Why am I passionate about this?
It took me awhile to understand that I was on a spiritual path. I started out as an actor, and working in the theater brought me joy. But as time passed, and I turned to writing novels, the same questions kept emerging: âWho am I?â âWhy am I here?â I began to see that I was on a spiritual journey. With A Poet of the Invisible World, I finally felt ready to write about that journey. Nouriâs adventures chart the twists and turnsâas well as the deep rewardsâof the spiritual path. Itâs a book thatâs very close to my heart.
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Why did Michael love this book?
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson is one of literatureâs most intimate records of the struggle to know God. Emily Dickinson spent most of her life in Amherst, Massachusetts, in the Calvinist home where she grew up. But while she eventually drifted away from organized faith, she found God in other ways: âSome keep the Sabbath going to Church/ I keep it, staying at Home.â Like so many spiritual seekers, Dickinson experienced doubt: âOf CourseâI prayedâ/ And did God care?â Yet her faith persisted: âI know that He exists/ Somewhereâin silenceââ. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson reveals the seekerâs need to move beyond forms. And it shows how God, in the end, permeates everything.
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Though generally overlooked during her lifetime, Emily Dickinson's poetry has achieved acclaim due to her experiments in prosody, her tragic vision and the range of her emotional and intellectual explorations.