Winter: Spiritual Biography of the Season

SkyLight Paths Publishing, 2003 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 256 pages For many, winter is a time of postponed activity -- shoveling snow, navigating ice, and trying to keep warm. What can easily be forgotten in winter's cold and occasional dreariness is that it is also a time for shoring up, purity, praise, delight, and play. In thirty stirring pieces, Winter Life delves into the varied feelings that winter conjures in us, calling up both the barrenness and beauty of the natural world in wintertime. Exploring our retreat and hibernation from the world and our ultimate joyful breaking free from icy paralysis, these inspiring writings will help readers express and understand their own personal reaction to wintertime, showing them the way from the cold of winter to the warmth of the human soul. Includes a wide range of classic texts -- from translated Sanskrit and Hebrew poems to Henry David Thoreau and Basho.