Your Soul's Compass: What Is Spiritual Guidance?

Your Soul's Compass: What Is Spiritual Guidance?

Your Soul's Compass: What Is Spiritual Guidance?

Your Soul's Compass: What Is Spiritual Guidance?

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Overview

Drawing on spiritual wisdom from sacred texts across a variety of religious traditions, this is an “elegant, simple, and practical guide to get in touch with your higher self” (Deepak Chopra, author of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success)

Why am I here? What does a life worth living look like? What is the higher intelligence trying to express through me?
 
In this time of global change and uncertainty, of spiritual indirection, Americans are asking these age-old questions with renewed curiosity. There’s a thirst for meaning and purpose—a dawning realization that happiness isn’t a commodity that can be bought with a gold card. Fulfillment and joy arise naturally from creative and compassionate action—from the understanding that all life is interconnected and guided by a higher intelligence. Our personal choices make a difference, and when they are spiritually inspired even the smallest action serves a larger whole.
 
Sacred texts ranging from the Torah to the New Testament, the Tao Te Ching to the Buddhist scriptures, the Vedantas to the Koran, speak of making life-enhancing choices where a force greater than the individual flows through us and informs our thoughts and actions. In this book we’ll focus on the three classic aspects of living such a spiritually guided life: (1) alignment: maintaining a direct and personal connection to the Source of our Being; (2) discernment: distinguishing the movement of Spirit in our lives from our own wants, fears and social conditioning; and (3) action: making our best, most inspired contribution to the evolution of life.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781401923662
Publisher: Hay House Inc.
Publication date: 10/01/2008
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 168
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Joan Z. Borysenko, Ph.D., is an internationally known speaker and consultant in women’s health and spirituality, integrative medicine, and the mind/body connection. She’s the author of numerous books and audios, including a New York Times bestseller.

Table of Contents


Preface: When in Doubt, Ask the Nearest Sage xi Introduction: Inner Light or True Nature xix Part I Orienting to True North Chapter 1 Opening the Conversation 3 Chapter 2 Magic Letters ... the Anatomy of Revelation 9 Chapter 3 In "God" We Trust? 25 Chapter 4 Intimacy ... Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart 43 Chapter 5 Doubt ... Is It Guidance or Is It Me? 57 Chapter 6 The Art of Discernment 67 Chapter 7 The Practice of Discernment 87 Chapter 8 Do Not Travel Alone: When Two or More Are Gathered 101 Chapter 9 Practices for Aligning with the Spirit of Guidance 117 Chapter 10 Overcoming Ego ... the Biggest Block to Guidance 139 Chapter 11 Unfolding the Heart of Spirit in Action 149 Chapter 12 Spiritual DNA: Mapping the Genome of Transformation 161 Chapter 13 Sit Down and Shut Up: Contemplative Wisdom for World Leaders 183 Part II Introducing the Sages The Sages Swami Adiswarananda 201 Hameed Ali 202 Rabbi Rami Shapiro 203 Daniel Ladinsky 204 Taj Inayat 205 Sister Rose Mary Dougherty 206 Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi 207 Cecilia Montero 208 Yogi Mukunda Stiles 209 Nina Zimbelman 210 The Venerable Ajahn Sona 211 Reverend Dr. Cynthia Bourgeault 212 Oriah Mountain Dreamer 213 Father Thomas Keating 214 Reverend Suzanne Fageol 215 Sally Kempton 215 Sheikh Kabir Helminski 217 Dr. Edward Bastian 217 Rabbi Tirzah Firestone 218 Dr. Linda Backman 219 Dr. Wilkie Au 220 Patricia Loring 221 The Boulder Quakers 222 Susan Baggett and Thomas White 224 Afterword: Cultivate Contentment-Being Responsible to Guidance 227 The Interview Questions 231 Spiritual Mentoring and Resources for Guidance 233 Endnotes 239 Acknowledgments 243 About the Authors 245

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