{"product_id":"the-well-at-the-deserts-heart-9781739827137","title":"The Well at the Desert's Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tony Bowland\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Lote Tree Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Lote Tree Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Inspirational \u0026amp; Religious\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat breaks when the heart is broken?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eNot the heart, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eOnly the thin shell I wrote my name on, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eOnly the house that stood for years shaking.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Well at the Desert's Heart - Verses of Healing \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a trove of insights in verses of remarkable beauty and perception that emerge through the depths of grief and heights of love into a wider appreciation of life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlone, wraithlike, I walk through this landscape, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eWith the ghost of a child for company.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eI follow him, walking in his footsteps, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eHe is leading me back, back to the place, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhere my soul first woke to the world's beauty, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen the limitless sky and I were one.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the soul's moments of deep anguish and grief, finding a way through the greatest losses while processing difficult emotions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpeechless by the sea in the early dawn, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eWatching the buzzard climb the spiralled air, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eI can't reach you my love with my tired words, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eSo I build with my prayer a bridge of light.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Bowland's evocative descriptions of being out in the fenland landscape of Cambridgeshire, meditative and reflective words act as a healing balm finding a wholeness in the natural world - \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eI seek the quiet places by the river\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd I stand still for hours in the clearing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eTill I know my self as the quiet place\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd the clearing for the indwelling light\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEncouraging us to examine our sense of identity, and advising 'To this moment surrender your story', this collection promotes integration on an individual and collective level, a rejection of othering, and a deeper connection to ourselves, to one another, to nature and to God. Drawing on Sufi mysticism and informed by an anti-war stance, it presents a healing vision of oneness, and conveys the essential message in our polarised world that 'No 'identity' needs to self-defend'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eListen, who we are is mysterious, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ethere is no 'you and I', no 'us and them'.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46440790360215,"sku":"9781739827137","price":2100.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781739827137.webp?v=1769116092","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-well-at-the-deserts-heart-9781739827137","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}