Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts

February 12, 2010

Christian Religious Datebooks and Calendars

For those of you who are late to get yourself an uplifting calendar… I’ve made a few pages with Christian religious calendars and planners.
First off the general pages:
Then there’s specifically about the Bible:

October 10, 2009

Frans Lanting Desk Agenda Planner 2010

As far as I can find out there are two planners out for 2010 featuring the extraordinary nature photographs of Frans Lanting. The first features his landscape photography, the second is devoted to the Buddhist inspiration of Pema ChÖdrÖn, illustrated with captivating natural images.

September 11, 2009

Susan Seddon Boulet Fantasy Art Calendars and Planners

Susan Seddon Boulet (1941-1997) was a passionate student of the world religions and mythology. Her art uses the symbols she found all over the world. Pomegranate has come out with several calendars devoted to her spiritual artwork.

Pema Chodron Tibetan Buddhism Planners and Calendars

As an ordained nun in the Tibetan Buddhist Vajrayana tradition, Pema Chodron inspires with her day to day wisdom. Amber Lotus has created three calendars in her honor: a wall calendar, a mini wall calendar and an engagement planner or date book. All three are beautifully done and the inspirational and uplifting quotes from The Places That Scare You, which is designed to help us cultivate compassion and awareness within the challenges of daily life. These insightful quotes are paired with beautifully evocative and meditative nature photography.

Rumi Calendars and planners, date books and agendas

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet, Sunni Islamic jurist, and theologian and mystic. He is often called 'Mewlana' (or Mevlana) or simply Rumi. His poems and sayings are amongst the most beloved religious poetry in the world. Based in the sufi mysticism of Islam they are at once sensuous and wise, tantalizing and deep.

No wonder that books with his poetry sell so well.

Spiritual and Religious Wall calendars

I use my wall calendar for shopping notes, engagement planning and just having some great artwork on the wall. These calendars are inspirational, uplifting and beautiful.

Spiritual and religious planners, date books and agendas

These go by many names. Whether you call them agenda books, date planners, planners, pocket calendars or date books... They go where you go and help you keep track of your life. Since they are also spiritual calendars, they help you get inspired about your life in the meantime.

Many of these are made to also function as your year diary: keep track not just of your appointments, but also of your thoughts and feelings about your life. What did your kids achieve? How did they respond? etc.

Religious and Spiritual Calendars 2009 - 2010

Each religion and spiritual tradition has its own celebrations. These holy days or seasonal days are often linked to the movement of the moon and the sun instead of a specific date on the calendar. This means that keeping up with them requires a calendar which includes them.

In addition to this some religions, like Islam and Judaism, have a different calendar from the one used in the West (the Gregorian calendar). China too has its own calendar.

Most people looking for a spiritual calendar these days want it to be pretty as well as functional. It should have the main dates of their spiritual tradition, but it should also inspire - whether illustrated with beautiful artwork or by spiritual quotes, or of course both.

Below you will find links to pages with wall calendars, pocket calendars, desk calendars and date planners from the main religious traditions: Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Wicca (paganism), Judaism and more. But I have also collected motivational and healing calendars for instance. I've even included a few eternal calendars that are meant to help you stay inspired throughout the year, each year.

Some of these calendars are monthly, others daily or weekly. Most of them have a meditative atmosphere which should help keep you centered. I've selected some of the best calendars around.

July 21, 2009

Thich Nhat Hanh Calendars and planners


Peace activist and teacher of mindfulness

Known in recent years as a teacher of Zen Buddhist meditation and mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh entered public consciousness as a peace activist. During the Vietnam War he was active in relief efforts by rebuilding schools and other grassroots efforts. Traveling to the US to study at Princeton and convince Martin Luther King to denounce the Vietnam war, he was asked within a few years to lecture at Cornell and Columbia.

His international efforts towards peace have made him an exile from his own country. In between travels he resides in the South of France, in Plum Village, the Dordogne where he has set up a retreat center. His books sell world wide and his speaking engagements are usually sold out well in advance.

His writings can be divided into two: there are popular Buddhism books which mainly talk about mindfulness and right living, but in his other books he goes into Theravada and Mahayana Buddhist teachings quite deeply. Thich Nhat Hanh is a major influence on Buddhism in the West.

Zen Calendars, Planners, Date Books and Engagement Organisers

Calendars and date books with a Zen Buddhist theme. Some of these calendars have a specifically Zen Buddhist theme, others use Zen as an inspiration, but aren't religious. Zen Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh is so popular, his teachings are shared in engagement planners and wall calendars. All of these are beautiful and inspiring.

Religious Planners, Date Books, Engagement Planners and Agenda Books

Spiritual diaries and engagement calendars
Find pocket calendar that fits your religious inspiration and background. I've found Christian, Yoga, Muslim, Buddhist planners and more for you.

Spiritual Quotes Calendars

I love spiritual quotes - I want them around all the time... These calendars have a quote to make you think for each month. In color and black and white. These are perpetual and dated calendars and date books.

Spiritual Quotes Calendars

I love spiritual quotes - I want them around all the time... These calendars have a quote to make you think for each month. In color and black and white. These are perpetual and dated calendars and date books.

Pagan Calendars, Planners, Date books and Engagement planners

Paganism Calendars
Paganism is a general term which is used by people of all kinds of alternative spiritual traditions who use pre-christian traditions (often shamanistic ones) as inspiration for their day to day lives. They too look for a large part of their spiritual inspiration to nature.

Paganism and Wicca both tend to look to the cycle of the moon (the lunar cycle) in their rituals, which is one of the reasons many of these calendars have information on the phase of the moon.

Spiritual Calendars and Planners

Spiritual Year Calendars 2009, 2010

Some of the most beautiful spiritual calendars and agenda books gathered in one place.

This lens has spiritual calendars and planners with Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and alternative spirituality themes. Each is inspirational in its own way. They are usually devoted to specific spiritual topics and questions.

I list dated and perpetual calendars. I could not find undated religious calendars.

There are a few available for the 2009-2010 school year. Calendars and date books for 2010 are available for pre-order.