Wayne Muller

This book intends to create a standard of practice for spiritual care. It helps us to know how to start, where to focus, how to respond and how to communicate our spiritual care. It focuses on creating a standard of care rather than accumulating knowledge on conditions or situations that can change from case to case. It focuses on who we are for people more than what we do for them.

This book intends to create a standard of practice for spiritual care. It helps us to know how to start, where to focus, how to respond and how to communicate our spiritual care. It focuses on creating a standard of care rather than accumulating knowledge on conditions or situations that can change from case to case. It focuses on who we are for people more than what we do for them.

Bestseller-kirjailija, pappi ja terapeutti Wayne Mullerin elämäntapaopas kertoo siitä, miten saavuttaa kokonaisvaltaisesti tyydyttävä elämä. Teos osuu suoraan kiireisen, ja yhä vain lisää hamuavan yhteiskuntamme ytimeen. Muller opettaa, miten rahaa, mainetta ja parempaa minää pakonomaisesti tavoittelevasta nykyisyydestä voi siirtyä hyväksyvään elämään ilman radikaaleja elämäntapamuutoksia.

"In Sabbath, Wayne Muller gives us the license, the encouragement to take that single mindful breath which puts our busy lives in perspective and helps restore our souls."--Fred Rogers, of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Find peace in our fast-paced world with this thoughtful guide to creating a dedicated time of rest, delight, and renewal--from the New York Times bestselling author of How, Then, Shall We Live? Millennia ago, the tradition of Sabbath created an oasis of sacred time within a life of unceasing labor. In today's world, with its relentless emphasis on success and productivity, we have lost the necessary rhythm of life, the balance between work and rest. Constantly striving, we feel exhausted and deprived in the midst of great abundance. We long for time with friends and family, we long for a moment to ourselves. Now, in a book that can heal our harried lives, Wayne Muller shows us how to foster a time for effortless, nourishing rest--a healing refuge for our souls. We need not even schedule an entire day each week. Sabbath time can be a Sabbath afternoon, a Sabbath hour, a Sabbath walk. With wonderful stories, poems, and suggestions for practice, Muller teaches us how we can use this time of sacred rest to refresh our bodies and minds, restore our creativity, and regain our birthright of inner happiness.

We all long to experience a sense of inner wholeness and guidance, but today's notions of healing and recovery too often keep us focused on our brokenness, on our deficiencies rather than our strengths. Wayne Muller's luminous new book gently guides us to the place where we are already perfect, already blessed with the wisdom we need to live a life of meaning, purpose and grace. He starts, as do so many spiritual teachers, with simple questions: Who am I? What do I love? How shall I live, knowing I will die? What is my gift to the family of the earth? He then takes us deeper, exploring each question through transformative true stories. We meet men and women--Wayne's neighbors, friends, patients--who have discovered love, courage, and kindness even in the midst of sorrow and loss. And through them we glimpse that relentless spark of spiritual magic that burns within each of us. Woven throughout are contemplations, daily practices, poems, and teachings from the great wisdom teachings. Page by page, we become more awake to the joy and mystery of this precious human life, and to the unique gifts every one of us has to offer the world.