Long Journey To The Rose Garden

The multimillion-copy bestselling modern classic of autobiographical fiction about a young woman’s struggle with mental health, featuring a new foreword by Esmé Weijun Wang, the New York Times bestselling author of The Collected Schizophrenias, and a new afterword by the author A Penguin Classic After making an attempt on her own life, sixteen-year-old Deborah Blau is diagnosed with schizophrenia. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a psychiatric hospital many hours from her home in suburban Chicago. Here she will spend the next three years, trying, with the help of a gifted psychiatrist, to find a path back to her “normal” life, and to emerge from the imaginary Kingdom of Yr in which she has sought refuge. A semiautobiographical novel originally published under the pen name Hannah Green just a year after Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar--a very different portrait of psychological breakdown--I Never Promised You a Rose Garden remains, more than half a century later, a timeless and ultimately hopeful book, ripe for rediscovery by a new generation eager to erase the stigma of mental illness.

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The Rose Garden is a story of Man, his greed and his broken world, his sleepwalking to a disaster of his own making. This is a story of Man, it tells why things reached to the catastrophic point, and warns of his unprecedented end. This is a story of Man, whose time is running out. This is a story of Man, his survival or extinction on the Planet Earth. This is a story of Man, it advises him to open eyes wide and save the World for his children’s sake.

This heartfelt and honest account of two ordinary yet very different women goes beyond just saying life will get better with Christ and delves into the actual process one goes through on the road to healing from a spouse’s affair. Adultery is prominent in today’s society and is devastating to the entire family. Lynn and Christine’s testimonies in The Rose Garden and the Ring are disclosed in the following identifiable topics: • Walking with God through a spouse’s affair • Knowing your options for immediate assistance • Feeling out of control while searching for truth • Identifying with the emotional rollercoaster • Understanding God’s view on marriage and divorce • Deciding whether to stay or go • Dealing with our sweet children • Taking revenge—or not • Understanding the anatomy of an adulteress • Remembering God’s promises and other miracles In The Rose Garden and the Ring, you will discover that you are not alone. The tools and insight gained from the pages of this labor of love can bring comfort in the emotional moments to persevere with God.

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No one's story is essentially more or less important than the next. The journey we encounter together is, without a doubt, an interesting and powerful one. So how do we maneuver and manipulate one to overlap another? We shouldn't. We should embrace the hardest stories and the easiest stories because they are both real stories and lives to many. I wrote The Rose Garden feeling empowered and knowing that in the end, a powerful message is coming across, no matter how worthy some may deem it or not. It is real. The story and the journey are real, and I hope, just a little, that someone else can experience it and find the comparisons and contrasts within their own journey.

This book is an invitation to enter the Rose Garden: the sanctuary of the soul that resides within every human heart. For the Rose is one of the loveliest symbols of spirituality in the western world: a timeless expression of beauty, love, and, ultimately, oneness with the Divine. Each chapter will take you on a mystical journey through myth, religion, sacred art and poetry, including the Rose in the classical world, the medieval visions of Mary, the wisdom of the Sufi mystics, the hidden codes of the Alchemists, the ceremonies of 19th century magical orders, and the poems of modern visionaries, along with rose windows, the Kabbalah, tarot cards and more. Within the Rose Garden guided meditations offer gentle but profound nourishment to the soul leading to a sense of inner peace and a deeper connectedness with the essential Self through a uniquely Western path. One reader affirms: ‘I have travelled over a long time down many different roads to heal myself from the wounds I have suffered. However, Mara, it is your meditations that have been so fruitful for me. The Fire of Roses meditation feels as if on a deep level I have found and own myself with clarity and light’.