Penguin Books Australia

The uplifting true story of how Kathleen Evan's miraculous recovery from terminal lung cancer led to the canonisation of Australia's first saint, Mary MacKillop.

Comfort is a universal human need. It's that craving to feel at one with the world we live in, warm (but not hot), protected (but not smothered), and secure (but not marooned) in what the future holds. Yet in our increasingly complex and overstressed world, we tend to overlook this important aspect in our lives.

Lauren Artress, the author of The Sacred Path Companion , calls this new book 'Everything Else You Ever Wanted to Know About the Labyrinth Movement,' and she has a point: This is a comprehensive and indispensable companion to Walking a Sacred Path , which has become a quasi-Bible of the Labyrinth movement. In this workbook, Artress – one of the guiding forces in the Labyrinth movement –...

This inaugural - and all new - Tarcher Cornerstone Edition presents a stunningly relevant and reliable translation of the thoughts and aphorisms of the Stoic philosopher and Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, properly placing the philosopher-king's writings within the vein of the world's great religious and ethical traditions.

The late antique world possessed no voice like that of Roman emperor Marcus...

A new presentation of the classic spiritual work places its eighty-one verses in an accessible format for both casual and serious students, in a new translation that seeks to illuminate the timeless relevance of its message.

Meet the cats who acted as a pacemaker when a woman's heart suddenly stopped beating in the night;

Paprika, a gentle giant with deep orange stripes who saved a little Hungarian girl from Russian soldiers;

Lucky, the kitten who survived against the odds and went on to help deaf children as a therapy cat;

Princess the courageous cat who helped a lady make friends in an unpleasant and intimidating work...

'Just because I am a woman, must I therefore believe that I must not tell you about the goodness of God, when I saw at the same time both his goodness, and his wish that it should be known?' Coming from a society where women were barred from serious writing and teaching, Julian, an anchorite in the great medieval city of Norwich, nevertheless used the English vernacular of the day to describe an extraordinary...

Have you ever stopped to look at a breathtaking sunset and felt tremendous joy, calmness, or even timelessness? Has your entire body ever responded to something with awe? The Art of Amazement helps us to identify the source of that wonder, and to cultivate it and experience it daily-even hourly and minute by minute.

The teaching of G. I. Gurdjieff (1866-1949) has come to be recognized as one of the most original, enduring, and penetrating of our century. While Gurdjieff used many different means to transmit his vision of the human dilemma and human possibility, he gave special importance to his acknowledged masterwork, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson. Beelzebub's Tales is an 'ocean of story' and of ideas that...

From the renowned translator of "The Gift" comes a rich collection that brings the great Sufi poet to Western readers.