I Touch Earth, the Earth Touches Me + a bonus book: Wipe Your Face, You Just Swallowed My Soul [B2100]

1972 & 1974 PBs, both in amazingly nice and clean condition. Two very different books of wonderfully illustrated 1970s poetry by Hugh Prather (1938-2010), an American self-help writer, lay minister, and counselor. Per Wikipedia: His work underscored the importance of gentleness, forgiveness, and loyalty; declined to endorse dramatic claims about the power of the individual mind to effect unilateral transformations of external material circumstances; and stressed the need for the mind to let go of destructive cognitions. The two books are quite different, as evidenced by the reviews:

From recent-ish Amazon GoodReads reviews of I Touch the Earth: "Absolutely love this book. It was remarkably beautiful, human, and truthful."; " Beautiful, simple, meditative. I start my morning by reading a couple of pages; It gives me a good perspective on my day, and couples well with my mindfulness practice. It makes the world seem less intimidating, simpler and easier to deal with."; "Revisiting a life-altering book. I read this book during my early 20's while in a very good but not ultimately successful marriage..... Hugh Prather helped me frame many many questions that were tormenting my head and soul into positive and fruitful and helpful questions that over time became fulfilling answers. He has a voice that reaches into my heart and puts my scattered thoughts into those concrete questions, and helps me know that I will, along some distant day, live into the answers."; "One of the most beautiful and captivating poetry books I've read in a long time."

And from the far fewer recent-ish reviews for Wipe Your Face: "This is a book of grammatical nonsense that conveys only small sensory experiences about a journey, a group of people, a strange place, and some strange events. However, nothing is definitive. There is no resolution. Bad things probably happen, but it's tough to say. However, the language is beautiful, interesting, and easy to read. The book is also only a few thousand words. So, it doesn't ask too much of you. What happens is that you just fall into the experience and let it be what it is. Super weird book. Like nothing I've read."; "Surreal and strange. Feels like a sparse brainstorm of a sci-fi novel with some unique illustrations. I enjoyed the image / atmosphere, but absolutely no traceable plot, narrative, or 'point.' "; "no idea what i just read"