Download or read book Expect Nothing written by Clarice Bryan and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2004-07-15 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expect Nothing is a lighthearted and insightful guide to Zen buddhism and mindfulness. Using down-to-earth, conversational autobiographical anecdotes, witness pieces, and inspirational quotes, Clarice Bryan pays tribute to the myriad teachers who have graced her days. These teachers range from a mentally ill relative who moves in with her and teaches her that her way of living is not the way of living, to cats as they sit resting on her manuscript pages, illuminating their inherent Buddha nature. From gender stereotypes to the ever-hungry monster of consumerism, Bryan puts our post-modern life into perspective with humor, elegance, and quiet wisdom. Each chapter opens with an evocative ink sketch by the author that further guides us to miracles through the invaluable practice of mindfulness.
Download or read book Expect Nothing Enjoy Everything written by Luci J. Arbogast and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of my time in the 1990s when I traveled several times from Switzerland via Italy, Greece, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan to India and Nepal. It gives insight into the daily life of these overland journeys and what a woman has to deal with, in the Middle East as well as in West Asia. On one trip back to Switzerland, I had to take the vehicle through Iran alone because my driver and mechanic did not get a visa. The book contains many details of cultural experiences, historical sights, distances and everyday life on the road. It is written with a touch of fun and is meant to be informative but also entertaining.
Download or read book An Audience of One written by Srinivas Rao and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creator of the Unmistakable Creative podcast makes a counterintuitive argument: By focusing your creative work on pleasing yourself, you can increase your productivity, happiness, and (eventually, paradoxically) the size of your audience. Creating for your own pleasure--whether you're writing a novel, composing songs, or painting a landscape--can seem pointless. It's tempting to focus on pursuing money and fame, rather than the process itself. But as Srini Rao warns, creating then turns into a chore that can harm your self-esteem and suck the pleasure out of life, rather than being a source of joy. Rao, host of the podcast The Unmistakable Creative, argues that we should counter this thinking by intentionally creating art for ourselves alone--an audience of one. In this book he shares the fascinating true stories of creatives who took this path, along with actionable tips and the research of creativity experts. You'll learn, for example: How Oprah's intentional focus on her own work rather than the opinions of everyone else catapulted her into one of the most popular talk shows of all time. How being process-driven can not only help you produce more work, but can make you happier outside of your creative time. How to put together a creative "team of rivals" whose feedback can help you hone your craft and filter out useless feedback. By playing to an audience of one, we can find more happiness, increased productivity, and a greater sense of community.
Download or read book Percepliquis written by Michael J Sullivan and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IMPORTANT NOTE! This edition of Percepliquis is being released for readers of the original Ridan editions of The Crown Conspiracy. It does not include book 5, Wintertide. If you're reading the omnibus editions from Orbit, you should purchase Heir of Novron (which includes both Wintertide and Percepliquis). IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS...THE ELVES HAVE CROSSED THE NIDWALDEN. TWO THIEVES WILL DECIDE THE FUTURE. "I saw a great journey. Ten upon the road, she who wears the light will lead the way. The road goes deep into the earth, and into despair. The voices of the dead guide your steps. You walk back in time. The three-thousand-year battle begins again. Cold grips the world, death comes to all, and a choice is before you." -- Fan Irlanu, Tenkin Seerer of Oudorro Village Percepliquis is the final installment of the epic fantasy, The Riyria Revelations. In this saga that began with The Crown Conspiracy, two thieves caught in the wrong place at the right time were launched on a series of ever escalating adventures that have all lead to this moment. Three thousand years have passed and the time for Novron's heir to act has arrived. "The Crown Conspiracy is a well-written and enjoyable novel. I was invested in the characters and their travails. Royce and Hadrian s friendship was particularly fun to read" -- Tammy Moore, sfSite "Every time I finish a book in this series it makes me want the next one instantly. -- Cindy Hannikman, Fantasy Book Critic BOOKS OF THE RIYRIA REVELATIONS (Original 6-book format) The Crown Conspiracy (October 2008) Avempartha (April 2009) Nyphron Rising (October 2009) The Emerald Storm (April 2010) Wintertide (October 2010) Percepliquis (January 2012) OMNIBUS VERSIONS of RIYRIA REVELATIONS (Orbit Publishing) Theft of Swords (11/2011) contains The Crown Conspiracy & Avempartha Rise of Empire (12/2011) contains Nyphron Rising & The Emerald Storm Heir of Novron (1/2012) contains Wintertide & Percepliquis
Download or read book Expect Anything Fear Nothing written by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen and published by Autonomedia. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first English-language presentation of the Scandinavian Situationists and their role in the Situationist movement. The Situationist movement was an international movement of artists, writers and thinkers that in the 1950s and 1960s tried to revolutionize the world through rejecting bourgeois art and critiquing the post-World War Two capitalist consumer society.
Download or read book The All or Nothing Marriage written by Eli J. Finkel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “After years of debate and inquiry, the key to a great marriage remained shrouded in mystery. Until now...”—Carol Dweck, author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Eli J. Finkel's insightful and ground-breaking investigation of marriage clearly shows that the best marriages today are better than the best marriages of earlier eras. Indeed, they are the best marriages the world has ever known. He presents his findings here for the first time in this lucid, inspiring guide to modern marital bliss. The All-or-Nothing Marriage reverse engineers fulfilling marriages—from the “traditional” to the utterly nontraditional—and shows how any marriage can be better. The primary function of marriage from 1620 to 1850 was food, shelter, and protection from violence; from 1850 to 1965, the purpose revolved around love and companionship. But today, a new kind of marriage has emerged, one oriented toward self-discover, self-esteem, and personal growth. Finkel combines cutting-edge scientific research with practical advice; he considers paths to better communication and responsiveness; he offers guidance on when to recalibrate our expectations; and he even introduces a set of must-try “lovehacks.” This is a book for the newlywed to the empty nester, for those thinking about getting married or remarried, and for anyone looking for illuminating advice that will make a real difference to getting the most out of marriage today.
Download or read book Bekindr written by Eva Ritvo and published by Momosa Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far would you go to Bekindr? Kindness is vital to our relationships and health. It uplifts us and makes us more optimistic about humanity. Bekindr is filled with 64 stories of how people from across the United States and three other countries whose lives were changed by the kindness of strangers. Bekindr also features the author's research into the science of kindness, her actionable top tips to help you to Bekindr, and dozens of inspirational quotes. Bekindr was inspired by the author's father, who was the beneficiary of awe-inspiring kindness: He received a heart transplant. The book features heart-warming, soul-filling stories, such as: - A remarkable love story that emerged out of the darkest of times - A love story that's so unusual it became the subject of a Broadway show Bekindr was created by the nation's premier kindness expert to help you cultivate your best life--a life overfilling with kindness!
Download or read book Expect Nothing Appreciate Everything 6x9 Inspirational Quote Journal for Women and Girls written by Nurma Clarkson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blank notebook to help you keep organized during your busy day. This 6x9 notebook with 100 pages of lined paper is the perfect size to carry around with you and keep in your purse or bag. It's great for taking notes, making lists, journaling, or using as a diary. It also makes a great gift idea! SIZE: 6x9 inches Interior: 100 pages of lined paper and inspirational quotes COVER: Soft cover
Download or read book The Whole Proceedings on the Trial of Her Majesty Caroline Amelia Elizabeth Queen of England for adulterous Intercourse with Bartolomeo Bergami with Notes and Comments written by Queen Caroline (consort of George IV, King of Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Milk Fed written by Melissa Broder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Time, Esquire, BookPage, and more This darkly hilarious and “delicious new novel that ravishes with sex and food” (The Boston Globe) from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today is a “precise blend of desire, discomfort, spirituality, and existential ache” (BuzzFeed). Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, through obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting—until her therapist encourages her to take a ninety-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting. Rachel soon meets Miriam, a zaftig young Orthodox Jewish woman who works at her favorite frozen yogurt shop and is intent upon feeding her. Rachel is suddenly and powerfully entranced by Miriam—by her sundaes and her body, her faith and her family—and as the two grow closer, Rachel embarks on a journey marked by mirrors, mysticism, mothers, milk, and honey. “A ruthless, laugh-out-loud examination of life under the tyranny of diet culture” (Glamour) Broder tells a tale of appetites: physical hunger, sexual desire, spiritual longing, and the ways that we compartmentalize these so often interdependent instincts. Milk Fed is “riotously funny and perfectly profane” (Refinery 29) from “a wild, wicked mind” (Los Angeles Times).
Download or read book A Treatise on Trial by Jury Including Questions of Law and Fact written by John Proffatt and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
Download or read book A Century of November written by W. D. Wetherell and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-08-13 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2004 Michigan Literary Fiction Award for novel A haunting story of the power of death, the pain of loss, and the possibility of hope. "Gripping, damning, and transfixing." ---Entertainment Weekly " . . . possesses a time-bending gravity. . . . [A] small classic of graceful language and earned emotion." ---San Francisco Chronicle ". . . a beautifully written novel of war and the wrenching grief and unanswerable questions it leaves in its wake. . . . A Century of November is full of precise, startling imagery and elegant, richly poetic description---Wetherell seems genuinely incapable of writing a lazy sentence---and this last section of the novel is as surreal, hypnotic and harrowing as any literature in recent memory. The whole thing, in fact, is a jewel, an unforgettable historical novel that Wetherell has carefully (and artfully) seeded with loads of contemporary resonance." ---Star-Tribune (Minneapolis) "A poignant, probing story. . . . Wetherell's prose and character writing are unflinching . . . [and his] take on a parent's anguish is deeply moving." ---Publishers Weekly "A timely reminder of the devastation of mortal combat. . . ." ---Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Download or read book Living Water written by Martyn Lloyd-Jones and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2009-01-14 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This substantial volume includes more than fifty never-before-published expository sermons on John 4 from one of the twentieth century's greatest preachers. It was just a conversation between two people by the side of a well in Samaria. One, a local woman, came to perform her daily task of drawing water. Another, a Jewish man tired from traveling, sat down for a drink. But he wasn't just any Jewish man, and this wasn't just any conversation. The man, Jesus, revealed himself as the Messiah, leading to the conversion of not only the Samaritan woman but many from her town. Now, for the first time, fifty-six sermons by Martyn Lloyd-Jones on this passage of Scripture are available in Living Water. Lloyd-Jones, known for his ability to clearly communicate profound theological concepts, digs into this familiar passage from the fourth chapter of the Gospel of John, exposing fresh layers of truth. His perceptive analysis is helpful for all who thirst for the living water that only Jesus can provide.
Download or read book Mourning Into Dancing written by Walter Wangerin Jr. and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his passionate and direct style, Walter Wangerin, Jr., examines grief and mourning.
Download or read book T S Eliot Mystic Son and Lover written by Donald J. Childs and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon manuscript sources and the uncollected prose writings, as well as the published works, this is a profound exploration of Eliot's life-long preoccupation with mysticism. The author advances new readings of the familiar poems and essays through attention to Eliot's concern in poetry and prose with his roles as mystic, son and lover.
Download or read book The Man in the Gray Flannel Skirt A Memoir of Androgyny written by Jon-Jon Goulian and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE CHRONICLES OF BARSETSHIRE Complete Collection written by Anthony Trollope and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 3836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Trollope's 'The Chronicles of Barsetshire' is a masterful and multi-faceted collection of novels that follows the lives and scandals of the residents of the fictional English county of Barsetshire. Trollope's writing style is characterized by its keen observation of Victorian society, rich character development, and subtle wit. Set against the backdrop of church and local politics, the series delves into themes of morality, ambition, and love. Trollope's ability to interweave multiple storylines and explore the complexities of human nature make this collection a timeless classic in English literature. Anthony Trollope, a prolific Victorian author, drew on his experience working in the British civil service, as well as his deep knowledge of political and social structures, to create the intricate world of Barsetshire. His own observations and understanding of human behavior lend authenticity and depth to the characters and situations portrayed in the series. I highly recommend 'The Chronicles of Barsetshire' to readers who appreciate richly detailed novels with a strong sense of place and complex characters. Trollope's insightful exploration of human relationships and societal norms makes this collection a captivating read for fans of classic literature.
