In selecting this year's top 10, I looked for books with fresh approaches to spiritual growth, along with authors who speak with integrity instead of trying to strike it rich with a formulaic self-help book that somehow rockets to the bestseller list. I also looked for books that seemed in service to the world rather than preaching to the individual...

1. Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
   by Kathleen Norris
   Seeker, feminist, and poet Kathleen Norris speaks to the great internal barricade that many spiritual seekers experience when they return to their childhood roots of Christianity: the language blocks the way.

2. A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons in Simplicity, Service, and Common Sense
   by Robert Lawrence Smith
   Reflecting on topics such as silence, simplicity, business, and family, Robert Lawrence Smith offers guidance on how to "let your life speak"--an important premise to the Quaker life of service.

3. The Best Spirituality Writing of 1998
   edited by Philip Zaleski
   In an anthology that promises a lengthy shelf life, Philip Zaleski (senior editor of Parabola magazine) has obviously taken painstaking effort to select the finest and the freshest spiritual writing that 1998 had to offer.

4. The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
   by Parker J. Palmer
   Good teachers share one trait, says author Parker Palmer; they are able to weave a complex web of connections among themselves, their subjects, and their students, so that students can learn to weave a world for themselves.

5. Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and the Last Great Lesson
   by Mitch Albom
   Twenty years after Mitch Albom became a full-fledged grown- up, immersed in his highly successful career, he rekindled his student-teacher relationship with his former college mentor. In doing so, Albom began a midlife thesis with the venerable Morrie Schwartz, just as the old teacher was in his final days of life.

6. The Grace in Dying: How We Are Transformed Spiritually as We Die
   by Kathleen Dowling Singh
   Kathleen Dowling Singh is being touted as the next Kubler- Ross. Time will tell. One thing is for certain: this is an astonishingly intelligent and engrossing book about consciously surrendering our bodies and our egos to death.

7. Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness
   by Mark Epstein
   Revolutionary psychotherapist Mark Epstein proffers a Buddhist perspective on wholeness. "Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart" melds psychotherapy and meditation into a truly original stew of Eastern and Western thought.

8. Breath Sweeps Mind: A First Guide to Meditation Practice
   by Jean Smith
   The reasons why we meditate are, paradoxically, both deeply individual and profoundly universal. This is precisely why the collection of essays in "Breath Sweeps Mind" is such an effective tool for teaching mediation. Each unique voice, from Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh to American poet Gary Snyder, speaks eloquently from personal experience.

9. Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
   by Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
   Applying the lessons of everyday mindfulness to parenting is no easy task--especially in our schedule-driven culture. Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn articulate the knowledge that many parents are beginning to understand in their hearts: that less is often more with children.

10. A Call for Connection: Solutions for Creating a Whole New Culture
    by Gail Bernice Holland
    In "A Call for Connection," Gail Bernice Holland reports on a pervasive global movement dedicated to spiritual growth and holistic concern for all life.

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