Reviews

for further discovery

Intimacy and Solitude

No other book has contributed as much to my personal growth over the past five years. Stephanie Dowrick illustrates how we must embrace solitude in order to experience genuine intimacy with others. Without an appreciation for one's own inner world, relationships will continually fall flat, striking unfulfillment. Through dozens of personal interviews, Dowrick explains how people locked in loneliness and a sense of futility can begin to transform their way of relating to the world. Practical but profoundly compassionate, succinct but beautifully poetic.

The Intimacy & Solitude Workbook

This companion volume is the most useful guide to self-therapy I have found. It outlines numerous meditations and exercises, some thoroughly enjoyable and some more challenging, each designed to explore one's inner world and discover the power of solitude. This will lead to a richer way of living with those around us.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Over the course of a year, Annie Dillard diarized her experiences while living in a cottage in the Appalachians, recounting insights that bring new power to religious experience. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book is essential reading to anyone wanting to deepen spiritual roots, especially those exploring contemporary mysticism. Reflecting on nature and the human spirit, Dillard's masterpiece presents an argument and purpose for believing in something bigger than ourselves.

The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life

Our society is busy cutting itself off from magic, Thomas Moore argues, and we don't realize it is killing our spirits. He exhorts us to bring soul back into our communities, homes and work places. The journey begins by looking at the way we interact with nature.

Other book categories: