Many paths can lead to the Divinethese inspiring stories may help you clarify yours. These original spiritual miniautobiographies showcase the varied ways that people come to faithand what that meansin todays multireligious world. Examining their own journeys from belief to disillusionment and from searching to discovery contributors from many faiths ages and backgrounds tell how they learned to integrate the spirit into their daily lives and the remarkable transformations that followed. From South Africa to India Chicago to San Francisco and many places in between Awakening the Spirit Inspiring the Soul is the first international collection of its kind. It takes you on a trip through the spiritual lives of Buddhists Hindus Christians Muslims Jews and others who are continually searching to find their spiritual identity. Many of these brief inspiring memoirs portray the spirit of interspirituality that is growing in the world today showing you how to build the foundation for religion and spirituality that can serve to unite rather than divide humanity. There is a thirst for authentic connection in our scattered busy speedy culture. Sharing deeply from the soul and being received with an open heart satisfies that thirst. Being seen and acknowledged cultivates the soil of our good hearts. That is what this beautiful book and the integral spirituality it addresses so elegantly is all about. from the Foreword by Joan Borysenko PhD show more