Download or read book Christian Self Mastery written by Basil Maturin and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to resist temptation, strengthen your will, govern your thoughts, and find balance of soul! This is the book you need for those times in your life when even your most strenuous efforts to follow Christ end in frustration. Christian Self-Mastery explains why following Him can be so difficult — and how you can start now to make progress even in the most vexing areas of your life. Author Fr. Basil W. Maturin insists that no matter how hard you're trying now, you can have a better relationship with God and greater self-mastery — if you follow his simple steps to getting your passions in check and improving your knowledge of your own motives, desires, and fears. Fr. Maturin emphasizes the crucial role that self-discipline plays in your spiritual life and gives you solid ways you can distinguish it from counterfeits and avoid common mistakes people make when they try to change their habits and live for God. This extraordinary book will help you in myriad ways to rise above your limitations and truly meet God! Start on the way to true self-mastery as you learn: Two things you must know in order to make any progress at all in your spiritual life Why it's dangerous for you to try to adopt a large number of spiritual disciplines all at once Self-knowledge: why it involves so much more than its contemporary counterfeit, self-analysis Two ways to avoid self-deception when you look at yourself (caution: you'll probably be surprised at who you really are!) Why self-control and self-denial are not morbid and gloomy, but hopeful and even joyful - when undertaken properly Self-discipline: how it will restore your soul to its full power. Three things you must have in order to gain this power The mistake many people make when trying to rid themselves of evil thoughts: are you falling into this trap too? Love: the holy school that will purify and ennoble yours - and help you steer clear of prevalent modern counterfeits And more that will show you the value of self-mastery - and give you solid directions for attaining it!

Download or read book Self knowledge and Self discipline written by Basil William Maturin and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mastery of Self written by Christian D. Larson and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the cornerstones of New Thought, the precursor to New Age thinking, is the marriage of mind and spirit, of science and religion. Another foundational block of the philosophy is the belief that each person is born with the full potential of transcending mundane existence and achieving spiritual enlightenment and communion with God. In Mastery of Self, Christian D. Larson gracefully guides the reader to a better understanding of these basic principles, and provides practical instruction on how to both open and rein in one's self, to ensure the individual continues moving ever forward and is building always toward the fulfillment of that potential, gaining a healthier, happier life along the way.American New Thought pioneer CHRISTIAN DAA LARSON (b. 1874) is the author of the well-known Optimist Creed and published several important works of spiritual science, including Mastery of Self, In the Light of the Spirit, and The Great Within.

Download or read book Steps to Self mastery written by S. R. Parchment and published by Health Research Books. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1932 Mr. Parchment made a life long study of this all important subject, thus the philosophy set forth in this book is not based upon theory but upon personal experience gained through living in accordance with occult law. to those bent on that most vit.

Download or read book Secrets of Self Mastery written by Mitch Horowitz and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO REVOLUTIONIZE YOUR LIFE? In Secrets of Self-Mastery, Mitch Horowitz, one of today's most literate voices of self-help and practical spirituality, produces a powerful and immensely useful guide to heightening your persuasiveness, abilities, business acumen, charisma, and overall ability to attract backing, money, customers, and clients. Secrets of Self-Mastery, the third volume in the Napoleon Hill Success Course series, highlights, updates, and adds to the most powerful ideas in Think and Grow Rich, while staking out new ground in the field of success philosophy. Mitch provides immensely revealing and actionable ideas that can place you at the gravitational center of your field. Moreover, he explores how to pursue success with nobility, ethics, and a code of honor. "We often hear that a single idea can change a life, or change the world," Mitch writes. "That's an inspiring thought-but it's incomplete." In Secrets of Self-Mastery Mitch probes the lives of entrepreneurs, artists, and military leaders to demonstrate how to bridge the divide that separates ideas from action-and how to unite the two to reach your apex of success. "HOROWITZ COMES ACROSS AS THE REAL DEAL: HE IS AN AUTHENTIC, ADEPT MIND' AND HE KNOWS HIS STUFF." -Boing Boing "ONE OF THE FEW FIGURES TO BREAK THROUGH INTO MAINSTREAM AND NATIONAL MEDIA AS A VOICE OF ESOTERIC IDEAS." -Science of Mind "A NO-NONSENSE HISTORIAN SPECIALIZING IN MATTERS OF METAPHYSICS, NEW THOUGHT, AND THE OCCULT. HIS WORKS DON'T STOP AT MERE DESCRIPTION OF THESE MOVEMENTS BUT OFTEN DELVE INTO METHOD AND EXPERIENCE...A TRUSTED VOICE ON ESOTERIC TOPICS." - Unity Magazine

Download or read book Christian Theological Tradition written by Catherine Cory and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text helps students acquire a basic theological literacy in key persons and events of the Bible and the Christian faith, and in Christianity's encounter with culture at large. Historically arranged, it also addresses five major themes of systematic theology: revelation, God, creation, Jesus, and church.

Download or read book The Mastery of Self written by Don Miguel Ruiz, Jr. and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Toltecs believed that life as we perceive it is a dream. We each live in our own personal dream, and all of our dreams come together to make the Dream of the Planet. Problems arise when we forget that the dream is just a dream and fall victim to believing that we have no control over it. "The Mastery of Self" takes the Toltec philosophy of the Dream of the Planet and the personal dream and explains how a person can: Wake upLiberate themselves from illusory beliefs and storiesLive with authenticity Once released, we can live as our true, authentic, loving self, not only in solitude and meditation, but in any place--at the grocery store, stuck in traffic, etc.--and in any situation or scenario that confronts us. The Ruiz family has an enormous following, and this new book from don Miguel, Jr. will be greeted with enthusiasm by fans around the world. This new book from don Miguel, Jr. will be greeted with enthusiasm by fans around the world.

Download or read book Self Mastery and Fate with the Cycles of Life written by H. Spencer Lewis and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This antiquarian volume contains Harvey Spencer Lewis's complete guide to life and business based on Rosicrucian principles. Lewis's teachings have been employed by innumerable businesses and business men and women to great success - and with the publication of this book, anyone can be a part of this prosperity. The book instructs the reader in what they should do, and equally, what they should not do - as well as when and how they should proceed in their business affairs. The chapters of this book include: 'The Problem of Mastership', 'Man a Free Agent', 'Cosmic Rhythm and the Cycles of Life', 'The Periods of Earthly Cycles', 'The Simple Periods of Human Life', 'The Yearly Cycle of Human Life with Descriptions of Cycle No. 2', etcetera. This book is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition, complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

Download or read book Self mastery of Men and Nations written by Albion Eli Smith and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Man s Greatest Challenge written by Dai Hankey and published by The Good Book Company. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excites and equips men to build real self-control, changing them and blessing those around them. Ever wished you hadn't lost control of your words, or your time, or your temper? Ever resolved not to do something ever again, only to slip back after a week or a month? Self-control. It's every man's greatest challenge. The Bible says that a man without self-control is like a city without walls-defenceless in the face of attack. Lack of self-control is the weakness that lies beneath so many of our sins, from adultery and violence to the way we drive or fritter away our time. This book will show you why you need to, and how to, build self-control that lasts. In showing you what the Son of God has done for you, and what the Spirit of God is doing in you, it will equip you to become the man you want to be, and the man those around you need you to be. It's time to start building.

Download or read book Experiencing Spiritual Breakthroughs written by Bruce Wilkinson and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It happens in almost every part of life. We wear down, burn out, and lose hope. While nothing is fail-safe, there are things you can do to halt the downward slide in your family. This book gives dynamic biblical solutions to people who are asking: - Why don't I have passion in my spiritual life? - Is it still possible to restore my marriage? - Can I raise my children to be "on fire" for God? - Where do I start? Bruce Wilkinson shows how, in the midst of a society without morals, a passionate relationship with Jesus is possible -- not just a "mountaintop experience," but an everyday vibrant relationship. This popular book is newly released with an updated cover!

Download or read book Self Control written by Jack Kuhatschek and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best-selling and award-winning Bible study series has been completely updated and revised for the new millennium. This volume helps readers learn self-control in five crucial areas: speech, body, desires, appetite, and finances. 6 SESSIONS.

Download or read book God s Amazing Grace written by Ellen G. White and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 1973 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mastery written by George Leonard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Zen philosophy and his expertise in the martial art of aikido, bestselling author George Leonard shows how the process of mastery can help us attain a higher level of excellence and a deeper sense of satisfaction and fulfillment in our daily lives. Whether you're seeking to improve your career or your intimate relationships, increase self-esteem or create harmony within yourself, this inspiring prescriptive guide will help you master anything you choose and achieve success in all areas of your life. In Mastery, you'll discover: • The 5 Essential Keys to Mastery • Tools for Mastery • How to Master Your Athletic Potential • The 3 Personality Types That Are Obstacles to Mastery • How to Avoid Pitfalls Along the Path • and more...

Download or read book Mastery of Awareness written by Doña Bernadette Vigil and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Doña Bernadette Vigil, the working partner of don Miguel Ruiz and a fully initiated Nagual woman, reveals the authentic tradition of Toltec self-mastery. • Includes exercises from the ancient spiritual path that take the practitioner from Jaguar Knight and Eagle Knight through Nagual Master. • Provides a program of 11 Agreements for continuing the spiritual journey. The Toltec people of ancient Mexico possessed powerful knowledge, passed down secretly through generations of Naguals, that enabled them to achieve a remarkable psychic and spiritual balance. These spiritual warriors learned to discipline their thoughts and emotions, channeling their energy into unconditional love for themselves and others and transforming their world in the process. With the understanding of one who has walked the path, dona Bernadette Vigil--a full Nagual, or shaman, in the Toltec tradition--guides readers through the effective training techniques practiced by Toltec warriors for centuries. By following the practices of the spiritual warrior, readers will experience the amazing sense of peace and contentment that comes from finally breaking free from layers of self-limiting thoughts and fulfilling their true potential as human beings. More than a handbook for personal change, Mastery of Awareness challenges readers to transform the collective dream of the planet.

Download or read book Spiritual Guidelines for Souls Seeking God written by Basil W. Maturin and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a brief, lucid, readable work that will help you finally not merely draw closer to Christ but abide in his presence today, tomorrow, and ever after. In it, Fr. Basil Maturin, a holy priest wise in the ways of the soul, explains what you must do — and what you must allow Christ to do — in order to come to know Him as you should. In chapters written for souls hungry to improve their spiritual lives, Fr. Maturin shows you how to move beyond the conquest of particular vices and develop true friendship with Christ. You’ll learn not merely how to pray but also how to combine prayer with the other spiritual virtues that are essential to sure progress in the spiritual life. With Fr. Maturin’s help, you’ll soon develop a strong and vigorous character that shines with the bright virtues and that lead you finally to an encounter — face-to-face — with Christ Himself. From Fr. Maturin you’ll learn: The one virtue that breaks open the soul to admit God’s abundant graceHow — even while here on Earth — you may become like the angelsThe two things you must do to discern God’s will for youWhy fervor is no measure of devotionHow training your mind will improve your prayersDistractions: how to deal with them efficiently… And charitablyHow to discover your best times for prayerThe sense of God’s presence: how to make it your armor against both crippling introspection, heedless self-abandonment, and even ordinary, everyday distractionsWhy, if you don’t actively cultivate your inner life, you’ll wind up lost in outer thingsHow — if you let Him! — God perfects you through your vocation (Plus: the particular things you must do so as not to stand in His way)And much more to form your soul and bring you closer to Christ.

Download or read book Journey to Personal Greatness written by Alvin Brown and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to integrate mind, body, and soul in discovering the energy and power to make "whatever you affect that much better when you leave," with Journey to Personal Greatness. Alvin Brown leads you through the process to achieve and maintain peace and balance in the six life essences: mental, emotional, physical, chemical, material, and ...