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Autobiography of a Yogi is at once a beautifully written account of an exceptional life and a profound introduction to the ancient science of Yoga and its time-honored tradition of meditation. Profoundly inspiring, it is at the same time vastly entertaining, warmly humorous and filled with extraordinary personages.

Confessions is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by Saint Augustine of Hippo, written in Latin between 397 and 400 AD. The work outlines Saint Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written, and Professor Henry Chadwick wrote that Confessions will "always rank among the great masterpieces of western literature."

Joseph Smith Jr. (1805–1844) was one of the most successful and controversial religious leaders of nineteenth-century America, publishing the Book of Mormon and starting what would become the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He built temples, founded a city-state in Illinois, ran for president, and married more than thirty women. This self-made prophet thrilled his followers with his grand vision of peace and unity, but his increasingly grandiose plans tested and sometimes shattered their faith.

The engrossing, moving biography of one of China's better-known Christians, the dedicated evangelist and gifted Bible teacher Watchman Nee.

Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the United States and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than 50 women, and eventually transformed a barren desert into his vision of the Kingdom of God. While previous accounts of his life have been distorted by hagiography or polemical exposé, John Turner provides a fully realized portrait of a colossal figure in American religion, politics, and westward expansion.

"Everything about me is in my films," Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker, Molly Haskell explores the full range of Spielberg's works for the light they shine upon the man himself. Through such powerhouse hits as E.T., Jurassic Park, and Indiana Jones, to less-appreciated movies like the haunting Schindler's List, Haskell shows how Spielberg's uniquely evocative filmmaking and story-telling reveal the many ways in which his life, work, and times are entwined.

George Marsden describes how Lewis gradually went from being an atheist to a committed Anglican - famously converting to Christianity in 1931 after conversing into the night with his friends, J. R. R. Tolkien and Hugh Dyson - and how Lewis delivered his wartime talks to a traumatized British nation in the midst of an all-out war for survival.

A remarkable story of two missionaries who spent forty years on the mission field, enduring incredible hardships overcoming impossible obstacles, witnessing astonishing miracles, and experiencing God's faithful protection and peace in the dangerous, difficult place they came to love as home. For centuries the Totonac Indians of Mexico had lived in superstitious fear, under the bondage of witchcraft and poverty. Larry and Doris Puckett reared their four children in the remote village of Mecatlan, Veracruz.

When Allan was little, he hoped to be a footballer. But, like many things in 'Brutal Bootle', that dream was quickly demolished. Thoughts of God never got beyond Mr Godson's classroom, until his future mother-in-law insisted church attendance was a condition of dating the lovely Joyce. Faced with that ultimatum, he went along. I didn't ask for any of this… Especially not becoming the church minister! But when a throw-away comment landed Allan on the stage of a comedy club, everything changed. He found his calling. Somewhere he could make a difference.

What if you fall in love on the brink of death? Singing Through Fire invites listeners into the Job-like true story of a young woman who loses everything—and dares to ask why a good God allows it.

Als Pfarrer und Sterbebegleiter hat er an unzähligen Sterbebetten gesessen und den Menschen bei ihrem Übergang in eine höhere Welt geholfen. Zum ersten Mal schildert er in diesem Werk seine tiefsten Eindrücke über das Geschehen in den heiligen Momenten des Freiwerdens von aller Erdenschwere. Damit liegt erstmals in der abendländischen Tradition eine vergleichbare Erkenntnis vor, wie sie das östliche Denken im Tibetischen Totenbuch besitzt.

The smoke clears. The world watches. A name is announced. A man steps forward and the earth’s gaze falls upon him. We have a Pope! And his name is Leo XIV. But who is this 266th successor to St. Peter? What is the former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost’s vision for the Church, and what impact will his papacy have on Catholics and on the world? Veteran Catholic journalist and historian Matthew Bunson offers the first authoritative portrait of the new Holy Father.

David Marks has everything: Harvard MBA, Manhattan real estate empire, penthouse apartment. But he cannot sleep. His marriage is crumbling. His anxiety is crushing him. When a sleepless night drives him to synagogue one morning, he stumbles onto something he never learned at business school: a Jewish blueprint for thinking, living, and succeeding that operates completely outside the rules he was taught. As David begins to rethink success, pressure, and identity through the heritage he never understood, something ancient awakens inside him. Not just calm, power. Not just relief, real strength.

What happens when the life you built… completely falls apart? In Demolition: My Journey, Peggy Hailey Varnell delivers a deeply moving and unfiltered account of surviving emotional abuse, enduring heartbreak, and finding the strength to rebuild through faith. This is not just a story—it’s a testimony. Through powerful storytelling, Peggy takes listeners inside her lived experience: a marriage filled with pain, the silent battles of motherhood, and the overwhelming weight of starting over.

Childhood Scars is the first book in my memoir series, Uncovered Through Christ. I confront childhood trauma in the areas of rejection, abandonment, and struggles with sexuality and addiction, and reveal how God’s grace brought healing and identity.

In Reformation Women, Rebecca Vandoodewaard introduces listeners to 12 16th-century women who are not as well known today as contemporaries like Katie Luther and Lady Jane Grey. Providing an example to Christians today of strong service to Christ and his church, these influential, godly women were devoted to Reformation truth, in many cases provided support for their husbands, practiced hospitality, and stewarded their intellectual abilities.

Poucos homens deixaram uma marca tão profunda na humanidade quanto São Francisco, o humilde monge de Assis. Neste audiolivro, Paramahamsa Prajnanananda, extraordinário mestre da Kriya Yoga que reflete as muitas qualidades divinas de São Francisco, examina os valores que o grande santo adotou para alcançar o auge da realização divina. Com beleza, sensibilidade e precisão, Prajnananandaji elabora as formas de se incorporar esses princípios em nossas vidas diárias para que possamos acelerar a nossa própria evolução espiritual.

After Paul Stutzman lost his wife to breast cancer, he sensed a tug on his heart - the call to a challenge, the call to pursue a dream. With a mixture of dread and determination, Paul left his job, traveled to Georgia, and took his first steps on the Appalachian Trail. What he learned during the next four and a half months changed his life and can change yours as well. In Hiking Through, you'll join Paul on his remarkable 2,176-mile trip through 14 states in search of peace and a renewed sense of purpose.

गुरु नानक की वाणी से निकला यह महावाक्य ईश्वर की सराहना है और "सदगुरु नानक" यह ऑडियो बुक वास्तव में गुरु नानक की ही सराहना है।

The author Sri "M" is an extraordinary individual. His uniqueness lies not only in the fact that at the young age of 19 and a half, he travelled to snow-clad Himalayas from Kerala, and there he met and lived for several years with a "real-time" yogi, Babaji, but also that he should undertake such an unusual and adventurous exploration, given his non-Hindu birth and antecedents. The metamorphosis of Mumtaz Ali Khan into Sri "M", a yogi with profound knowledge of the Upanishads and deep personal insights, is born of first-hand experiences with higher levels of consciousness....

Edward Alexander Crowley (born October 12, 1875, Royal Leamington Spa, England - died December 1, 1947, Hastings) was a British occultist, writer, and mountaineer who was a practitioner of “magick” (as he spelled it) and called himself "the Beast 666". He was denounced in his own time for his decadent lifestyle and had few followers, but he became an iconic cult figure after his death.

Eknath Easwaran grew up in Gandhi's India and was deeply inspired by him. As a young man, he read Gandhi's weekly articles and visited his ashram, walking with Gandhi and observing him in deep meditation during his prayer service. What fascinated Easwaran was Gandhi's magnificent spiritual transformation - from a shy, ineffectual lawyer to the Mahatma, the "great soul" who led millions of Indians in their successful nonviolent struggle for independence.

This stirring and emotional memoir shares the life of an individual entrenched in the shackles of poverty, where his most treacherous enemies are the ones who surround him. After giving his unquestioning support to those who would only seek to use him, he finds himself escaping a harrowing near death experience and being wrongfully captured. On his journey, he faces the consequences of many bad decisions and following the wrong crowd. His mistakes get him lied to, shot, and imprisoned. Finally, he sees the light of a breakthrough, but does it come too late?

After 2,000 years of flawed history, here at last is a biography of Mary Magdalene that draws her out of the shadows of history and restores her to her rightful place of importance within Christianity. Throughout history, she has been both revered and reviled, a woman who has taken on many forms - witch, whore, the incarnation of the eternal feminine, and the devoted companion (and perhaps even wife) of Jesus. In this brilliant new biography, Bruce Chilton, a renowned biblical scholar, offers the first complete and authoritative portrait of this fascinating woman. His descriptions of who Mary was and what she did challenge the male-dominated history of Christianity familiar to most listeners.

Becoming Freud is the story of the young Freud—Freud up until the age of fifty—that incorporates all of Freud’s many misgivings about the art of biography. Freud invented a psychological treatment that involved the telling and revising of life stories, but he was himself skeptical of the writing of such stories.

The drumbeat of horses’ hooves and clatter of chariot wheels echo through the rolling green hills of what will be known much later as the Emerald Isle. The driver is a lone woman whose long hair and homespun cloak whip through the wind behind her. Headstrong, confident, and intelligent, she blazes a trail that will change her nation forevermore, yet not in her own name or for her own sake, but for that of the God who sent her. This is a woman who will love the poor, feed the hungry, house the homeless, teach the ignorant, and defy the odds doing it all. This is Brigid of Kildare.

In the 1970s, against the backdrop of the explosive Watergate scandal, Charles Colson revealed the story of his own search for meaning during the tumultuous investigations that led to the collapse of the Nixon administration. A convicted former special counsel to the president, Colson paradoxically found new life - not with success and power, but while in national disgrace and serving a prison sentence.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Deepen your insight into and appreciation for the writings J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis as you explore the untold story of how the First World War shaped their lives, faith, and writings. Had there been no Great War, there would have been no Hobbit, no Lord of the...

Once she answered the divine calling, Aimee Semple McPherson rose fast from unfulfilled housewife in Rhode Island to "miracle woman" - the most enigmatic, pioneering, media-savvy Christian evangelist in the country. She preached up and down the United States, traveling in a 1912 Packard with her mother and her children - and without a man to fix flat tires. Her ministry was rolled out in tents, concert halls, boxing rings, and speakeasies. She prayed for the healing of hundreds of thousands of people, and built a Pentecostal temple in Los Angeles of Hollywood-epic dimensions.

Topics explored in this dialogue include: why the life and work of Rumi is relevant in today's world, what is Rumi's connection to the Divine, comparisons of Rumi and other great religious leaders, why Rumi is skeptical about language, where do you find Rumi's passion in today's world, what Rumi might be doing if he were alive today, and what is the connection between Rumi's revelations and the Sufi tradition.