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A Treasure Chest of Remarkable Words and Their Origins
To untangle the knot of interlocking meanings of these painted words, logophile and mythologist Phil Cousineau begins each fascinating word entry with...
The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred
On Literature, New Places, and the Sacred Sacred travel guide. First published in 1998 and updated with a new preface by the author, The Art of Pilgri...
An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words
The English poet W.H. Auden was once asked to teach a poetry class. 200 students applied, but he only had space for 20. When asked how he chose his st...
The Power of Ancient Stories in Our Lives
DIVThe bestselling author of The Art of Pilgrimage examines the connection mythology to contemporary life, and what that means for self-improvement. A...
A Rhapsody on a Theme of Famous and Infamous Last Words
A collection of Phil Cousineau's own aphorisms, maxims, and parables gleaned from more than forty years of keeping notebooks and travel journals....
Travel Stories from Michigan to Marrakech
Cousineauโs wanderlust has driven him to visit nearly 100 countries as a backpacker, documentary filmmaker, travel writer, photographer, and art and...
9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination
The award-winning author and filmmaker shares 9 strategies for getting past creative burn-out and rekindling your imagination. Contrary to popular bel...
Illuminating Words for the Long Night's Journey Into Day
In Burning the Midnight Oil, word-wrangler extraordinaire Phil Cousineau has gathered an eclectic and electric collection of soulful poems and prose f...
Mythologist and adventurer Phil Cousineau theorizes that riddles are proverbs turned into questions. He believes telling riddles is a lost folk art. T...
Poems
For nearly three thousand years, King Sisyphus of Corinth has been one of the most compelling characters in world mythology. The iconic image of Sisyp...
Chapters from a Charmed Life - Personal Encounters with Spiritual Mavericks, Remarkable Seekers, and the World's Great Religious Leaders
Presents the author's recollections of his time spent traveling the world and meeting spiritual and religious leaders....
In Design Outlaws, Christopher Zelov, Phil Cousineau and Brian Danitz have gathered together the interviews of over twenty of the leading designers an...
The Oldest Story in the World is a brooding, daring, idiosyncratic exploration of the secret strength of storytelling, in which Phil Cousineau address...
Reflections on Atonement
"If we harbor thoughts of violence or hatred, or seek revenge or retribution, we are contributing to the wounding of the world; if we transform those ...
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A Curiosity Cabinet of Aphorisms
A collection of Phil Cousineau's own aphorisms, maxims, and parables gleaned from more than forty years of notebooks and travel journals....
Who Stole the Arms of the Venus de Milo? is an exhilarating, course-correcting account about one of the most iconic sculptures ever created. Carved by...
The Search for the Second Enlightenment
City21 arises from a worldwide learning journey that was transmuted into cinematic composition illuminating some of the key perspectives and initiativ...
A Novel with Commentary
A Mosaic of Meditation on the Secret Strength of Stories