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Croire: choisir l'expérience spirituelle
By Deepak Chopra, Emmanuel Plisson. 2016
Dans un siècle troublé par le mal religieux - la perte des repères et des valeurs d'un côté, les extrémismes…
en tous genres de l'autre - notre conception de Dieu, quelles que soient nos convictions et nos croyances, nous écarte de toute expérience spirituelle. Or selon Deepak Chopra " la question n'est pas de savoir comment penser à Dieu, mais comment en faire l'expérience directement ". Au-delà des controverses, des dogmes et du scepticisme scientifique, Deepak Chopra nous propose de nous connecter à notre dimension spirituelle, cette ressource inaliénable de chaque être humain. Inspiré par les grandes traditions de sagesse et dans le respect des croyances individuelles, Deepak Chopra nous invite à croire, à rencontrer un Dieu non plus modelé à notre image ni à celui des fanatismes de tous bords, mais source de toutes choses et en harmonie avec la conception de l'univers. 2016."Je vivais seul, dans les bois" ((Collection Folio. 2 [euros] ; 4745.) #Vol. 35628)
By Henry David Thoreau, Louis Fabulet. 1922
Doubler le cap: essais et entretiens
By J. M Coetzee. 2007
Si l'on connaît l'oeuvre romanesque de J. M. Coetzee, on oublie trop souvent qu'il est aussi un analyste et un…
essayiste des plus remarquables. Qu'il s'exprime sur la littérature classique (Tolstoï, Rousseau, Dostoïevski), contemporaine (Salman Rushdie, J. L. Borges, Naguib Mahfouz, Joseph Brodsky, Aharon Appelfeld) ou sud-africaine (Doris Lessing, Breyten Breytenbach, Nadine Gordimer), ou sur la genèse de son oeuvre (ses travaux sur Beckett), Coetzee le fait chaque fois avec la même rigueur et la même élégance dans le propos. Les vingt et un essais et entretiens présentés ici offrent une sélection très large de ses interventions critiques les plus importantes et visent à donner une vue d'ensemble du savoir et du savoir-faire de l'auteur. Tous ces textes sont d'une grande intelligence, tantôt érudits, tantôt provocateurs, et révèlent l'intérêt de l'auteur pour l'histoire, la politique, les liens de la littérature avec la culture et la société. 2007.Figures in a landscape: people and places
By Paul Theroux. 2018
A delectable collection of Theroux's recent writing on great places, people, and prose In the spirit of his much-loved Sunrise…
with Seamonsters and Fresh Air Fiend, Paul Theroux's latest collection of essays leads the reader through a dazzling array of sights, characters, and experiences, as Theroux applies his signature searching curiosity to a life lived as much in reading as on the road. This writerly tour-de-force features a satisfyingly varied selection of topics that showcase Theroux's sheer versatility as a writer. Travel essays take us to Ecuador, Zimbabwe, and Hawaii, to name a few. Gems of literary criticism reveal fascinating depth in the work of Henry David Thoreau, Graham Greene, Joseph Conrad, and Hunter Thompson. And in a series of breathtakingly personal profiles, we take a helicopter ride with Elizabeth Taylor, go surfing with Oliver Sacks, eavesdrop on the day-to-day life of a Manhattan dominatrix, and explore New York with Robin Williams. An extended mediation on the craft of writing binds together this wide-ranging collection, along with Theroux's constant quest for the authentic in a person or in a place. 2018. Uniform title: Essays.In search of wisdom: a monk, a philosopher and a psychiatrist on what matters most
By Matthieu Ricard, Christophe Andre, Sherab Chodzin Kohn, Alexandre Jollien. 2018
Here is a book born of the friendship of three gifted teachers, exploring the universal human journey and our quest…
for meaning and understanding. This translation of the French bestseller brings readers an intimate and insightful conversation between Buddhist monk and author Matthieu Ricard, philosopher Alexandre Jollien, and psychiatrist Dr. Christophe Andre. 2018. Uniform title: Trois amis en quete de sagesse.Finding the still point: a spiritual response to stress
By Tom Harpur. 2002
Harpur focuses on a spiritual approach to dealing with stress. Using sacred texts from many religions, he illustrates how many…
of the modern methods used, like breathing and meditation, originated in religious ritual. Over time, these techniques were divorced from their spiritual roots, and now lack a potency which they were meant to have and impart. 2002.Another turn of the crank: essays
By Wendell Berry. 1995
A series of provocative essays espousing the importance of strong communities and local economies. Berry laments the adverse effects on…
community life of such forces as centralized government and the global economy. He offers suggestions for returning to simpler ways. 1995.John Chancellor makes me cry
By Anne Rivers Siddons. 1975
Personal essays spanning a year in the author's life. She writes of her peculiar response to the evening news, a…
visit to a haunted wintertime beach, a wild--but touching--college reunion, and loving memories of her grandfather. 1975.Bookshops: a cultural history (Biblioasis international translation series ; #no. 22)
By Jorge Carrión. 2017
Jorge Carrión collects bookshops: from Gotham Book Mart and the Strand Bookstore in New York City to City Lights Bookshop…
and Green Apple Books in San Francisco and all the bright spots in between (Prairie Lights, Tattered Cover, and countless others). In this thought-provoking, vivid, and entertaining essay, Carrión meditates on the importance of the bookshop as a cultural and intellectual space. Filled with anecdotes from the histories of some of the famous (and not-so-famous) shops he visits on his travels, thoughtful considerations of challenges faced by bookstores, and fascinating digressions on their political and social impact, 'Bookshops' is both a manifesto and a love letter to these spaces that transform readers' lives. 2017. Uniform title: Librerías.Blank: essays & interviews (Essais ; #no. 3)
By M. Nourbese Philip, Marlene Nourbese Philip. 2017
A collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada's most important contemporary writers and thinkers. Through…
an engagement with her earlier work, M. NourbeSe Philip comes to realize the existence of a repetition in the world: the return of something that, while still present, has become unembedded from the world, disappeared. Her imperative becomes to make us see what has gone unseen, by writing memory upon the margin of history, in the shadow of empire and at the frontier of silence. In heretical writings that work to make the disappeared perceptible, "Blank" explores questions of race, the body politic, timeliness, recurrence, ongoingness, art, and the so-called multicultural nation. Through these considerations, Philip creates a linguistic form that registers the presence of what has seemingly dissolved, a form that also imprints the loss and the silence surrounding those disappearances in its very presence. 2017. Uniform title: Essays.Imaginary homelands: essays and criticism, 1981-1991
By Salman Rushdie. 1991
The seventy essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects, many dealing with…
India - the literature of the received masters and of Rushdie's contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. 1991.Everyday epiphanies: rediscovering the sacred in everything
By Melannie Svoboda. 1997
Have you ever experienced deep insights at the least likely moments - while you're brushing your teeth or sipping coffee?…
The author calls these experiences mini-epiphanies. "We feel we have brushed up against the Holy amid the ordinary events of daily life." This classic collection of Sister Melannie's reflections on everyday moments resonates deeply, helping readers discover God's subtle manifestations in small moments throughout the day. 2013, c1997.God.com: extreme intimacy with an interactive God
By James Alexander Langteaux. 2000
A refreshing, unflinchingly honest approach to seeking the Creator, this witty, poignant, and surprising book draws today's techno-savvy readers to…
God's "home page", where they can learn to more fully understand and communicate with Him. 2000.Curry: eating, reading, and race (Exploded views)
By Naben Ruthnum. 2017
Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this essay points out, a dish that doesn't properly exist…
can have infinite, equally authentic variations. By grappling with novels, recipes, travelogues, pop culture, and his own background, Ruthnum depicts how the distinctive taste of curry has often become maladroit shorthand for brown identity. Ruthnum sinks his teeth into the story of how the beloved flavour calcified into an aesthetic genre that limits the imaginations of writers, readers, and eaters. Following in the footsteps of Salman Rushdie's Imaginary Homelands, 'Curry' cracks open anew the staid narrative of an authentically Indian diasporic experience. 2017.Arguments with the world: essays
By Bronwen Wallace, Joanne Page. 1992
Exploded view: observations on reading, writing and life
By Jean McKay. 2001
The exploded view is a diagram which shows how each component of an object relates to the whole, and is…
usually applied to machinery. McKay uses it to explode everything from macaroons to metaphors. In her alphabetical essays she explodes language and her world view, taking a variety of things apart, from babies and crabapples to funerals and acorns, and putting them back together in unexpected ways. Some strong language.Grateful: the transformative power of giving thanks
By Diana Butler Bass. 2018
Diana Butler Bass explores why gratitude is missing as a modern spiritual practice, offers practical suggestions for reclaiming it, and…
explains how this can lead to greater connection with God and ourselves. 2018.Don't save anything: uncollected essays, articles, and profiles
By James Salter, Kay Eldredge Salter. 2017
Essays after eighty
By Donald Hall. 2015
Donald Hall has lived a remarkable life of letters, a career capped by a National Medal of the Arts, awarded…
by the president. Now, in the "unknown, unanticipated galaxy" of very old age, he is writing searching essays that startle, move, and delight. Hall paints his past: "Decades followed each other - thirty was terrifying, forty I never noticed because I was drunk, fifty was best with a total change of life, sixty extended the bliss of fifty ..." And, poignantly, often joyfully, he limns his present: "When I turned eighty and rubbed testosterone on my chest, my beard roared like a lion and gained four inches." Most memorably, Hall writes about his enduring love affair with his ancestral Eagle Pond Farm and with the writing life that sustains him, every day. 2015.Civil disobedience: and other essays (Recorded Books classics library)
By Henry David Thoreau. 2010