by David Richo
How to Be an Adult in Faith and Spirituality (Paulist Press, 2011)
We explore and compare religion and spirituality with an emphasis on how they can both become rich resources for personal growth. We increase our understanding of God, faith, and life’s plaguing questions in the light of mysticism, depth psychology, and our new appreciation of evolutionary cosmology.
How to Be an Adult in Faith and Spirituality (set of 4 CDs; Paulist Press, 2012)
Recording from a workshop given at Spirit Rock Buddhist Retreat Center in California on how to design and practice an adult spirituality. We also look at how to find the spiritual riches in religion while letting go of the elements of religion that are not in keeping with our adult evolution.
Coming Home to Who You Are: Discovering Your Natural Capacity for Love, Integrity, and Compassion (Shambhala Publications, 2011)
This book offers practices that can usher us into a new way of being alive—as cheerful agents of the goodness that is in us all. Our choices for integrity and loving-kindness reflect that goodness and help us co-create a world of justice, peace, and love. This is an owners’ guide to being an upright and loving human.
Embracing the Shadow: Discovering the Hidden Riches in Our Relationships (set of 4 CDs Shambhala Publications, 2013)
This recording of a live presentation addresses working with our unskillful tendencies in our relationships so that we can tame them and grow because of them. We notice our projections onto one another. We find the gifts we might not yet have dared to recognize or show. We learn how working with the dark rather than in it lets the light of intimacy through.
How to Be an Adult in Relationships (audiobook, read by the author; Shambhala Publications, 2013)
How to Be an Adult in Love: Letting Love in Safely and Showing It Recklessly (Shambhala Publications, 2013)
Love is what we were born to show and receive. Yet, we sometimes fear giving or receiving it. This book helps us learn to love ourselves, partners, others, and the human family while finding ways to let go of fear, ego-centeredness, and the will to revenge. Everyone can practice loving-kindness in ways that make love unconditional, universal, and joyful too.
The Power of Grace: Recognizing Unexpected Gifts on the Path (Shambhala Publications, 2014)
Personal growth involves more than applying ourselves to self-help or spiritual practices. Somewhere in the episodes and milestones of our lives something positive or life-changing happened, something beneficial, that was beyond our effort, plan, or expectation. That special assistance—unmerited, unearned, unplanned, often unnoticed—is called grace, the amazing gift dimension of life.
When Catholic Means Cosmic: Opening to a Big-Minded, Big-Hearted Faith (Paulist Press, 2015)
When the Catholic faith has cosmic dimensions, we and our religion expand: We update our beliefs in accord with the best advances in psychology and science. We maintain and appreciate the riches of our religion while being contemporary too. People of all traditions will find this book helpful in the way it explores how religion and spirituality can be integrated.
You Are Not What You Think: The Egoless Path to Self-Esteem and Generous Love (Shambhala Publications, 2015)
We can look at the “big ego” in ourselves and others not with disdain but with compassion. We can tame our own ego so that it becomes healthy and ready for relationships, both in partnering and at home and work. We find practices that help us let go of ego-centeredness and move toward self-esteem and spiritual progress.
When Mary Becomes Cosmic: A Jungian and Mystical Path to the Divine Feminine (Paulist Press, 2016)
Our vision of Mary can become cosmic in scope. The Jungian archetype of the divine feminine as personified by Mary is built into the design of every human psyche. Her ancient titles reflect the marvelous qualities of our own essential Self and Mother Earth. Every religious truth and image is a metaphor for who we and the world are.
The Five Longings: What We’ve Always Wanted and Already Have (Shambhala Publications, 2017)
There are five longings deep within us: to love and be loved, to find meaning in life and to have a meaningful life, to be free to be ourselves fully without restraint or inhibition, to find true happiness and serenity, and to keep growing psychologically and spiritually. We explore each of these to find out who we really are.
Everything Ablaze: Meditating on the Mystical Vision of Teilhard de Chardin (Paulist Press, 2017)
Contemporary interest in Teilhard de Chardin’s work manifests the evolutionary mysticism he taught and forecast, and which we can apply to our daily life. This is conscious evolution, a presence in the world as members of Christ’s body. Then we co-create the future of justice, peace, and love that Christ came to proclaim.
Five True Things: A Little Guide to Embracing Life’s Big Challenges (Shambhala Publications, 2019)
A revised and abridged version of The Five Things We Cannot Change and the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them.
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