets and get your p...

Great relationships are not an accident. Having the relationship of your dreams does not depend on luck-on the roll of the relationship dice. It's the result of knowing the right steps to take to create an enduring, fulfilling friendship with your partner. In this wise and practical work, Chris Prentiss, author of the popular Zen and the Art of Happiness, shows exactly how to create the relationship you desire by working with 14 powerful laws of love-time-tested principles that for thousan...

Wonderfully accessible Zen teachings for how to live your life genuinely, honestly, and happily in the face of life’s inevitable difficultiesEver feel like your efforts to live a life of wisdom, honesty, and compassion are hijacked by, well, life? Take heart. Ezra Bayda has good news: life’s challenges aren’t obstacles to our path—they are the path. Understanding that liberates us to use every aspect of what life presents us with as a way to live with integrity and...

We live in a marketplace filled with valuable ideas for how to be happy, yet people continue to suffer. We are just now awakening to the principal source of our unhappiness and suffering, which is ego. Ego wreaks havoc in our daily lives, from the pain that individuals, couples, and families experience all the way up to global tensions and international conflict. Most people think of ego as an inflated sense of self-importance, but this is only a fraction of what it really is. Ego is the m...