In today's world, with its relentless emphasis on success and productivity, we have lost the necessary rhythm of life, the balance between work and rest. Constantly striving, we feel exhausted and deprived in the midst of great abundance. We long for time with friends and family, we long for a moment to ourselves.

Year ago, the tradition of Sabbath created an oasis of sacred time within a life of unceasing labor. Now, in a book that can heal our hurried lives, Wayne Muller shows us how to create a special time of rest, delight, and renewal. A refuge for our souls. We need not even schedule an entire day each week. Sabbath time can be a Sabbath afternoon, a Sabbath hour, a Sabbath walk. With wonderful stories, poems, and suggestions for practice, Muller teaches us how we can use this time of sacred rest to refresh our bodies and minds, and restore our creativity, and regain our birthright of inner happiness.

In this classic work, Eric Butterworth see the divine within us all to be a hidden and untapped resource of limitless abundance. Exploring this "depth potential," he outlines ways in which we can release the power locked within us and let our "light shine."

Butterworth demonstrates that the existence of this divine dimension in each individual is the greatest discovery of all time. He explains the universality of such vital subjects as how to succeed, how to pray, how to find confidence, how to overcome personal problems, and how to find healing. With insight and sensitivity, he opens new doors of self-knowledge, and outlines ways in which we can release the power within.

It has been thirty-five years since Eric Butterworth wrote this book and much has happened in the world. Yet the basic needs of people remain the same. This book contains a message that is still timely and greatly needed.

Unity believes that we can best keep Lent by denying ourselves not "things" but negative thoughts and feelings. Through prayer and study, we can contemplate the resurrection experience and practice its principles in our lives.

In KEEP A TRUE LENT, Charles Fillmore provides seventeen powerful essays to help us prepare for a spiritual journey, and he includes a thought-provoking lesson for each day of the Lenten season. You will find a day-to-day study guide and daily affirmation to help you make the best use of this period of self-reflection and prayer and guide you toward a spiritual awakening and resurrection of your own.

To help us better understand the Lenten season, Georgiana Tree West writes in the Foreword:

"The ancient Hebrew writers made a practice of using numbers to symbolize ideas. Forty, in their minds, was a "foursquare" number suggesting the idea of a foundation for something to follow; an idea of completeness. When we consider Lent as a well-rounded or "complete" season of retreat from the things of the world for the cleansing of the mind and the recollection of the things of the Spirit, it becomes a true season of preparation for...the resurrection of the mind from the darkness of its sins, doubts, and false beliefs into the light of understanding."