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“At the beginning of this year,” Mary Rose O’Reilley writes in The Barn at the End of the World, “I had no idea why I felt led to light out into the unfamiliar territory of sheep farming and Buddhist practice.” By the end of this remarkable book, she finds the “deep peace of animal creation” and a way to live consciously in the world.

Praise for The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd

“O’Reilley, a Catholic-born Quaker who practices Zen Buddhism, has created a memoir that is as delightfully unconventional as her approach to religion.”—Dallas Morning News

“A memorable spiritual autobiography. … The Barn at the End of the World is in three parts, quilted by 99 brief essays ranging from barn ecology to the religion of natural process. Worthy ideas—many expressed with elegance, many comedic—are on every page.”—Colman McCarthy, Washington Post Book World

“The life and death reality of raising sheep provides a reality to her spirituality that most people do not have.”—Temple Grandin, author of Thinking in Pictures

“This is a delightful book, penned by a teacher determined to bring spirituality down to earth. … In the end, her book is an open-ended inquiry, a wonderfully humble and good-natured and perceptive gift, that will appeal mightily to anyone who yearns for a simpler path.”—NAPRA Review