Self-Help - Spiritual
Winner
The Adventure: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening
Steve Taylor
The Adventure outlines how to:
• recognize and cultivate the eight defining characteristics of wakefulness, including presence, acceptance, gratitude, and disidentification from the ego
• expand awareness and quiet the mind through meditations and practical exercises
• transcend our normal “sleep” state and the “thought mind” to move toward increasing heights and depths of spiritual awakening
• use the challenges of everyday life — of home, workplace, and relationships — as doorways to enlightenment
Self-Help - Spiritual
Finalist
Trekking: A Guidebook for Spiritual Transformation
Gene Maynard
TREKKING THE PATH TO A NEW LIFE
Trekking follows the author on his El Camino de Santiago pilgrimage through northern Spain, where he began to experience soul-deep healing and transformation through ancient Christian spiritual practices. Weaving together stories from ancient pilgrims who hungered for a deeper life with Jesus with powerful encounters with God from his own life, you will find interior ways and rhythms that lead to your own spiritual growth and transformation. You'll discover ancient Christian practices that have the capacity to heal the deep areas within you that losses, sins, and rejections have marked. As you continue on your journey, your heart will open to a richer life of intimacy with God, and you will discover a deeper love and greater favor than you ever imagined possible.