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Engaging God's World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living
By Cornelius Plantinga Jr.. 2002
The Bible admonishes Christians to love God with the mind as well as with the heart. Engaging God's World clearly links this…
scriptural mandate with the pursuit of academic life, extolling the crucial role of Christian higher education in the intellectual and spiritual formation of believers. Chiefly intended to serve as a primer for students beginning college careers but valuable to thoughtful Christians at every stage of life, this volume spells out the central themes of the Christian faith from a Reformed perspective. More important, however, the book shows how Christian higher education fits inside a view of the world and of human life that is formed by these ideas. "Learning," Cornelius Plantinga writes, "is a spiritual calling; properly done, it attaches us to God." Approaching the topic of education from a variety of angles, Plantinga shows that Christ-centered learning teaches people to correctly see the world as God's creation, to see providence in history, to handle secular knowledge critically, to develop good judgment and, ultimately, to use faith-filled learning in the service of God's kingdom.The Best of Both Worlds: The autobiography of the world's greatest living medium
By Gordon Smith. 2014
The Best of Both Worlds is the true story of how childhood misery and trauma helped Gordon Smith discover a…
gift that has helped many people throughout the world. He has helped those who are in mourning come to terms with death and bereavement by working as a medium to put people in touch with their loved ones who have passed over.Gordon held off telling the story of his discovery of spiritual powers, as he believed his mother would have hated people knowing the poverty they came from or the abuse that her son suffered. After her death, Gordon decided it was time to tell his incredible story from humble beginnings all the way to becoming an internationally praised medium working for some of the most famous and powerful people in the world.His previous volume of memoirs Spirit Messenger was a massive bestseller but only now is he able to tell the unvarnished astonishing truth.Rebuilding the Ruins: Following God's call to serve Syria
By Samara Levy. 2019
In 2014 God called Samara Levy three times over 8 months to "start collecting" aid to send to Syria. Samara…
was a stay at home mum with two young boys with no experience whatsoever. It started with a vision to fill one lorry of aid, but four years later she has just loaded her 101st container, has sent 11 ambulances to Syria, set up a charity and distributed aid to more than 350,000 people in the Middle East. Since starting this work, Samara has also visited Syria, one of the most dangerous war zones of our generation, which has the highest number of kidnappings and killings of humanitarian workers in the world and in 2016, 2/3rds of the world's attacks on healthcare took place in Syria. A mother's calling tells the story not only of how this work developed from nothing, but also of Samara's own internal journey: what she has learnt about stepping out in faith and listening to God, and of how he uses the ordinary to achieve the extraordinary.Part testimony and part sharing, this book will inspire all who see the daily headlines about the situation in Syria and wonder what possible difference they can make. It is a story of hope, and of how in our weakness and inability God does the miraculous with whatever we can offer.Power Animals: For Guidance, Protection and Healing
By Madonna Gauding. 2019
If you have never heard of spirit animals or power animals, you have come to the right place.Featuring exercises and…
step-by-step instructions to help you access the power of animals as guides and healers. Includes a comprehensive directory explaining the symbolism and significance of 75 animals of land, sea and sky as well as mystical creatures.In Native American, Aboriginal and other shamanic cultures, animals have long been recognized as possessing important strengths and powers. This beautifully illustrated book will teach you how to discover which animal guide has the most to offer you, and provides practical exercises for working with your spirit animal's healing powers and wisdom. You will find step-by-step instructions for animal meditations, guidance on interpreting animal signs and messages and learn how to work with animal dreams and visions.As you begin the journey of discovering you own power animal, you will be reminded that you inhabit a vast, interconnected universe. This profound realization is one of the best antidotes to depression and alienation. By working with power animals, through meditation, visualization and direct contact, you will be able to ask your power animal for advice, guidance, protection and healing.The Little Book of Wonder: Rediscover the power of creativity, curiosity and imagination
By Bernadette Russell. 2018
When was the last time you felt 'wonder'? The feeling of amazement and admiration, caused by something beautiful, remarkable, or…
unfamiliar is one that, as children, we experienced often. But as adults we have grown tired and cynical and spend more time looking down at our phones than looking up at the sky. We no longer experience the power of awe nor its proven benefits.The Little Book of Wonder encourages you to be creative, feel curious and seek wonder in the world around us. Focussed around seven themes, echoing the seven wonders of the world, the book will explore:1. The Wonder of You2. Into the Woods3. Curious4. Magic5. Creativity6. The Road Less Travelled7. PositivityRiver of Fire: My Spiritual Journey
By Helen Prejean. 2019
'Riveting ... Providing a window into the upheaval in the church during the 1960s and 70s, Prejean's engrossing memoir also…
fleshes out how she rose to be an influential voice within the church before becoming a renowned proponent of abolishing the death penalty. Informing and entertaining, Prejean's exceptional memoir will be of special interest to social justice advocates. Publishers WeeklyIn this revelatory, intimate memoir from the author of Dead Man Walking, America's foremost leader in efforts to abolish the death penalty shares the story of her growth as a spiritual leader, speaks out about the challenges of the Catholic Church and shows that joy and religion are not mutually exclusive. Sister Helen Prejean's work as an activist nun, campaigning to educate Americans about the inhumanity of the death penalty, is known to millions worldwide. Less widely known is the evolution of her spiritual journey from praying for God to solve the world's problems to engaging full-tilt in working to transform societal injustices. Sister Helen grew up in a well-off Baton Rouge family that still employed black servants. She joined the Sisters of St Joseph at the age of eighteen and was in her forties when she had an awakening that her life's work was to immerse herself in the struggle of poor people forced to live on the margins of society. In this honest and fiercely open account, Sister Helen writes about the relationships with friends, fellow nuns and mentors who have shaped her over the years, as well as the close friendship with a priest that challenged her vocation in the 'new territory of the heart'. The final page of River of Fire ends with the opening page of Dead Man Walking, when she was first invited to correspond with a man on Louisiana's death row.River of Fire is a book for anyone interested in journeys of faith and spirituality, doubt and belief and 'catching on fire' to purpose and passion. Written in accessible, luminous prose, it is a book about how to live a spiritual life that is wide awake to the sufferings and creative opportunities of our world.Walk Humbly: Encouragements for Living, Working, and Being
By Samuel Wells. 2019
Max Ehrmann&’s prose poem &“Desiderata,&” with its direct instructions —&“go placidly,&” &“enjoy your achievements,&” and others— has inspired millions of…
readers.In the spirit of Ehrmann&’s &“Desiderata,&” world-renowned ethicist, theologian, and preacher Samuel Wells offers eight encouragements to readers in Walk Humbly, his own more extended prose poem. Each simple, direct exhortation—be humble, be grateful, be your own size, be gentle, be a person of praise, be faithful, be one body, be a blessing—is accompanied by thought-provoking, insightful comments.Drawing on startlingly perceptive observations of contemporary life and reflecting a deep knowledge of philosophical and religious wisdom, Wells&’s Walk Humbly will inspire readers to stop, reflect, and think deeply about essential existence.What Do You Seek?: The Questions of Jesus as Challenge and Promise
By Michael J. Buckley. 2016
Throughout the Gospels, Jesus asks a lot of questions—questions that challenge and unsettle. Questions that cut to the heart of…
human experience. Questions that—like a plow plunging deep into hard soil—split life open. In this book distinguished theologian Michael Buckley meditates on fourteen key personal questions that Jesus asks in the Gospel of John—such questions as "What do you seek?" "Do you know what I have done to you?" "How can you believe?" "Do you take offense at this?" "Do you love me?" Readers of Buckley's What Do You Seek? will be challenged anew by the searching, probing questions of Jesus.What Do You Seek?: The Questions of Jesus as Challenge and Promise
By Michael J. Buckley. 2016
Throughout the Gospels, Jesus asks a lot of questions—questions that challenge and unsettle. Questions that cut to the heart of…
human experience. Questions that—like a plow plunging deep into hard soil—split life open. In this book distinguished theologian Michael Buckley meditates on fourteen key personal questions that Jesus asks in the Gospel of John—such questions as "What do you seek?" "Do you know what I have done to you?" "How can you believe?" "Do you take offense at this?" "Do you love me?" Readers of Buckley's What Do You Seek? will be challenged anew by the searching, probing questions of Jesus.Unteachable Lessons: Why Wisdom Can't Be Taught (and Why That's Okay)
By Carl McColman. 2019
Why Christian spirituality must be "caught" rather than "taught."We speak of spirituality as a &“journey,&” which implies not only a…
destination toward which we travel, but countless adventures encountered along the way. The journey is the destination—both at once. We may all be trying to get to the heart of God, but there are infinite ways to get there. Can wisdom collected along the pilgrim path even be captured in words, codified into a book? Probably not. And why do the wisest books refuse to offer glib formulas or step-by-step instructions for happiness or enlightenment? Why are the great spiritual classics mostly just an invitation to keep our eyes, ears—and especially hearts—open?Because we&’re often stumbling on miracles while we&’re looking for something else.Using engaging and disarming stories from his own life, Carl McColman, a leading author of books in spirituality, gently leads readers toward a recognition that although the wisdom of the past is worth reading, hearing or reading others&’ experience of God is ultimately no substitute for opening our own eyes, ears, and hearts to God.Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
By Krista Tippett. 2016
Peabody Award-winning broadcaster and National Humanities Medalist Krista Tippett has interviewed the most extraordinary voices examining the great questions of…
meaning for our time. The heart of her work on her national public radio program and podcast, On Being, has been to shine a light on people whose insights kindle in us a sense of wonder and courage. Scientists in a variety of fields; theologians from an array of faiths; poets, activists, and many others have all opened themselves up to Tippett's compassionate yet searching conversation. In Becoming Wise, Tippett distills the insights she has gleaned from this luminous conversation in its many dimensions into a coherent narrative journey, over time and from mind to mind. The book is a master class in living, curated by Tippett and accompanied by a delightfully ecumenical dream team of teaching faculty. The open questions and challenges of our time are intimate and civilizational all at once, Tippett says - definitions of when life begins and when death happens, of the meaning of community and family and identity, of our relationships to technology and through technology. The wisdom we seek emerges through the raw materials of the everyday. And the enduring question of what it means to be human has now become inextricable from the question of who we are to each other. This book offers a grounded and fiercely hopeful vision of humanity for this century - of personal growth but also renewed public life and human spiritual evolution. It insists on the possibility of a common life for this century marked by resilience and redemption, with beauty as a core moral value and civility and love as muscular practice. Krista Tippett's great gift, in her work and in Becoming Wise, is to avoid reductive simplifications but still find the golden threads that weave people and ideas together into a shimmering braid. One powerful common denominator of the lessons imparted to Tippett is the gift of presence, of the exhilaration of engagement with life for its own sake, not as a means to an end. But presence does not mean passivity or acceptance of the status quo. Indeed Tippett and her teachers are people whose work meets, and often drives, powerful forces of change alive in the world today. In the end, perhaps the greatest blessing conveyed by the lessons of spiritual genius Tippett harvests in Becoming Wise is the strength to meet the world where it really is, and then to make it better.A Brief Guide to Spiritual Classics: From Dark Night of the Soul to The Power of Now (Brief Histories)
By James M. Russell. 2016
This very readable brief guide examines a wide range of spiritual writing that can be read for enjoyment or inspiration,…
including some books that come from beyond any religious tradition. While written from within the Christian tradition, and offering introductions to the writings of medieval mystics, Quakers and modern evangelists, both Protestant and Catholic, it also looks at classics of secular spirituality and writings from different religious traditions.Each book is explained to convey a brief idea of what each one has to offer the interested reader, while a 'Speed Read' for each book delivers a quick sense of what each writer is like to read and a highly compressed summary of the main points of the book in question.This is an excellent reference to dip into, but within sections such as Early Christian Classics, Secular Texts, Lives of Inspiration and Alternative Approaches, the books are arranged chronologically, revealing some interesting juxtapositions and connections between them.Aptavani Part 9: આપ્તવાણી શ્રેણી ૯
By Dada Bhagwan. 2016
મોક્ષમાર્ગ એટલે મુકિતનો માર્ગ, સંસારી બંધનોથી મુક્ત થવાનો માર્ગ. પરંતુ આ માર્ગમાં આપણને આત્યંતિક મુકિત થવામાં, મોક્ષે જતાં કોણ રોકે…
છે? મુકિતનાં સાધન માનીને સાધક જે જે કરે છે, એનાથી એને મુક્તિ અનુભવમાં આવતી નથી. કેટ કેટલાં સાધન કર્યા પછી પણ એનું બંધન તૂટતું નથી. એમાં કઈ ભૂલ રહી જાય છે? મોક્ષ માર્ગનાં બાધક-કારણો કયા ક્યા છે? જગતમાં લોકો જે દોષોથી બંધાયેલા છે એવા દોષો, તેમની દ્રષ્ટિમાં આવી શક્તા નથી. તેથી લોકો નિરંતર એવા પ્રકારના દોષોથી બંધાઈને, તે દોષોને પોષણ આપીને મોક્ષમાર્ગથી વિમુખ જ રહ્યા છે. પૂર્વેના જ્ઞાનીઓ કહી ગયા છે કે ક્રોધ-માન-માયા-લોભ, એનાથી બંધન છે. એ દોષો સંપૂર્ણપણે ખલાસ થયે મુકિત થાય. બધા દોષો ક્રોધ-માન-માયા-લોભમાં સમાય છે, પણ વ્યવહારમાં દોષો કેવા સ્વરૂપે ઉધાડા પડતા હોય છે, અને કેવા સ્વરૂપે થયા કરતા હોય છે? એ તો, જ્ઞાની પુરુષ ફોડ પાડે ત્યારે જ સમજાય. પ્રસ્તુત ગ્રંથમાં પ્રગટ જ્ઞાનાત્મસ્વરૂપ સંપૂજ્ય દાદાશ્રીની વાણીમાંથી પ્રગટ થયેલા મોક્ષમાર્ગના બાધક કારણોની સુંદર તલસ્પર્શી હૃદયભેદી છણાવટ મોક્ષમાર્ગીઓની સમક્ષ થઈ છે તે અત્રે સંકલિત થાય છે, જે સાધકને પ્રત્યેક પગથિયે પડવામાંથી ઉગારનારું નીવડશે.Aptavani Part 8: આપ્તવાણી શ્રેણી - ૮
By Dada Bhagwan. 2016
પ્રસ્તુત ગ્રંથમાં પ્રગટ પ્રત્યક્ષ અક્રમવિજ્ઞાનનાં જ્ઞાની પુરુષ કે જેઓ પરમ પૂજ્ય દાદાશ્રી તરીકે ઓળખાય છે તેમનાં સ્વમુખેથી વહેલું આત્મતત્વ, તેમ…
જ અન્ય તત્વો સંબંધી વાસ્તવિક દર્શન ખુલ્લું થાય છે. લોકોને ઘણાં પ્રશ્નો સતાવે છે જેવા કે, ‘હું કોણ છું?, જાણવું કઈ રીતે?’ ‘પોતાના સ્વરૂપની ઓળખાણ કેવી રીતે મેળવી શકું?’, ‘ આત્મ સાક્ષાત્કાર કઈ રીતે પામવો?’ જન્મ-મરણ શું છે? કર્મ શું છે? આત્માના અસ્તિત્વની આશંકાથી માંડીને આત્મા શું હશે, કેવો હશે? શું કરતો હશે? જેવા સેંકડો પ્રશ્નોનાં વૈજ્ઞાનિક સમાધાન પરમ પૂજ્ય દાદાશ્રીએ અત્રે અગોપ્યાં છે. તમામ શાસ્ત્રોનો, સાધકોનો, સાધનાઓનો સાર એક જ છે કે પોતાના આત્માનું ભાન, જ્ઞાન કરી લેવું. ‘મૂળ આત્મા’, તો શુધ્ધ જ છે માત્ર ‘પોતાને’ જે રોંગ ‘બિલિફ’ બેસી ગઈ છે તે પ્રગટ ‘જ્ઞાની પુરુષ’ પાસે આંટી ઊકલી જાય છે. જે કોટી ભવે ન થાય તે ‘જ્ઞાની’ પાસેથી અંતઃમુહૂર્તમાં પ્રાપ્ત થાય તેમ છે ! આખા ગ્રંથનું સંકલન બે વિભાગમાં વિભાજિત થાય છે. પૂર્વાર્ધમાં પરમ પૂજ્ય દાદાશ્રીએ આત્માનું સ્વરૂપ, જ્યારે ઉત્તરાર્ધમાં આત્મ સાક્ષાત્કાર કઈ રીતે પામવો, તે મોક્ષમાર્ગ ખુલ્લો કર્યો છેપ્રસ્તુત સંકલન આત્મા અને મુકિતનાં શોધક મુમુક્ષુઓ માટે આત્માસંબંધી વાસ્તવિક સમજણ આપીને મોક્ષમાર્ગ ના દરવાજા ખુલ્લાં કરે છે.Aptavani Part 10 Uttarardh: આપ્તવાણી શ્રેણી ૧૦ (ઉત્તરાર્ધ)
By Dada Bhagwan. 2016
પ્રસ્તુત આપ્તવાણી શ્રેણી ૧૦ માં પરમ પૂજ્ય દાદાશ્રીનાં અંતઃકરણના – મન-બુધ્ધિ-ચિત્ત-અહંકાર ચારેય ભાગનું વિવરણ અને ગુણધર્મ સંબંધી સત્સંગનો સમાવેશ થાય…
છે. તે શેનું બનેલું છે? તેની ઉત્ક્રાંતિ(ડેવલપમેન્ટ) કેવી રીતે થાય છે? જાનવરોમાં, દેવગતિમાં, મનુષ્યોમાં તેમજ નાના બાળકમાં, નાના જીવોમાં અંતઃકરણનું સ્વરૂપ શું છે, કેવું છે તે સમગ્ર ફોડ જીજ્ઞાસુ-મુમુક્ષુઓને જ્ઞાનવાણી દ્વારા સાંપડે છે. અજ્ઞાન દશામાં અંતઃકરણમાં તાદાત્મ્યપણું વર્તે છે, જ્યારે આત્મસાક્ષાત્કાર પછી અંતઃકરણથી, અને એની પ્રત્યેક અવસ્થા થી મુક્ત દશા માં રહી શકાય છે. આપ્તવાણી શ્રેણી ૧૦ ઉત્તરાર્ધમાં પરમ પૂજ્ય દાદાશ્રી બુધ્ધિ, સૂઝ અને અહંકાર, તેમના સ્વભાવ અને કાર્યો વિષેનું વિજ્ઞાન ખુલ્લું કરે છે. ઘણીવાર આપણે અનુભવીએ છીએ કે આપણી બુધ્ધિ કેટલાંક નિર્ણયો લેવામાં ટેકો આપવાનાં બદલે ડખોડખલ કરે છે. આપણું ચિત્ત આપણી સ્થિરતા ડગાવે છે અથવા આપણે જોઈતી હોય તે વસ્તુઓને દેખાડે છે. આપણું ચિત્ત વ્યકિતઓનાં/સ્થળોનાં માનસિક ફોટોગ્રાફ પાડે છે. આપણો અહંકાર આત્માનુભવ અટકાવે છે અને તે માન અને કીર્તિ માટે ઝંખે છે. પોઝીટીવ કે નેગેટીવ અહંકાર, બંને કામ કરતા હોઈ શકે. પરમ પૂજ્ય દાદાશ્રીએ બુધ્ધિ-ચિત્ત-અહંકારના કાર્યોનું વિજ્ઞાન અને આ વિજ્ઞાનની સમજ કેટલી જરૂરી છે તે ખુલ્લું કર્યું છે; જેથી આ અંતઃકરણથી છૂટા રહી શકાય અને તેનાં પરિણામે આત્મા મુકિત પ્રાપ્ત કરી શકે.Aptavani Part 10 Purvardh: આપ્તવાણી શ્રેણી ૧૦ (પૂર્વાર્ધ)
By Dada Bhagwan. 2016
પ્રસ્તુત આપ્તવાણી શ્રેણી ૧૦ માં પરમ પૂજ્ય દાદાશ્રીનાં અંતઃકરણના – મન-બુધ્ધિ-ચિત્ત-અહંકાર ચારેય ભાગનું વિવરણ અને ગુણધર્મ સંબંધી સત્સંગનો સમાવેશ થાય…
છે. તે શેનું બનેલું છે? તેની ઉત્ક્રાંતિ(ડેવલપમેન્ટ) કેવી રીતે થાય છે? જાનવરોમાં, દેવગતિમાં, મનુષ્યોમાં તેમજ નાના બાળકમાં, નાના જીવોમાં અંતઃકરણનું સ્વરૂપ શું છે, કેવું છે તે સમગ્ર ફોડ જીજ્ઞાસુ-મુમુક્ષુઓને જ્ઞાનવાણી દ્વારા સાંપડે છે. અજ્ઞાન દશામાં અંતઃકરણમાં તાદાત્મ્યપણું વર્તે છે, જ્યારે જ્ઞાન પછી (આત્મસાક્ષાતકાર પછી) અંતઃકરણથી અને એની પ્રત્યેક અવસ્થા થી મુક્ત દશામાં રહી શકાય છે. આપ્તવાણી શ્રેણી ૧૦ પૂર્વાર્ધમાં પરમ પૂજ્ય દાદાશ્રીએ મન ના કાર્યો અને સ્વભાવનાં વિવરણ સ્વરૂપે ફોડ પાડેલ છે. આપણા મનમાં ઉભા થતાં અસંખ્ય વિચારોનું કારણ શું છે? જ્યારે આપણે વિચારોને કંટ્રોલ કરવા જઈએ છીએ ત્યારે શું થાય છે? આપણે ઘણીવાર અનુભવીએ છીએ કે જાતજાતનાં વિચારો આપણને હેરાન કરે છે અથવા આડાઅવળા વિચારો ઉત્પન્ન થાય છે. પરમ પૂજ્ય દાદાશ્રીએ જે વિજ્ઞાન ના પાયા પર મન કાર્ય મનથી જુદાપણું રહે જેના પરિણામે આત્મા મુકિત પ્રાપ્ત કરી શકે.Greatest Love
By Zhi Gang Sha, Maya Mackie, Francisco Quintero. 2017
Feel the greatest love. Experience the greatest love. Embody the greatest love. The greatest love is love that truly lasts…
and has no conditions. It is the love of a mother for her child. It is the love we read about in poems. It is the love we long to have. We all have challenges that keep us from experiencing this greatest love. These challenges may present themselves in your health, relationships, or finances. With this book, learn how to unblock your life in 30 minutes a day with the power of unconditional love, the greatest love, which surpasses the human and enters the love of all creation. Practice the simple, joyful exercises within this book, and receive powerful blessings from Dr. and Master Zhi Gang Sha, a world-renowned healer, humanitarian, spiritual master, and 11 time New York Times bestselling author, Master Maya Mackie, who also embodies the purest love and compassion, as well as Master Francisco Quintero. The power of greatest love can melt all blockages and harmonize all separation and all that is not love. Carry this treasure with you to apply its wisdom anywhere, anytime, to enrich and bless your health, relationships, finances, intelligence, and every aspect of life.A Return to Eros: The Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive
By Marc Gafni, Kristina Kincaid. 2017
Discover the secret relationship between erotic, the sexual, and the sacred Sex is not negative or positive. Sex is not…
just neutral, nor is it merely sacred because it creates babies. None of these old sexual stories work for us anymore. We need a new sexual narrative. This book gives the new sexual narrative, what the authors call Sex Erotic. Erotic Mystics from the hidden tradition of Solomon's temple taught a secret doctrine: sex is the source of all wisdom. It's an expression of the erotic impulse of existence itself alive in us–the yearning for contact, pleasure, and aliveness. The sexual, however, is not the sum total of the erotic. Rather, the sexual teaches us how to live an erotic life in all dimensions of our existence. That is Sex Erotic. A Return to Eros: The Radical Experience of Being Fully Alive, from Drs. Marc Gafni and Kristina Kincaid, reveals the radical tenets of the relationships between the sexual, the erotic, and the holy. They share what Eros actually means and also the 12 core qualities of the erotic, which are modeled by the sexual. These include being on the inside, fullness of presence, yearning, allurement, fantasy, surrender, creativity, pleasure, and more. A Return to Eros shows why these qualities of the erotic modeled by the sexual are actually the same core qualities of the sacred. The relationship between the sexual and the erotic becomes clear, teaching you how to live an erotically suffused existence charged with purpose, potency, and power. To be an empowered lover—not just in sex but also in all facets of your life—you must listen to the whisperings of the sexual. Transform your understanding and experience of love, sex, and Eros inside these pages.Greatest Forgiveness: Bring Joy and Peace to Your Life with the Power of Unconditional Forgiveness
By Zhi Gang Sha, Master Cynthia Deveraux, Master David Lusch. 2019
The Greatest Forgiveness Brings Inner Peace, True Freedom, and Joy When we cannot forgive—or cannot be forgiven—we live in pain,…
anger, depression, anxiety, and other destructive emotions. An inability to forgive can also lead to physical illness. Forgiveness frees us to lead a healthy, joyful, peaceful, and vibrant life. With this book, learn how to transform your life in 30 minutes a day. Practice the simple, joyful exercises and receive powerful blessings from Dr. & Master Zhi Gang Sha, Master Cynthia Deveraux, and Master David Lusch. It's time to recover from physical ailments, balance your emotions, boost your vitality, increase your self-love, and heal your relationships.Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice
By Vanessa Zoltan. 2021
&“In these soaring, open-hearted essays, Vanessa Zoltan writes with fierce brilliance about suffering, survival, and the kind of meaning in…
life that can withstand real scrutiny.&”—John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and The Anthropocene Reviewed A deeply felt celebration of a classic novel--and a reflection on the ways our favorite books can shape and heal us.Our favorite books keep us company, give us hope, and help us find meaning in a chaotic world. In this fresh and relatable work, atheist chaplain Vanessa Zoltan blends memoir and personal growth as she grapples with the notions of family legacy and identity through the lens of her favorite novel, Jane Eyre. Informed by the reading practices of medieval monks and rabbinic scholars from her training at the Harvard Divinity School and filtered through the pages of Jane Eyre as well as Little Women, Harry Potter, and The Great Gatsby, Zoltan explores topics ranging from the trauma she has inherited as the granddaughter of four Holocaust survivors to finding hope, meaning, and even magic in our deeply fractured times. Brimming with a lifelong love of classic literature and the tenderness of self-reflection, the book also reveals simple techniques for reading any work as a sacred text--from Virginia Woolf to Anne of Green Gables to baseball scorecards.Whether you're an avowed "Eyrehead" or simply a curious reader looking for a richer connection with the written word, this deeply felt and inspiring book will light the way to a more intimate appreciation for whatever books you love to read.