Spirituality Without Religion : Webliography

• How To Pray Without Being Religious: Finding Your Own Spiritual Path  Janell Moon
• I'd Like To Call For Help But I Don't Know the Number: The Search For The Spirituality In Everyday Life  Abraham J. Twerski M.D.
• The Direct Path: Creating a Personal Journey to the Divine Using the World's Spiritual Traditions  Andrew Harvey
• Working with Groups on Spiritual Themes: Structured Exercises in Healing  Elaine Hopkins
• Spiritual Assessment: Handbook for Helping Professionals  David R. Hodge
• Dance of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Women's Spirituality  Maria Harris
• Connections: The Threads of Intuitive Wisdom  Gabrielle Roth
• The Art of Spiritual Guidance  Carolyn Gratton
• Simply Pray: A Modern Spiritual Practice to Deepen Your Life  Erik Walker Wikstrom
• The Sacred Art of Chant: Preparing to Practice (The Art of Spiritual Living)  Ana Hernández
• Doing Nothing: Coming to the End of the Spiritual Search (reprint)  Steven Harrison
• The Fifth Dimension: An Exploration of the Spiritual Realm  John Hick 
• Spiritualism: A Way of Life  Elizabeth Harris
• Creativity  Where the Divine and the Human Meet Matthew Fox
• Spiritual Serendipity: Cultivating and Celebrating the Art of the Unexpected  Linda Eyre
• Spiritual Questions for the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of Joan D. Chittister  Mary Hembrow Snyder
• Spirituality and the Secular Quest (World Spirituality)  Peter H. van Ness
• The Sacred Art of Bowing: Preparing to Practice (The Art of Spiritual Living)  Andi Young
• Transformations: Awakening to the Sacred in Ourselves  Tracy Cochran
• Practicing the Sacred Art of Listening: A Guide to Enrich Your Relationships and Kindle Your Spiritual Life (The Art of Spiritual Living)  Kay Lindahl
• The Seeker's Guide (previously published as The New American Spirituality)  Elizabeth Lesser
• Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis (New Consciousness Readers)  Stanislav Grof
• The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning  Ernest Kurtz
• Sacred Woman, Sacred Dance: Awakening Spirituality Through Movement and Ritual  Iris J. Stewart
• Answers in the Heart: Daily Meditations For Men And Women Recovering From Sex Addiction (Hazelden Meditation Series)  Anonymous
• In the Middle of This Road We Call Our Life: The Courage to Search for Something More  James Jones

 

Discernment as a spiritual journey -- Pathfinder

Discernment
"Both the physical world and the spiritual world enter human experience only as they are thought by a person. "Discernment of thoughts" is the inner pathfinder for our spiritual journey and the final arbiter of every good act of the graced human will." Read More @ William Wilson's Spiritual Life Ministry and this web site are dedicated to helping people understand and practice these Four Essentials of Spiritual Practices.

Image courtesy: disruptive grace: Getting Naked – a spiritual journey… and ‘Blankets’


Readings:

The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment Tim Challies  (2007). 

Chapter 1: A Call to Discernment; Chapter 2: The Challenge of Discernment; Chapter 3: Defining Discernment; Chapter 4: The Heart of Discernment; Chapter 5: Truth and Discernment; Chapter 6: The Will and Discernment; Chapter 7: The Gift of Discernment; Chapter 8: The Dangers of Discernment; Chapter 9: Developing Discernment; and Chapter 10: The Practice of Discernment

 Discerning Correction by John MacArthur

The Discerning Heart: Exploring the Christian Path by Wilkie Au and Noreen Cannon Au (2006)

The Role of Discernment in Spiritual Growth [Podcast]

The Way of Discernment: Spiritual Practices for Decision Making Elizabeth Liebert (2008)

Urgings of the Heart: A Spirituality of Integration Wilkie Au

Decision Making and Spiritual Discernment: The Sacred Art of Finding Your Way (Art of Spiritual Living) Nancy Bieber

By Way of the Heart: Toward a Holistic Christian Spirituality S.J. Wilkie Au

Spiritual Discernment and the Mind of Christ Francis Frangipane (2013)

Spiritual Discernment Watchman Nee

The Discernment of Spirits: An Ignatian Guide for Everyday Living Timothy M. Gallagher (2005)

Eyes Wide Open: Cultivating Discernment on the Spiritual Path Mariana Caplan

The Inside Stay: Journey of a Former Jesuit Priest and Talk Show Host Towards Self-Discovery Neil McKenty

Discerning the Voice of God: How to Recognize When God Speaks Priscilla C. Shirer

Spirit that guides : discernment in the Bible and spirituality / guest editor, Pieter GR de Villiers. 9781939681171 (hardcover) 9781939681232 (trade paper) 

How Do You Pray?: Inspiring Responses from Religious Leaders, Spiritual Guides, Healers, Activists and Other Lovers of Humanity Celebrate the Spirit that Unites Us Celeste Yacoboni

Discernment of religious vocation : formation towards transformation / Charles Serrao. 8189144006

A Guide to Prayer for All Who Walk with God: Sunday Scripture Readings from the Revised Common Lectionary by Rueben P. Job, Norman Shawchuck and John S. Mogabgab (Oct 2013) 9780835812269 

Art of Discernment: Making Good Decisions in Your World of Choices (Ignatian Impulse) Stefan Kiechle 

Finding and Following God's Will Jane A. G. Kise

What do you want? : understanding God's will : leader's guide / by Rick Bundschuh. 

0310258340 (pbk.)

Destination Unknown: A Guide to Discovering God's Will Gordon S. Jackson .

Discernment and Truth: The Spirituality and Theology of Knowledge Mark A. McIntosh.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR DISCERNMENT AND SPIRITUAL FORMATION

Imitating Jesus: An Inclusive Approach to New Testament Ethics Richard A. Burridge

Naked Spirituality: A Life with God in 12 Simple Words Brian D. McLaren

Pathways to Kindness Audit

The bottomline here is 'When someone does you a big favor, don't pay it back. Pay It Forward.' wikiquote.org

Pay It Forward: A Novel  by Catherine Ryan Hyde` About the novel: "Catherine Ryan Hyde's Pay It Forward takes as its premise the bumper-sticker phrase "Think Globally, Act Locally" and builds a novel around it. The hero of her story is young Trevor McKinney, a 12-year-old whose imagination is sparked by an extra-credit assignment in Social Studies: "Think of an idea for world change, and put it into action." Trevor's idea is deceptively simple: do a good deed for three people, and in exchange, ask each of them to "pay it forward" to three more. "So nine people get helped. Then those people have to do twenty-seven.... Then it sort of spreads out." Trevor's early attempts to get his project off the ground seem to end in failure: a junkie he befriends ends up back in jail; an elderly woman whose garden he tends dies unexpectedly. But even after the boy has given up on his plan, his acts of kindness bear unexpected fruit, and soon an entire movement is underway and spreading across America."

Sources to find quotable quotes:
Christianity:

BIBLE VERSES ABOUT ACTS OF KINDNESS  -- includes Bible verses related to Acts of Kindness from the King James Version (KJV)

Hinduism:

• Compassion is kindness to all living beings especially when they are in distress. Non-covetousness is self satisfaction with what one has been allotted in life. Bhagavad-Gita: Chapter 16, Verse 1,2,3
• The epic is full of examples of compassion and kindness shown by Rama to the people who sought his help or simply surrendered to Him. [Valmiki’s Ramayana]

Islam:

• Quran Chapter : 107. Surah al-Ma'un (The Small Kindness).

• Hadith: "God did not send me to be harsh, or cause harm, but He sent me to teach and make things easy." - Sahih Muslim, Hadith 707
• "Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever is not kind has no faith." (Muslim)
• "Whoever is kind, Allah will be kind to him; therefore be kind to man on the earth. He Who is in heaven will show mercy on you." [Abu Dawud: Tirmidhi] -- [source: Moral Virtues]

Judaism:

• The Price of Kindness by Rabbi Yisrael Rutman
• True Kindness - the Crux of Torah, By Nechoma Greisman

On the same shelf:

Small Acts of Kindness Work Wonders with Audit Clients   image courtesy: thatauditguy.com 

• Spiritual Assessment in Healthcare Practice  Wilfred McSherry 
• Someone a little nicer | An experiment in kindness
• A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America: A Hard Look at Spirituality, Religion, and Values in the Workplace  Ian Mitroff
• Punishment: The Supposed Justifications: A Critical Audit of Classical and Contemporary Attempts to Establish the Morality of Punishment  Ted Honderich
• Just Get On With It: A Caring, Compassionate Kick Up the Ass!  Ali Campbell
• Implosion: Can America Recover from Its Economic and Spiritual Challenges in Time?  Joel C. Rosenberg
• Conversations In Silence: A Diary of a Journey with a Spiritual Master  Narendra
• Examining Library Spaces through a “Kindness Audit” 

Have you ever considered doing a “kindness audit” at your library?

In the HyperlibMOOC class, Michael Stephens discusses the concept of a “kindness audit” – look at your library space and examine how kind it is for your patrons.


• Is the signage positive?
• Are your service desks welcoming?
• Can users find their way easily?
• What obstacles do your users encounter?