Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom: The Feminine Face of Awakening

Product Description

Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Wisdom is a collection of intimate, heartfelt conversations with women spiritual teachers who live and look like ordinary people. They have kids, husbands, jobs, and bills to pay. What makes them extraordinary is that each woman has awakened to her true nature. And while that sounds like enlightenment, it doesn’t look like the old stereotype of transcendence, detachment, and bliss. Quite the contrary. This is the feminine half of the spiritual journey―bringing it down to earth and embracing all of what it means to be human.

Review

Ordinary Women Extraordinary Wisdom will become a milestone in female spirituality. Not only does it recount the fascinating and intimate stories of twelve “ordinary” women in their search for peace and self knowledge, the author engages the reader with her own quest for truth through her integrity, vulnerability and courage. Beautifully written with captivating honesty, this unique book will become an inspiration for both men and women alike, also looking for the essence of who they truly are. —
Paula Marvelly, author of Teachers of One

It is with tremendous enthusiasm that I recommend this book to you. It is an exquisite pointer to the vast field of women who have realized the highest spiritual truths and are speaking out to bring their wisdom to the table so that we may benefit from their labors of love. Rita Marie Robinson is a gifted writer. This is a visionary book to be cherished for the intimate glimpses it provides us into the lives of women who point the way to how we can live a life of enlightened living in the midst of ordinary circumstances. —
Richard C. Miller PhD, author of Yoga Nidra

One of those books to savor, underline like crazy, and then age with gracefully until its dog-eared pages no longer need to remind you that you’re already Home. —
Raphael Cushnir, author of How Now: 100 Ways to Celebrate the Present Moment

This is a book that gives us the permission to be ourselves, thesimple wonder of whom we really are. Here are clues to the great human mystery, the secret that is within each of us waiting to be lived. There is nothing to search for, just the challenge to be awake, to be present in each ordinary, extraordinary moment. —
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Ph.D., Sufi teacher and author of Awakening the World

About the Author

Like many of her generation, Rita Marie Robinson has been on a lifelong search. Innocently looking outside of herself for the answer, she explored many paths–from the occult to shamanism to Buddhism and New Thought Churches. Her work interests were equally eclectic–she worked as a radio journalist, in real estate sales and development, and finally as a psychotherapist. She received her Masters Degree in 1995 from Pacifica Graduate Institute, known for its archetypal and soul-centered approach to counseling. After the death of her husband in 1994, Rita trained as a Hospice volunteer and in Compassionate Care of the Dying with Joan Halifax. Rita has lived and worked in Santa Barbara, Santa Fe and Telluride, Colorado where she currently lives on a peaceful mountaintop with her husband, dog, and big garden.