The Pilgrim Soul A Path to the Sacred Transcending World Religions [Paperback]

“Wandering, one gathers honey,” observes the Aitareya Brahmana. In this spirit Ravi Ravindra, renowned for his integration of physics and comparative religions, explores the heart of Buddhism, Christianity, and Hinduism to define a universal spiritual path that transcends any tradition. People with a pilgrim soul, he says, are open to a freedom from all that is known. They seek to practice mindfulness in each moment, so that washing the dishes or emptying the garbage becomes a sacred act; they seek to enter the dimension of eternity, realizing that the eternal is always present, right here, right now. Wisdom is the ability to act freshly in time while being anchored in eternity, says Ravindra. This deceptively simple small volume contains a wealth of wisdom for living that way.

The entire interreligious dialogue community would do well to takeThe Pilgrim Soulto heart. Future generations of pilgrims, following Ravindra's lead, must think and write and speak from a new set of givens, no longer simply from the monumentally encrusted identities of the great world religions (though we will ever be in their debt) but also from the new, yet no less profound, inner realities resulting from their genuinely cross-cultural and cross-traditional lives and spiritual quests. — Philip Novak, author ofThe World's Wisdomand co-author ofBuddhism: A Concise Introduction

I very much loveThe Pilgrim Soul. I am beckoning along similar paths, albeit using a different voice. The understandings of which Ravindra speaks are robust and enormously exciting. — Ursula Goodenough, author ofThe Sacred Depths of Nature

Ravi Ravindra, Ph.D.,is a spiritual visionary, scholar, and leading international speaker on religion, science, and spirituality. A native of India, he emigrated to Canada and is Professor Emeritus at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he served for many years as a proflƒf