The Sunrise of the Soul is the fruit of the last 24 years of an unexpected new life and a journey of transformation that took Gerry Straub from the glamour of Hollywood to the horror of the worst slums on earth. Straub’s journey began in an empty church in Rome during a moment of grace in which the hard shell of his ardent atheism was penetrated by a spark of light, allowing him to see that God was real and loved him just as he was. Eventually, Straub felt God telling him to stop filming the poor and to go live among the poor. He now lives in a crowded slum in Haiti where he operates a home of hope and healing for 69 abandoned kids, 24 of whom are still in diapers. Straub says his journey is far from over and will never be finished. As Karl Rahner reminded us, “In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable we ultimately learn that here, in this life, all symphonies must remain unfinished.” Living in a home with 69 kids in Haiti means that the stillness and silence needed for contemplation are virtually nonexistent. After more than four years of intense work in Haiti, Gerry began to commit himself to the rejuvenating power of authentic solitude in order to turn his attention to his own inner spiritual poverty. In the silent predawn darkness of each Haitian morning he waits, reflects, and prays. This book emerged slowly from those many lonely hours of silence.

soul talks heal: a poem before sunrise is a collection of prose poetry that journeys through love, heartbreak and discovering self-love.

The Sunrise of Your Soul initiates the journey of you as the eternity of knowing, denoting your eternal presence being unfolded through knowing. It serves as the expansion of your eternal path in the image of realization. In fact, your path never comes to an end in confusion; rather, the realization of your wholeness sparks the bridging of a new path when flowing with the universe from within. In this spiritual exploration, author Dr. Maryam Saligheh seeks to guide you to the realization of your truth—the translation of Beyond leading to the stream of well-being that flows within. In practice, Beyond encourages you to nurture a belief system based on absolute well-being, aligning you with all that you are—the evolution of your truth, which is love. To implement this practice, you must recognize, acknowledge, and develop a series of key components including understanding the concepts of Within and life force, flowing with the universe while using the context of One and focusing into being. This spiritual self-help guide offers methods to bring you the realization of who you are and help you attain the status of becoming more through the lights of knowing.

This New York Times bestseller (more than 200,000 hardcover copies sold) provides a path-breaking lifestyle handbook that shows how to add spirituality, depth, and meaning to modern-day life by nurturing the soul.

Outlines a process for tapping the power of the soul for positive change, providing meditations and self-guided practices for exploring subjects ranging from fear and the ego to love and healing.

"God breathed into man's nostrils the breath of life and man became a living Soul" constitutes the basic precept of this book. This book is addressed to those who are in need of a workable, livable philosophy of life by which the Will of God may be enthroned in the realization of the destiny of the human soul.