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By Tara Brach, Daniel Roche. 2016
" Il y a quelque chose qui ne tourne pas rond chez moi... C'est ma faute, si j'avais fait un…
autre choix, tout ça ne serait pas arrivé... Combien de fois par jour nous flagellons-nous avec de telles pensées négatives ? Pour en finir avec cette haine de soi qui nous empoisonne l'existence, Tara Brach, thérapeute et grande pionnière du bouddhisme occidental, nous propose d'entreprendre une acceptation radicale de nous-mêmes. Grâce à une méthode simple et pleine de finesse où se mêlent méditations guidées et anecdotes personnelles, elle nous montre comment rompre avec la spirale de la culpabilité et la déconsidération de soi afin de nous aimer tels que nous sommes : imparfaits certes, mais aussi confiants et bienveillants à l'égard des autres. Apaisant et lumineux, L'Acceptation radicale est un livre culte aux États-Unis, sans cesse réédité depuis sa parution en 2004. Un texte fondateur, pour une estime de soi contagieuse. " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Radical acceptance : embracing your life with the heart of a Buddha.By Daniel Cordier. 2014
Récit des années de jeunesse de l'auteur, dans un internat religieux à Arcachon. Découvrant son homosexualité, Daniel vit dans la…
culpabilité, persuadé d'être en état de péché. Déchiré entre la désapprobation sociale, la peur de la damnation et sa passion pour David, il parvient à se faire renvoyer du collège. 2014.By Pema Chödrön. 2014
Ce guide nous montre la voie pour créer une relation d’ouverture avec notre esprit. Divisé en 5 parties : La…
technique de méditation, Travailler avec les pensées, Travailler avec les émotions, Travailler avec les perceptions sensorielles et Ouvrir votre cœur. ©2014. Titre uniforme: How to meditate.By Dominique Lablanche, dalaï-lama XIV Tenzin Gyatso. 1996
Avec un sens aigu du dialogue interreligieux, le Dalaï-lama commente les Évangiles au cours d'un séminaire tenu en 1994. Fort…
de toute la sagesse bouddhiste, il interprète le coeur de la révélation chrétienne. Tout en soulignant les convergences des deux traditions, il marque aussi les différences et les points de séparation.By Pema Chödrön, Claude Riso-Lév, Richard Gravel. 2000
" Pema Chödron commente ici un texte fondamental du bouddhisme : le " texte racine sur les sept points de…
l'entraînement de l'esprit " de Chekawa yeshé Dorjé qui contient 59 préceptes invitant à 59 attitudes permettant d'éveiller le cœur devant les difficultés du quotidien. Nous découvrons ces préceptes au fil d'anecdotes et d'exemples familiers : " Médite toujours sur tout ce qui t'exaspère ", " Ne fais pas de la douleur d'autrui le matériau de ton bonheur ", " Ne sois pas si prévisible ", " N'agis pas de façon détournée ", " Ne te laisse pas influencer par les circonstances extérieures ", etc. Tels sont les conseils de ce texte millénaire... " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Start where you are.By Kamal Al-Solaylee. 2012
As a gay man living in an intolerant Middle East, Al-Solaylee escaped first to England and eventually to Canada, where…
he became a journalist and academic. While he was enjoying the cultural and personal freedoms of life in the West, his once-liberal family slowly fell into the hard-line interpretations of Islam that were sweeping large parts of the Arab-Muslim world in the 1980s and 1990s. The differences between his life and theirs were brought into sharp relief by the 2011 revolution in Egypt and the civil war in Yemen. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2015. 2012.By Tina Alexis Allen. 2018
Tina Alexis Allen grew up in 1980s suburban Maryland in a house ruled by her stern father, Sir John, an…
imposing, British-born authoritarian who had been knighted by the Pope. When Sir John discovered Tina was attracted to women, he too revealed he was gay. Their second lives brought father and daughter closer, but little did Tina know, darker secrets lingered below the surface. 2018.By Maggie Thrash. 2017
Maggie has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower for Girls, set deep in…
the heart of Appalachia. She's from Atlanta, she's never kissed a guy, she's into Backstreet Boys, and her long summer days are full of a pleasant, peaceful nothing--until one confounding moment. A split-second of innocent physical contact pulls Maggie into a gut-twisting love for an older, wiser, and, most surprising of all (at least to Maggie), female counselor named Erin. But Camp Bellflower is an impossible place for a girl to fall in love with another girl. When it seems as if Erin maybe feels the same way about Maggie, it's too much for both Maggie and Camp Bellflower to handle--let alone understand. For senior high readers. 2017.By Mark Epstein. 2001
Going On Being is Mark Epstein's memoir of his early years as a student of Buddhism and of how Buddhism…
shaped his approach to therapy. Before Epstein became a medical student at Harvard and began training as a psychiatrist, he immersed himself in Buddhism through experiences with such influential Buddhist teachers as Ram Dass, Joseph Goldstein, and Jack Kornfield. Drawing on his own life and stories of his patients, he illuminates the concept of "going on being," the capacity we all have to live in a fully aware and creative state unimpeded by constraints or expectations. 2001.By Alison Lurie. 2001
Novelist Alison Lurie reminisces about meeting American poet James Merrill (1926-1995) in his youth and becoming friends with him and…
his companion, David Jackson. Discusses their homosexuality, the importance of the Ouija board in their relationship, and their problems as they aged. 2001.By Lynette Dawn Loeppky. 2014
The memoir tells the story of a young woman who has decided to leave an eight-year relationship. As Lyn begins…
to plan her exit, her partner Cecile suddenly falls ill. In a tumultuous drop towards a complicated end, the young woman is forced to become sole caregiver to the woman she had been planning to leave. Set against the "family values" of rural Alberta, this is a story about how we love and why we stay, especially in a time of crisis. 2014.By Alison Wearing. 2013
Alison Wearing led a carefree childhood until she learned, at the age of 12, that her family was a little…
more complex than she had realized. When her father came out of the closet in the 1970s, when homosexuality was still taboo, it was a shock to everyone in the quiet community of Peterborough, Ontario — especially his wife and children. 2013.By Nancy Wilson Ross. 1980
A long-time student of Asian life and thought offers a guide for both the uninitiated and the practitioner. She explores…
Buddhist history and philosophy and the schools of Hinayana, Tibetan, and Zen. 1980.By Garrard Conley. 2016
A beautiful, raw and compassionate memoir about identity, love and understanding. The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded…
in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old college student, he was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to "cure" him of homosexuality; or risk losing family, friends, and the God he had prayed to every day of his life. Through an institutionalized Twelve-Step Program heavy on Bible study, he was supposed to emerge heterosexual, ex-gay, cleansed of impure urges and stronger in his faith in God for his brush with sin. Instead, even when faced with a harrowing and brutal journey, Garrard found the strength and understanding to break out in search of his true self and forgiveness. By confronting his buried past and the burden of a life lived in shadow, Garrard traces the complex relationships among family, faith, and community. At times heart-breaking, at times triumphant, this memoir is a testament to love that survives despite all odds. 2016.By Ann Silversides. 2003
Michael Lynch, the central figure of this book, was a long-time gay activist and a dynamic force in organizing an…
early response to the AIDS epidemic. Lynch's prescient articles in 'The Body Politic' spoke to the gay communities of Toronto, New York, and San Francisco; his organizing efforts meant change and hope. The author also furnishes a snap-shot history of how the AIDS crisis unfolded and of some of the heroic responses to it, and provides an emphasis on the politics of the gay community's response. Some strong language. 2003.By Bertrand Hébert, Pat Patterson. 2016
When Pat Patterson was 17 years old, he was asked to leave his home after telling his parents he was…
in love... with a man. Moving from Montreal to the United States in the 1960s, barely knowing a word of English, when homophobia was widespread, Pat lived in the super-macho world of pro wrestling. In this memoir, pioneer and creative savant Patterson recalls the trials and tribulations of climbing to the upper ranks of sports-entertainment - as a performer and, later, as a backstage creative force. 2016.By Sylvia Fraser. 2001
Sylvia Fraser's three-month pilgrimage to India in search of "something larger than myself, something deeper, something more." Travelling 12,000 kilometres…
as a solitary traveler across deserts and through jungles, she visits sacred sites such as the twilight city of Varanasi on the Ganges and the Golden Temple of the Sikhs; spends time with a Hindu sect up Mount Abu and meditates eleven hours a day for ten days in a Buddhist retreat while observing a vow of silence. 2001.By Pema Chödrön. 2000
American Buddhist nun describes how to apply her religion’s philosophy to achieve happiness. Explains how to communicate, experience difficult emotions,…
and become compassionate using eight worldly dharma or basic Buddhist beliefs. 2000, c1997.By Dale Peck. 2015
Novelist and critic Dale Peck's latest work - part memoir, part extended essay - is a foray into what the…
author calls "the second half of the first half AIDS epidemic," i.e., the period between 1987, when the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) was founded, and 1996, when the advent of combination therapy transformed AIDS from a virtual death sentence into a chronic manageable illness. 2015.By Ivan E Coyote. 2016
A memoir told in stories, about how Coyote learned to embrace their tomboy past while carving out a space for…
those of us who don't fit neatly into boxes or identities or labels. Ivan writes about their years as a young butch, dealing with new infatuations and old baggage, and life as a gender-box-defying adult, in which they offer advice to young people while seeking guidance from others. (And for tomboys in training, there are even directions on building your very own unicorn trap.) Recounts Ivan's past as a diffident yet free-spirited tomboy, and maps their journey through treacherous gender landscapes and a maze of labels that don't quite stick, to a place of self-acceptance and an authentic and personal strength. 2016.