Sanctuaries: The Complete United States--A Guide to Lodgings in Monasteries, Abbeys, and Retreats - Softcover

Kelly, Jack; Kelly, Marcia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0517885174 ISBN 13: 9780517885178

Publisher: Harmony/Bell Tower, 1996

Synopsis

As the pace of life quickens and people feel depleted physically, emotionally, and spiritually, going on retreat to recuperate and regenerate has become a common practice. The quiet and seclusion of a monastery, abbey, or retreat center provide the time, space, and conditions for the mind and heart to come to stillness. This volume features 127 such places, which the Kellys have visited. About one third of these are new, and the other two thirds come from the Kellys earlier regional guides, Sanctuaries: The Northeast and Sanctuaries: The West Coast and Southwest. In addition, there are over 1,000 listings of other places not visited. Many are Catholic or Episcopalian, but there are also Buddhist, Hindu, Sufi, and even Jewish havens, and a few that have no religious affiliationin all, a choice of over 1,200 retreats, in every state of the union, where it is possible to find refuge, peace, and true refreshment.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"I met the Kellys in 1998 at a retreat Ram Dass was holding in an upstate New York monastery for a small group of people who were either doing spiritual work or helping the homeless. The following year, when I was just starting the Bell Tower imprint, they called to ask whether I'd like to publish a guidebook to monasteries and retreat centers, since theyd just returned from a trip across the country and realized that the nicest places theyd stayed in had been monasteries. We had a great time planning the book and working on it together, although they did all the legwork of visiting the places they describe in the book and I was just the armchair traveler. To begin with, I called the book With-Inns but eventually Jack Kelly came up with the wonderful title Sanctuaries which has so captured the public imagination that people now use this word to describe monasteries and retreat centers, and the Kellys themselves are known either as Americas #1 spiritual tourists or the monastery mavens."
--Toinette Lippe, editorial director of Bell Tower

From the Back Cover:

"These special places nourish an inner silence, which itself becomes a sanctuary in each of us of peaceful abiding in the world. Sanctuaries is a clear and pragmatic guide to many of these wonderful places of stillness." --Joseph Goldstein

"For the countless people who search for a safe place in which they can confront the compulsions and obsessions of this world and claim the truth that they are the beloved sons and daughters of God, this book is a true treasure." --Henri J. M. Nouwen

"What in our crowded hurried world could be as welcome as a retreat except perhaps a guide on where to find one? Sanctuaries is good news indeed for the contemplative within each one of us." --Joanna Macy

About this edition

• Publisher: Harmony/Bell Tower
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0517885174
• ISBN 13: 9780517885178
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336