Phil Cousineau

For the intrepid traveler, there are more resources than ever before. But what about the traveler who is at a crossroads in life, longing for something else, neither diversion nor distraction, beyond escape and mere entertainment? What about those eager for a journey that is personally meaningful? For millennia this cry has been answered by pilgrimage, the transformative journey to a sacred center. The ancients referred to this path as the Way of the Pilgrim, an acknowledgement of travel for the sake of devotion, commitment, even penance to a holy site, a destination that blazes with meaning -- in short, a journey of risk and renewal. The Art of Pilgrimage is a guide for travelers ready to embark on a sacred journey and for armchair travelers curious to know what it means to travel with soulful purpose. Geared toward the modern-day pilgrim looking for inspiration and a few spiritual tools for the road, it combines stories, myths, parables, and quotes from famous travelers of the past with practical suggestions and contemporary accounts from people traveling the sacred way today. Not a guidebook to holy sites, this book is designed to help travelers focus on the purpose and intention at every satge of their journey no matter where they are going. The Art of Pilgrimage includes stories of traditional pilgrimages such as those to Canterbury or Jerusalem, but also ones to Shakespeare's home, Graceland, or the "Field of Dreams" in Iowa. Phil Cousineau recounts anecdotes from his own travels covering over 50 countries and offers readers the advice he gives when leading tours for the Joseph Campbell Foundation.

The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred

The Art of Pilgrimage

In Burning the Midnight Oil, word-wrangler extraordinaire Phil Cousineau has gathered an eclectic and electric collection of soulful poems and prose from great thinkers throughout the ages. Whether beguiling readers with glorious poetry or consoling them with prayers from fellow restless souls, Cousineau can relieve any insomniac's unease. From St. John of the Cross to Annie Dillard, Beethoven to The Song of Songs, this refreshingly insightful anthology soothes and inspires all who struggle through the dark of the night. These "night thoughts" vividly illustrate Alfred North Whitehead's liberating description of "what we do without solitude" and also evoke Henry David Thoreau's reverie, "Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." The night writers in Cousineau's vesperal collection range from saints, poets, and shamans to astronomers and naturalists, and tells of ancient tales and shining passages from the most brilliant (albeit insomniac) writers of today. These poetic ponderances sing of the falling darkness, revel in dream-time, convey the ache of melancholy, conspire against sleeplessness, vanquish loneliness, contemplate the night sky, rhapsodize on love, and languorously greet the first rays of dawn. Notable night owls include Rabandranath Tagore, Mary Oliver, Manley Hopkins, Jorge Borges and William Blake.

Illuminating Words for the Long Night's Journey Into Day

Burning the Midnight Oil

A World Treasury of Riddles

A collection of riddles, word puzzles, enigmas, conundrums, bafflers, logogriphs, teasers, verbal jigsaws, and quiz questions from around the world

A World Treasury of Word Puzzles, Folk Wisdom, and Literary Conundrums

Riddle Me this

Gregg Chadwick

WORDCATCHER Phil Cousineau illuminates the history and mystery of weird and wonderful word storiesTo untangle the knot of interlocking meanings of these painted words, logophile and mythologist Phil Cousineau begins each fascinating word entry with his own brief definition. He then fills it in with a tint of etymology and a smattering of quotes that show how the word is used, ending with a list of companion words. The words themselves range from commonplace - like biscuit, a twice-baked cake for Roman soldiers - to loanwords including chaparral, from the Basque shepherds who came to the American West; words from myths, such as hector; metamorphosis words, like silly, which evolved holy to goofy in a mere thousand years; and words well worthy of revival, such as carrytale, a wandering storyteller. Whether old-fangled or brand new, all the words included in The Painted Word possess an ineffable quality that makes them luminous.

A Treasure Chest of Remarkable Words and Their Origins

The Painted Word

A collection of Phil Cousineau's own aphorisms, maxims, and parables gleaned from more than forty years of notebooks and travel journals.

A Curiosity Cabinet of Aphorisms

The Accidental Aphorist

A collection of Phil Cousineau's own aphorisms, maxims, and parables gleaned from more than forty years of keeping notebooks and travel journals.

A Rhapsody on a Theme of Famous and Infamous Last Words

Deadlines

UFO Secrets Revealed

new poems

Night train

Poems, Songs, Chants, and Prayers for the Middle of the Night

Prayers at 3 A.M.

The Oldest Story In the World

Scott Chamberlin Hoyt

The Meaning of Tea: A Tea Inspired Journey

Rekindling the True Spirit of the Great Games

The Olympic Odyssey

The Art of Pilgrimage Travel Journal

A Manual for the Millennium

UFOs 

"Profound wisdom from noted writers on following forgiveness with making amends    As indispensable as forgiveness has been to the healing process throughout history, there is another equally profound action that is needed for reconciliation, which Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas Gandhi, calls "the other side of the coin." Turning over the coin of forgiveness, we discover atonement, the half-hidden, much-overlooked other half of the reconciliation process  Includes 15 essays and interviews by high-profile thinkers and activist including: Huston Smith, Jacob Needleman, Arun Gandhi, and Azim Khamisa  Discussed atonement as a process that can enable us to become unstuck from the past and live in the present      This rich and powerful book shows how acts of atonement can relieve us of the pain of the past and give us a hopeful future"--

reflections on atonement

Beyond forgiveness

A Modern Book of Hours

The Soul Aflame

Archaeology of the Spirit--Readings from Socrates to Ray Charles

Soul

Marvelous Stories of Synchronicity-Meaningful Coincidences from a Seemingly Random World

Soul Moments

9 ways to rekindle passion and imagination

Stoking the creative fires

Phil Cousineau

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