Here are a sampling of non-fiction books I have on my shelves that are relevant to the book, and might be useful for further reading and resources for exploration.
§ Lost in Wonder by Esther de Waal
§ I and Thou Martin Buber
§ Hidden Beauty: Microworlds Revealed by France Bourely, Laurel Hirsch
§ French Cooking in Ten Minutes: Adapting to the Rhythm of Modern Life by
Edouard De Pomiane
§ Modern Spirituality: An Anthology, ed. John Garvey
§ I Wonder by Marian Bantjes
§ Reason, Faith and Revolution, by Terry Eagleton
§ The Way of a Pilgrim and The Pilgrim Continues on His Way
§ Six Existentialist Thinkers HJ Blackham
§ The Practice of the Presence of God, by Brother Laurence
§ The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western
World by Iain McGilchrist
§ Descarte’s Error by Antonio Damasio
§ Showings by Julian of Norwich
§ The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Laurence
§ Care for Creation: A Franciscan Spirituality of the Earth by Ilia Delio, Keith
Douglass Warner, Pamela Wood
§ Grace and Necessity, Rowan Williams
§ The Oxford Companion to the Mind
§ Degowin and Degowin’s Bedside Diagnostic Manual
§ Complete Guide to Guys, Dave Barry
§ Leisure the Basis of Culture, Josef Pieper
§ Bergan and Schwann Ignatian Exercises Series
§ Formative Spirituality by Adrian van Kaam
§ Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation by Josef Pieper
§ A Balm for Gilead, Daniel Sulmasy
§ The Greatest Works of Western Art, Thomas Hoving
§ The Natural Way to Draw, Kimon Nicolaides
§ Ways of Seeing, John Berger
§ Art and Soul, Hilary Brand and Adrienne Chaplin
§ Science and Poetry, Mary Midgely
§ Open Hands Henry Nouwen
§ Personal Knowledge, Michael Polanyi
§ The Limits of Language, ed. Walker Gibson
§ Open Mind, Open Heart Thomas Keating
§ The Music of What Happens, John J O’Riordian
§ On Sharing Religious Experience, Gort, Vroom, Fernhout, and Wessels
§ The Four Loves, CS Lewis
§ Passionate Women, Elizabeth Dreyer
§ Love, Human and Divine, Edward Vacek
§ Seeking God, the Way of St Benedict, Esther de Waal
§ Sadhana by Antony de Mello
§ Christian Mystics Ursula King
§ Simone Weil – Attention to the Real, Robert Chenavier
§ The Far Side Collection by Gary Larson
§ The Mystical Now: Art and the Sacred by Wendy Beckett § Collected Works of Thomas Merton
§ Desert Wisdom Yoshi Nomura