How To Live A Spiritual Life In A Material World

Living a Spiritual Life in a Material World shows us how spiritual fulfillment and material gratification can enhance each other, and offers tools to integrating them and experiencing the peace, purpose, and prosperity we all seek. Based on her doctoral research, Anna Gatmon developed the Four Keys to Spiritual-Material balance, a unique approach to manifesting a life in which the sacred and the mundane are creatively balanced. Gatmon's message is universal and as relevant to the materially minded as it is to the spiritually oriented, regardless of faith and denomination. It's a practical formula which reveal how to live a spiritually fulfilling life without having to give up material needs and pleasures. THE FOUR KEYS TO SPIRITUAL-MATERIAL BALANCE Key #1: Expansive Presence - Connect with a more enlightened you Key #2: Attentive Listening - Access your inner wisdom Key #3: Inspired Action - Manifest your dreams, goals, and purpose Key #4: Faith-Filled Knowing - Embrace daily miracles BENEFITS OF PRACTICING THE FOUR KEYS • Change your outlook and mood within minutes • Shift from feeling alone to feeling connected • Make intuitive decisions with clarity and confidence • Have a greater impact on daily situations • Experience the excitement of realizing your unique calling • Create ongoing spiritual-material abundance • Lead a balanced and gratifying physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual life.

For almost three hundred years, almost every American college was run by a minister or prominent Christian thinker. Although representing many denominations, they collectively developed an enormously popular student seminar on how to find spiritual satisfaction in the larger world beyond home and church—a discipline that eventually inspired the entire country through a series of bestselling books. Combining historical research with the insights of modern psychology and his own experience as therapist and teacher, Dr. Andrews makes the insights of the early college president assessable to today’s Christian seekers. “Before shelves were warping under the weight of self-help books, before the caring industries were promising happiness via therapy or pills, many Americans sought guidance and wisdom from—of all people—Christian college presidents. Lewis Andrews unearths the story of how these religious, educational, and social leaders came to be spiritual instructors, and he shows how their advice can still help us lead lives of greater courage, resilience, and grace.”—Adam Keiper, Books & Arts editor, The Weekly Standard “Living Spiritually in the Material World is a surprising and delightful book. Lewis Andrews has done us a great service by discovering and reflecting on classic insights that will help us, even today, to live with spiritual meaning in our everyday lives.” —Dr. Mark Roberts, executive director, Max De Pree Center for Leadership, Fuller Theological Seminary “Few appreciate the connection between higher education and the higher authority of the divine, but now comes Lewis Andrews with this fascinating study of early college presidents in U.S. history and how their deep faith nurtured their work as our nation’s top educators. They not only educated our Founders; they also provided useful guidance for spiritual wisdom which Andrews translates for today’s modern audience.” —Mike McCurry, professor/director, Wesley Theological Seminary and former State Department/White House spokesman (1993-98)

A Guide to navigate the traps of the material world while engaged on a spiritual path. Find a balance between the joy of the soul journey and the practical wisdom to live a happy life in the body and mind. Insightful and inspiring guidance from an experienced teacher who has helped seekers all over the world.

Most of us are lost in the material world and only turn to Spirituality when suffering comes our way. We don't realize that a Spiritual life can liberate us from all misery and suffering. Some people do take the road less traveled, the Spiritual path, and go on a quest to Realize the Truth. But is it even possible to live a Spiritual life in this material world, surrounded by worldly pleasures? Of course, it is! Spirituality is not really about renunciation, but Realization. This book shows the way to that inner voyage of eternal happiness.

The essays in The Philosophy of Spirituality address spirituality as a subject of philosophical interest independent of religion and respecting diverse spiritual traditions: African, atheist, Indigenous, Indian, Stoic, and Sufic perspectives, as well as Western analytic and continental views.

WITH A BRAND NEW LOOK! ON FEBRUARY 22, 1980, KHORSHED AND RUMI BHAVNAGRI’S WORLD WAS SHATTERED. ONE MONTH LATER, A NEW ONE OPENED. Khorshed and Rumi Bhavnagri lost their sons, Vispi and Ratoo, in a tragic car crash. With both their sons gone, the couple felt they would not survive for long. They had lost all faith in God until a miraculous message from the Spirit World gave them hope and sent them on an incredible journey.

Anna's breakthrough book, applauded by many respected spiritual teachers, will guide you to more fulfillment and joy.

“[We] read Nouwen…to discover new possibilities in our faith.” —New Review of Books and Religion A profound and beautiful collection of intimate writings, Henry J.M. Nouwen’s Letters to Marc About Jesus recalls the author’s correspondences with his teenage nephew, a boy struggling with issues of faith and spirituality in an apathetic age. The much-beloved author of The Wounded Healer and With Open Hands—named alongside such notables as C.S. Lewis and Thomas Merton as one of the most important Christian writers of the 20th century—Nouwen writes from the heart in the deeply personal Letters to Marc About Jesus, as he imparts a powerful wisdom born of an unassailable faith.