In a book overflowing with grace, Lucinda Vardey—compiler of the international bestseller of Mother Teresa's spiritual teachings, A Simple Path—gathers an incandescent, unprecedented selection of nearly a thousand prayers and the thoughts about them, set down through the ages by women of many faiths.

St. Teresa of Ávila, Simone Weil, Emily Dickinson, Annie Dillard, Julian of Norwich, Sun Bu-er, Marianne Williamson, and hundreds of others are among the saints, teachers, poets, healers, and anonymous spiritual women whose prayers of praise and thanksgiving, mercy and courage, and surrender and holy love inspire and celebrate the soul's unfolding. This collection is unparalleled in its illustration of the unity of women's faith. Within its pages, there is spiritual sustenance to last a lifetime.

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LUCINDA VARDEY is a writer and teacher of spiritual subjects with a special emphasis on East/West religions and on the feminine spirit. She lives in Toronto and Tuscany, Italy, where she guides experiential retreats and pilgrimages. She is the author of Belonging: A Book for the Questioning Catholic Today, editor of God in All Worlds: An Anthology of Contemporary Spiritual Writing, and compiled A Simple Path, the teachings of Mother Teresa.

"Flowering will surely become a precious friend—intimate, fierce, profound, always present." —Marion Woodman, author of Dancing in the Flames

"Remarkable . . . These prayers offer a heartfelt prayer for practically every occasion, every facet of the soul, every movement of the Spirit." —Spiritual Book News