Category: Spiritual Practices
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Chaplains
$2.95 Add to cartFacing a personal crisis, hospital patients and their loved ones often receive needed emotional support from a quiet army of chaplains, who are skilled at empathetic listening to people gripped by difficult and confusing emotions.
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Choosing Love Over Fear
$2.95 Add to cartThe author of “Teach Only Love,” Gerald Jampolsky, MD, offers his perspective on life as a continuous choice between love and fear. Faith helps one to choose love. Jampolsky’s own spiritual evolution is powerfully described.
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Daisy Newman
$2.95 Add to cartThe relationship between artistic creativity and one’s closeness to God is considered in these intriguing remarks by best-selling novelist Daisy Newman.
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Dialogue with a Sufi Master
$4.95 Add to cartM.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen, the luminous Sufi said to be more than 100 years old, characterizes the self-defeating predicament of striving for prestige, worldly gain and “magical” powers — instead of divine wisdom and love.
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End of Life Dialogues
$2.95 Add to cartA mediator relates how Colorado residents on both sides of the ethical debate about end of life questions were able to find common ground on the need to improve compassionate care for patients who are gravely ill.
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The Final Chapter
$3.95 Add to cartWe hear from chaplains, a compassionate doctor and a dying patient on how spiritual care is sensitively provided to people in the closing days of their lives.
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The Gift of Patience
$2.95 Add to cartA blind student, a harried mother, a nun and others reflect on this precious spiritual resource.
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Why Does God Allow Suffering?
$2.95 Add to cartRabbi Harold Kushner, author of “When Bad Things Happen to Good People,” arrives at some soothing answers after facing his young son’s death.
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Great Questions
$2.95 Add to cartThe value of “philosophical” inquiry as a method of self-understanding is articulated by Jacob Needleman, author of “The New Religions” and other books.
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An Optimist in Spite of All: Helen Keller
$3.95 Add to cartBorn 125 years ago this week, Helen Keller—subject of this audio biography—surmounted both deafness and blindness by learning to communicate with great eloquence, and became an unlikely world superstar.
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A Human Family Album
$2.95 Add to cartComments from followers of all the world’s major religions: Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism.
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The Illumination of Rumi
$2.95 Add to cartTo the astonishment of publishers, Jalaluddin Rumi has become the best-selling poet in America. Rumi’s sensational popularity is notable not only because of its content—an intoxicated, rapturous love letter to the divine.
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Islam’s Hidden Beauty
$3.95 Add to cartAlthough extremists sometimes grab headlines, Islam is a vast religious community encompassing a billion people.
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Jailhouse Chaplains
$0.00 Add to cartThe United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world. Federal and state prisons and county jails hold around two million prisoners. In this segment, we explore in-depth the experiences of two chaplains and two prisoners about their faith journeys while behind bars.
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Lao Tsu’s Way of Life
$2.95 Add to cartPhotographer/author Jane English borrows some pages from the Tao Te Ching (“The Way of Life”), a poetic guidebook about inner balance.
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A Letter from Unity Village
$2.95 Add to cartA history and profile of Missouri-based Unity School, publishers of “Daily Word” magazine.
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A Living Silence
$3.95 Add to cartContemplation: a practice known to searchers in all traditions. Those interviewed are Quakers, who worship in silence.
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Lost Christianity
$2.95 Add to cartJacob Needleman reports on his conversations with contemporary seekers who seem to have re-discovered a living dimension of God as taught by Jesus.
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Lovingkindness
$2.95 Add to cartSharon Salzberg, an author and teacher of Buddhist meditation, describes the technique of “lovingkindness,” a way of seeing others and relating to oneself that allows the practitioner to get past resentments and have a clearer view of reality.
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Mattie Stepanek
$2.95 Add to cartIn this poignant profile taped prior to his death due to complications from a rare form of muscular dystrophy, child poet and peacemaker Mattie Stepanek showed wisdom beyond his years.
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A Meditation by Howard Thurman
$2.95 Add to cartCounting Martin Luther King Jr. among his disciples, Rev. Howard Thurman stamped his spiritual influence on an entire generation.
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Neale Donald Walsch
$2.95 Add to cartBest-selling author Neale Donald Walsch laments that our political system is substantially broken and pleads for candidates motivated by true conviction, rather than simply winning the game.
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The Opening of a Mosque
$2.95 Add to cartA presentation of interviews recorded at the dedication ceremonies of a mosque constructed by a small Islamic community in Pennsylvania.
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Owner’s Manual for the Human Being
$2.95 Add to cartPopular author Mitch Gilbert explains how an inner voice in everyone’s heart functions as a kind of owner’s manual to guide us through each day. Gilbert speaks with remarkable clarity in easily understood language.
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Parenting as a Path
$2.95 Add to cartAuthor Eileen Flanagan discusses her powerful essay on the lessons about life that can be derived from parenting—patience, unconditional love, and how to handle “a child who decorated the white carpet with pink sidewalk chalk.”
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The Practice of Forgiveness with Robin Casarjian
$3.95 Add to cartAuthor and prison therapist Robin Casarjian reframes the act of forgiveness not to condone hurtful behavior but as a shift in perception that allows us not to take someone’s misconduct so personally.
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The Present Moment with Jon Kabat-Zinn
$3.95 Add to cartJon Kabat-Zinn, founder of the renowned Stress Reduction Clinic at the Univ. of Massachusetts Medical School, discusses how the technique of “mindfulness” can be physically and mentally therapeutic.
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The Quaker Conscience
$2.95 Add to cartA documentary about the social and political witness offered by members of the Society of Friends.