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My small experience in the conquest of fear can be, condensed into these four words: Calmly resting! Quiet trust! That amid the turmoil of the time and the feverishness of our days it is always easy I do not pretend. Still less do I pretend that I accomplish it. I have said, a few lines above, that I tried. Trying is as far as I have gone; but even trying is productive of wonderful results.
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'We live in a rapidly divisive and changing world. Rather than building walls, and becoming too insular, there is something crucial and extremely valuable in the concept of omoiyari — sharing perspectives, better understanding others, and through the process better understanding ourselves.' Omoiyari is a Japanese custom which means to be caring, considerate and compassionate. However, none of these words really encompass the full meaning of omoiyari....
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Drawing on the wisdom of teacher from the world's great religious traditions, including Robert Thurman, Sharon Salzberg, Ram Dass, Mother Mary Clare Vincent, Joan Halifax, and Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man, Gifts of the Spirit deepens our appreciation of such everyday routines as waking up, eating, and working, as well as the abundant rewards of enjoying music, gardening, walking, and being with others. Vivid descriptions of rituals from around the world...
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La obra muestra la inteligencia y la frescura de los ensayos de Sun Tzu. En ella Sun Tzu explica al detalle los preparativos previos a la guerra: estrategias de engaño, disposición de las tropas en el campo de batalla, armamento necesario, carros de combate, etcétera. Cómo poder llegar a vencer al enemigo sin tener que desempeñarse al enfrentamiento cara a cara: simplemente imponiendo una moral dominante, infundiendo el miedo al enemigo para...
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Bones of Contention has a very narrow focus. It is similar to the voices called for patrimony to be returned - like the Benin bronzes to Nigeria, the mummies from different museums to Egypt, and the obelisks to Ethiopia. But it is much narrower than that - it is about relics, not all relics, but people's bones. If a church in Europewants to keep a burial shroud or a church in America wants to keep an apostles sandals, we don't object to that. Specifically,...
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Note de l’auteur: Je me suis moins basé sur les articles de Fanon dans El Moudjahid et ses livres que sur les discussions que j'ai eues avec des gens qui ont passé du temps avec lui. Sa femme, bien sûr. Elle était avec lui jusqu'à la fin à Bethesda, Maryland. Elle est la principale source. (C'est d'elle, parmi toutes les autres informations, que j'ai pu apprécier l'importance de son enfance coloniale sur ses idées et activités révolutionnaires....
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Not your typical Christmas devotional, Love Came Down features a complete overview of the Bible. It contains God's plan for creation, our purpose, and the hope we have in Christ-for it is only through Him that we can experience true love, joy, and peace. This 24-day journey through the Bible includes scripture passages from the Old and New Testaments, utilizing a variety of translations. The passages which focus on Christ's birth examine the significance...
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Wildcat Wisdom for the Big Blue Nation!
For more than a century, the University of Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team has built a winning tradition that feeds the Big Blue Nation. The history of the winningest program in college basketball is peppered with unforgettable moments and personalities.
In Kentucky Passion, Del Duduit and John Huang help fans reexperience some of the most memorable seasons and shots and meet key players and coaches....
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Discover the captivating biography of an ordinary person grappling with the Fear of the Consequence of Failure. In this engaging account, the author's military journey unfolds without a grand plan, shaped by random events that thrust him into an extraordinary world. For 45 years, he navigated life's challenges, landing on his feet more often than not. However, beneath the surface lies his Achilles' heel-struggling to forge and maintain meaningful...
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"Five NCAA Championships, 22 Big Ten Conference Championships--this is the candy-striped legacy of the Indiana University men's basketball team. In its 120-year history, Indiana basketball has become a giant in college basketball and earned a legion of fans. In Heart of a Hoosier: A Year of Inspiration from IU Men's Basketball, authors Del Duduit and Michelle Medlock Adams show readers how the famous moments and personalities of the Indiana Hoosiers...
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An in-depth course of study in the modern practice of traditional witchcraft.
I stand in the meadow, at the forest's edge. One-step forward and I will straddle the boundary between fading light in the swaying grass and rich darkness in the woods. One more step and I will be immersed in the nighttime world of southern, hardwood forest. My home lay behind me, the wild magic ahead. I am the witch at the forest's edge. This book is an invitation to...
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In 1934, twenty-two-year-old George Skinner was stricken with polio and confined to an iron lung in the polio ward of Los Angeles County General Hospital. Regular visits from his father, Albert, and the outpouring of support from his neighbors and community kept him going as he struggled to heal. Determined to walk again and recover from this horrible disease, he vowed that when he left the hospital he would create something to thank his community...
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From Miyazaki to mountains, sake to sparking joy, find your Zen and make time to learn about how to live Japanese. Whether it's the cutting edge of film-making, revolutionizing the whisky market or competing with parents on lunchboxes, you'll be all the better for some time spent with How to Live Japanese.
With nearly 60 per cent of us living in cities, the mega-city of Tokyo, through centuries of raze and rebuild, is surely the guiding light for...
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Memories of a Devil is the compelling memoir of a young Jesuit priest who was imprisoned in Dachau, a Nazi concentration camp near Munich, Germany.
The specter of death and torture hung over his daily experience. Father Fabisiak's memoir presents a vivid, horrifying picture of human beings capable of the most profound cruelty and inhumanity toward others.
Memories of a Devil communicates a profound message about the fragility of human nature. It...
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ANTHROPOGENY—The Esoteric History of Man's Origin
This book and its contents devolve from four great questions:
Who are we?
Where do we come from?
Why are we here?
Where do we go to from here?
In this brilliantly written masterpiece, Dr. Baker has tried as far as possible to avoid a repetition of facts and figures given by The Secret Doctrine except where these are important in elucidating, confirming, contradicting or supporting some point...
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Danny Ellis is a survivor, strong and resilient. An acclaimed singer/songwriter, he is proud of the way he handled his difficult past: poverty in the 1950s Dublin slums and the brutality of the Artane Industrial School. He felt as though he had safely disposed of it all, until one night, while writing the powerful song that would launch his highly-praised album, 800 Voices ("A searing testament." —Irish Times), Danny's past crept...
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Over 100 people contributed to this award-winning biography of the complex, playful, and iconoclastic Buddhist teacher, Rama, Dr. Frederick Lenz. Combining the methods of Zen and Tantric Buddhism, Lenz set challenges and led adventures for his students, ranging from one-on-one encounters to groups of 1,000 people. As an American born in 1950 and growing up in the turbulent 60s and early 70s, he brought a unique view to heuristic teaching-learning...
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Celebrate 45 women artists, and gain inspiration for your own practice, with this beautiful exploration of contemporary creators from the founder of The Jealous Curator.
Walk into any museum, or open any art book, and you'll probably be left wondering: where are all the women artists? A Big Important Art Book (Now with Women) offers an exciting alternative to this male-dominated art world, showcasing the work of dozens of contemporary women artists...
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The content of this book aims to serve as a remembrance for the young generations. Those individuals whom society is currently failing in its accountability, to educate and tender for, objectively, towards the relief of their myriads of mental health struggles. It provides a series of short biographical accounts, of past geniuses and other influential personas. It may serve as a guiding light, exemplifying, how few individuals through chance of circumstances,...
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Many of us remember where we were in the moments of 9/11, however few of us can say we personally know someone who was impacted by this tragedy.
Payton Lynch, the author of Rise from the Ashes: Stories of Trauma, Resilience, and Growth From the Children of 9/11, shares the story of her husband Jon Lynch and other 9/11 Surviving Children. Their stories are a few of the 3,000 stories (not including the 2,000 adult-age people who lost a parent that...
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