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Download or read book Stirring the Mud written by Barbara Hurd and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these nine evocative essays, Barbara Hurd explores the seductive allure of bogs, swamps, and wetlands. Hurd's forays into the land of carnivorous plants, swamp gas, and bog men provide fertile ground for rich thoughts about mythology, literature, Eastern spirituality, and human longing. In her observations of these muddy environments, she finds ample metaphor for human creativity, imagination, and fear.
Book Synopsis Disability, Liberation, and Development by : Peter Coleridge
Download or read book Disability, Liberation, and Development written by Peter Coleridge and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disabled people are marginalized in every country of the world both North and South. By probing these prejudices and studying cases where they have been overcome this book provides an insight into the processes of liberation and empowerment.
Book Synopsis Unclouded by Longing by : Christopher Goodchild
Download or read book Unclouded by Longing written by Christopher Goodchild and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.' Lao-Tzu (poet and philosopher) In this collection of short, contemplative, enlightening reflections, spiritual teacher and Quaker Christopher Goodchild, inspired by his own experiences, guides you through his spiritual and philosophical journey to his truest and most peaceful self. Written from a 'soul' perspective, the book reveals how, by looking beyond vulnerability to see innate strength, and searching beyond pain and turmoil to find peace and serenity, anyone can affirm their true humanity despite the hardships and distractions of modern life. Christopher's compassionate route through difficulties, doubt, grief and fear is marked with dynamic tenderness and an artful embrace of abundant sources of wisdom. Spirituality, psychology and philosophy are seamlessly woven together in an inclusive Quaker context, led by the common values of love and forgiveness. In a world increasingly weighed down with the baggage of the self, this book will speak to anyone searching for a more clear-sighted, meaningful presence in the eternal universe.
Book Synopsis In the Face of Fear by : Barry Boyce
Download or read book In the Face of Fear written by Barry Boyce and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us have never experienced such deep anxiety and uncertainty in the world as we are in these current times; this anthology of Buddhist teachings offers an antidote. While we can’t control the home foreclosures, job losses, dwindling savings, and the other myriad challenges facing our society, Buddhism teaches us that there is one thing we can always control: our own state of mind. How we react to the ups and downs of life makes all the difference, and Buddhism offers a wealth of wisdom and practices to help us maintain a stable, wise, and helpful state of mind no matter what happens. In the Face of Fear shows us how to • remain open, joyful, and caring, even when life is stressful • avoid old behavior patterns that only make things worse • access our innate confidence and fearlessness • turn difficult times into opportunities for spiritual development • learn why caring for others is the best way to relieve our own suffering • discover that our true nature is always awake, wise, and good, no matter what is happening This anthology features the greatest contemporary Buddhist teachers and writers—people renowned for addressing precisely the problems we’re facing today—including the Dalai Lama, Pema Chödrön, Thich Nhat Hanh, Chögyam Trungpa, Sylvia Boorstein, Jack Kornfield, Norman Fischer, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Sharon Salzberg, and many others.
Download or read book The Wise Heart written by Jack Kornfield and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the transformative power of Buddhist psychology—for meditators and mental health professionals, Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. You have within you unlimited capacities for extraordinary love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom—and here is how to awaken them. In The Wise Heart, celebrated author and psychologist Jack Kornfield offers the most accessible, comprehensive, and illuminating guide to Buddhist psychology ever published in the West. Here is a vision of radiant human dignity, a journey to the highest expression of human possibility—and a practical path for realizing it in our own lives.
Book Synopsis The Complete Book on Equanimity and Peace by : Young Kim
Download or read book The Complete Book on Equanimity and Peace written by Young Kim and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Awakening the Buddha Within by : Lama Surya Das
Download or read book Awakening the Buddha Within written by Lama Surya Das and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lama Surya Das, the most highly trained American lama in the Tibetan tradition, presents the definitive book on Western Buddhism for the modern-day spiritual seeker. The radical and compelling message of Buddhism tells us that each of us has the wisdom, awareness, love, and power of the Buddha within; yet most of us are too often like sleeping Buddhas. In Awakening the Buddha Within, Surya Das shows how we can awaken to who we really are in order to lead a more compassionate, enlightened, and balanced life. It illuminates the guidelines and key principles embodied in the noble Eight-Fold Path and the traditional Three Enlightenment Trainings common to all schools of Buddhism: Wisdom Training: Developing clear vision, insight, and inner understanding—seeing reality and ourselves as we really are. Ethics Training: Cultivating virtue, self-discipline, and compassion in what we say and do. Meditation Training: Practicing mindfulness, concentration, and awareness of the present moment. With lively stories, meditations, and spiritual practices, Awakening the Buddha Within is an invaluable text for the novice and experienced student of Buddhism alike.
Book Synopsis The Zero Point Agreement by : Julie Tallard Johnson
Download or read book The Zero Point Agreement written by Julie Tallard Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to stop searching for meaning by creating meaning from within • Explains how we can only discover who we are by naming what we want to be and taking steps to make it a reality • Offers simple evidence-based methods to generate enthusiasm, creativity, and direct spiritual experience and to co-create with the natural world as our ancestors did • Presents 11 core principles for living life from within, such as how to take full responsibility for motivation and effort, express gratitude, and focus your intention Everyone wants to experience purpose and inspiration in their lives, but the search for meaning often leaves a seeker in the hands of fate. Offering a different approach to self-discovery, one where we create our meaning from within rather than seek it from the outside world, Julie Tallard Johnson shows there is a science behind personal spiritual experiences and creativity. She reveals simple evidence-based methods that can be applied to any situation to generate enthusiasm, inspiration, and direct spiritual experience and transform the inner and outer landscapes of your life. Drawing from the Heart Sutra, the I Ching, indigenous wisdom, and the teachings of the Dalai Lama, Joseph Campbell, and the Kadampa master Atisha, Johnson outlines a practice centered on what she calls the Zero Point Agreement--the realization that you are the zero point of your life, that life’s purpose comes from within. She explains how to discover who you truly are by naming what you want to be and taking steps to make it a reality. Providing 11 core principles for the Zero Point Agreement as well as thought exercises, meditations, and journaling practices, Johnson shows how to break free from negative habitual states, liberate yourself from your attachment to the behaviors of others, take full responsibility for motivation and effort, express gratitude, focus your intention, and learn to co-create with the natural world. She also explores how to transform repressed material and how to apply the Zero Point Agreement to heal both personal and global relationships. Revealing how we can tap in to the creative, creational power that lies within and around each of us, Johnson offers a spiritual technology for self-illumination, creative restructuring of your life, and manifestation of your life’s purpose.
Download or read book Night People written by A. Molise and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailey Matheson, the first female detective in the Portland Police, finally gets a case: a poisoned cocktail waitress. The murder exposes the dark sides of 1980: savage punk rockers, swingers, call girls, runaway kids, and cocaine. The prime suspect is Yvonne, who haunts Hailey’s passionate fantasies. She wants both to arrest the killer and protect the woman of her heart’s desire. Lieutenant Jim Hardy opposes queerness and the idea of female detectives. Hailey fears discovery of her orientation would provide him a pretext to take her job. He also obsesses over finding Yvonne guilty. Hardy plans to rough up Paul, Yvonne’s young boyfriend, to get answers, but Hailey, inspired by his devotion to his lover, tries another way.
Download or read book Peace Studies written by Karuna Maddava and published by Leps Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Insight Meditation by : Sharon Salzberg
Download or read book Insight Meditation written by Sharon Salzberg and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only complete course on insight meditation, with a full year of personal instruction from the Insight Meditation Society
Book Synopsis Longing for Nothingness by : Andrew Stein
Download or read book Longing for Nothingness written by Andrew Stein and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longing for Nothingness demonstrates how conflict between a life and death drive structures desire and the formation of the symptom and how this conceptual framework can be used to treat men and women in the nursing home. In the process, Andrew Stein presents a surprising and novel reading of such important psychoanalytic thinkers as Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, and Melanie Klein.
Book Synopsis Varieties of Universalism by : Marko Zlomislić
Download or read book Varieties of Universalism written by Marko Zlomislić and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing by : Polly Barton
Download or read book Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing written by Polly Barton and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who has ever yearned to master a new language, Fifty Sounds is a visionary personal account and an indispensable resource for learning to think beyond your mother tongue. “The language learning I want to talk about is sensory bombardment. It is a possession, a bedevilment, a physical takeover,” writes Polly Barton in her eloquent treatise on this profoundly humbling and gratifying act. Shortly before graduating with a degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge, Barton on a whim accepted an English-teaching position in Japan. With the characteristic ambivalence of a twenty-one-year-old whose summer—and life—stretched out almost infinitely before her, she moved to a remote island in the Sea of Japan, unaware that this journey would come to define not only her career but her very understanding of her own identity. Divided into fifty onomatopoeic Japanese phrases, Fifty Sounds recounts Barton’s path to becoming a literary translator fluent in an incredibly difficult vernacular. From “min-min,” the sound of air screaming, to “jin-jin,” the sound of being touched for the first time, Barton analyzes these and countless other foreign sounds and phrases as a means of reflecting on various cultural attitudes, including the nuances of conformity and the challenges of being an outsider in what many consider a hermetically sealed society. In a tour-de-force of lyrical, playful prose, Barton recalls the stifling humidity that first greeted her on the island along with the incessant hum of peculiar new noises. As Barton taught English to inquisitive middle school children, she studied the basics of Japanese in an inverse way, beginning with simple nouns and phrases, such as “cat,” “dog,” and “Hello, my name is.” But when it came to surrounding herself in the culture, simply mastering the basics wasn’t enough. Japanese, Barton learned, has three scripts: the phonetic katakana and hiragana (collectively known as kana) and kanji (characters of Chinese origin). Despite her months-long immersion in the language, a word would occasionally produce a sinking feeling and send her sifting through her dictionaries to find the exact meaning. But this is precisely how Barton has come to define language learning: “It is the always-bruised but ever-renewing desire to draw close: to a person, a territory, a culture, an idea, an indefinable feeling.” Engaging and penetrating, Fifty Sounds chronicles everything from Barton’s most hilarious misinterpretations to her new friends and lovers in Tokyo —and even the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s transformative philosophy. A classic in the making in the tradition of Anne Carson and Rachel Cusk, Fifty Sounds is a celebration of the empowering act of learning to communicate in any new language.
Book Synopsis The Sailors' Magazine and Seamen's Friend by :
Download or read book The Sailors' Magazine and Seamen's Friend written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry by : Miriama Evans
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry written by Miriama Evans and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sequel to Penguin Book of New Zealand Verse which covers the post-Baxter period, from 1971. It adopts provocative selection criteria, seeking to make a statement about future directions of NZ poetry.
Book Synopsis Your Longing Has a Name by : Dominic Done
Download or read book Your Longing Has a Name written by Dominic Done and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered who God had in mind before you came to be? Dominic Done examines seven gifts that, when practiced through the help of the Holy Spirit, will restore you, cause you to flourish, and empower you to come alive to the story you were made for. How is the health of your soul? Is the deepest part of you flourishing—or is it languishing and gasping for air? Life lately has been filled with exhausting challenges: personal loss, political division, economic turmoil, faith deconstruction, and isolation. And our soul feels it. Yet in the face of uncertainty, the Bible assures us we can thrive inwardly. Jesus promised his followers the abundant life. But how do we find it? How can we flourish in difficult times? In Your Longing Has a Name, author Dominic Done casts a beautiful vision of hope, revealing seven gifts God has provided for the health of the soul. He weaves together A unique approach to understanding our purpose Fresh language designed for current times of crisis and spiritual uncertainty Soulful theology that focuses on our identity in Christ rather than rules-based legalism Deeply moving personal stories, biblical insights, and relatable discussions on the human ache for meaning Examples from history, literature, art, and culture Your Longing Has a Name paints a picture of hope during a time of crisis and confusion and helps us find ways for our soul to come alive.
