Pierre Pradervand - 365 Blessings to Heal Myself and the World: Really Living Ones Spirituality in Everyday Life

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What a labor of love your newest book is. Wow! Thank you for offering this to a hungering planet. Pierres life, and this precious book, are an invitation to abide in an affectional consciousness. He leaves no situation or relationship unblessed, modeling for us a devotional practice that embraces our world in grace. Anyone who yearns to feel the presence of Love will find it in the application of each blessing offered.

Sanford (Sandy) C. Wilder, Founder, the Educare Unlearning Institute and author of Listening to Grace: Unlearning Insights and Poems

Anyone working to heal personal, societal, world situations, no matter what religious or spiritual path they follow, will benefit immensely from Pierres compilation of blessings. There is so much that needs healing in our world, and this is a book that will touch many because it speaks to the heart and gently reminds us of our oneness with the Divine.

Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, Founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Fr. Rohr is the author of numerous books, including The Divine Dance.

Pierres first book, The Gentle Art of Blessing (now in seven languages), helped readers discover a completely new vision of blessing and a simple practice which has changed the lives of thousands all around the world. This second book offers you a means of truly participating in the healing of the world not to mention of yourself. It will enable you to raise your level of inspiration at the start of every new day and will slowly start changing even your relations to others.

Steve Farrell, Worldwide Executive Director, Humanitys Team I couldnt stop reading. From one page to the next, it filled me with such love!

What a total blessing it is! On every page you will know what it is to feel deeply blessed and to experience the power and beauty of this to lift you into a great light of love! Pierre Pradervand is a master teacher of the spiritual art of blessing! Your heart will be full! You will feel it! If all those who long for love would learn the art of blessing, it would end loneliness, sadness, and depression forever. And hearts everywhere would feel comforted and connected, lit with love!

Shannon Peck, Spiritual Life Coach, author, Love Heals How to Heal Everything with Love, and several other books co-authored with Dr. Scott Peck

If we are on an evolving path to realize everything is Consciousness we may well be on an evolving path to also understand that nothing in the world of the Heart is really impossible. These 365 daily challenges remind us of the sheer breadth of the worlds that can be brought into Love by The Gentle Art of Blessing.

Kurt Johnson PhD, co-author The Coming Interspiritual Age

This is a very special book! A beautifully distinct follow-up to your Gentle Art of Blessing. Im relishing your pages for so many reasons. For example:

- Because youve included blessings for specific groups of people nurses, homeless, politicians, etc. It stirs awareness and care. It draws us closer together and widens the circle of compassion.

- Including not only blessings composed by you but also some that come from other individuals and cultural groups provides a variety of voices that enliven the book and encourage me with the idea that the practice of blessing is coming from many corners. That is mighty comforting.

- The intros you provide for each blessing orient and guide in ways that shed light on the blessings without thwarting a readers own creative interpretation and application.

- The instances where you link the blessor to the blessee bring the practice full circle, reminding us how we are all inextricably intertwined, that we find our own in anothers good, that what blesses one blesses all.

Bunny McBride

First published by O-Books, 2018

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Text copyright: Pierre Pradervand 2017

ISBN: 978 1 78535 729 9

978 1 78535 730 5 (ebook)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017940724

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The rights of Pierre Pradervand as author have been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Design: Stuart Davies

Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY, UK

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Previous books in English by the author

The Gentle Art of Blessing, ISBN 978-1-58270-242-1, 978-1-43915-363-5 (ebook), Atria Paperbacks, Simon and Schuster, 2009. Winner of the 2010 Gold Nautilus Book Award for Spirituality. English editions also in Great Britain (Cygnus Books) and India (St. Pauls, Mumbai). The book originally appeared in French (Jouvence, 1998) and has also appeared in Spanish, German, Dutch, Danish and Slovene.

Messages of Life from Death Row, ISBN 10: 095493265X, ISBN 13: 9780954932657, BookSurge Publishing, 1999 (originally in French, and also Dutch).

Listening to Africa, ISBN-13: 978-0275933890, ISBN-10: 027593389X (a 14,000km trip through over 100 villages of the Sahel, Kenya and Zimbabwe I undertook in 1987, talking with around 1,300 peasant farmers at the grass roots, published in 6 languages including Japanese), Praeger Publishers, NY, 1989.

I dedicate this book to my very special friends Robin and Ron Radford who are a living incarnation of the truest friendship I could ever imagine. Thank you for being the very bright light you are in my life and that of so many others.

Special Thanks: I wish to thank my dear friend Manuela, who is coeditor of the blessing website, for her exceptional assistance in cleaning up my manuscript, suggesting a variety of blessings from various sources and finding a publisher. Without her assistance, Im not sure the book would have been published.