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About This Candle The intent of the gratitude candle speaks volumes for itself. It is one of our bestselling candles and is also the candle that almost always graces my home altar. The combination of rose and rosemary is absolutely divine. Amazonite is a stone of honor and tiger eye of clarity. This candle is perfect for anyone, at any time. —Carla Blazek, creator, zena moon |
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Customer Feedback Cheryl R. (Seattle) I must share with you how I use my Gratitude candle. Every morning when I wake, I light my Gratitude candle. I spend at least 5 minutes with myself. I watch the sun rise, the birds fly, I listen to my own breath. I watch the flame burn, I smell the scent as it fills the air, and I thank the Universe for a new day to try to get it right, again.
At night before I go to sleep, I light my Gratitude candle, I open my gratitude journal where I write at least 5 things that I am grateful for that day. Some days are outta sight; I can write 10 things. Some days are rough and I must remind myself of the words from philosopher Meister Eckhart: "If the only prayer you say in your life is 'thank you', that would be enough." Instantly I am thankful for the day that is soon to end because it was peaceful as I sat at the table with myself, my gratitude and my candle shining so bright. Thank you for the opportunity to share.
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Our Recommended Books, Music & Movies for Gratitude zena moon sells books, CDs and DVDs in association with Amazon.com. To order, click on the item's title or image, then add it to your Amazon shopping cart. Orders are then filled and shipped by Amazon. Send us your recommendations for this page--we may post them here.
Last updated 3/24/2005
1.
Blessing: The Art and the
Practice
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Blessing,
a tender book by internationally recognized spiritual
leader David Spangler, teaches the art of
invoking and receiving blessings. Yes, it sounds straightforward. But diving
into the core of this book, we discover how blessings represent the crux of
spiritual development--the ability to hold the world (and oneself) in the palm
of loving kindness, and to develop a practice that sheds good intentions upon
the world.
When Spangler (Everyday
Miracles) was first starting his career as a spiritual leader,
a woman approached him after a lecture and asked him to "give me a blessing."
Initially he recoiled, feeling it would be grandiose for him to offer a
blessing to another. He had a Hollywood image of what she was asking
for--"heavenly choirs singing, inner lights blazing ... with the recipient
having all her problems solved, her consciousness raised, and life
transfigured." Then with a breath of clarity, Spangler realized that a real
blessing would be "a soft and warming breeze that invited us to open windows
and doors to let stuffiness out and new life in ... It was not meant to
impress but to touch and connect." So he simply took her hands, closed his
eyes, became still, and reached out to "embrace her in my spirit and to be
embraced in hers."
This exchange is the metaphor Spangler returns
to time and again. Readers come to understand that a blessing is a simple act
of connection, not a holier-than-thou act of ego. Furthermore, blessings
always come back to us--we join forces with benevolence and spirit, and in
doing so, we can't go wrong. While the early chapters address the "Spirit of
Blessing," the rest are devoted to an abundance of exercises and examples of
how to invoke blessings. Readers are privy to Spangler's renowned teaching
skills, as he offers creative exercises and sample blessings while helping
them find their own style of invocation. Spangler finishes with a lesson on
casting blessings upon global famines, wars, and oppression, helping readers
find a spiritual context for spreading goodwill beyond the boundaries of race
and nations.
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From Amazon.com: Louise Hay has gathered the insights and
collected wisdom of some of the most wonderful teachers and writers she knows,
including Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Dr. Joan Borysenko, Dan Millman, Harold
Bloomfield, Dr. Bernie Siegel, and Shakti Gawain, who share with Louise and
her readers their understanding of the practice of gratitude.
3. Blessings
: Prayers and Declarations for a Heartful Life
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From Amazon.com: Through her
writings and workshops, Julia Cameron has inspired millions to pursue their
dreams. In the tradition of
Heart Steps,
Blessings
reveals the keys she uses to reconnect herself with the source of her creative
spirit. Focusing on gratitude and recognizing the power to change one's
surrounding world by changing one's thinking, Cameron explains how she
surrenders to the "deeper flow of life rather than willfully forcing
artificial solutions." By acknowledging the beauty, harmony, and synergy of
life, readers learn through Cameron's inspiring prose how to cherish the gifts
they have been given and use them to their fullest. Those who read and follow
Cameron's advice and prayers and listen to Tim Wheater's healing music in the
audiobook will realize how to achieve harmony in their lives and embrace the
notion that they are part of a larger whole that holds them in a benevolent
and protective view. With
Blessings,
readers will understand the secrets of a life that is rich, beautiful,
intricate, and valuable.
1. Offerings
Original Release Date: 1998
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On
Offerings,
vocalist Azam Ali and percussionist Greg Ellis take one step beyond the
repertoire of Indian-flavored, hymn-like songs created on their widely adored
debut
Sunyata. Again Ali radiantly sings
soothing melodies of words in no language other than her own spontaneous
emotion. A bit reminiscent of Madredeus's Teresa Salguiero, her tone is
melancholic and soulful, but her chanting unrolls a Persian tapestry woven of
her hammered dulcimer and Ellis's cadences on tabla, udu, frame drum, zils,
and more. Guest artists Steve Stevens (nylon-string guitar), cellist Hans
Christian, singer Omar Faruk Tekbilek, and violinist Nabil Azzam deepen the
Middle Eastern hues. By the CD's end, listeners will understand why this
inspired duo has named themselves the Farsi word for "vessel."
2.
Earth Heart
Original Release Date: 1996
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I originally bought
Earth Heart
on a whim about 4 years ago. I had no idea how incredible it would be. It
sounds like a cross between Pink Floyd's album
A Momentary Lapse of Reason and Anubian
Lights's
Eternal Sky. You will most definitely
fall into a meditative trance. Even though it's classified as Australian
Tribal, it is not as you would think. If you like New Age or Trance, you
should absolutely love this album.
3.
The Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits: The Record
Original Release Date: 2001
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Don't look for a richly illustrated, critical
essay-packed hagiography with this 40-track, double-disc overview of the Bee
Gees recording career. In typical, telling fashion, the Brothers Gibb have
eschewed such exercises in ego inflation and simply let the best of their
remarkable body of music speak for itself. Through it all, their familiar
voices lock together in the sort of transcendent, seemingly genetic harmony
that few singers since the Everly Brothers (early Gibb inspirations) have
managed. Beginning with the plaintive 1966 hit "New York Mining Disaster
1941," this set traces the Gibbs' journey from successful Beatles-era
balladeers to '70s white R&B gods and the undisputed kings of disco (we're
reminded here that their shrewd metamorphosis began with "Nights on Broadway"
and "Jive Talkin'"--long before the mega-success of
Saturday Night Fever). But even as that
dance craze faded, again threatening to turn the Bee Gees into pop
anachronisms, the Gibbs simply stepped out of the limelight for a while,
turning their talents to MOR hit-making for the likes of Samantha Sang, Dolly
Parton, Barbra Streisand, and Dionne Warwick. Those hits ("Emotion,"
"Heartbreaker," "Islands in the Stream") are featured here in modern
rerecordings by the band, along with the Streisand-Barry Gibb duet, "Guilty."
And if the Gibbs haven't had much of an American chart presence in recent
years, they remain superstars throughout the rest of the world, a richly
crafted pop music presence that simply won't be denied.
(1939) ~ DVD
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When it was
released during Hollywood's golden year of 1939,
The Wizard of Oz
didn't start out as the perennial classic it has since become. The film did
respectable business, but it wasn't until its debut on television that this
family favorite saw its popularity soar. And while
Oz's
TV broadcasts are now controlled by media mogul Ted Turner (who owns the
rights), the advent of home video has made this lively musical a mainstay in
the staple diet of great American films. Young Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland),
her dog, Toto, and her three companions on the Yellow Brick Road to Oz--the
Tin Man (Jack Haley), the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr), and the Scarecrow (Ray
Bolger)--have become pop-culture icons and central figures in the legacy of
fantasy for children. As the Wicked Witch who covets Dorothy's enchanted ruby
slippers, Margaret Hamilton has had the singular honor of scaring the wits out
of children for more than six decades. The film's still as fresh, frightening,
and funny as it was when first released. It may take some liberal detours from
the original story by L. Frank Baum, but it's loyal to the Baum legacy while
charting its own course as a spectacular film. Shot in glorious Technicolor,
befitting its dynamic production design (Munchkinland alone is a psychedelic
explosion of color and decor),
The Wizard of Oz
may not appeal to every taste as the years go by, but it's required viewing
for kids of all ages.
2.
The Notebook
(2004) ~ DVD
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When you consider that old-fashioned tearjerkers are an endangered
species in Hollywood, a movie like
The Notebook
can be embraced without apology. Yes, it's syrupy sweet and clogged with
clichés, and one can only marvel at the irony of Nick Cassavetes directing a
weeper that his late father John--whose own films were devoid of saccharine
sentiment--would have sneered at. Still, this touchingly impassioned and
great-looking adaptation of the popular Nicholas Sparks
novel has much to recommend, including
appealing young costars (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams) and appealing old
costars (James Garner and Gena Rowlands, the director's mother) playing the
same loving couple in (respectively) early 1940s and present-day North
Carolina. He was poor, she was rich, and you can guess the rest; decades
later, he's unabashedly devoted, and she's drifting into the memory-loss of
senile dementia. How their love endured is the story preserved in the titular
notebook that he reads to her in their twilight years. The movie's open to
ridicule, but as a delicate tearjerker it works just fine.
Message in a Bottle
and
A Walk to Remember were also based on
Sparks novels, suggesting a triple-feature that hopeless romantics will
cherish.
(1988) ~ DVD
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"There are angels over the
streets of Berlin," quotes the movie poster, but these are like no angels
you've ever seen. Bundled in dark overcoats, they watch over the city with
ears open to the heartbeat of the human soul, listening to the internal
musings and yearnings of earthbound humans like existential detectives. In
these delicate, astounding scenes we float through the thoughts of dozens
Berlin citizens, from the weary and worn to the hopeful and young, as the
angels record the magic moments for some heavenly record. But when Damiel (the
empathic and sensitive Bruno Ganz) falls in love with an angel of another
sort, the lonely trapeze artist Marion (willowy, sad-eyed Solveig Dommartin),
he gives up the contemplation and observation of life to experience it
himself.
Wim Wenders's most purely
romantic film is like poetry on celluloid, a celebration of the transient and
fragile moments of being human: the warmth of a cup of coffee on a cold day,
the embrace of a friend, the touch of a lover, the rapture of love. Opening
with an angel's-eye view of Berlin in silvery black and white (delicately
captured by the great cinematographer Henri Alekan, who photographed Jean
Cocteau's
Beauty and the Beast 40 years earlier),
it transforms into a gauzy color world when Damiel "crosses over" by sheer
will. Peter Falk plays himself as a fallen angel with a special sensitivity
for celestial visitors ("I can't see you, but I know you're there," he
proclaims), and Otto Sander, whose smiling eyes brighten a face etched by eons
of waiting and watching, is Damiel's partner. Wenders made a sequel in 1993,
Faraway, So Close, and Hollywood remade
the film as
City of Angels
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