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Passive Tranquillity

Author : Vernon Hyde Minor
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871698759
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Passive Tranquillity written by Vernon Hyde Minor and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1997 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand publication. Born in 1698, Della Valle came to Rome in 1725 upon the death of his master, Giovanni Foggini. There he remained until his death in 1768. The phrase "passive tranquillity" refers both to the style of Della Valle's sculpture & the ambiance of 18th-cent. Rome, &, further, serves to distinguish Della Valle from his better known precursors, Gianlorenzo Bernini & Michelangelo. Theirs was a sculpture of the heroic & expressive. Della Valle's sculpture represents figures of an introverted, serene type. In its demonstrations of the ways in which Della Valle's art could have been formed by the institutions & cultural currents of 18th-cent. Rome, the text seeks to account for that sense of quiescence & composure common to the arts of settecento Rome. Illustrations.

A Companion to Jesuit Mysticism

Author : Robert Aleksander Maryks
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004340750
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Jesuit Mysticism written by Robert Aleksander Maryks and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Companion to Jesuit Mysticism, Robert A. Maryks provides thirteen unique essays discussing the Jesuit mystical tradition, a somewhat neglected aspect of Jesuit historiography that stretches as far back as the order’s co-founder, Ignatius of Loyola, his spiritual visions at Manresa, and ultimately the mystical perspective contained in his Spiritual Exercises. The volume’s contributions on the most significant representatives of the Jesuit mystical tradition—from Baltasar Álvarez to Louis Lallemant to Hugo Makibi Enomiya-Lassalle—aim to fill this lacuna in Jesuit historiography. Although intended primarily as a handbook for scholars seeking to further their own research in this area, the volume will undoubtedly be of interest to scholars and students of Jesuit studies more broadly.

ESSENE PEACE MANUAL

Author : Olivier Manitara
Publisher : Éditions Essénia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book ESSENE PEACE MANUAL written by Olivier Manitara and published by Éditions Essénia. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You who seek pearls of truth on the path of life, know that peace is not a human invention, something of manufactured and artificial, but a vibration that does not come from the earth. That is why this peace manual wants to guide you towards a reality and a higher perception of yourself and the world. Then a light of knowledge and higher life will appear in you and you will reveal the kingdom of your soul and the land of true peace. In this book, you will discover: - The mystery of the 2 peace and 2 humanities - How to transform the energy of war into your life - The stages of the path to peace - A simple way to unite with the Angel of Peace - Essene meditative exercises, including the Great Meditation for Peace - A collective work of the Circle of Mutual Aid of Peace, to strengthen the Dove's egregore, the great egregore of peace

Beyond Materialism

Author : Sergio Rijo
Publisher : SERGIO RIJO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Materialism written by Sergio Rijo and published by SERGIO RIJO. This book was released on 2023-08-26 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of a society consumed by consumerism, "Beyond Materialism: Finding Meaning and Happiness in a Consumerist World" presents an enlightening odyssey that transcends the ephemeral allure of possessions. This thought-provoking book unveils the intricate interplay between material wealth and genuine happiness, illuminating alternative avenues to a life of lasting fulfillment. Diving into the psychological intricacies, the book dissects the modern consumerist culture and the illusion that material possessions hold the key to happiness. Through meticulously researched insights, it explores the shortcomings of relying solely on material wealth for contentment, laying bare the fleeting nature of such pursuits. Each chapter unfurls a new dimension of happiness, offering practical wisdom that resonates deeply with the essence of our humanity. From nurturing relationships to exploring personal growth, from the power of experiences to the art of mindfulness, the book offers a comprehensive map for navigating the journey to genuine well-being. The reader embarks on a transformative expedition, guided by the philosophy that happiness emerges from within, cultivated through meaningful connections, purposeful pursuits, and self-discovery. The tapestry of chapters weaves a holistic view of well-being—encompassing emotional resilience, creative expression, spiritual alignment, and the transcendence of adversity. Throughout this narrative, the book's resounding call to action is evident: to embrace a life that transcends the superficial allure of materialism. It beckons readers to reevaluate their priorities, to nurture relationships, to savor experiences, and to connect with their inner selves. "Beyond Materialism: Finding Meaning and Happiness in a Consumerist World" stands as an indispensable guide for those seeking a life of depth, purpose, and enduring happiness. It is an invitation to step beyond the confines of possessions and embrace the full spectrum of human experience—a journey toward a life rich in meaning, connection, and the profound beauty of true happiness.

Our Great Purpose

Author : Ryan Hanley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691216703
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Our Great Purpose written by Ryan Hanley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from the founder of modern economics.

A Language of Healing for a Polarized Nation

Author : Wayne Jacobsen
Publisher : Whitaker House
ISBN 13 : 1734015314
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book A Language of Healing for a Polarized Nation written by Wayne Jacobsen and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you tired of all the animosity and vitriol that fill our society at every mention of politics or religion dividing us into two hostile camps on every possible side? So are we! We’re looking for others who want to change the dialogue from the rhetoric of polarizing animosity that is destroying the social fabric of our nation to a language of healing, where honest differences don’t have to destroy friendships. Then we can seek a broader common ground through mutual respect and compassion. The Language of Healing will help you learn how to . . . See disagreement as an opportunity for growth and discovery. Change the temper of a hostile engagement or walk away. Share mutual respect even beyond our deepest differences. Become a peacemaker in your network of friends and family. The book is divided into three main sections: An Opportune Moment. Why is this a particularly propitious moment to elevate the conversation, at least for the vast majority of Americans who are tired of those who manipulate them through fear and anger? Five Practices of a Peacemaker. What kind of conversation can lower the heat and increase the level of communication, especially where we hold significantly different views? Operating in Shared Space. Our deeply held views do not have to be subjugated to cooperate with others; we only have to endeavor to make as much space for their views as we want for ours. The end of each chapter includes three practical suggestions readers can use to practice the language of healing in their own day-to-day interactions.

Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-war Between the United States and France: From Dec. 1800 to Dec. 1801

Author : United States. Office of Naval Records and Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-war Between the United States and France: From Dec. 1800 to Dec. 1801 written by United States. Office of Naval Records and Library and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Promised Land

Author : G. D. Benneke
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 146026603X
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Promised Land written by G. D. Benneke and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Two of the Promised Land story, Home and Family, follows the Buechlers as their homesteaded land, “bellies out with life.” There is now law and order, co-operation, community, and caring, all of which seems to have appeared with the Buechlers. The family grows and prospers as the land gives them all that they’ve ever wanted and needed; prosperous farms and businesses, happy homes, intelligent, hard-working children, and herds of healthy livestock. Yet natural disasters, human greed, hate, and power politics continually threaten to destroy all that they’ve worked so hard to achieve. Is this truly a Promised Land and will it be better for their children? In vivid, evocative prose supported by painstaking research, Promised Land – Home and Family brings history to vibrant, heart-pounding life. It will immerse readers in the courage and ingenuity of the turn-of-the-century pioneers who took on the challenge to carve out hearth and home from the forbidding landscapes of the western Canadian prairies.

America's Environmental Legacies

Author : Franklin Kalinowski
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349948985
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book America's Environmental Legacies written by Franklin Kalinowski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful book focuses on the capacity of the American political system to respond to ecological challenges through policy perspectives, the constraints of our written Constitution, and the determination we muster to address these tests of national character. Put simply, this is a book about politics, policy, and political will. Kalinowski brilliantly shows that America’s collective will is found in the cultural values enunciated by the Founding Fathers and passed down through history with modifications. It comprises the essential missing ingredient in determining how we currently respond to crises. Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison had distinct ideas concerning the role that Nature might play in the future. Recognizing the origins and impacts of their environmental legacies is the key to interpreting where American environmental politics is today, how we got here, and where we might be headed.

The Last Rabbi

Author : William Kolbrener
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253022320
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Last Rabbi written by William Kolbrener and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Soloveitchik (1903–1993) was a major American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, philosopher, and theologian. In this new work, William Kolbrener takes on Soloveitchik's controversial legacy and shows how he was torn between the traditionalist demands of his European ancestors and the trajectory of his own radical and often pluralist philosophy. A portrait of this self-professed "lonely man of faith" reveals him to be a reluctant modern who responds to the catastrophic trauma of personal and historical loss by underwriting an idiosyncratic, highly conservative conception of law that is distinct from his Talmudic predecessors, and also paves the way for a return to tradition that hinges on the ethical embrace of multiplicity. As Kolbrener melds these contradictions, he presents Soloveitchik as a good deal more complicated and conflicted than others have suggested. The Last Rabbi affords new perspective on the thought of this major Jewish philosopher and his ideas on the nature of religious authority, knowledge, and pluralism.

Dreaming with Open Eyes

Author : Ayana O. Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520970403
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Dreaming with Open Eyes written by Ayana O. Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreaming with Open Eyes examines visual symbolism in late seventeenth-century Italian opera, contextualizing the genre amid the broad ocularcentric debates emerging at the crossroads of the early modern period and the Enlightenment. Ayana O. Smith reevaluates significant aspects of the Arcadian reform aesthetic and establishes a historically informed method of opera criticism for modern scholars and interpreters. Unfolding in a narrative fashion, the text explores facets of the philosophical and literary background and concludes with close readings of text and music, using visual symbolism to create readings of gender and character in two operas: Alessandro Scarlatti's La Statira (Rome, 1690), and Carlo Francesco Pollarolo's La forza della virtù (Venice, 1693). Smith’s interdisciplinary approach enhances our modern perception of this rich and underexplored repertory, and will appeal to students and scholars not only of opera, but also of literature, philosophy, and visual and intellectual cultures.

Law and Society in Classical Athens (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Richard Garner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317800516
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Law and Society in Classical Athens (Routledge Revivals) written by Richard Garner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law and Society in Classical Athens, first published in 1987, traces the development of legal thought and its relation to Athenian values. Previously Athens’ courts have been regarded as chaotic, isolated from the rest of society and even bizarre. The importance of rhetoric and the mischief made by Aristophanes have devalued the legal process in the eyes of modern scholars, whilst the analysis of legal codes and practice has seemed dauntingly complex. Professor Garner aims to situate the Athenian legal system within the general context of abstract thought on justice and of the democratic politics of the fifth century. His work is a valuable source of information on all aspects of Athenian law and its relation to culture.

This Place of Prose and Poetry

Author : Lucian Krukowski
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498230792
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book This Place of Prose and Poetry written by Lucian Krukowski and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a narrative, interspersing prose and poetry within a compatible place. The boundary between these forms is porous, for intersections between them are not considered as a negative. Rather, they are seen as a method--a way to exemplify the various contents by bringing them into a new and less rigid order--and then to watch them change again. The contents comprise a number of issues: Mind, brain, (soul), and their philosophical divergences--fact, fiction, and their pluralities of truth--rationalism, empiricism, and categorical confusion--an intersection of belief-systems generating a field of unlike places--pornography, eroticism, and their changing representations. There is a fantasy about the Devil's need for art in Hell, and some extended frolics with characters out of older comic strips. These are followed by ruminations on dying, ending, and their separate embellishments. Poems weave through and color all. The broad theme of this book interprets culture as a history of transgressions between competing beliefs: Rigid borders inevitably lead to boredom, stasis, and oppression. Porous borders can lead to schism, communion, ecstasy, atrocity--as the passing case may be.

Cheveley Novels

Author : Cheveley Novels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cheveley Novels written by Cheveley Novels and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Inner Science of Buddhist Practice

Author : Artemus B. Engle
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1559399201
Total Pages : 901 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book The Inner Science of Buddhist Practice written by Artemus B. Engle and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2009-09-16 with total page 901 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inner Science of Buddhist Practice contains translations of texts by two historically important Indian Buddhist scholars: Vasubhandhu's "Summary of the Five Heaps" and Sthiramati's commentary on Vasubandhu's root text. These works present the traditional Buddhist analysis of ordinary experience and provide rich resources for studying Buddhist and Western interpretations of the psychology of spiritual development. According to Buddhist doctrine, the mind of an ordinary person even at birth holds deeply ingrained predispositions that lead us to perceive the elements of everyday experience mistakenly and to believe, for instance, that entities persist through time that the pleasures we pursue are genuinely satisfying, that our own personal being is governed by a real self, and that all physical and mental phenomena have a distinct, independent, and real essence. Our everyday language only serves to reinforce and deepen these erring notions. Buddhist teaching reveals how to reject these flawed beliefs and replace them with a model that both more accurately represents our experience and is indispensable to the realizations that will free us from cyclic existence. The ability to accomplish this rests largely with learning the unique vocabulary and explanations found in Buddhist literature, since that is how we will discover what is mistaken about our untutored beliefs and where we will gain the intellectual skills that are needed to construct a new and more refined conceptual infrastructure. Engle's introduction explores how the material contained in the two translations can specifically improve practice of the Tibetan teaching system known as Lamrim, or Stages of the Path. Each of the levels of motivation described by the Lamrim teachings is examined in light of the doctrine of the five heaps—form, feeling, conception, formations, and consciousness—to show how greater understanding of the classical Buddhist doctrines can enhance practice of that portion of the instruction.

The Cheveley novels. A modern minister [by V. Durrant].

Author : Valentine Durrant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Cheveley novels. A modern minister [by V. Durrant]. written by Valentine Durrant and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Redemption in the Majella Mountains

Author : Ken Cancellara
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1649790279
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Redemption in the Majella Mountains written by Ken Cancellara and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken’s grandfather always inspired him, as a child, to respect and love the outdoors and to find in nature the introspection and refuge to allow every person to solve any of life’s vicissitudes. Recalling his grandfather’s philosophy, the author carries the reader through the mesmerizing beauty of the Majella mountains in the Abruzzi region of Central Italy. There Ken has the protagonist first find refuge, and ultimately, find redemption from the helter-skelter corporate life he left behind. These two existences, ambition and introspection, clash and confront each other so that the reader sees the unforgiving life of ambition lived by a grizzled corporate veteran pit itself against the newly-found introspective existence of a young man whose soul is forced to reawaken and leave behind the societal ladder to success in favor of the more simple, but much more satisfying, life of ethics and morality.