101 Meditations - Selected from Wisdom to Heal the Earth

Author: TZvi Freeman
Publisher: Ezra Press
ISBN: 9780826690098
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
In Wisdom to Heal the Earth, Tzvi Freeman provides a glimpse of the Rebbe's vision of humanity's great journey, and demonstrates how the choices we make in our everyday lives are vital, crucial, and especially urgent today, in reaching our ultimate destiny.In Jewish parlance we call this Tikun Olam-the notion that we all enter this world with a mission to accomplish: to repair and perfect our assigned share of the world so that it can become the world its Creator meant it to be.This volume presents a sampling of the succinct meditations and deep, colorful essays that comprise Wisdom to Heal the Earth, in a smaller, convenient format.

The Source of Self-Regard

Author: Toni Morrison
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0525562796
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today’s social and political moment as directly as this morning’s headlines” (NPR). These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault lines of culture and freedom: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, “black matter(s),” human rights, the artist in society, the Afro-American presence in American literature. And she turns her incisive critical eye to her own work (The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved, Paradise) and that of others. An essential collection from an essential writer, The Source of Self-Regard shines with the literary elegance, intellectual prowess, spiritual depth, and moral compass that have made Toni Morrison our most cherished and enduring voice.

Sister Wendy's Book of Meditations

Author: Wendy Beckett
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
Inspirational and informative, this precious book is the perfect companion in times of quiet contemplation.

My Pocket Meditations

Author: Meera Lester
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150720342X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 263

Book Description
Experience a moment of peace anywhere with this beautiful, pocket-sized book that can help calm your mind and focus your thoughts throughout your busy days. Today’s hectic world is so full of distractions that it can often be overwhelming and draining. My Pocket Meditations offers you a portable pause button to temporarily turn off the noise and focus on what you truly need in the moment. You’ll learn the basic concepts of meditation and how to meditate, including various methods of meditating and how to use objects in meditation. Then you can choose from 125 meditations on more than a dozen topics including peace, love, friendship, hope, prosperity, and willpower. These quick yet powerful exercises allow for increased mindfulness and awareness. My Pocket Meditations helps you to ignore the distractions for a few minutes and take on the day with a calm, clear mind and fresh purpose.

10% Happier

Author: Dan Harris
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006226544X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
#1 New York Times Bestseller REVISED WITH NEW MATIERAL Winner of the 2014 Living Now Book Award for Inspirational Memoir "An enormously smart, clear-eyed, brave-hearted, and quite personal look at the benefits of meditation." —Elizabeth Gilbert Nightline anchor Dan Harrisembarks on an unexpected, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey through the strange worlds of spirituality and self-help, and discovers a way to get happier that is truly achievable. After having a nationally televised panic attack, Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes. A lifelong nonbeliever, he found himself on a bizarre adventure involving a disgraced pastor, a mysterious self-help guru, and a gaggle of brain scientists. Eventually, Harris realized that the source of his problems was the very thing he always thought was his greatest asset: the incessant, insatiable voice in his head, which had propelled him through the ranks of a hypercompetitive business, but had also led him to make the profoundly stupid decisions that provoked his on-air freak-out. Finally, Harris stumbled upon an effective way to rein in that voice, something he always assumed to be either impossible or useless: meditation, a tool that research suggests can do everything from lower your blood pressure to essentially rewire your brain. 10% Happier takes readers on a ride from the outer reaches of neuroscience to the inner sanctum of network news to the bizarre fringes of America’s spiritual scene, and leaves them with a takeaway that could actually change their lives.

Meditation For Fidgety Skeptics

Author: Dan Harris
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1473691400
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
*As heard on the Tim Ferriss Show podcast* 'Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics is well researched, practical, and crammed with expert advice and it's also an irreverent, hilarious page-turner.' - Gretchen Rubin ABC News anchor Dan Harris used to think that meditation was for people who collect crystals, play the pan pipes, and use the word namaste without irony. After he had a panic attack on live television, he went on a strange journey that ultimately led him to become one of meditation's most vocal public proponents. Science suggests that meditation can lower blood pressure, mitigate depression and anxiety, and literally rewire key parts of the brain, among numerous other benefits. And yet there are millions of people who want to meditate but aren't actually practising. What's holding them back? In this guide to mindfulness and meditation for beginners and experienced meditators alike, Harris and his friend Jeff Warren, embark on a cross-country quest to tackle the myths, misconceptions, and self-deceptions that stop people from meditating. They rent a rock-star tour bus and travel across the US, talking to scores of would-be meditators, including parents, police officers, and even a few celebrities. They create a taxonomy of the most common issues ("I suck at this," "I don't have the time," etc.) and offer up science-based life hacks to help people overcome them. The book is filled with game-changing and deeply practical meditation instructions. Amid it all unspools the strange and hilarious story of what happens when a congenitally sarcastic, type-A journalist and a groovy Canadian mystic embark on an epic road trip into America's neurotic underbelly, as well as their own.

Meditations for Men Who Do Too Much

Author: Jonathon Lazear
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671759086
Category : Meditations
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
Through quotations from a wide variety of people, and through his own thoughtful reflections, Jonathan Lazear encourages men to look at their overextended lives and think about how they should be spending that precious resource, time. For every day of the year, here are inspiring words to help men discover a new sense of themselves. Introduction by Anne Wilson Schaef, author of Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much.

Meditations on the Soul

Author: Marsilio Ficino
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780856831973
Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
The problems that taxed the minds of people during the Renaissance were much the same as those confronting us today. In their perplexity, many deep-thinking people sought the advice of Marsilio Ficino (1433-99), the leader of the Platonic Academy in Florence, a magnet for the most brilliant scholars of 15th-century Europe. In devoting his life to the study and translation of the great dialogues of Plato and the Neoplatonists, Ficino and his colleagues were midwives to the birth of the modern world. Ficino was fearless in expressing what he knew to be true. Covering the widest range of topics, his letters offer a profound glimpse into the soul of the Renaissance.

The Lady's Monthly Museum

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556

Book Description

English Spirituality

Author: Gordon Mursell
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664225049
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 572

Book Description
This wide-ranging historical survey provides an indispensable resource for those interested in exploring, teaching, or studying English spirituality. In two stand-alone volumes, it traces history from Roman times until the year 2000. The main Christian traditions and a vast range of writers and spiritual themes, from Anglo-Saxon poems to late-modern feminist spirituality, are included. These volumes present the astonishing richness and variety of responses made by English Christians to the call of the divine during the past two thousand years.