Author: Tara Brach Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0525522824 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties--stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning. In this heartfelt and deeply practical book, she offers an antidote: an easy-to-learn four-step meditation that quickly loosens the grip of difficult emotions and limiting beliefs. Each step in the meditation practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) is brought to life by memorable stories shared by Tara and her students as they deal with feelings of overwhelm, loss, and self-aversion, with painful relationships, and past trauma--and as they discover step-by-step the sources of love, forgiveness, compassion, and deep wisdom alive within all of us.
Author: C. S. Lewis Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062565451 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 96
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The revered author's classic work that examines the four types of human love: affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God.? In this work Lewis examines four varieties of love, as approached from the Greek language: storge, the most basic form; philia, the rarest and perhaps most insightful; eros, passionate love; and agape, the love of God, the greatest and least selfish. ?Throughout this compassionate and reasoned study, he encourages readers to open themselves to all forms of love—the key to understanding that brings us closer to God.? "There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable . . . draw nearer to God, not be trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armor. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it."? In Four Loves, C. S. Lewis explores love to help you · Strengthen your interpersonal relationships · Understand the different between needed pleasures and appreciation pleasures and need-love and gift-love · Care for the people in your life, avoid pitfalls, and improve your relationship God The Four Loves holds a mirror to our current society and leaves no doubt that our modern understanding of love is heavily misunderstood.
Author: Joyce Vissell Publisher: Conari Press ISBN: 9781573241557 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 276
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An exploration of relationships examines the process of finding a life partner, the fear of intimacy, growing beyond jealousy and blame, and healing a blocked sexual relationship
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 0486847500 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 113
Book Description
Essential reading for scholars, poetry lovers, and anyone with an interest in Rainer Maria Rilke, German poetry, or the creative impulse, these ten letters of correspondence between Rilke and a young aspiring poet reveal elements from the inner workings of his own poetic identity. The letters coincided with an important stage of his artistic development and readers can trace many of the themes that later emerge in his best works to these messages—Rilke himself stated these letters contained part of his creative genius.
Author: Priscilla Davis Publisher: WestBow Press ISBN: 1490834184 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 383
Book Description
It's All about the Change is designed to be a day-by-day study of God's Word that will bring you closer to Him. I encourage you to read the Scriptures that are suggested and then take time to journal your thoughts on that day's lesson. It has been my experience that journaling your thoughts will help to write God's Word in your heart and mind. Scripture recollection is greatly improved by this practice. I pray that through this study you will receive all that God has in store for you. As you begin, sit down with your Bible and read the passage we will be covering. Then dig into the study guide and find the treasures for your soul. It is helpful to keep track of God's blessings and answered prayers. May God bless you as you begin or continue your walk with Him.
Author: G.E.H. Palmer Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571374654 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 319
Book Description
The Philokalia is a foundational collection of texts written between the fourth and the fifteenth centuries by spiritual masters of the Orthodox Christian tradition. First published in Greek in 1782, translated into Slavonic and later into Russian, The Philokalia has exercised an influence far greater than that of any book other than the Bible in the recent history of the Orthodox Church, and it continues to be read more and more widely. Only a selection of texts from The Philokalia has hitherto been available in English. This is the first complete translation into English from the original Greek in five volumes, the first of which was published by Faber in 1979. It is concerned with themes of universal importance: how we may develop our inner powers and awake from illusion; how we may overcome fragmentation and achieve spiritual wholeness; how we may attain the life of contemplative stillness and union with God. As in the first four volumes, the editors have provided introductory notes to each of the writers, a glossary of key terms and a detailed index.
Author: Prof. Nikolay Pestov Publisher: Vladimir Djambov ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 635
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“Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html Appendix to Chapter 14 My dear boy in short pants, I leave, and you stay. And they will tell you orally and in books, That you will achieve worldwide restructuring, That you will fly to other planets Put a split atom into service You will rip out new secrets from space And you will make the world infinitely rich That you will sprinkle with the miracle of technology For everything that is subject to death and grief, And people will come to a dazzling life Not somewhere, sometime, but close and soon. My dear, my poor gullible boy, All these are toys, your seduction. The longer you play, the further and further The hour of your enlightenment is allotted. But death will lead this hour after itself. You will understand - but it's too late, the strength is already exhausted, - That you have built a whole life in vain - A comfortable chair for the finale of the performance, That your path was the eternal path of the ancestors, That you moved without catching up with your grandfathers, Although they mostly walked the old fashioned way, And you flew in the astronaut's ship. And now all the doors are to death. You will enter them and you are with a worldwide flow And you will say: “Why me, why did I not believe, That life is a preparation for Eternity? Why did I not collect other wealth - Heart treasures? They wouldn't run dry ... After all, a whole life I've been building meaninglessly A comfortable chair for the finale of the performance. "
Author: Tara Brach
Author: C. S. Lewis
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Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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Author: Priscilla Davis
Author: John Jabez Lanier
Author: G.E.H. Palmer
Author: Prof. Nikolay Pestov