• Exuberance: The Passion for Life: Kay Redfield Jamison offers us a lively treatment of the topic of exuberance as an elated state that is rarely discussed in psychological literature.
  • Spirited Men: Brian Doyle presents a collection of uplifting essays in tribute to some very creative and enthusiastic artists.
  • New Every Morning: Nancy Roth offers informative and inspirational interpretations of such hymns of enthusiasm as A Mighty Fortress Is Our God and Holy, Holy, Holy.
  • The Way of the Saints: Tom Cowan focuses on over 200 saints whose lives provide a model for the deepening and enthusiastic enrichment of our spirituality.
  • The Heart of the Circle: Holly Blue Hawkins opens the door to the primal activity of drumming as a way to synchronize our energies and enthusiasm.
  • A Passion for Life: Joan Chittister profiles 30 individuals from all eras and different spiritual traditions who show us how to live with character, courage, and enthusiasm.
  • Faces of Compassion: Taigen Daniel Leighton explains the qualities of seven major bodhisattva figures and identifies enthusiastic modern exemplars of these archetypes.
  • All Saints: Robert Ellsberg comments on the lives and insights of 365 saints, mentors and models of enthusiasm for their faiths.
  • Blessed Among All Women: Robert Ellsberg adds meditative essays on 60 women saints to those he covered in All Saints.
  • Jesus Laughed: Jean Maalouff salutes many qualities that made Jesus special including his enthusiasm.
  • The Kabbalah of Envy: Nilton Bonder reveals antidotes to envy including the Yiddish practice of "farginen," which means enthusiastically making a pact with another person's pleasure or success.
  • A Pilgrim in Aquarius: David Spangler salutes the ongoing energy of the New Age movement with its resources of vision, experimentation, and optimism about the future.
  • The Music of Angels: Patrick Kavanaugh shares his enthusiasm for Christian music that praises God.
  • Hallelujah: Anna Marlis Burgard covers the lyrics and stories behind 72 time-honored Christian hymns.
  • Playing in the Zone: Andrew Cooper includes enthusiasm as an ingredient in what athletes call being "in the zone."
  • True Work: Michael and Justine Toms draw from the well of their own experiences to explain the importance of engaging your work with energy and enthusiasm.
  • The Amateur: Wendy Lesser reveals how her years as editor of The Threepenny Review have given her an outlet for her enthusiasms.
  • Back When We Were Grownups: Anne Tyler's fifteenth novel revolves around a middle-aged woman who wants out of a family-imposed role as the enthusiastic one.
  • The Moon by Whale Light: Diane Ackerman's nature writing about bats, penguins, crocodiles, and whales is exuberant.

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