Self and SoulOn Creating a Meaningful LifeBy Lorraine Ash 
Purchase optionsPaperback edition on CreateSpace More purchase options below. “Self and Soul shines with heart, soul, and brilliance. As with Life Touches Life, Lorraine Ash has created a book that gets right to the bone marrow. I love this book.” —Dr. Christiane Northrup, M.D. Spiritual seekers are romanticized as adventurers with amazing lives. Problem is, they also often are discontent. Their journeys are about looking but never finding. Success is always just over yonder. It’s one town over, just around the bend. Lorraine Ash understands and personalizes the journey in Self and Soul: On Creating a Meaningful Life, a spiritual memoir that addresses the unique nature of the spiritual journey in the twenty-first century. The questions that propelled her drive many of us: What should I do? Where do I fit? Who do I ask? What does my life mean? Yet they are asked in an unprecedented landscape. Sixteen percent of Americans live without a religious affiliation, according to the U.S. Census, and forty-eight percent describe themselves as “spiritual and religious.” The Internet age makes it easy for people to share aspects of their faiths and promotes a mixing and matching hitherto unknown in human history. “Self and Soul is one of the most eloquent, elegant, and spiritually rich descriptions of the human journey I’ve read. It is as much a prayer as a book—a poetic example of the healing power of “giving voice” and proclaiming one’s inner truth.” —Larry Dossey, M.D. Never has it been more important, Ash writes, to fashion a faith born of belief and experience, a faith rooted in inner landscapes where we speak directly with the divine, make our own meaning, and find the resiliency to thrive and change in a challenging world. In these pages Ash describes the voicelessness she experienced while seeking—in part a result of having her prayers written for her—and a sudden and unexpected encounter with the divine in a hospital bed in the wee hours. She had just delivered her stillborn child and was fighting for her own life. During her recovery, she found the black-and-white world of her inner life start to glow with the colors of a gloaming she sees while on a picnic in the hills of Northwest New Jersey. A divine force was beginning to animate her from the inside. “Lorraine Ash writes eloquently and with arresting honesty. Reading Self and Soul entices readers to follow her quest for personal and spiritual integrity.” —Robert C. Fuller, Ph.D. With color and nuance came new possibilities and a voice, at first small, in which Ash learned to speak from her heart. Her new inner life led her to temples, alternative healers on the mesas of Arizona, wisdom from the Tao, and a stunning revelation at Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural masterpiece in Pennsylvania. Along the way Ash encounters sages but also people of ill will who are never a destination but nevertheless impart important lessons. In her childhood her father used to ask, “Where does it all take us in the end?” But, unhappy with nebulous and ever-elusive destinations, Ash changed the question for herself to: “Where are we now and how can it be made better?” For the quality of all our tomorrows, she concludes, will be the same as the quality of today. “Lorraine Ash’s writing leads us into the heart of the supreme secret that all sages, saints and wise people have sought for millennia: we are that which we search for.” —William Elliott Self and Soul is for people living lives of quiet desperation, questioning what it means to strive and succeed in conventional ways, and wondering if their efforts matter. It is an encouragement and inspiration for people who want the peace and knowing that comes with living a divinely inspired life.
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Details Self and Soul: On Creating a Meaningful Life By Lorraine Ash Trade paperback $12.95 US, £7.95 UK, €9.95 Ebook $6.99 US Audiobook $14.95 US |
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