Recipes for good living
Subtitle: the beginner's guide to spirituality
By: Terry Biddington ; illustrated by Fiona Biddington
Contributors: Biddington, Fiona
Publisher: Circle
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Winchester, UK; Washington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781846949036; 9781846949029
Subjects: Spiritual life; Spirituality
Description: Recipes for Good Living explores the idea of spirituality from a non-religious perspective. Its primary audience is people who are setting out on the spiritual adventure of their lifetime. It imitates the form of a cookery book, and is beautifully illustrated with line-drawings. It aims to be a contemporary popular spiritual manual for beginners and teachers of beginners and includes a wide range of practical exercises and reflections for personal growth or group discussion. It strongly encourages the idea that spiritual exploration is richly meaningful, life-transforming and inherently about developing a sense of interdependence with, and responsibility for, the world, its local communities, and the wider human family.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; Getting Started; Try this Simple Quiz; Setting Out On the Journey; The Essentials; Essential 1: Spirituality and Personality; Essential 2: Taste and See; Essential 3: Finding Free Food; Essential 4: Making Bread; Essential 5: Beware. Death in the Pot!; The Essentials: in a Nutshell; The Recipes; Main Courses; Work: Life's Ordinary Daily Fare; Rest; Play: Party Time for the Soul; Art, Music, and the Creative Stuff; Relationships; title: Made in Heaven?; Naughty or Nice? The Delights of Embodied Experience; Travel; Try Out these Other Recipes; Breakfasts; Suppers and Midnight Snacks; title: Spiritual Snacks and Energy DrinksFasting; Feasting; Al Fresco Food: Picnics and Pilgrimages; Spiritual Drink; Comfort Eating; Coffee and Cake and a Quiet Chat; Recycling the Left-overs; Dining Out; title: a Guide to Foreign Food; The Beginner's Guide to Encountering Religious and Spiritual Difference; Paying the Bill; First Aid, Help, and Hygiene; Recipes for Sharing; Exercises for Setting off Again; Afterword; Endnotes