A home for the soul

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"In places and people, we seek that elusive feeling of being welcomed. We want our houses and apartments to be warm and nurturing and beautiful, but they are sometimes territories of chaos and confusion. YeT, the haven the soul seeks is close at hand, within the stove and the cupboard, on the bookshelf, and in the closet. with the eyes to see it, and the hands to create it, we can recover the home that the soul desires."
— From the Introduction
"Anthony Lawlor's invaluable new book, A Home for the Soul, is that rare work that is at once transcendent and practical. A beautifully crafted guide, it reveals myriad pathways for making havens of our homes and rituals of our daily tasks. Most vitally, Lawlor shows us room by room, object by object, how we might make a soulful poetry of our everyday lives."
— Phil Cousineau, author of Soul
Praise for The Temple in the House
"What a rare, important, and beautiful book. It has style, substance, art, depth, and usefulness. I treasure... Tovább

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"In places and people, we seek that elusive feeling of being welcomed. We want our houses and apartments to be warm and nurturing and beautiful, but they are sometimes territories of chaos and confusion. YeT, the haven the soul seeks is close at hand, within the stove and the cupboard, on the bookshelf, and in the closet. with the eyes to see it, and the hands to create it, we can recover the home that the soul desires."
— From the Introduction
"Anthony Lawlor's invaluable new book, A Home for the Soul, is that rare work that is at once transcendent and practical. A beautifully crafted guide, it reveals myriad pathways for making havens of our homes and rituals of our daily tasks. Most vitally, Lawlor shows us room by room, object by object, how we might make a soulful poetry of our everyday lives."
— Phil Cousineau, author of Soul
Praise for The Temple in the House
"What a rare, important, and beautiful book. It has style, substance, art, depth, and usefulness. I treasure it."
— Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul
"This book is a living temple in which the soul of architecture and the architecture of the soul are brilliantly evoked. The reader is magically led through patterns and proportions that transform the ordinary house into a charged place of spirit."
— Jean Houston, Ph.D., author o^ A Mythic Life
" The Temple in the House guides the reader to discover the roots of design in the heart and mind, and helps us understand how to translate these sjTnbols and sentiments into spaces that make us happy and healthy. A wonderful book."
— James A. Swan, Ph.D., author o^ Nature as Teacher
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A Home for the Soul
by Anthony Lawlor
Anthony Lawlor is known as the architect who brings soul to design. His acclaimed book The Temple in the House showed how to find the sacred in architecture. Now, in A Home for the Soul, he reveals how our houses and apartments can become havens of inspiration and renewal.
"From the moment we're born, we seek to find home." Lawlor says, "Yet, despite this primal longing, our dwelling places ofi:en disappoint us." In^ Home for the Soul, we discover that the depth and meaning we seek is right in front of us if we but have the eyes to see. Lawlor teaches us how to develop a consciousness about the spirimal possibilities inherent in our interior surroundings; he shows how to recognize the sacred in material form. "Each time we bathe," says Lawlor, "we not only cleanse the body, we refresh the spirit. Each time we open our front door, we enter a universe of connection and significance."
Lawlor leads us on a journey through each room of the house, opening our vision to hidden possibihties. We discover, for example, how a stove expresses the transforming power of nature, how clothes closets reveal our inner personahties, and how home offices display our talents. Lawlor shows us the mythological and archetypal meanings within the common objects of daily hfe—such as a bed, a bathtub, a pair of shoes, or a loaf of bread.
The author also offers practical suggestions for arranging or building soulful homes. He explains how to use wood, tile, brick, and stone to express qualities of the spirit and how to use furniture and personal objects as allies in creating meaning.
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Finally, Lawlor shows us how to construct a Mandala of the Soul—a wood cabinet with compartments for housing the symbols of home that have particular personal meanings for each reader.
In these pages, we come to understand how all the rooms we live in can form a sacred place of wholeness, a home that cares for and uplifts the totality of mind, body, and soul.
Anthony Lawlor, AIA, is an award-winning architect and a founding partner of the Lawlor/ Weller Design Group in Fairfield, Iowa. The author of The Temple in the House, Lawlor lectures and holds workshops on spirituality in architecture.
Jacket design: Group, Inc. ny Jacket photographs: Rick Donhauser Vissza