Spiritual Ecology: 10 Practices to Reawaken the Sacred in Everyday Life

Spiritual Ecology: 10 Practices to Reawaken the Sacred in Everyday Life offers inspiring and practical guidance for reconnecting to the sacred in every day life and transforming our relationship with the Earth. Describing the power of simple, daily practices such as Walking, Gardening, Cooking with Love, and Prayer, this small book supports profound changes in how we think about and respond to the ecological crisis of our times.

Spiritual Ecology: 10 Practices to Reawaken the Sacred in Everyday Life follows our groundbreaking Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth, now in its second edition, which included spiritual perspectives on climate change, species loss, deforestation, and other aspects of our present environmental crises from renowned spiritual teachers, scientists, and indigenous leaders. That book drew an overwhelmingly positive reaction from readers, many of whom are asking: “What can I do?”

Spiritual Ecology: 10 Practices to Reawaken the Sacred in Everyday Life answers that question with inspiring, personal anecdotes from the author – Sufi teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee – and simple practices we all can do. Rooted in the mystical foundation of the world’s great spiritual traditions, with a particular connection to Sufism, these timeless practices remind readers of our deep connections to life, each other, and the Earth, and invite a return of meaning to our desecrated world.

As Rumi says, “there are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground,” and it is this sacred ground that is calling to us, that needs our living presence, our attentiveness. This small book offers simple ways to reconnect so that we can once again feel the music, the song of our living connection with the Earth.

• Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth
• Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects
• The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul
• Including the Earth in Our Prayers: A Global Dimension to Spiritual Practice
• Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy
• For Love of the Real: A Story of Life's Mystical Secret
• Spiritual Power: How It Works
• Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
• Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
• The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World