Product Description: We don’t often think of our daily lives and social connections as a marketplace, but sometimes that’s exactly what they are. Sometimes the interactions are win-win, and sometimes the outcome hangs on a single breaking point. The eighteenth volume of the annual Chrysalis Reader anthology explores the bargains that shape our lives through poetry, essays, and short fiction...read more

Product Description: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. As we step before the mirror, we reflect upon our own appearance, and how we mirror others. Do we live up to our own expectations? Do we reflect our parents’ qualities? Do our children reflect ours? The more that we are with other people, do we become like them? We all see things differently, so much so that communication, community, and society may be minor miracles...read more

Product Description: At a deep, spiritual level, how do people go about the business of testing the water, retooling and repurposing their lives? This is the focus of Your Turn! Stories of Renewal. This book reminds us that nothing is wasted, that divine love and wisdom are never ending, that when we feel ourselves to be free agents in the stream of divine providence, it is then that we are experiencing the full force of regeneration...read more

Product Description: No matter which byways we choose, we are all traveling our own paths of discover and adventure. This collection of essays, poetry, art, and stories combines the whimsy one finds in fairytales with the realities of life-changing events...read more

Product Description: Embracing Relationships seeks a spiritual perspective on our partnering with life. This collection of writing and art offers new insights into such questions as: What leads to longevity in a committed relationship? How can we keep the spring in our step to the office? How does one read a series of remarkable coincidences? How do the complexities in life impact our partnerships?This anthology is part of the Chrysalis Reader series, which explores themes of spiritual development and growth through poetry, essays, short fiction, and artwork...read more

Product Description: Letting Go: Living without a Net unlocks the secrets language of living assiduously and dangerously, of embracing life with tenacity and abandon. There are times when we feel that we must stay the course, times when we are determined to hang in there no matter what...read more

Product Description: Eternal Wellness explores a variety of approaches to being spiritually centered, in alignment with the universe at large, in harmony with life, and in touch with our understanding of the spirit that flows through it all. The authors in this tenth annual Chrysalis Reader search for the source of spiritual well-being, following a map that includes heart and feeling through interior passageways that may defy logic...read more

Product Description: What role does chance or fate play in humankind's spiritual growth? If we are born with dual citizenship -- both earthly and spiritual -- perhaps it is through an energizing mix of free will, circumstance, and divine providence that we grow fully as members of both communities...read more

Product Description: This book explores the trait that makes our species special: the desire to find answers. From the confessions of a professional student to the search for the miraculous, this collection of original essays, short stories, poetry, and art wrestles with the question of what brings forth a questing spirit...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: We are constantly reminded of the fluid nature of time. Rocking the Ages holds essays and stories, poetry and art that revolve around our perceptions of time and place. As a collective voice, they ask, "In a world of which it is said the only constant is change, wht is permanent?"This anthology is part of the Chrysalis Reader series, which explores themes of spiritual development and growth through poetry, essays, short fiction, and artwork...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: We are made human by our ability to choose. This lavishly illustrated colection of original stories, poems, and essays broadens and brightens our pathways of possibilities. It spreads before us the many facets of choice: conscious choice and unconscious choice, choice for self and choice for others, good choice and bad choice, small choice and large...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Symbols are a means of representing what is higher by means of something lower and simpler. They come alive through human consciousness and understanding, through imbuing them with meaning and power.This volume is part of the Chrysalis Reader series, which explores themes of spiritual development and growth through poetry, essays, short fiction, and artwork...read more

Product Description: When we stop to think today about how we are spending our lives, it is the far-away glimmer that we reach for -- the possibility that we can live the Good Life, a life of meaning. This book is about the search for that ideal -- the going in and the coming back, the spirit of adventure, the meteor shower that plunges us past the edge of what is known...read more

Product Description: These short stories, essays, poetry, and artwork are juxtaposed to present the role of chaos in the quest for higher order. The process, often difficult, promises great rewards, or gold from asprin.This volume is part of the Chrysalis Reader series, which explores themes of spiritual development and growth...read more