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Author : Laura Bullock
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781481954761
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (547 download)
Download or read book Random Contemplation written by Laura Bullock and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mini book of wandering thoughts.
Author : Usama ibn Munqidh
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141919175
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Book of Contemplation written by Usama ibn Munqidh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-07-03 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume comprises lightly annotated translation of a key medieval Arabic text that bears directly on the Crusades and Crusader society and the Muslim experience of them.
Author : Mrs. B. Maithili
Publisher : Rudra Publications
ISBN 13 : 9390835380
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Random Thoughts in Verse: Contemplation written by Mrs. B. Maithili and published by Rudra Publications. This book was released on with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects on several aspects of life like nature, flowers, books, children etc., Man from birth to death experiences several problems, several emotions and several feelings. Joys and sorrows are inseparable in life. We are able to transcend our joys and sorrows when we give expression to those feelings of joys and sorrows in an artistic form. This book has given adequate satisfaction to the authors in writing out their different reactions to the turbulent and exciting aspects of life. Besides inner joy, it satisfies the quest of the artists in establishing their individuality and real identity. It also questions the several traditional practices in the conventional society ruled by men. Very often the creative urge of several persons do not find the correct channel. That is why many are not able to come up with their ideas. The publication of this book gives some sort of a spiritual uplift to the authors.
Author : Francis Kelly Nemeck
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579107850
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (791 download)
Download or read book Contemplation written by Francis Kelly Nemeck and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2001-10-17 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book clearly presents the deepest insights of western Christian tradition regarding the mystery of contemplation to aid you in responding more fully to God's love in your life. Not light reading, some technical language, but a helpful explanation of a difficult subject. Charismatic Renewal Services Turning mainly to John of the Cross for his wisdom, the authors have written a brief work which combines a profound appreciation for the charism of contemplation with great common sense. It is hard to imagine a better handbook. America
Author : David Allen, M.D.
Publisher : Curtain Call Productions, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780975330609
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Contemplation written by David Allen, M.D. and published by Curtain Call Productions, LLC. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Body, mind, spirit family and relationships medical psychology religion self-help."
Author : Elaine MacInnes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9781580511339
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Zen Contemplation for Christians written by Elaine MacInnes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fascinating story of how and why a Catholic nun became an accomplished Zen Master.
Author : Jasmin Lee Cori
Publisher : Weiser Books
ISBN 13 : 9781578631315
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (313 download)
Download or read book The Tao of Contemplation written by Jasmin Lee Cori and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cori presents a new look at the concept of relaxation and handling stress as she provides exercises that teach how to drop into silence, let go of control, live in the present, and allow actions to come from a deeper source.
Author : Michael Jean Nystrom-Schut
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 142085030X
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (28 download)
Download or read book How Long Have You Been Standing Here, God? written by Michael Jean Nystrom-Schut and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-05-24 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRILOGY BOOK TWO includes three books from my numerous writings. Writing and philosophizing for so long now, I am pleased to get to do this while others simply cant take the time. In my journeys, I dont know if I am getting closer to knowing anything, and it seems the more I know, the more I know I dont know. I suppose all we can be sure of, is that as long as we are alive, we have the opportunity to keep searching, while continuing to delve into our minds and hearts for clues to greater meaning and purpose on earth. How long have you been standing here, God? is the title of the book, and it comes to you along with two others, Evolution: Facts and Fairy Tales and Amistad (Spanish for friendship). All three were written with you (the reader and fellow life-mate) especially in mind. If you struggle with your personal spirituality, and need greater awareness that God is on all sides of you, then maybe How long have you been standing here, God? (Book One) will be helpful. If you are wondering about your origins, trying to figure out how it all came about, then perhaps Evolution: Facts and Fairy Tales (Book Two) will make things even more confusing! During my time in Central America, I have learned plenty about the concept of friendship, and I mean that in the context of the whole of life. Amistad (Book Three) is a book about befriending the people, places and things that make up our lives.
Author : James W. Douglass
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597526096
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Resistance and Contemplation written by James W. Douglass and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I rejoice in this day and in this book becoming available once again. At Jonah House, the place I've called home for 33 years, we've had numerous copies of it in the years since it was first published. One copy remains - dog-eared, read, reread, studied. It was a book that we reflected on together in community - the backbone, if you will, next to the Scriptures - of our on-going resistance out of community. Elizabeth McAlister, Jonah House (from the foreword) This book has been of extraordinary significance to large numbers of young people, resisters, prisoners, searchers, many who have been increasingly perplexed and anguished by the course of American life in the world. My brother Philip and I have used it in numerous sessions with students and others, who found in it the sustenance necessary to allow them to take the next step in their struggle on behalf of life. It seems to me that this book will continue, in its own quiet and persistent way, to reach those Americans who are capable of inviting us into any future worth speaking about. Daniel Berrigan From perspectives of truth, nonviolence and resistance to personal and cultural violence, this book is among the few important books of the last decade. Neutrality to this book is impossible -- people will view it as a gift, or they will reject it as a threat....enlightening, strengthening, liberating. Philip Berrigan Jim Douglass is a writer and a Catholic Worker. He and his wife Shelley are co-founders of the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Poulsbo, WA, and Mary's House, a Catholic Worker house of hospitality in Birmingham, AL. He is currently writing three books on the assassinations of the Kennedys, Malcom X and King in the 1960's (with Orbis Books). The James Douglass Reprint Series: The Non-Violent Cross Resistance and Contemplation Lightning East to West The Nonviolent Coming of God
Author : Arthur L. Clements
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791499286
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Poetry of Contemplation written by Arthur L. Clements and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1990-06-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first systematic and thorough study of mysticism or contemplation in these three seventeenth-century poets and in three modern writers. It not only clarifies the very confused issue of mysticism in seventeenth-century poetry but also connects seventeenth-century poets with modern literature and science through the contemplative tradition; from the Bible and Plato and Church fathers and important mystics of the Middle Ages through Renaissance and modern contemplatives. The transformative and redemptive power of contemplative poetry or "holy writing" (regardless of genre or discipline) is prominent throughout the book, and the relevance, indeed the vital necessity, of such poetry and of the living contemplative tradition to our apocalyptic modern world is discussed in the last chapter. In this chapter, attention is given to modern science, especially to the new physics, and to philosophical and mystical writings of eminent scientists.
Author : Peter Cheyne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192520148
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Coleridge and Contemplation written by Peter Cheyne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coleridge and Contemplation is a multi-disciplinary volume on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, founding poet of British Romanticism, critic, and author of philosophical, political, and theological works. In his philosophical writings, Coleridge developed his thinking about the symbolizing imagination, a precursor to contemplation, into a theory of contemplation itself, which for him occurs in its purest form as a manifestation of 'Reason'. Coleridge is a particularly challenging figure because he was a thinker in process, and something of an omnimath, a Renaissance man of the Romantic era. The dynamic quality of his thinking, the 'dark fluxion' pursued but ultimately 'unfixable by thought', and his extensive range of interests make a philosophical yet also multi-disciplinary approach to Coleridge essential. This book is the first collection to feature philosophers and intellectual historians writing on Coleridge's philosophy. This volume opens up a neglected aspect of the work of Britain's greatest philosopher-poet — his analysis of contemplation, which he considered the highest of human mental powers. Philosophers including Roger Scruton, David E. Cooper, Michael McGhee, Andy Hamilton, and Peter Cheyne contribute original essays on the philosophical, literary, and political implications of Coleridge's views. The volume is edited and introduced by Peter Cheyne, and Baroness Mary Warnock contributes a foreword. The chapters by philosophers are supported by new developments in philosophically minded criticism from leading Coleridge scholars in English departments, including Jim Mays, Kathleen Wheeler, and James Engell. They approach Coleridge as an energetic yet contemplative thinker concerned with the intuition of ideas and the processes of cultivation in self and society. Other chapters, from intellectual historians and theologians, including Douglas Hedley clarify the historical background, and 'religious musings', of Coleridge's thought regarding contemplation.
Author : Belden C. Lane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019976042X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Solace of Fierce Landscapes written by Belden C. Lane and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Kathleen Norris, Terry Tempest Williams, and Thomas Merton, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and offers eloquent testimony to the healing power of mountain silence and desert indifference. Interweaving a memoir of his mother's long struggle with Alzheimer's and cancer, meditations on his own wilderness experience, and illuminating commentary on the Christian via negativa--a mystical tradition that seeks God in the silence beyond language--Lane rejects the easy affirmations of pop spirituality for the harsher but more profound truths that wilderness can teach us. "There is an unaccountable solace that fierce landscapes offer to the soul. They heal, as well as mirror, the brokeness we find within." It is this apparent paradox that lies at the heart of this remarkable book: that inhuman landscapes should be the source of spiritual comfort. Lane shows that the very indifference of the wilderness can release us from the demands of the endlessly anxious ego, teach us to ignore the inessential in our own lives, and enable us to transcend the "false self" that is ever-obsessed with managing impressions. Drawing upon the wisdom of St. John of the Cross, Meister Eckhardt, Simone Weil, Edward Abbey, and many other Christian and non-Christian writers, Lane also demonstrates how those of us cut off from the wilderness might "make some desert" in our lives. Written with vivid intelligence, narrative ease, and a gracefulness that is itself a comfort, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes gives us not only a description but a "performance" of an ancient and increasingly relevant spiritual tradition.
Author : Katherine L. Hall
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0787975540
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Reading Stories for Comprehension Success written by Katherine L. Hall and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-12-27 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A flexible, high-interest program that can be used with all regulare and special students, grades 10-12. Each volume provides over 45 factual stories with related teaching materials, 15 at each level.
Author : Michele Kueter Petersen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793640017
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book A Hermeneutics of Contemplative Silence written by Michele Kueter Petersen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hermeneutics of Contemplative Silence: Paul Ricoeur, Edith Stein, and the Heart of Meaning brings together the work of Paul Ricoeur and Edith Stein and locates the role of silence in the creation of meaning. Michele Kueter Petersen argues that human being is language and silence. Contemplative silence manifests a mode of capable human being whereby a shared world of meaning is constituted and created. The analysis culminates with the claim that a hermeneutics of contemplative silence manifests a deeper level of awareness as a poetics of presencing a shared humanity. The term “awareness” refers to five crucial levels of meaning-creating consciousness that are ingredients in the practice of contemplative silence. Contemplative awareness includes self-critique as integral to the experience and the understanding of the virtuous ordering of relational realities. The practice of contemplative silence is a spiritual and ethical activity that aims at transforming reflexive consciousness. Inasmuch as it leads to openness to new motivation and intention for acting in relation to others, contemplative awareness elicits movement through the ongoing exercise of rethinking those relational realities in and for the world. The texts of Ricoeur and Stein reveal a contemplative discourse of praise and beauty for capable human beings whose actions and suffering respond to word and silence.
Author : Miguel Farias
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192536389
Total Pages : 1038 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Meditation written by Miguel Farias and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meditation techniques, including mindfulness, have become popular wellbeing practices and the scientific study of their effects has recently turned 50 years old. But how much do we know about them: what were they developed for and by whom? How similar or different are they, how effective can they be in changing our minds and biology, what are their social and ethical implications? The Oxford Handbook of Meditation is the most comprehensive volume published on meditation, written in accessible language by world-leading experts on the science and history of these techniques. It covers the development of meditation across the world and the varieties of its practices and experiences. It includes approaches from various disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, history, anthropology, and sociology and it explores its potential for therapeutic and social change, as well as unusual or negative effects. Edited by practitioner-researchers, this book is the ultimate guide for all interested in meditation, including teachers, clinicians, therapists, researchers, or anyone who would like to learn more about this topic.
Author : Abigail Padgett
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780892966714
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (667 download)
Download or read book Blue written by Abigail Padgett and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blue McCarron is a former professor, now making her living as a retail consultant. She was hired by the brother of Beatrice Muffin Crandell, a 72-year-old widow who confessed to murder several years earlier. As Blue delves into the crime, she discovers that not only are Muffin's society friends lying to protect her but they are themselves integral players in an international conspiracy.
Author : Brooke Schedneck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131744938X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Thailand's International Meditation Centers written by Brooke Schedneck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores contemporary practices within the new institution of international meditation centers in Thailand. It discusses the development of the lay vipassana meditation movement in Thailand and relates Thai Buddhism to contemporary processes of commodification and globalisation. Through an examination of how meditation centers are promoted internationally, the author considers how Thai Buddhism is translated for and embodied within international tourists who participate in meditation retreats in Thailand. Shedding new light on the decontextualization of religious practices, and raising new questions concerning tourism and religion, this book focuses on the nature of cultural exchange, spiritual tourism, and religious choice in modernity. With an aim of reframing questions of religious modernity, each chapter offers a new perspective on the phenomenon of spiritual seeking in Thailand. Offering an analysis of why meditation practices appeal to non-Buddhists, this book contends that religions do not travel as whole entities but instead that partial elements resonate with different cultures, and are appropriated over time.
