Overview
"I love this book! It is a user friendly guidebook for all spiritual practitioners, regardless of the specific path chosen. You can't help but want to dig in, keep reading AND put everything into your own life." — Kate Feldman, MSW, LCSW, founding member, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, and co-founder of the Conscious Relationships Institute
This enlightening book is geared toward aspiring pilgrims who seek encouragement in following their commitment to a spiritual path, whether in the traditional sense — to a holy shrine, for example — or metaphorically, as a transformational psychological process. As Eastern practices have made their way into the West, many serious seekers and practitioners are women who have the freedom to devote their lives to a spiritual undertaking. These modern pilgrims not only seek a spirituality that allows their female wisdom to shine, they are motivated to challenge their thinking and to open themselves to new experiences that foster growth.
Psychotherapist and yoga instructor Kim Roberts acts as a friendly guide, helping readers discover their own way and explaining that an authentic path to enlightenment will not follow any set of rules or regulations and will be different for each person. There is no right or wrong, no quick and easy path free of obstacles. In fact, working through the stumbling blocks characterizes the journey itself.
In Toward a Secret Sky, Roberts shares lessons learned and offers guidance in the form of meditation and writing exercises and calls to action that anyone can tailor to their own experiences.
"This is a marvelous book on the outer and inner meaning of pilgrimage. Fearless and disarmingly honest, it's simultaneously a pilgrimage into the heart-mind of a spiritual warrior. Kim Roberts distills a lifetime of gritty experience into an offering that is sure to illuminate your own journey. Wisdom and kindness shine through every page, and practical advice leaves you well equipped to set out on your own path of discovery. These are footsteps worth following." — Andrew Holecek, author of Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming
"In a world full of promises for spiritual growth, how does one recognize an authentic path or teacher? Where does one even begin? Roberts responds to this very question by providing a compassionate 'roadmap' full of personal anecdotes, traditional wisdom, and practical advice necessary for navigating the terrain of one's own spiritual adventure! A kind and accessible book that supports the human longing for a meaningful life." — Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, author of The Logic of Faith
"Finally a modern book about the practice of pilgrimage, with touching personal stories, historical research and exercises for the reader to explore. Even if you never make an outer pilgrimage this book is a fascinating guide and if you are contemplating one, an essential companion." — Lama Tsultrim Allione, author of Wisdom Rising: A Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine
"A marvelous guide to the path of the pilgrim, regardless of your starting point. Kim Roberts knows whereof she speaks and she tells it like it is!" — Sean W. Murphy, author of One Bird, One Stone
"In the Buddhist literatures of India and Tibet, one reads of the awakening of inclinations established by meaningful and fortunate encounters in previous lifetimes, and also of the awakening of an interior lineage that one had neither noticed nor suspected. Perhaps one had no hope of it. Perhaps one wishes it would go back to sleep. Good news or bad, once awake it will not leave one alone. What to do?
Having herself followed insistent, inconvenient, if also uplifting, intimations of unknown lands, both inside and outside, Kim Roberts has written lucidly and with the knowledge of a seasoned explorer of the steps one may take toward a destination somewhere beyond the horizon but also perhaps close to home, if only one knew the direction in which to head out, the quicksand to avoid, and the tricks of charlatans who will take what one has and leave one with nothing other than a sense of trespass. She's given us a map for troubled times. Let us welcome its arrival and consider her counsel carefully." — Jules B. Levinson, translator Essential Practice
"We thoroughly love and support the idea of pilgrimage. Whether it's the inner journey inspired by life, yoga, poetry, meditation, or travel afar, we're all in!" — Ganga White, author Yoga Beyond Belief, and Tracey Rich, Director, White Lotus Yoga Retreat, Santa Barbara, CA
This enlightening book is geared toward aspiring pilgrims who seek encouragement in following their commitment to a spiritual path, whether in the traditional sense — to a holy shrine, for example — or metaphorically, as a transformational psychological process. As Eastern practices have made their way into the West, many serious seekers and practitioners are women who have the freedom to devote their lives to a spiritual undertaking. These modern pilgrims not only seek a spirituality that allows their female wisdom to shine, they are motivated to challenge their thinking and to open themselves to new experiences that foster growth.
Psychotherapist and yoga instructor Kim Roberts acts as a friendly guide, helping readers discover their own way and explaining that an authentic path to enlightenment will not follow any set of rules or regulations and will be different for each person. There is no right or wrong, no quick and easy path free of obstacles. In fact, working through the stumbling blocks characterizes the journey itself.
In Toward a Secret Sky, Roberts shares lessons learned and offers guidance in the form of meditation and writing exercises and calls to action that anyone can tailor to their own experiences.
"This is a marvelous book on the outer and inner meaning of pilgrimage. Fearless and disarmingly honest, it's simultaneously a pilgrimage into the heart-mind of a spiritual warrior. Kim Roberts distills a lifetime of gritty experience into an offering that is sure to illuminate your own journey. Wisdom and kindness shine through every page, and practical advice leaves you well equipped to set out on your own path of discovery. These are footsteps worth following." — Andrew Holecek, author of Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming
"In a world full of promises for spiritual growth, how does one recognize an authentic path or teacher? Where does one even begin? Roberts responds to this very question by providing a compassionate 'roadmap' full of personal anecdotes, traditional wisdom, and practical advice necessary for navigating the terrain of one's own spiritual adventure! A kind and accessible book that supports the human longing for a meaningful life." — Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, author of The Logic of Faith
"Finally a modern book about the practice of pilgrimage, with touching personal stories, historical research and exercises for the reader to explore. Even if you never make an outer pilgrimage this book is a fascinating guide and if you are contemplating one, an essential companion." — Lama Tsultrim Allione, author of Wisdom Rising: A Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine
"A marvelous guide to the path of the pilgrim, regardless of your starting point. Kim Roberts knows whereof she speaks and she tells it like it is!" — Sean W. Murphy, author of One Bird, One Stone
"In the Buddhist literatures of India and Tibet, one reads of the awakening of inclinations established by meaningful and fortunate encounters in previous lifetimes, and also of the awakening of an interior lineage that one had neither noticed nor suspected. Perhaps one had no hope of it. Perhaps one wishes it would go back to sleep. Good news or bad, once awake it will not leave one alone. What to do?
Having herself followed insistent, inconvenient, if also uplifting, intimations of unknown lands, both inside and outside, Kim Roberts has written lucidly and with the knowledge of a seasoned explorer of the steps one may take toward a destination somewhere beyond the horizon but also perhaps close to home, if only one knew the direction in which to head out, the quicksand to avoid, and the tricks of charlatans who will take what one has and leave one with nothing other than a sense of trespass. She's given us a map for troubled times. Let us welcome its arrival and consider her counsel carefully." — Jules B. Levinson, translator Essential Practice
"We thoroughly love and support the idea of pilgrimage. Whether it's the inner journey inspired by life, yoga, poetry, meditation, or travel afar, we're all in!" — Ganga White, author Yoga Beyond Belief, and Tracey Rich, Director, White Lotus Yoga Retreat, Santa Barbara, CA
This book title, Toward a Secret Sky (Creating Your Own Modern Pilgrimage), ISBN: 9780486832272, by Kim Roberts, published by Dover Publications (June 12, 2019) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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