Bøger af Adolfo Quezada

Anyone familiar with Adolfo Quezada's writings knows that his prolific work reads like a guide for understanding, coping with, and celebrating life. His work is unique and deep because he understands the psychological aspects of the spiritual journey. Of Mind and Spirit: Reflections on Living and Loving draws upon the author's personal life experiences and his intimate relationship with God. Written with finely-honed clarity, this engaging book offers succinct reflections on the many daily and grand themes we all wonder about. While the messages in this book are universal and will resonate with those of all ages and from all walks of life, Adolfo writes with presence and care to each of us as an individual. One feels that he is writing just for him or her. The beauty of this book is that one can read it straight through or skip around, tapping into themes and ideas with which one is presently dealing. This comprehensive and intimate book will bring joyful encouragement to anyone who reads it.

Ultimately, what matters most is love: love of God, love of others, and love of self. Love is My Religion, by retired psychotherapist and spiritual writer Adolfo Quezada, is a personal, poignant, and powerful declaration of his belief in the primacy of love. It is, at the same time, an intimate account of how love impacts his personal life on a daily basis, and a call to others to put their love into action on behalf of those who are suffering physically, mentally, and spiritually. Quezada encourages readers to reflect on love and the place it occupies in their own lives. Although it is a little book, it is not a quick read; instead, it is a book that needs to be read little by little and reflected upon. It is a useful resource for spiritual groups as well as for personal meditation practice.

A Grief Revisited: Weaving Loss into the Fabric of Our Life is written for anyone who has suffered the death of a loved one. What differentiates this book from other bereavement books is that it not only tells the story of a family coping with the loss of one of their family members, but extends the time line of their experience three decades into the future. The book covers the early stages of their grief experience and goes on to describe the impact their loss had on them individually and as a family through the next 33 years. Loss of a loved one impacts us dramatically for the rest of our life. Grief Revisited is intended to give hope to those who believe that they will never escape the black hole of bereavement into which life has cast them. It is for those who see no light at the end of the long and lonely tunnel of grief; and it is for those who have concluded in the aftermath of their loss that their life is over. The book offers hopeful and concrete examples of how the author and his family eventually transcended and transformed their tragic loss into purposeful living.

A Spiritual Soliloquy: Counsel to Myself is composed of the things I need to hear, to remember, or to learn for the first time. I evoked these words from the depths of my soul as a way to help myself as I face the rest of my life. Although my words were written as a counsel to myself, perhaps others will relate to them as well.

All is sacred when experienced in the winter season of my life. All is precious when beheld through my aging eyes. Even as I lose the acuity of my senses and the keenness of my mind; my soul drinks in the beauty of all that is earthly, and consumes the manna of all that is divine.

Imagine yourself going into the lab for a routine blood test one day and being diagnosed with an incurable and terminal cancer the next. Imagine yourself reeling from the shocking news that you are going to become very ill, and then you are going to die. Now imagine that, along with the terminal diagnosis, you have been granted an extended time during which you will not be affected by the rare cancer. Essentially, you will be symptom-free for a long time, perhaps even years. This is exactly what happened to Adolfo Quezada, the author of Before the Night Comes: Living in the Light of a Terminal Diagnosis. This book is a personal account of his response to this unusual diagnosis and prognosis. Quezada, a 75-year-old retired therapist, writes poignantly about the spiritual and psychological effects the diagnosis has had on his life. He considers the prelude to the illness and death a gift that allows him time to seek depth and authenticity in his life, and to grow as a person in the time he has left to live. He calls it "a due date with a grace period." In addition to a journal that Quezada kept in the months following the diagnosis, the book includes chapters on assumptions, gratitude, choices, fulfillment, living, surrender, and dying. The book, which has a spiritual element running through it, offers hope and inspiration to those who have been diagnosed with a chronic or terminal illness, or whose loved ones have. Quezada's words are relevant for, and pertinent to, anyone who is living in the prelude to death.

They had thought they were merely killing off a threat to their institutional religion. They had thought they were just removing a bothersome splinter from the side of their legalistic society. They had thought they were only eliminating one man for the sake of the nation. But what they were really doing with their false accusation, their clandestine arrest, their bogus trial, their inhumane crucifixion, was splitting the atom of love, and causing the awesome proliferation of the Spirit of God throughout the world. They did not know that the breaking of the man would be the breaking of the bread of life that would nourish humanity for eons to come.

The Teachings of Jesus: Interpreted for Everyday Living is a compilation of Jesus' universal and timeless teachings, which are interpreted into contemporary language. Each interpretation retains the essence of Jesus' original words, while making them understandable and pertinent to modern day sensibilities. In this world of busyness and stressful demands, this book offers brief, yet profound, insights that can be directly applied to daily living regardless of one's religious affiliation or spiritual tradition. The Teachings of Jesus: Interpreted for Daily Living can be used as a companion in contemplation, prayer, and in the practice of lectio divina (contemplative reading). It is invaluable as a spiritual guide, and can serve as a resource for pastoral ministry, Bible study, and spiritual dialogue groups.

A sincere exchange of words between Jesus and one of his latter day followers.

This book encourages the reader to invoke the Spirit of Repose. We rest from our labor until we have rested enough to work again, and so it goes. But no matter how rested our body is, our soul is restless and in need of deep communion. Only the rest that we find in deep repose will bring us peace of soul.

Praying to an Unknown God is a simple, sincere, and intimate confession of faith. In a world filled with the strife and competition between religious traditions, this book is a quiet voice emanating from the depth of the soul, discarding the superfluous, and embracing what really matters in life: believing, being, praying, and loving.

This book adopts an optimistic view of aging. It does not prescribe. It provides no magic nostrums for eternal youth. Instead, its author Adolfo Quezada, a counselor of many years, centers on the soul and the spirit. If there is any instruction in Old Soul, Young Spirit, it is in helping you to explore a path to contentment in aging. It does this by describing ideals, the best way to think about such vital matters as loss, fear, uncertainty, one's purpose, death and, of course, love. This is a short book, but it is long on thought.

This exquisite book of meditations gently directs the, reader to see the gift of self in an entirely new and, beautiful light. It presents a spirituality of, self-love not based on narcissism, but as a response to, the divine invitation to self-nurturing. My hope is, that this book can serve to remind us that loving, ourselves is the link between loving God and loving, others, and it is for God's sake that we do all three., From the New Preface to This Edition.