A magnificent compilation of sacred writings from all traditions and the perfect companion to Stephen Mitchell's poetry collection, The Enlightened Heart, and the bestselling Tao Te Ching.

Contains discourses, essays, sermons, and aphorisms from the world's greatest religious traditions.

Contains discourses, essays, sermons, and aphorisms from the world's great religious traditions, many in new translations by the editor. Includes texts from the Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, and Confucian scriptures ; Chuang-Tzu and Jesus ; the Tibetan Book of the Dead ; the Chinese Zen masters ; the Sufi masters ; Meister Eckhart, Dame Julian of Norwich ; the Hasidic masters ; Native Aericans orators ; and modern writings.

A magnificent compilation of sacred writings from all traditions and the perfect companion to Stephen Mitchell's poetry collection, The Enlightened Heart, and the bestselling Tao Te Ching A collection of prose--discourses, sermons, essays, and aphorisms--includes texts and authors such as the Hindu, Confucian, and Buddhist sciptures, Heraclitus and Plato, Chuang-tzu, Jesus, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Symeon the New Theologian, the Chinese Zen masters, and others.