This wonderful anthology of spiritual poetry spans all ages from the very early mystics more than 4,000 years ago right through to the 20th century. It includes contributions from every spiritual tradition. Insightfully selected, these mystical poems give us glimpses of the spiritual path from poets both famous and forgotten. There are poems from English-language writers as diverse as Sir Philip Sidney, John Donne, Christina Rossetti, W B Yeats, T S Eliot, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, as well as literary translations of poetic passages from the Rigveda, the Bible, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and the Tao Te Ching. With 600 poems by more than 250 poets, including contributions from such legendary mystics as Teresa of Avila, Dante, Rumi and Ramana Maharshi, this anthology offers sustenance and comfort to each of us on our own unique pilgrimage of the soul.
559pp, 153mm x 234mm, softback, 2004
A Book of the Dead by Gerhard Reisch, translated by Jehanne Mehta, is a collection of verses and paintings about how to develop contact with deceased loved ones.
In Benedictus: A Book of Blessings John O'Donohue shares words of grace and wisdom, offering Celtic blessings, verse and prayer to inspire and comfort.
By meditating on these verses for times of day and seasons of the year, you will learn to delve into the rhythms of nature and their relation to human beings.
By meditating on these verses we can learn to know ourselves by looking outwards to the substances and processes at work in the cosmos, and to know the world by looking inwards to the microcosmic depths of the human self.
Alan Jacobs has succeeded in revitalising the ancient text of The Bhagavad Gita into a form which reveals the full majesty of this magnificent Hindu scripture.
Alan Jacobs, a poet and scholar, presents the best-known and most significant Gnostic Scriptures including The Fable of the Pearl, The Gospel of Thomas, The Gospel of Mary... [more]
In The Gnostic Gospels Alan Jacobs presents texts discovered at Nag Hammadi including the gospels of Thomas, Philip and Mary Magdalene, The Sophia of Jesus Christ and The Fable of the Pearl.
The haunting words of wisdom and truth in Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, are among the most heart-rendingly beautiful ever written. So poetic, so glorious are they that, as you read them, they... [more]
Fiction & true stories 
