Knitting Sutra Craft As a Spiritual Practice

Name: Knitting Sutra Craft As a Spiritual Practice
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ISBN: 9780062512024

ISBN-10: 0062512021

ISBN-13: 9780062512024

Edition: 1997

Authors: Susan G. Lydon

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"The purpose of meditation is to quiet the mind so that it can sink down into contemplation of its true nature. You cannot stop your mind by an act of will any more than you can stop the beating of your own heart. Some cultures describe mind as a drunken monkey, reeling from place to place with no rhyme or reason. Like meditation/ knitting calms the monkey down....I believe that in the quiet/ repetitive, hypnotic rhythms of creating craft, the inner being may emerge in all its quiet beauty. The very rhythm, of the knitting needles can become as incantatory as a drumbeat or a Gregorian chant." -- from The knitting Sutra Knitting as prayer? Craft as spiritual path? In this wonderfully…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/23/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.38" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Introduction: The View from the Factory	p. 1
A Broken Wing	p. 13
Knitting the Bone	p. 19
Transfiguration of the Blues	p. 27
A Life Made by Hand	p. 41
Spider Woman's Daughters	p. 53
Winged Hearts	p. 67
Desperately Seeking	p. 77
Earth Walk	p. 89
God and Nature, Nature and Cloth	p. 95
Dreaming of Dragons	p. 111
A Secret Weapon	p. 123
The Knitting Sutra	p. 135
The Zen of Nonattachment	p. 145
Epilogue: Taking Flight	p. 155
Acknowledgments	p. 159
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