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Next to Godliness: Finding the Sacred in Housekeeping

Editat de Alice Peck
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2007

Explore the place where clean and holy meet and chart a new course toward discovering sanctity.

"I've always sought solace in cleaning.... As my husband and I packed up our apartment and cleaned the profound dust of the Twin Towers from our books and pillows, we used this shared ritual as an opportunity to reflect and heal. As my neighbor once said, 'Cleaning house is my church. " from the Introduction

Be they our kitchens after a meal or our communities after a crisis, we all face the times and opportunities when we must clean up. Through a beautiful, diverse and eclectic array of personal narratives, fiction, sacred texts and verse, this inspiring book offers new perspectives on the unique ways we can reach out for the Divine within the simple acts of washing the dishes, doing the laundry, making a home and more. Giving the process of cleaning house depth and resonance, these writings will speak to your heart and allow you to see beyond the task at hand and into a greater undertaking to realize the sacred in all that we do.

From sweeping the home, to organizing the office, to cleaning up the more daunting Big Messes in our communities, this engaging book touches upon every facet of our lives.

Contributors include:

Louisa May Alcott Gaston Bachelard James Baldwin Andrea Barrett Mary Catherine Bateson Jeannette Batz Sue Bender Stephen Vincent Benet Henri Bosco Sarah Ban Breathnach Gwendolyn Brooks Brother Lawrence Dominique Browning Yitzhak Buxbaum Lydia Maria Child Joan Chittister Billy Collins Amiya Corbin John Crawford Dorothy Day Shoghi Effendi Rick Fields Sir James George Frazer Tess Gallagher Mahatma Gandhi Allen Ginsberg Bernard Glassman Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb Tenzin Gyatso Thich Nhat Hanh Nathaniel Hawthorne Homer Ashley Isaacson Martin Luther King, Jr Dorianne Laux Ursula K. Le Guin Eric Leigh Jarvis Jay Masters Cheryl Mendelson Mother Teresa Pablo Neruda Marsha Norman Gunilla Norris Kathleen Norris Kakuzo Okakura Marc Poirier Louise Rafkin Otagaki Rengetsu Rainer Maria Rilke Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Marilynne Robinson Taigu Ryokan Hannah Whitall Smith Starhawk Henry David Thoreau Gary Thorp Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Booker T. Washington Jessamyn West Richard Wilbur Virginia Woolf Anzia Yezierska"

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781594732140
ISBN-10: 1594732140
Pagini: 193
Dimensiuni: 153 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Skylight Paths Publishing
Locul publicării:United States

Cuprins

Introduction

Part One: Washing the Dishes
Part Two: Laundry
Part Three: Sweeping
Part Four: The Natural Order of Things
Part Five: Housework
Part Six: Making Home
Part Seven: Workspace
Part Eight: Guests and Holidays
Part Nine: Big Messes

Acknowledgments
Credits
About The Contributors