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Crossing the Unknown Sea
by David Whyte (Author)
From Library Journal
In the midst of all the arid, bullet point-ridden business books,
Whyte's stands out with its languid
I'll-get-to-the-point-when-I'm-damned-good-and-ready approach. A
poet, corporate trainer, and author of The Heart Aroused: Poetry and
the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America, Whyte challenges
readers to remember their childhood interests and enthusiasms. He
claims that this is necessary in order to escape the deadening
influences of adult "musts" and "shoulds" and to recapture the
passion that one needs to do good work. Whyte discusses his own
career changes, from naturalist to nonprofit executive to
writer/presenter/coacher. Echoing Fortgang, his main point is the
popular "Do what you love and the money will follow," but he
personalizes it by telling his own story and by including snippets
of focused poetry (his own and others'), so that it's not as
hackneyed as it may sound. Because an excerpt appeared in the March
2001 issue of O: The Oprah Magazine, there's sure to be demand in
public libraries.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This
text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Essential Elements for Effectiveness
by
Laurel Brucato, Patricia Stephenson, Dominic
Bracato, Juan R. Abrascal
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Green Psychology
Transforming Our Relationship to Earth
By Ralph Metzner
A visionary
eco-psychologist examines the rift between human beings and nature
and shows what can be done to bring harmony to both the ecosystem
and our own minds. This book shows that the solution to our
ecological dilemma lies in our own consciousnesses.
It is becoming more and more apparent that the causes and cures for
the current ecological crisis are to be found in the hearts and
minds of human beings. For millennia we existed within a religious
and psychological framework that honored the Earth as a partner and
worked to maintain a balance with nature. But somehow a root
pathology took hold in Western civilization--the idea of domination
over nature--and this led to an alienation of the human spirit that
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Let Your Life Speak
Listening for the Voice of Vocation
by
Parker J. Palmer (Author)
From Publishers Weekly
A gifted academic who formerly combined a college teaching career
with community organizing, Palmer took a year's sabbatical to live
at the "intentional" Quaker community of Pendle Hill in
Pennsylvania. Instead of leaving at year's end, he became the
community's dean of studies and remained there for 10 years. Palmer
(The Courage to Teach) shares the lessons of his vocational and
spiritual journey, discussing his own burnout and intense depression
with exceptional candor and clarity. In essays that previously
appeared in spiritual or educational journals and have been reworked
to fit into this slim volume, he suggests that individuals are most
authentic when they follow their natural talents and limitations, as
his own story demonstrates. Since hearing one's "calling" requires
introspection and self-knowledge (as suggested by the eponymous
Quaker expression), Palmer encourages inner work such as
journal-writing, meditation and prayer. Recognizing that his
philosophy is at odds with popular, essentially American attitudes
about self-actualization and following one's dreams, Palmer calls
vocation "a gift, not a goal." He deftly illustrates his point with
examples from the lives of people he admires, such as Rosa Parks,
Annie Dillard and Vaclav Havel. A quiet but memorable addition to
the inspirational field, this book has the quality of a finely
worked homily. The writing displays a gentle wisdom and economy of
style that leaves the reader curious for more insight into the
author's Quaker philosophy. (Oct.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Peak Experiences
Walking Meditations on Literature, Nature, and Need (Under the Sign
of Nature)
by
Ian Marshall (Author)
Nature’s ability to satisfy deep human needs is familiar to anyone
who has hiked up a mountain, canoed a river, or hung a bird feeder
outside the kitchen window. In Story Line, his groundbreaking work
of narrative ecocriticism, Ian Marshall explores how natural
surroundings inspired works of literature set along the Appalachian
Trail. In his new work, Peak Experiences, Marshall sets out on a far
more personal and at the same time far-reaching journey, to discover
how our modern estrangement from the natural world has affected our
mental well-being.
Taking as his starting point the psychologist Abraham Maslow’s
“hierarchy of human needs”—a pyramid familiar to anyone who ever
cracked a textbook for Psych 101—Marshall asks how his own
experience of deep satisfaction in nature may or may not fit
Maslow’s theory. In chapters focused on the needs identified by
Maslow, Marshall finds evidence for the healing power of nature in
literature and in his own experiences in the wild.
“I
offer myself as test subject,” Marshall writes: “recently divorced,
a father sharing custody of two children, someone with a high regard
for the written word, . . . a little too stressed-out these days, no
more self-actualized than the next person but just as curious about
it—and what I have going for me are a lot of well-read books, a good
pair of broken-in hiking boots, and a thing for mountains.”
Embracing the exciting new field of ecopsychology, Marshall leads us
on a personal and intellectual odyssey, from the dream mountain of
Henry David Thoreau to the high slopes of John Muir’s beloved Mount
Shasta. Always, Marshall returns to his own challenges as father and
reader, and to his own humble but rewarding mountain, Bald Eagle
Ridge, in the Pennsylvania countryside outside his back door.
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Powerful Lessons
in Personal Change
By
Stephen R. Covey
Stephen R. Covey's book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,
has been a top-seller for the simple reason that it ignores trends
and pop psychology for proven principles of fairness, integrity,
honesty, and human dignity. Celebrating its fifteenth year of
helping people solve personal and professional problems, this
special anniversary edition includes a new foreword and afterword
written by Covey exploring the question of whether the 7 Habits are
still relevant and answering some of the most common questions he
has received over the past 15 years.
Follow the link to listen to audio samples from the book
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Web of Life
Weaving the Values That Sustain Us
by Richard
Louv (Author)
From Publishers Weekly
The importance of connecting through memory and common humanity is
the overriding theme that concerns Louv, a journalist and author
(Childhood's Future), in this collection of thoughtful, persuasive
essays. Because the family is the first community a child knows, the
author believes that family stories handed down from one generation
to the next are a unique gift that helps people put their lives in
context. Louv describes the power of oral history in Native American
life and expresses concern that an overload of information and lack
of leisure prevent many of us from preserving our family memories.
Louv also describes his efforts to connect his own children to
nature by teaching them to fish and to become aware of their
relationship to wildlife. Although not traditionally religious, Louv
advocates cultivating a spiritual awareness to stay in touch and
connect with a world outside the individual or the family. Author
tour.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text
refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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