Making Peace is a book of photographs and reflections about an 18-month peace pilgrimage around the world. It is a chronological account of the spiritual transformation that took place in the life of the author as she moved from a western, Christian perspective into cultures and communities that challenged her values at every juncture. Starting in Japan, the journey moves to China, Thailand, the Philippines, Nepal, India, Israel, Egypt, Greece, Germany (East and West), the Netherlands and England.

Making Peace: One Woman's Journey Around the World

Phillips, Jan

Biographies & Memoirs

Friendship Pr

A synthesis of stories, science and social research on the nature and power of creativity. Creativity Unzipped redefines “creativity” to include the shaping of our lives. It addresses the reader as a creative person who is daily creating and sharing stories, daily creating the experiences they encounter with the tools of their intentions, thoughts and words. This book is not a How-To book, but a Why-To Book, exploring the extraordinary value and positive benefits of a fully expressed life. It examines the obstacles we face as creators and imaginative people, illustrates how our cultures and religions discourage originality, and uses personal anecdotes to show the many paths being forged by creative individuals today who are shaping a new and sustainable culture. It will raise your consciousness, lower your anxiety, heighten your confidence and warm your heart. Creativity Unzipped delivers the best news about creativity that you’ve heard in a long time!

Creativity Unzipped: Why Your Thoughts Matter

Westreich, Ruth

Religion & Spirituality

Livingkindness Press

Working and would-be writers, photographers, painters, journal keepers, sculptors, musicians, poets, and creative folk in every field will find inspiration and practical suggestions in this joyous book. This complete course in creative expression is based on Jan Phillips' smash "Marry Your Muse" workshops, and was chosen a Ben Franklin Award gold medal winner for 1997.
 In Part One, the stirring affirmations of The Artist's Creed empower us to become more confident and productive. In Part Two, anecdotes, photographs, quotations to ponder, fun and effective exercises help us discover a deep and satisfying form of self-expression. In Part Three, the heartful stories of working artists inspire us to fall in love with the artist within

Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity

Self-Help

Creativity

Quest Books

For amateurs and professionals alike, this book is the story of photography's power to renew the spirit. Jan Phillips helps us transform sight into vision, leading us to see that images can be mirrors for our deepest truths, even in our simple snapshots. "The real thing about photography," Jan says, "is that it brings you home to yourself, connects you to what fulfills your deepest longings. Every step in the process is a step toward the light, an encounter with the God who is at eye level, whose image I see wherever I look. There's something holy about this work. Like the pilgrim's journey; it's heaven all the way."

God Is at Eye Level: Photography as a Healing Art

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

True to the title, this guidebook directs beginners on the spiritual journey. Author Jan Phillips, reared Catholic, has traveled through Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim cultures merging dualities of East and West. A popular workshop leader for decades, she is a dynamic, upbeat, straight-talking, wise old woman in her own right, and her prose reflects her character. In warm, engaging language, she presents basic spiritual concepts and practices for the multitudes of Americans who have left traditional religion and are searching for a full-bodied, mind-expanding, convincing spirituality
The book consists of short essays and personal anecdotes. Each story incorporates the wisdom of various traditions, all suggesting the immanence of the Divine in our lives. Each chapter reframes the meaning of a typical road sign-such as YIELD for surrender, STOP for taking time for balance, LANE ENDS for giving up old notions. All in all, this lively book maps an adventurous trek from illusion to reality, fear to fulfillment, isolation to community. It invites us to go deeper and further, finding, at the end, that the journey is everything.

Finding the On-Ramp to Your Spiritual Path: A Roadmap to Joy and Rejuvenation

Jan Phillips was a devoted Catholic who wanted nothing more than to be a nun and who joyously entered the convent at 18. Two years later, she was dismissed for “a disposition unsuited to religious life, with excessive and exclusive friendships.” She was lesbian. She had always known it. “It was being homosexual that made me want to kill myself [at 12]. As far as I knew, there was nothing worse than being queer. They were perverts, sinners, hated by God, hated by just about everyone. Lezzies, bull dykes, fags, queers, lesbos―all damned, and there I was, one of them.” Still on Fire is a memoir of religious wounding and spiritual healing, of judgment and forgiveness, and of social activism in a world that is in our hands. Phillips traveled the globe on a one-woman peace pilgrimage, raised the consciousness of women, faced her privilege on a trip to India, and is working to dismantle structural racism. Her The Livingkindness Foundation supports schoolchildren in Nigeria. “Any spirituality that does not bring about more justice, more social awareness, more right action in the world is a lame and impotent excuse for faith … My action for justice is my spirituality.” Over the years, Phillips created a life of love, service, community, and prayer. She evolved her understanding of God and came to see herself―and all of us―as the light of the world. “Had I not been born gay … my heart would not have broken in half, would not have opened itself to Love Supreme, would not have been tenderized by life’s bitter pounding.” She tells the story of her life with humor and compassion, sharing her poetry, songs, and photos along the way.

Still on Fire: Field Notes from a Queer Mystic

Religious Studies

Unity Books

Book by Phillips, Jan, Conheim, Cathy, Forester, Christine, Circle of Women

A Waist Is a Terrible Thing to Mind: A Wake Up Call

Humor & Entertainment

Conheim, Cathy

Forester, Christine

Circle of Women

Humor

Breakthru Pr

Socially, economically, politically, and technologically our world is evolving in ways we could scarcely imagine even a few years ago. Now, more than ever, we need to close the gap between our professional and personal lives, bridge commerce to compassion, sustainability to profitability, and move from insight to action. 
The Art of Original Thinking: The Making of a Thought Leader is a brilliant guide to original thinking, inspired living, and visionary leadership - a hands-on guide to becoming a thought leader. Author Jan Phillips challenges us to question assumptions, free ourselves from illusions, dispel myths, and question the origins of our thoughts. Phillips' artful blend of storytelling, real-world examples, insightful interviews, and research sheds light on people, groups, and businesses around the world that are profiting exponentially through conscious choices and creative collaborations.

The Art of Original Thinking: The Making of a Thought Leader

Business & Money

Business Culture

9th Element Pr

God Speaks, I Write

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

AuthorHouse

Smart Solutions: Whole Numbers and Money : Skills, Problem Solving, Tools, and Applications (Math Solutions)

Management & Leadership

New Readers Pr

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