Singing the Way: Insights in Poetry and Spiritual TransformationWorld Wisdom, Inc, 2005 - 231 pages This groundbreaking book underlines the primordial richness of language by focusing upon the spiritual qualities in poetry which serve to bridge the human and the Divine. |
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