Roger Teel - This Life Is Joy

PRAISE FOR THIS LIFE IS JOY

Reverend Roger Teel has woven his long experience and wise ministry into this well-thought-out book about substance, relationship, and journeyand, above all, about how the spirit within us meets the spirit in the world.

MARK NEPO , author of The Book of Awakening, The Endless Practice, and Seven Thousand Ways to Listen

This inspiring and powerful book overflows with life-changing spiritual lessons and timeless wisdom. Written with compassion, authenticity, and eloquence, This Life Is Joy is a gift to seekers everywhere. I highly recommend it.

BARBARA DE ANGELIS, PH.D ., #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Real Moments and How Did I Get Here?

Roger Teel has accomplished what so few authors are able to do. He doesnt just write about This Life Is Joy , he provides a road map to get you there. His detailed description of how the creative process works will give you confidence to turn your best ideas into dreams come true. This Life Is Joy is a masters guide to living well and being happy.

DR. CHRIS MICHAELS , author of The Power of You

Roger Teel is, without a doubt, one of the greatest spiritual teachers and storytellers of our time; he understands the sacred connection between the heart and the head, the inner and the outer, the soul and the body... and the importance of integrating them as one. As you read This Life Is Joy, know you have hired a master guide you can trust to show you the way to the joy-filled life you so richly deserve.

DENNIS MERRITT JONES , author of Your (Re)Defining Moments: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be and The Art of Uncertainty: How to Live in the Mystery of Life and Love It

When, in our ongoing quest for a better life, one finds themself seeking clarity, direction, or understanding, this wonderful book This Life Is Joy is the book to pick up. In this marvelous book, Roger Teel encapsulates, articulates, and describes not only the issues and the core of the missing pieces to live more powerfully, lovingly, and happily, but also the practice and processes required to overcome ones innate reticence to living in joy. I strongly recommend that you not only read it, but, indeed, practice it.

REV. DR. KENN GORDON , spiritual leader for Centers for Spiritual Living

Dr. Roger Teel has a beautiful, down-to-earth style of speaking and connecting with his audience in an easy, intimate way. His words in This Life Is Joy do the same. He invites me, the reader, into an adventure of personal discovery, but with the confidence that someone who has already done the work is going to travel with me by means of the pages in the book. Sincerity and thoughtfulness seep out of the words, and the call to find a way to serve and care for others reminds the reader of Dr. Teels central messagethat there is no other action that establishes us in love more powerfully or reliably than that of heartfelt giving to others.

EDWARD VILJOEN , author of The Power of Meditation

This is not just another book on spirituality. This is an infusion of vision, hope, and reality. I found myself growing with every word. Roger Teel translates spiritual concepts you may have heard, and turns them into an excitement and comfort you feel in your bloodstream. Inhale this book and you will inhale a life that finally makes sense on every level.

TAMA KIEVES , USA Todayfeatured visionary career catalyst and bestselling author of Inspired & Unstoppable: Wildly Succeeding in Your Lifes Work! (www.TamaKieves.com)

No easy feat to simultaneously engage both veteran seekers and those first dawning to their own light, but that is exactly what Roger Teel does here. His story-wisdom-telling technique invites readers to absorb their healing wholelike oxygenor parse it out as a lifestyle technology by which process delivers result. Ultimately, Teel weaves sense out of the false dichotomy between life in the world and inner peace by gently unraveling their connection at the core. Not only does this book hand over the keys to a successful life, it does so by tapping the spiritual courage to redefine altogether what that means.

DR. BARBARA E. FIELDS , executive director at the Association for Global New Thought and program director for Parliament of the Worlds Religions Centennial Celebration, Synthesis Dialogues, and Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence

With such clearly delineated expressions of Spiritual Principle, Dr. Roger Teel brings forth an instant classic to the realm of New Thought writing. Each of his Seven Pillars of Truth and Nine Portals of Transformation provides greater understanding of the quintessential elements that exist within a meaningful and fulfilling life. What a joyous journey!

DR. JOHN B. WATERHOUSE , president of Centers for Spiritual Living

This powerful jewel of a guide for heart-centered living is a precious tool for each of us. It invites uswith intensely moving stories and life-changing spiritual principlesto live that perfect life of joy here and now. Read it and you will be changed at depth.

EDWENE GAINES , author of The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity: A Simple Guide to Unlimited Abundance

Happiness, peace, and joy are spiritual conceptsand attainable. In this book, Roger Teel does a brilliant job in providing a gentle hand-on-your-shoulder road map. The truths and strategies outlined in this book are both simple and profound. Do not just read this bookput these principles into practice, and you will attain everlasting peace and joy.

AZIM N. KHAMISA, international speaker and author of Journey to Forgiveness

This Life Is Joy is a treasure map of the soul. It is one of those rare books that truly reminds us of our spiritual heritage and assists us in fully embracing this experience called LIFE.

JAMES VAN PRAAGH , spiritual medium and bestselling author

Mix powerful, poetic wisdom; invitations to deep self-exploration; a pinch of humor; and keys to self-mastery, and you have an amazing book by Roger Teel. This Life Is Joy is a wonderful, step-by-step guide to living an awakened life.

CYNTHIA JAMES, author, speaker, and coach

Here is a book I loved and deeply valued from integrating its content. In it, Roger Teel masterfully brings clarity and heart to anyone and everyones life journey. Woven with fascinating stories and illustrations, a host of universal truths rise up and usher the reader into higher dimensions of understanding about life and ones self. A MUST-READ!

REV. HOWARD CAESAR , senior minister of Houston Unity

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