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Radical Optimism

Author : Beatrice Bruteau
Publisher : Sentient+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1591812801
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Radical Optimism written by Beatrice Bruteau and published by Sentient+ORM. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pioneering spiritual scholar discusses how to find genuine optimism in times of crisis by contemplating the ultimate reality of God. Dr. Beatrice Bruteau was an inspiration to some of the most influential spiritual thinkers of our time. With a background in Vedanta, Catholic contemplation, and the natural sciences, she developed a broadly inclusive, interspiritual vision of human reality. In Radical Optimism she shines new light on the deepest truth we can know about ourselves: each of us is one with God, here and now. In a series of essays exploring the concepts of Leisure, Stillness, and Meditation—as well as examining the distinctions between the Finite and the Infinite and Sin and Salvation—Bruteau offers a path to recognizing our own unity with God. She provides a blueprint for understanding it, knowing the happiness it brings, and cultivating a contemplative consciousness amid the hectic uncertainty of daily life.

Radical Optimism

Author : Beatrice Bruteau
Publisher : Sentient Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781591810018
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Radical Optimism written by Beatrice Bruteau and published by Sentient Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beatrice Bruteau is both a brilliant synthesizer and an original thinker. She brings to bear her knowledge of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and science in this exploration of how to embrace the spirit of optimism in a world grown increasingly clark and desperate. In Bruteau's view, goodness has the unique power to create, whereas evil can only react, distort, and destroy. It is the creative power of goodness that sustains us in our confrontation with evil. Radical Optimism describes the value of meditation, leisure, relaxing the body, and keeping silent for a period of time -- all within the context of the ordinary demands of life.

Radical Optimism

Author : Beatrice Bruteau
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780824513542
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Radical Optimism written by Beatrice Bruteau and published by Crossroad Publishing. This book was released on 1994-12-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hope Is a Verb

Author : Emily Ehlers
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1524874272
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Hope Is a Verb written by Emily Ehlers and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amid political, social, and environmental anxieties, the need for humor, hope, and meaningful action has never been greater. Hope Is a Verb is the beautifully simple solution for not only how to create change but how to stay sane while doing it. Through this creative guidebook, readers will work to live in alignment with their values, examine their relationships with the planet and their community, and be inspired to act, both in their personal life and collectively. Emily Ehlers, creator of the cult favorite Instagram account @ecowithem, offers the following six-step process that reframes the current global mood as an invitation to realize change, rather than dwell in despair. Step One: Stop Freaking Out Step Two: Change the Story Step Three: Set Your Inner Compass Step Four: Own Your Power Step Five: Just Start Step Six: Find Your People Using her experience as a environmental activist, Ehlers offers ways for readers to change their perspective as a path to overcome challenges. A light in a dark place, a friend when you're feeling alone, a roadmap out of overwhelming situations, for those feeling less than secure and safe, Hope Is a Verb points to a world of opportunity and stability that’s achievable and surprisingly simple.

A Manifesto Of Radical Optimism

Author : Dylan Brody
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734482720
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book A Manifesto Of Radical Optimism written by Dylan Brody and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the societal paralysis of despair leads humanity into a dark age, optimism itself becomes a radical concept. If we are to survive as a species we must regain our ability to imagine a future. We must re-energize ourselves to be better not just as people but as a species. The book we need at this time. An instruction manual for saving the world. Award-winning playwright, author, humorist and filmmaker Dylan Brody turns his attention to the serious matter of the world as it and the world as it can be. At the end of a dark age, Mr. Brody has posited, comes a renaissance. When he began writing he had forgotten that in between a plague arises. This salient self-help book for a self-sabotaging civilization takes on the status quo and, more interestingly, or commitment to it. Treating this global pandemic not as a terrible tragedy but as an inflection point in history, this book reminds us that when we have the opportunity to change the world for the better we must engage our best and brightest selves to accomplish the task.

Radical Hope

Author : Jonathan Lear
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674040023
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Radical Hope written by Jonathan Lear and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the story of Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation. This title contains a philosophical and ethical inquiry into a people faced with the end of their way of life.

Learned Optimism

Author : Martin E.P. Seligman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307803341
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Learned Optimism written by Martin E.P. Seligman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The father of positive psychology draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to show you how to overcome depression, boost your immune system, and make yourself happier. "Vaulted me out of my funk.... So, fellow moderate pessimists, go buy this book." —The New York Times Book Review Offering many simple techniques anyone can practice, Dr. Seligman explains how to break an “I–give–up” habit, develop a more constructive explanatory style for interpreting your behavior, and experience the benefits of a more positive interior dialogue. With generous additional advice on how to encourage optimistic behavior at school, at work and in children, Learned Optimism is both profound and practical—and valuable for every phase of life.

The Rational Optimist

Author : Matt Ridley
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061452068
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book The Rational Optimist written by Matt Ridley and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two hundred years the pessimists have dominated public discourse, insisting that things will soon be getting much worse. But in fact, life is getting better—and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down all across the globe. Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container shipping are enriching people's lives as never before. In his bold and bracing exploration into how human culture evolves positively through exchange and specialization, bestselling author Matt Ridley does more than describe how things are getting better. He explains why. An astute, refreshing, and revelatory work that covers the entire sweep of human history—from the Stone Age to the Internet—The Rational Optimist will change your way of thinking about the world for the better.

Optimism One

Author : F. M. Esfandiary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Optimism One written by F. M. Esfandiary and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pin-up

Author : Emmanuel Olunkwa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Pin-up written by Emmanuel Olunkwa and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What is radical optimism? A state of mind or a survival tactic? It feels like the end of the pandemic but also the end of certainty -- in media, politics, climate, and world order in general. But what is this the beginining of? We're betting on collaboration, new networkds of exchange, and new ways of storytelling -- finding the pulse across genres and ecologies. But what, in the third decade of the 21st century, is there to be optimistic about? In any creative field, optimism is key to getting the project done -- doing the work to evolve from concept to production. Yet many compelling visions and innovations from the past 100 years, whether political or aesthetic, were made by those benefiting from structural and systemic advantages. The world we live in was built from tools, niceties, and preconceptions that are no longer acceptable. And yet, at the dawn of the Metaverse, we are witnessing a new material reality being constructed from the bones of the existing one. Is it good vibes from here on out or a toxic tech prision of cheerfulness? This issue, conceived in New York and produced in Paris, walks the tightrope between the past and the future, registering a generational shift in action and in consciousness. To get to where we want to be, we need to hold the doors open for each other -- and sometimes just rip them off their hinges. Radical optimism is both a statement and a question. We have a lot to lose and so much to gain. But we won't get anywhere unless we choose to go there together." -- Provided by publisher.

Life in Christ

Author : Julia Gatta
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0819233110
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Life in Christ written by Julia Gatta and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore how Anglican traditions enrich Episcopal worship. With its great heritage from English mystics, the Episcopal Church has been “spiritual” since before it was trendy, and modern Episcopalians have been in the forefront of exploring practices beyond Anglican boundaries. Yet, perhaps only rarely do they grasp the implications of the theology embedded in these practices or in the liturgies of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, which has shaped Episcopalians in this country with its emphasis on baptismal spirituality and the centrality of the Eucharist. Julia Gatta wants to change that with her book, Life in Christ. Applying her years of experience as pastor and spiritual director combined with her study of the spiritual wisdom of the past, she explores common Christian practices and their underlying theology through an Episcopal lens. In the tradition of Esther de Waal, Martin Smith, and Martin Thornton, with particular reference to scripture, the Book of Common Prayer, and the wisdom of the Christian spiritual tradition, she illuminates methods readers may already be practicing and provides insight and guidance to ones that may be new to them.

The Sceptical Optimist

Author : Nicholas Agar
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019102662X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Sceptical Optimist written by Nicholas Agar and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid developments in technologies -- especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication via the Internet -- has led to a frequently voiced view which Nicholas Agar describes as 'radical optimism'. Radical optimists claim that accelerating technical progress will soon end poverty, disease, and ignorance, and improve our happiness and well-being. Agar disputes the claim that technological progress will automatically produce great improvements in subjective well-being. He argues that radical optimism 'assigns to technological progress an undeserved pre-eminence among all the goals pursued by our civilization'. Instead, Agar uses the most recent psychological studies about human perceptions of well-being to create a realistic model of the impact technology will have. Although he accepts that technological advance does produce benefits, he insists that these are significantly less than those proposed by the radical optimists, and aspects of such progress can also pose a threat to values such as social justice and our relationship with nature, while problems such as poverty cannot be understood in technological terms. He concludes by arguing that a more realistic assessment of the benefits that technological advance can bring will allow us to better manage its risks in future.

Cruel Optimism

Author : Lauren Berlant
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822351115
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Cruel Optimism written by Lauren Berlant and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted. People have remained attached to unachievable fantasies of the good life—with its promises of upward mobility, job security, political and social equality, and durable intimacy—despite evidence that liberal-capitalist societies can no longer be counted on to provide opportunities for individuals to make their lives “add up to something.” Arguing that the historical present is perceived affectively before it is understood in any other way, Berlant traces affective and aesthetic responses to the dramas of adjustment that unfold amid talk of precarity, contingency, and crisis. She suggests that our stretched-out present is characterized by new modes of temporality, and she explains why trauma theory—with its focus on reactions to the exceptional event that shatters the ordinary—is not useful for understanding the ways that people adjust over time, once crisis itself has become ordinary. Cruel Optimism is a remarkable affective history of the present.

Hope without Optimism

Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813937353
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Hope without Optimism written by Terry Eagleton and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his latest book, Terry Eagleton, one of the most celebrated intellects of our time, considers the least regarded of the virtues. His compelling meditation on hope begins with a firm rejection of the role of optimism in life’s course. Like its close relative, pessimism, it is more a system of rationalization than a reliable lens on reality, reflecting the cast of one’s temperament in place of true discernment. Eagleton turns then to hope, probing the meaning of this familiar but elusive word: Is it an emotion? How does it differ from desire? Does it fetishize the future? Finally, Eagleton broaches a new concept of tragic hope, in which this old virtue represents a strength that remains even after devastating loss has been confronted. In a wide-ranging discussion that encompasses Shakespeare’s Lear, Kierkegaard on despair, Aquinas, Wittgenstein, St. Augustine, Kant, Walter Benjamin’s theory of history, and a long consideration of the prominent philosopher of hope, Ernst Bloch, Eagleton displays his masterful and highly creative fluency in literature, philosophy, theology, and political theory. Hope without Optimism is full of the customary wit and lucidity of this writer whose reputation rests not only on his pathbreaking ideas but on his ability to engage the reader in the urgent issues of life. Page-Barbour Lectures

Who Cares Wins

Author : Lily Cole
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847870200
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Who Cares Wins written by Lily Cole and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rousing call to action, this book will leave you feeling hopeful that we can make a difference in the midst of an age of turmoil, destruction, and uncertainty. The climate crisis, mass extinctions, political polarization, extreme inequality--the world faces terrifying challenges that threaten to divide us, yet Lily Cole argues that it is up to us to actively choose optimism, collabo- rate, make changes, and define what is possible. Cole writes: "We are the ancestors of our future. The choices we make now and the actions we take today will define and transform future generations." Having collaborated with experts working on solutions to humanity's biggest challenges, Cole distills a vision for a sustainable and peaceful future. She explores divisive issues from fast fashion to fast food and from renewable energy to gender equality, and interviews some of today's greatest influencers: Sir Paul McCartney (musician and activist), Elon Musk (CEO of SpaceX), Gail Bradbrook (cofounder of Extinction Rebellion), Farhana Yamin (climate change lawyer and activist), Emily Shuckburgh (climate scientist), Stella McCartney (sustainable fashion designer), Livia Firth (cofounder of Eco-Age), and Lisa Jackson (vice president of environment, policy and social initiatives at Apple, former Administrator of the EPA). The book also features a 32-page photo insert documenting Lily's experiences around the world, as well as the artists, activists, and others who have inspired her, and her own--as yet unpublished--photography.

Christian Meditation

Author : James Finley
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061842974
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Christian Meditation written by James Finley and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter a Monastery Without Walls Christian Meditation introduces an ancient practice to a contemporary audience. James Finley, a former monk and student of Thomas Merton, presents the fundamentals of both understanding and practicing Christian meditation. He provides simple, helpful instructions, as well as explaining the deeper connection with the divine that meditation can bring. Above all, he makes clear that the aim of meditation is to allow us to experience divine contemplation -- the presence of God.

Bruce Mau: MC24

Author : Bruce Mau
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781838660505
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Bruce Mau: MC24 written by Bruce Mau and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 24 global, generous, and galvanizing principles to overhaul the way we think and to inspire massive change Bruce Mau has long applied the power of design to transforming the world. Developed over the past three decades, this remarkable book is organized by 24 values that are at the core of Mau's philosophy. MC24 features essays, observations, project documentation, and design work by Mau and other high-profile architects, designers, artists, scientists, environmentalists, and thinkers of our time. Practical, playful, and critical, it equips readers with a tool kit and empowers them to make an impact and engender change on all scales.