Thursday Book Study: 1 – 3 p.m.
January 10th – June 13th 2019

“A Blessing in Disguise”
By: Andrea Joy Cohen

At some point or another in our lives, all of us experience challenges. Some of these challenges are minor while others can be overwhelming and sometimes paralyzing when we are faced with loss, dis-ease, or financial hardship. During dark times, we may be overcome with feelings of sadness, frustration, despair, anger, and loneliness.

In the book, A Blessing in Disguise, thirty-nine of the world’s prominent luminaries share their personal stories and spiritual growth that they gleaned from some of the most trying times of their lives. All of these spiritual teachers agree that if one is willing to remain steadfast, open, and courageous he/she can rise like the phoenix from the ashes and experience profound transformation physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

Through the power of their written word, you will discover how to make your life a journey rich with opportunity as they discuss such issues as: death and dying, creative expression, the search for spirituality, family dynamics, relationships and love. These intimate, one-of-a-kind stories show you how the challenges humankind faces are truly blessings in disguise.

Some of the authors include:
Thich Nhat Hanh, Rachel Naomi Remen MD, Bernie Siegel MD, Martha Beck PhD, Dean Ornish MD, Joan Borysenko PhD, Harriet Lerner PhD, Belleruth Naparstek, Elizabeth Lesser, Stephen Levine, Susan Jeffers PhD, Dharma Singh Khalsa MD, Daphne Rose Kingma, David Whyte, Barry Neil Kaufman, Anne Wilson Schaef, Angeles Arrien, and Tama Kieves

Facilitated by: Rev. Angela Denton
Fee: Love Offering
Text: A Blessing in Disguise by Andrea Joy Cohen

The Choice for Love

by: Barbara De Angelis

Book Study: Thursdays 1-3 PM
May 3rd – ?? 2018

From the moment we are born and through every day of our lives, each of us is traveling on a mysterious, relentless, passionate, and sometimes perplexing journey in search of the experience of Love. Love, however, isn’t simply an emotion, a behavior, or even the bond you feel with another person—it’s a supercharged, light-drenched, limitless vibrational field of infinite divine energy that is our essential nature.

 

 

The true search for love, then, must inevitably direct us within, where we discover that the love we’ve been seeking in countless ways has been inside of us all along.

Now more than ever, in these unsettling times on our planet, we’re each called to become a living remedy, to not fall in love, but to rise in love. The Choice for Love is a masterful and sacred pilgrimage of words whose enlivened wisdom will move you, awaken you, and liberate you to embrace, embody, and delight in more love than you ever imagined was possible.~ De Angelis

 

Facilitated by: Rev Angela Denton MA; P.D. MFT; LUT

Fee: Love Offering

Required Text: “The Choice for Love”  by: Barbara De Angelis

NOTE: If you would like Angela Denton to order you a book for $14 email her at [email protected] by April 25, 2018

 

What if This is Heaven? by: Anita Moorjani

Book Study: Thursdays 1:00-3:00 PM
January 11 – April 26, 2018

Anita Moorjani, author of Dying to be Me, reveals that traditional religions and some spiritual teachings indoctrinate us into believing that heaven is a place or experience of nirvana that can only be reached after our death and we are free of our physical body. Anita, like many new thought teachers professes that heaven is a state of consciousness that can be reached here and now.

The experience of heaven on earth can be obtained when we cut through societal myths that condition us to live from a state of unworthiness and fear and become lost in the roles and ways of living that keep us seeking approval and success from external sources and relationships.. The key to nirvana is to love ourselves unconditionally and to embody our Divinity in service to others and the Universe.

Come and explore the 10 myths that Moorjani believes prevents us from loving ourselves and experiencing heaven on earth.

Facilitator: Angela Denton MA; P.D. MFT; LUT
Required Text: What if This is Heaven?
Cost: Love Offering
Class will be held at:  Unity by the Shore, 3508 Asbury Avenue, Neptune, NJ 07753

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