Download or read book Awakening Desire written by Irene Alexander and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hope of this book is that it awakens desire to know more intimately the God who breaks through our compartmentalization and naming. While most in the West have heard God's name as almost exclusively masculine, a child growing up in Israel would have experienced the Spirit of God, and Lady Wisdom, as female. This ruach, the breath of God, brooded over the face of the deep in the creation story like a hovering mother bird. The God of the Bible and the early church has been described with both masculine and feminine imagery, referred to by the church fathers and mystics as both Mother and Father. In our time we have lost much of this rich feminine imagery. This book explores not only this historical knowing of God but also more contemporary writers, such as Carl Jung, Paul Young (The Shack), George MacDonald, and Thomas Merton. Each of these men engaged with the Divine Feminine, giving us examples of how we too may find God more deeply and more intimately.

Download or read book An Awakening Desire written by Helen Bianchin and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Awakening Beauty written by Amy J. Fetzer and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MONEY CAN'T BUY EVERYTHING… It certainly couldn't buy Lane Douglas a way out of the scandalous rumors that followed her everywhere, leaving her no choice but to take on a new identity in a new town. But she never imagined this endeavor to disguise her heiress status would awaken her dormant desire. Suddenly she was embroiled in a wild tango of temperaments with high-powered playboyTyler McKay, who was determined to have her in his bed. Lane was tempted beyond reason to take Tyler up on his offer and share the sheets in a blazing affair with this man who aroused her passion like no other. But would succumbing to Tyler's seduction bare their relationship to the tabloids and reveal her most closely guarded secret—or bring her everlasting pleasure?

Download or read book An Awakening Desire written by Helen Bianchin and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Intimacy and Desire written by Dr David Schnarch and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book, Dr. David Schnarch, one of the foremost experts on sexuality and relationships, explains why normal healthy couples in long-term relationships have sexual desire problems, regardless of how much they love each other or how well they communicate. In-depth examples of couples he has counselled reveal his unique understanding of common-but-difficult sexual desire problems that affect couples of all ages. Combining compassion and clinical wisdom, Dr. Schnarch explains how to use his revolutionary Four Points of Balance approach to resolve low desire, mismatched desire, sexual boredom, and the emotional gridlock that accompanies these problems. Intimacy and Desire provides a roadmap for how couples can transform common sexual desire problems into self-exploration and personal development that leads to psychological and spiritual growth, stronger relationships, and more powerful and meaningful desire for each other. It provides time-proven comprehensive solutions that help couples reconnect with each other sexually, and take their intimacy and passion to new, previously unexplored heights.

Download or read book Desire written by Daniel Odier and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Explains how the primal energy generated by physical desire can be used to achieve enlightenment • Reveals the techniques used by Tantric adepts to attain mastery over breath, thought, and all physical processes Nothing can match the explosive energy created in the body by pure desire. For millennia, Tantric adepts have harnessed this force as a means of attaining the summits of the mystical life. The energies fueled by passion are used to nourish the inner flame that burns away the egotistical perception of the mind. Desire explores the subtle techniques of Tantra that enable the seeker to attain the triple mastery of the breath, thought, and the natural processes of the body. Tantrics believe that the body is the temple and divinity lies at its heart. In order to arrive at profound awareness, the body needs to be perfectly tuned and working toward a state of perfect fluidity. Desire reveals many of the secret practices intended for this purpose that have been passed down in the major Tantric treatises such as the Vijnanabhariva Tantra and Ch'an master Chinul's treatise on the Secrets of Cultivating the Mind, including the important techniques of the ritual sexual observances known as Maithuna.

Download or read book AWAKEN TO PLEASURE written by Nalini Singh and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taylor is all out of options. After years of raising her beloved maternal half brother, her abusive stepfather suddenly demands custody just so he can have an heir. She tells her story to her former boss, Jackson, and he makes a startling proposal: that he and Taylor should get married as soon as possible and apply for custody of her brother. It's true that with the successful, world-famous film producer on her side, her stepfather wouldn’t be able to stand in her way?but why the offer? They were never more than boss and secretary. But Jackson soon explains it to her: "I want you to have my baby within the year."

Download or read book Katie s Art of Seduction written by Nj Walters and published by Elloras Cave Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book One in the Awakening Desires series. From the moment the woman's portrait in the window of a coffee shop caught Cain Benjamin's attention, he resolved to possess not only it, but her as well. Determined to find the mysterious beauty, he sets out to locate the artist. If he can find the artist, he's sure he can find the woman in the picture. Katie Wallace's schedule at Coffee Breaks allows her to earn a living and still have time to pursue her love of painting. When her boss and friend convinces her to display one of her self-portraits in the shop window, she is apprehensive, but elated when it sells-until she meets the portrait owner. Katie finds herself captivated by Cain, the tall, mysterious man who lurks in the shadows and is obsessed with her self-portrait. And Cain is even more intrigued by Katie, as he discovers her painting is not nearly as sensual as the woman herself. Cain's mesmerizing and commanding personality entices Katie into the shadows with him. But Katie is equally determined to uses all her artistry to seduce him back into the light of day with her.

Download or read book Rekindling Desire written by Barry McCarthy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a decade Rekindling Desire has helped to restore and restructure sexuality in thousands of lives. This expanded edition continues the exploration of inhibited sexual desire and no-sex relationships by the author, who brings decades of knowledge and the expertise that comes from having treated almost 3,000 couples for sexual problems. Contained within are suggested strategies and exercises that help develop communication and sexual skills, as well as interesting case studies that open the doors to couples’ sexual frustrations. The shame, embarrassment, and hesitancy that individuals feel with themselves, and the resentment and blame they can feel towards their sexual partners, are explored and put into context. Whether you are married, cohabitating, or dating, or if you are 25, 45, or 75, reading this book will help renew your sexual desire and put you on the path towards healthy, pleasure-oriented sexuality.

Download or read book Dilemmas of Desire written by Deborah L. TOLMAN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be sexy but not sexual. Don't be a prude but don't be a slut. These are the cultural messages that barrage teenage girls. In movies and magazines, in music and advice columns, girls are portrayed as the object or the victim of someone else's desire--but virtually never as someone with acceptable sexual feelings of her own. What teenage girls make of these contradictory messages, and what they make of their awakening sexuality--so distant from and yet so susceptible to cultural stereotypes--emerges for the first time in frank and complex fashion in Deborah Tolman's Dilemmas of Desire. A unique look into the world of adolescent sexuality, this book offers an intimate and often disturbing, sometimes inspiring, picture of how teenage girls experience, understand, and respond to their sexual feelings, and of how society mediates, shapes, and distorts this experience. In extensive interviews, we listen as actual adolescent girls--both urban and suburban--speak candidly of their curiosity and confusion, their pleasure and disappointment, their fears, defiance, or capitulation in the face of a seemingly imperishable double standard that smiles upon burgeoning sexuality in boys yet frowns, even panics, at its equivalent in girls. As a vivid evocation of girls negotiating some of the most vexing issues of adolescence, and as a thoughtful, richly informed examination of the dilemmas these girls face, this readable and revealing book begins the critical work of understanding the sexuality of young women in all its personal, social, and emotional significance.

Download or read book An Awakening written by Melissa A. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'm Married But, He's Not My Husband" Are you tired of going around the mulberry bush in relationships? Are you a person who has been married several times only for that marriage to end up in divorce? Why do we lower our standards in relationships? Is it to fill the void of loneliness? There is an answer. "I'm Married But, He's Not My Husband" is a book that exposes the deceits in relationships and causes us to look within ourselves to see why we do what we do. The Author, Mernistyne Cole, shares her personal experiences and teaches how she survived two bad marriages and how she learned life lessons from each of them. This book will cause you to look inside yourself and find the real you. You'll know whether or not you're marriage material. Come along and learn how to avoid the "Momma's Boy", the man who won't let his mother go, his baby's momma go or his home boys go You'll also learn how to avoid Mr. BB, also known as "Breath and Britches", the cool walking, tongue talking, well dressed demon. If you're looking for a sign, read this book. It may help you to determine if you are ready for a mate, and assist you in identifying if your mate is already in your life. For those who are already married, there's help for you as well. "No longer do you have to be married, single, and divorced at the same time"

Download or read book Awaken the Senses written by Nalini Singh and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deception never felt this good. A reader favorite story from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Psy-Changeling Trinity series. Charlotte Ashton has always been on the outside looking in—until she meets worldly Alexandre Dupree. Consulting at her family’s Napa Valley vineyard, the winemaker soon has shy, innocent Charlotte completely under his spell. It’s as though he knows all her secret desires, all her dreams—just what it takes to seduce her. That’s because he’s read her secret journal. He’s discovered the real Charlotte—the sensual, generous woman she longs to be—and has acted accordingly. Is his crime so unforgivable when all he wants is to awaken her passion? Yet, to maintain her trust, he must to continue to lie . . .

Download or read book Raw Desire Alison s Awakening More Desire Oklahoma 6 written by Leah Brooke and published by Siren-BookStrand. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Siren Menage Everlasting: Contemporary Menage a Trois Romance, MFM, HEA] Married to Dillon Tanner and Ryder Hayes, Alison found a love and happiness she'd never expected to find. But found she couldn't completely trust. Her unplanned pregnancy brought all of the insecurities from her past relationship back to the surface with a vengeance and she found herself watching and waiting for her husbands to realize they no longer wanted her. Dillon and Ryder were delighted to find out Alison carried their child, and struggled to give her the reassurance she needed. As her body swelled with their child, they found themselves even more enthralled with her and adjusting mentally for the responsibility of a growing family. When a threat from the past reappeared, the sense of protectiveness sharply intensified, overriding everything else. She and the child she carried belonged to them--and they would do whatever it took to keep them. Leah Brooke is a Siren-exclusive author.

Download or read book The Power of Divine Eros written by A. H. Almaas and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two innovative spiritual teachers show how to use desire and passion—eros—as a gateway to realizing our fullest potential What do desire and passion have to do with our spiritual journey? According to A. H. Almaas and Karen Johnson, they are an essential part of it. Conventional wisdom cautions that desire and passion are opposed to the spiritual path—that engaging in desire will take you more into the world, into egoic life. And for most people, that is exactly what happens. We naturally tend to experience wanting in a self-centered way. The Power of Divine Eros challenges the view that the divine and the erotic are separate. When we open to the energy, aliveness, spontaneity, and zest of erotic love, we will find it inseparable from the realm of the holy and sacred. When this is understood, desire and passion become a gateway to wholeness and to realizing our full potential. Through guided exercises, the authors reveal how our relationships become opportunities on the spiritual journey to express ourselves authentically, to relate with openness, and to discover dynamic inner realms with another person. Through embodying the energy of eros, each of us can learn to be fully real and alive in all of our interactions.

Download or read book Awakening Desire written by William J. Bryan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Awakening written by Kate Chopin and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 19th-century New Orleans, social constraints are strict, especially for a married woman. Edna Pontellier leads a secure life with her husband and two children, but her restlessness grows within the confined societal norms, and the expectations placed upon her – from her husband and the world around her – create increasing pressure. During a trip to Grand Isle, an island off the coast of Louisiana, her life is turned upside down by an intense love affair, and passion forces her to question the foundations of her – and every woman’s – existence. Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening caused a scandal with its outspokenness when it was published in 1899. The novel’s openly sexual themes and disregard for marital and societal conventions led to it not being reprinted for fifty years. It wasn't until the 1950s that Chopin’s work was rediscovered, and The Awakening received significant acclaim. Today, it is not only seen as an early feminist milestone but also as a classic. KATE CHOPIN [1851–1904] was born in St Louis. She had six children during her marriage, and it wasn't until after her husband's death in 1882 that she emerged as a writer. She published short stories in magazines such as Vogue and The Atlantic, gaining appreciation and recognition for her depictions of the American South. However, she was also criticized for her disregard for social traditions and racial barriers.

Download or read book Awakening Desire written by Michele Knight and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adina Marcells is the princess of the thriving kingdom of Gasquon. She is feisty and stubborn and none too pleased about her betrothal to the enthralling Valcor Alcuv the crown prince to the Macedonia Kingdom. Valcor intends to make Adina realize there is no going back and she is now his. When Valcor takes her in his strong arms for the first time she is conflicted with wanting to stay there and fleeing. Now she vows to make Valcor’s life miserable. Can Valcor and Adina learn to love and will they be able to survive the dangers that come sweeping across the land that could threaten everything they have come to know.