Seeking the Sacred: Leading a Spiritual Life in a Secular World

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Speaking from experience--where things can go wrong and wrongs can remain unrighted--the five modern thinkers in this collection offer ways to maintain a spiritual life outside of a strictly religious context. (Practical Life)

Thomas Moore is a psychotherapist, lecturer, and author of Care of the Soul, The Planets Within, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life, and The Soul's Religion. He lives in New England. Martin Rutte is an author of the New York Times business bestseller Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work. His work on spirituality in the workplace was a featured special on ABC's "Creativity: Touching the Divine." He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Romeo Dallaire is the author of Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, winner of the 2004 Governor General's Award for nonfiction. He is a fellow at Harvard University in the area of conflict resolution and a Canadian senator. He lives in Ottawa, Ontario. Stephen Lewis is the Canadian Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa and the author of Race Against Time. He also served as the Canadian ambassador to the United Nations from 1984 to 1988. He lives in Toronto, Ontario. Marion Woodman is the author of Coming Home to Myself, Conscious Femininity, Dancing in the Flames, and The Ravaged Bridegroom. She lives in London, Ontario.