The Kitchen Mystic: Spiritual Lessons Hidden in Everyday Life

Mary Hayes Grieco
 

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A spirituality classic! This pocket-sized book by Mary Hayes Grieco was first published by Hazelden Educational Materials in October of 1992.

Open up The Kitchen Mystic anywhere and start reading --- you won’t want to stop. You’ll come to treasure this little book as a dear friend as thousands of others have. Turn to it again and again for a moment of refreshment and a tune-up towards a higher point of view on your daily life challenges. Keep it in your purse, read it over lunch or at the bus stop, and settle down with it at bedtime. Buy an extra copy if you’re a bathtub reader, and don’t forget a few more to have on hand when you need a gift for someone special. Don’t loan it to a friend because we can tell you from experience that they won’t give it back!

What’s a Kitchen Mystic? It’s a person who entertains an outlook on life that is located somewhere between the thinking of Joseph Campbell and Erma Bombeck. It’s where the cosmos meets the kitchen sink and where the rubber hits the road when it comes to living a spiritual life. This pocket-sized book is a collection of sixteen rich, poetic essays that weave a needed synthesis between common sense spirituality and the wisdom of traditional religion, East and West. You are invited to join Mary Hayes-Grieco in learning how to perceive the Divine in ordinary things and how to put spiritual principles into action: in the workplace, on the street, in our families.

Lauds for The Kitchen Mystic

"These little essays share laughter, wonder, self-examination, recovery, growth, loss---everything that goes into the sensational stew called living. Love it!"
-Audrey De LaMartre Minneapolis Star and Tribune

"Mary Hayes-Grieco is optimistic, passionate, enthusiastic. If you'd like to spend an afternoon or an evening with Mary's wisdom, I suggest you pick up The Kitchen Mystic and put the kettle on to boil."
-Roseanne Bane The Phoenix

"I love The Kitchen Mystic! It's perfect. Beautiful. Elegant. Useful. It is my holiday gift of choice this year."
- Andrew Ramer author, Ask Your Angels

"The Kitchen Mystic---where the kitchen sink and the cosmos come together. Mary's style is a cross between Erma Bombeck and Joseph Campbell."
- Hazelden editor

"The Kitchen Mystic: the little book that could!"
- Arthur Lee, a fan

 
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