Author: Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1580236057
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
“Suppose there is something going on in the universe which is to ordinary, everyday reality as our unconcious is to our daily lives? Softly, but unmistakably guiding it. Most of the time, we are unaware of it. Yet, every now and then, on account of some ‘fluke,’ we are startled by the results of its presence. We realize we have been part of something with neither consciousness nor consent. It is so sweet—and then it is gone. You say, ‘But I don’t believe in God.’ And I ask, ‘What makes you think it matters to God?"’ —from Lawrence Kushner, whose previous books have opened up new spiritual possibilities, now tells us stories in a new literary form. Through his everyday encounters with family, friends, colleagues and strangers, Kushner takes us deeply into our lives, finding flashes of spiritual insight in the process. Such otherwise ordinary moments as fighting with his children, shopping for bargain basement clothes, or just watching a movie are revealed to be touchstones for the sacred. This is a book where literature meets spirituality, where the sacred meets the ordinary, and, above all, where people of all faiths, all backgrounds can meet one another and themselves. Kushner ties together the stories of our lives into a roadmap showing how everything “ordinary” is supercharged with meaning—if we can just see it.
Invisible Lines of Connection
Author: Rabbi Lawrence Kushner
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1580236057
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
“Suppose there is something going on in the universe which is to ordinary, everyday reality as our unconcious is to our daily lives? Softly, but unmistakably guiding it. Most of the time, we are unaware of it. Yet, every now and then, on account of some ‘fluke,’ we are startled by the results of its presence. We realize we have been part of something with neither consciousness nor consent. It is so sweet—and then it is gone. You say, ‘But I don’t believe in God.’ And I ask, ‘What makes you think it matters to God?"’ —from Lawrence Kushner, whose previous books have opened up new spiritual possibilities, now tells us stories in a new literary form. Through his everyday encounters with family, friends, colleagues and strangers, Kushner takes us deeply into our lives, finding flashes of spiritual insight in the process. Such otherwise ordinary moments as fighting with his children, shopping for bargain basement clothes, or just watching a movie are revealed to be touchstones for the sacred. This is a book where literature meets spirituality, where the sacred meets the ordinary, and, above all, where people of all faiths, all backgrounds can meet one another and themselves. Kushner ties together the stories of our lives into a roadmap showing how everything “ordinary” is supercharged with meaning—if we can just see it.
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1580236057
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
“Suppose there is something going on in the universe which is to ordinary, everyday reality as our unconcious is to our daily lives? Softly, but unmistakably guiding it. Most of the time, we are unaware of it. Yet, every now and then, on account of some ‘fluke,’ we are startled by the results of its presence. We realize we have been part of something with neither consciousness nor consent. It is so sweet—and then it is gone. You say, ‘But I don’t believe in God.’ And I ask, ‘What makes you think it matters to God?"’ —from Lawrence Kushner, whose previous books have opened up new spiritual possibilities, now tells us stories in a new literary form. Through his everyday encounters with family, friends, colleagues and strangers, Kushner takes us deeply into our lives, finding flashes of spiritual insight in the process. Such otherwise ordinary moments as fighting with his children, shopping for bargain basement clothes, or just watching a movie are revealed to be touchstones for the sacred. This is a book where literature meets spirituality, where the sacred meets the ordinary, and, above all, where people of all faiths, all backgrounds can meet one another and themselves. Kushner ties together the stories of our lives into a roadmap showing how everything “ordinary” is supercharged with meaning—if we can just see it.
Lines That Connect
Author: Graeme Were
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Building on historical and contemporary literature in anthropology and art theory, Lines That Connect treats pattern as a material form of thought that provokes connections between disparate things through processes of resemblance, memory, and transformation. Pattern is constantly in a state of motion as it traverses spatial and temporal divides and acts as an endless source for innovation through its inherent transformability. Graeme Were argues that it is the ideas carried by pattern’s relational capacity that allows Pacific islanders to express their links to land, genealogy, and resources in the most economic ways. In doing so, his book is a timely and unique contribution to the analysis of pattern and decorative art in the Pacific amid growing debates in anthropology and art history. This striking and original study brings together objects and photographs, historical literature and contemporary ethnographic case studies to explore pattern in its logical workings. It presents the first-ever analysis of the well-known patterned shell valuable called kapkap as revealed in New Ireland mortuary feasts. Innovative research in the study of Christianity and the Baha’i faithful in the region shows how pattern has been appropriated in new religious communities. Were argues that pattern is used in various guises in performances, church architecture, and funerary images to contrasting effect. He explores the conditions under which pattern facilitates a connecting of old and new ideas and how missionary processes are implicated in this flow. He then considers the mechanisms under which pattern is internalized, paying particular attention to its embeddedness in spatial and numerical thinking. Finally, he examines how pattern carries new materials and technologies, which in turn provide new resources for sustaining old beliefs. Drawing on a multitude of fields (anthropology; art history; Pacific, museum, and religious studies; education; ethnomathematics), Lines That Connect raises key questions about the capacity of pattern across the Pacific to bind and sustain ideas about place, body, and genealogy in the most logical of ways.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Building on historical and contemporary literature in anthropology and art theory, Lines That Connect treats pattern as a material form of thought that provokes connections between disparate things through processes of resemblance, memory, and transformation. Pattern is constantly in a state of motion as it traverses spatial and temporal divides and acts as an endless source for innovation through its inherent transformability. Graeme Were argues that it is the ideas carried by pattern’s relational capacity that allows Pacific islanders to express their links to land, genealogy, and resources in the most economic ways. In doing so, his book is a timely and unique contribution to the analysis of pattern and decorative art in the Pacific amid growing debates in anthropology and art history. This striking and original study brings together objects and photographs, historical literature and contemporary ethnographic case studies to explore pattern in its logical workings. It presents the first-ever analysis of the well-known patterned shell valuable called kapkap as revealed in New Ireland mortuary feasts. Innovative research in the study of Christianity and the Baha’i faithful in the region shows how pattern has been appropriated in new religious communities. Were argues that pattern is used in various guises in performances, church architecture, and funerary images to contrasting effect. He explores the conditions under which pattern facilitates a connecting of old and new ideas and how missionary processes are implicated in this flow. He then considers the mechanisms under which pattern is internalized, paying particular attention to its embeddedness in spatial and numerical thinking. Finally, he examines how pattern carries new materials and technologies, which in turn provide new resources for sustaining old beliefs. Drawing on a multitude of fields (anthropology; art history; Pacific, museum, and religious studies; education; ethnomathematics), Lines That Connect raises key questions about the capacity of pattern across the Pacific to bind and sustain ideas about place, body, and genealogy in the most logical of ways.
Lines That Connect
Author: Graeme Were
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824860489
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Building on historical and contemporary literature in anthropology and art theory, Lines That Connect treats pattern as a material form of thought that provokes connections between disparate things through processes of resemblance, memory, and transformation. Pattern is constantly in a state of motion as it traverses spatial and temporal divides and acts as an endless source for innovation through its inherent transformability. Graeme Were argues that it is the ideas carried by pattern’s relational capacity that allows Pacific islanders to express their links to land, genealogy, and resources in the most economic ways. In doing so, his book is a timely and unique contribution to the analysis of pattern and decorative art in the Pacific amid growing debates in anthropology and art history. This striking and original study brings together objects and photographs, historical literature and contemporary ethnographic case studies to explore pattern in its logical workings. It presents the first-ever analysis of the well-known patterned shell valuable called kapkap as revealed in New Ireland mortuary feasts. Innovative research in the study of Christianity and the Baha’i faithful in the region shows how pattern has been appropriated in new religious communities. Were argues that pattern is used in various guises in performances, church architecture, and funerary images to contrasting effect. He explores the conditions under which pattern facilitates a connecting of old and new ideas and how missionary processes are implicated in this flow. He then considers the mechanisms under which pattern is internalized, paying particular attention to its embeddedness in spatial and numerical thinking. Finally, he examines how pattern carries new materials and technologies, which in turn provide new resources for sustaining old beliefs. Drawing on a multitude of fields (anthropology; art history; Pacific, museum, and religious studies; education; ethnomathematics), Lines That Connect raises key questions about the capacity of pattern across the Pacific to bind and sustain ideas about place, body, and genealogy in the most logical of ways.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824860489
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Building on historical and contemporary literature in anthropology and art theory, Lines That Connect treats pattern as a material form of thought that provokes connections between disparate things through processes of resemblance, memory, and transformation. Pattern is constantly in a state of motion as it traverses spatial and temporal divides and acts as an endless source for innovation through its inherent transformability. Graeme Were argues that it is the ideas carried by pattern’s relational capacity that allows Pacific islanders to express their links to land, genealogy, and resources in the most economic ways. In doing so, his book is a timely and unique contribution to the analysis of pattern and decorative art in the Pacific amid growing debates in anthropology and art history. This striking and original study brings together objects and photographs, historical literature and contemporary ethnographic case studies to explore pattern in its logical workings. It presents the first-ever analysis of the well-known patterned shell valuable called kapkap as revealed in New Ireland mortuary feasts. Innovative research in the study of Christianity and the Baha’i faithful in the region shows how pattern has been appropriated in new religious communities. Were argues that pattern is used in various guises in performances, church architecture, and funerary images to contrasting effect. He explores the conditions under which pattern facilitates a connecting of old and new ideas and how missionary processes are implicated in this flow. He then considers the mechanisms under which pattern is internalized, paying particular attention to its embeddedness in spatial and numerical thinking. Finally, he examines how pattern carries new materials and technologies, which in turn provide new resources for sustaining old beliefs. Drawing on a multitude of fields (anthropology; art history; Pacific, museum, and religious studies; education; ethnomathematics), Lines That Connect raises key questions about the capacity of pattern across the Pacific to bind and sustain ideas about place, body, and genealogy in the most logical of ways.
The Lines That Connect Us
Author: Lee Ribich
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477181873
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Southeast Alaska is a collection of northern rainforest islands described as the Alexander Archipelago. The amount of rainfall in Southeast communities is the stuff of folklore and personal stories. Infl uenced by tides, prevailing winds, snow-capped mountains, and the nature of a maritime climate, our environment invites precipitation. Warmed just enough by off shore currents, snowfall is not as determined as rainfall. We do have periods of time when snow is plentiful, but it is commonly chased away by rain. Often, it takes only a degree or two of temperature change for one form of precipitation to become another. It is in those few degrees of variation that our stories change, our moods change, and sometimes our lives change. Although the weather is a frequent discussion, Southeast Alaska is more than rainfall or snow. There is the interconnectedness of life seen so clearly here. The lines of life are a vast spider web that conjoin to form our environment--the land to the sea, the wild creatures to their surroundings and each other, the human connections to all. I wish that the following collection of poems will present the reader with an increased appreciation of our unique environment and lifestyle and how each is so reliant on the other. lrib
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477181873
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Southeast Alaska is a collection of northern rainforest islands described as the Alexander Archipelago. The amount of rainfall in Southeast communities is the stuff of folklore and personal stories. Infl uenced by tides, prevailing winds, snow-capped mountains, and the nature of a maritime climate, our environment invites precipitation. Warmed just enough by off shore currents, snowfall is not as determined as rainfall. We do have periods of time when snow is plentiful, but it is commonly chased away by rain. Often, it takes only a degree or two of temperature change for one form of precipitation to become another. It is in those few degrees of variation that our stories change, our moods change, and sometimes our lives change. Although the weather is a frequent discussion, Southeast Alaska is more than rainfall or snow. There is the interconnectedness of life seen so clearly here. The lines of life are a vast spider web that conjoin to form our environment--the land to the sea, the wild creatures to their surroundings and each other, the human connections to all. I wish that the following collection of poems will present the reader with an increased appreciation of our unique environment and lifestyle and how each is so reliant on the other. lrib
Lines that Wiggle
Author: Candace Whitman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781934706541
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A variety of monsters and other creatures demonstrate some of the different things that lines can do, from curve and curl to zig-zag.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781934706541
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A variety of monsters and other creatures demonstrate some of the different things that lines can do, from curve and curl to zig-zag.
Axiatonal Lines Connection Attunement
Author: Chris Comish
Publisher: Chris Comish
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
An attunement to connect you to your axiatonal lines, enabling more of your Higher Self to flow through you and merging the personality and Higher Self into One. This releases the veils which have prevented you from manifesting your Higher Self on Earth. The intent is that whoever reads the words is connected to their axiatonal lines. It is recommended this be received at least twice on separate days to strengthen the connection. You may call in the energy again when you are ready to receive again. Please remember to drink water and rest following each attunement. There may be a temporary purging process such as buzzing in the head, disorientation, slight dizziness and then sudden feelings of joy following each attunement. This is the release of veils and the merging with your Higher Self. Understand this purging process is only temporary and your great spirit will manifest more and more bringing you great moments and self-realization full of joy and love. Please read Usui Reiki Attunements by Chris Comish before receiving this attunement. Reviews "Chris is an amazing person with a strong will and unlimited talent. He can do anything that he puts his mind to." -Neal Parks, founder, Parks Paranormal Research and Investigation, host of the show Paranormally Speaking "I have no reservations in highly recommending this groundbreaking work from a spiritual pioneer who has made it his life's mission to bring the Light to all mankind." -Mary Keating, Reiki master, owner and founder of Ai Kansha cat sanctuary "Chris is an amazing man and a greatly gifted healer. He is an author of many books on the subject of healing and has changed the lives of many people, including my life." -George Plachy, Reiki master and teacher "Chris Comish is an exceptional trans-channel of Reiki energies and a true blessing in the spiritual/energetic healing modalities world. I'm honored to know him and have been a recipient of his healing work." -Blane Hoffman, Reiki master, tattoo artist, owner, operator, Barking Dog Tattooz
Publisher: Chris Comish
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
An attunement to connect you to your axiatonal lines, enabling more of your Higher Self to flow through you and merging the personality and Higher Self into One. This releases the veils which have prevented you from manifesting your Higher Self on Earth. The intent is that whoever reads the words is connected to their axiatonal lines. It is recommended this be received at least twice on separate days to strengthen the connection. You may call in the energy again when you are ready to receive again. Please remember to drink water and rest following each attunement. There may be a temporary purging process such as buzzing in the head, disorientation, slight dizziness and then sudden feelings of joy following each attunement. This is the release of veils and the merging with your Higher Self. Understand this purging process is only temporary and your great spirit will manifest more and more bringing you great moments and self-realization full of joy and love. Please read Usui Reiki Attunements by Chris Comish before receiving this attunement. Reviews "Chris is an amazing person with a strong will and unlimited talent. He can do anything that he puts his mind to." -Neal Parks, founder, Parks Paranormal Research and Investigation, host of the show Paranormally Speaking "I have no reservations in highly recommending this groundbreaking work from a spiritual pioneer who has made it his life's mission to bring the Light to all mankind." -Mary Keating, Reiki master, owner and founder of Ai Kansha cat sanctuary "Chris is an amazing man and a greatly gifted healer. He is an author of many books on the subject of healing and has changed the lives of many people, including my life." -George Plachy, Reiki master and teacher "Chris Comish is an exceptional trans-channel of Reiki energies and a true blessing in the spiritual/energetic healing modalities world. I'm honored to know him and have been a recipient of his healing work." -Blane Hoffman, Reiki master, tattoo artist, owner, operator, Barking Dog Tattooz
Connecting with Your Husband
Author: Gary Smalley
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 9780842360197
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Each Life Lines book provides quick help and practical wisdom on a relevant topic, helping readers know "what to do first" in challenging situations. One of America's foremost relationship experts provides advice in this title for women to better connect with their husbands.
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 9780842360197
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Each Life Lines book provides quick help and practical wisdom on a relevant topic, helping readers know "what to do first" in challenging situations. One of America's foremost relationship experts provides advice in this title for women to better connect with their husbands.
When a Line Bends . . . A Shape Begins
Author: Rhonda Gowler Greene
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547530986
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
A line is thin. A line is narrow—curved like a worm, straight as an arrow. Squares, circles, triangles, and many more shapes abound in this lively book. With jaunty, rhyming text, young readers are invited to find different shapes on each busy, vibrant page. Once you start looking, you won’t be able to stop! The perfect book for little ones beginning to distinguish shapes.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547530986
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
A line is thin. A line is narrow—curved like a worm, straight as an arrow. Squares, circles, triangles, and many more shapes abound in this lively book. With jaunty, rhyming text, young readers are invited to find different shapes on each busy, vibrant page. Once you start looking, you won’t be able to stop! The perfect book for little ones beginning to distinguish shapes.
Machinery's Encyclopedia
Author: Erik Oberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Machinery
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The Seduction of Curves
Author: Allan McRobie
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691175330
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
In this large-format book, lavishly illustrated in color throughout, Allan McRobie takes the reader on an alluring exploration of the beautiful curves that shape our world--from our bodies to Salvador Dalí's paintings and the space-time fabric of the universe itself. The book focuses on seven curves--the fold, cusp, swallowtail, and butterfly, plus the hyperbolic, elliptical, and parabolic "umbilics"--and describes the surprising origins of their taxonomy in the catastrophe theory of mathematician René Thom.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691175330
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
In this large-format book, lavishly illustrated in color throughout, Allan McRobie takes the reader on an alluring exploration of the beautiful curves that shape our world--from our bodies to Salvador Dalí's paintings and the space-time fabric of the universe itself. The book focuses on seven curves--the fold, cusp, swallowtail, and butterfly, plus the hyperbolic, elliptical, and parabolic "umbilics"--and describes the surprising origins of their taxonomy in the catastrophe theory of mathematician René Thom.