Soul Food: Stories to Nourish the Spirit and the Heart - Softcover

Great teachings stories – that school us in virtue and ethics, compassion and humanity – have been passed down through the ages as a vital, personal way to share wisdom.

Jack Kornfield & Christina Feldman serve up a delicious banquet of wise tales from the world’s greatest spiritual guides, including Jesus, the Buddh, Ramakrishna, and the Taoist sages. They offer contemporary readers a feast rich with wisdom and filled with timeless moral and spiritual lessons.

Gathering lively and inspiring parables from both Eastern and Western traditions, from Christian, Buddhist, Sufi, Jewish, Native American, African, and Zen teachings, Soul Food illustrates the eternal truths: the greatness of the human spirit, the endless wonder and possiblity of live, the necessity of courage, love and laughter, and our quest for wisdom and virtue. Each story offers a glimpse of revelation, an example of virtue, or a moment of truth that will sustain travellers as they traverse the road to a more spiritual life.

Jack Kornfield and Christina Feldman serve up a delicious banquet of wise tales from the world's greatest spiritual traditions in the pages of this delightful collection. A feast filled with timeless moral and spiritual lessons, these lively tales and inspiring parables from great faiths East and West offer glimpses of revelation, examples of virtue, and moments of truth that will sustain you on the path to a more spiritual life.

JACK KORNFIELD, the best-selling author of several books, including 'A Path with Heart' and 'Buddha's Little Instruction Book', is a founder of the Spirit Rock Meditation Centre.

CHRISTINA FELDMAN is the author of 'Women Awake' and, like Kornfield, is an internationally recognised Buddhist teacher who leads spiritual retreats around the world.

"Wonderful and inspiring stories".
Daniel Goleman, author of 'Emotional Intelligence'

"All of these stories are gems- there are Zen gems, Chassidic gems, Christian gems, Sufi gems, Native American gems- diamond wisdom from all traditions and all ages for us to take up with reverence and respect from time to time over the course of our lives and perhaps to share with others...Soul Food offers us a bountiful menu. Many lives will be immeasurably enriched by its fare".
-from the foreword by JON KABAT-ZINN, author of 'Wherever You Go, There You Are.'