Download or read book Jonas and the Mountain written by Janis Harper and published by Sacred Stories Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than an unusual love story, Jonas and the Mountain offers startling insights into the nature of reality. An enlightened eastern mystic. A western psychic who knows everything. And a broken man who falls in love with them both at a holy, magnetic mountain in India. This is a journey into the heart of it all.Jonas has been living a half-life since he lost his marriage, his college English teaching position, and his best friend all at once. Then he hears a voice in his head, and strange poems start to just come to him. These events lead him away from his home in Vancouver, Canada, to the holy mountain of Arunachala in India, where Jonas meets the American guru D whose master was the sage of nondualism, Ramana Maharshi. From D he learns about silence and waking up from the dream. After Jonas's retreat with D ends, he meets an oddly familiar woman and discovers a connection with her that explains the voice and poems and opens up yet another reality. Anamika's unique metaphysical teachings differ from D's-multiple dimensions, partner selves, creativity-and she offers simple expressive arts exercises to bring them home to the characters in the novel and to you, the reader. Jonas seeks to reconcile D's and Anamika's knowledge to find what is true with a capital "T," as he struggles to resolve the pain in his past and the surprising ways it appears in his present.You are invited to journey with Jonas and find your own answers.
Download or read book The Giver written by Lois Lowry and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and exclusive Q&A with members of the cast, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites and Cameron Monaghan.
Download or read book The Sign of Jonas written by Thomas Merton and published by HMH. This book was released on 2002-11-18 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This diary of a monastic life is “a continuation of The Seven Storey Mountain . . . Astonishing” (Commonweal). Chronicling six years of Thomas Merton’s life in a Trappist monastery, The Sign of Jonas takes us through his day-to-day experiences at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, where he lived in silence and prayer for much of his life. Concluding with the account of Merton’s ordination as a priest, this diary documents his growing acceptance of his vocation—and the greater meaning he found within his private world of contemplation. “This book is made unmistakably real and almost, at times, unbearably poignant by the fact that the exuberance of youth so often wells up through it with rapture, impatience, and even bluster.” —TheNew York Times “A stirring book—the most readable and on the whole, most illuminating of the author’s writings.” —Catholic World
Download or read book On the mountain the Welsh experiences of Abraham Black Jonas White written by George Tugwell and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bringing Home the Mountain Finding the Teacher Within written by Cathy Rosewell Jonas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing Home the Mountain: Finding the Teacher Within unveils an intimate account of a path to awakening. The author tells of her retreat experiences as well as pilgrimages to the Sacred Mountain Arunachala in India, revealing both the struggles and rewards faced on the search for enlightenment. Heart opening insights, teachings, and specific meditation practices are weaved into the book to help the reader develop or deepen their own spiritual practice.
Download or read book Body Breakdowns written by Janis Harper and published by . This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Body Breakdowns' is a collection of true tales about brushes with mortality and the medical establishment. Some are serious, some are funny; all are about illnesses, both minor and major. The pieces are all related to aging and are told in strong, engaging, and authentic voices. They are about people suddenly discovering they're vulnerable and the different ways they come to terms with that, as well as how they deal with the health professionals whose job it is to provide care for our bodies. They are also about how people who have physically suffered learn to find words for and, thus, shape the new world they find themselves in. These stories remind us that everything can change in a moment. And that we're all in these aging bodies together.Janis Harper, the Vancouver-based teacher and actor who edited this beautiful little book of personal, intimate stories, some nearly gemlike in their clarity, believes she might have felt less afraid, less isolated, if others who'd had experiences similar to hers had shared some of her fears." - The Gazette
Download or read book The Book of Jonas written by Stephen Dau and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exceptional debut novel about a young Muslim war orphan whose family is killed in a military operation gone wrong, and the American soldier to whom his fate, and survival, is bound. Jonas is fifteen when his family is killed during an errant U.S. military operation in an unnamed Muslim country. With the help of an international relief organization, he is sent to America, where he struggles to assimilate-foster family, school, a first love. Eventually, he tells a court-mandated counselor and therapist about a U.S. soldier, Christopher Henderson, responsible for saving his life on the tragic night in question. Christopher's mother, Rose, has dedicated her life to finding out what really happened to her son, who disappeared after the raid in which Jonas' village was destroyed. When Jonas meets Rose, a shocking and painful secret gradually surfaces from the past, and builds to a shattering conclusion that haunts long after the final page. Told in spare, evocative prose, The Book of Jonas is about memory, about the terrible choices made during war, and about what happens when foreign disaster appears at our own doorstep. It is a rare and virtuosic novel from an exciting new writer to watch.
Download or read book Battle Sleep written by Shannon Tate Jonas and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. BATTLE SLEEP by Shannon Tate Jonas is the winner of the 2014 Brick Road Poetry Book Award. In his stunning first collection BATTLE SLEEP, Shannon Jonas's poems casts such deep spells that their abiding voicings go under as well, as if poetry were also beneath the surfaces, an interior face of change. And the spells break, as they must, mid-lyric, again and again, for wounds, for losses and betrayals and exiles so willingly heard out that distance becomes a welcome medium. Frank Stanford summoned not from literary consensus but from a living consciousness. The dead and the alive, not drowning. And forgiveness as boundary crosser unto perpetuity. There is searing consolation here, the sort that returns trust to poetry. -William Olsen, author of AVENUE OF VANISHING
Download or read book The Seven Storey Mountain written by Thomas Merton and published by Christian Large Print. This book was released on 1985 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man's search to find his role in the world is revealed in the writer's portrait of his youthful political activism and entry into a Trappist monastery
Download or read book Waterless Mountain written by Laura Adams Armer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story, told in beautiful poetic prose, of the training of a present-day Navajo Indian boy who feels a vocation to become a medicine man.
Download or read book Gathering Blue written by Lois Lowry and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2000-09-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in Lois Lowry's Giver Quartet, which began with the bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning The Giver. Left orphaned and physically flawed in a civilization that shuns and discards the weak, Kira faces a frighteningly uncertain future. Her neighbors are hostile, and no one but a small boy offers to help. When she is summoned to judgment by The Council of Guardians, Kira prepares to fight for her life. But the Council, to her surprise, has plans for her. Blessed with an almost magical talent that keeps her alive, the young girl faces new responsibilities and a set of mysteries deep within the only world she has ever known. On her quest for truth, Kira discovers things that will change her life and world forever. A compelling examination of a future society, Gathering Blue challenges readers to think about community, creativity, and the values that they have learned to accept. Once again Lois Lowry brings readers on a provocative journey that inspires contemplation long after the last page is turned. “This extraordinary novel is remarkable for its fully realized characters, gripping plot, and Lowry’s singular vision of a future.” —VOYA The Giver has become one of the most influential novels of our time. Don't miss the powerful companion novels in Lois Lowry's Giver Quartet: Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.
Download or read book The Sabian Way written by Jonas R. Mather and published by Infinity Pub. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a foundational sense The Sabian Way is a primer, a briefing paper on the Sabian Assembly and its founder Dr. Marc Edmund Jones. Beginning with a short biography and a history of the Assembly to the turn of the 21st Century, the work represents the authors attempt to encapsulate in a condensed manner the Sabian vision in contemporary occultism with emphasis on space and time and order and change, for example, and presents a practical, constructive and modern view of the occult in healing, spirituality, immortality and reality. The Assembly is dedicated to the increasing mastery of self and the world. Its goal is to help the individual to climb to the top of even the most difficult mountain of understanding.* This volume is dedicated to that effort.
Download or read book Beautiful Dead Book 1 Jonas written by Eden Maguire and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not alive. Not dead. Somewhere in between lie the Beautiful Dead. Something strange is happening at Ellerton High. Phoenix is the fourth teenager to die within a year. His street-fight stabbing follows the deaths of Jonas, Summer, and Arizona in equally strange and sudden circumstances. Rumors of ghosts and strange happenings rip through the small community as it comes to terms with shock and loss. Darina, Phoenix's grief-stricken girlfriend, is on the verge. She can't escape her intense heartache or the impossible apparitions of those that are meant to be dead. And all the while the sound of beating wings echos inside her head... And then one day Phoenix appears to Darina. He tells her that she must help Jonas—the first of the four to die—right the wrong linked to his death. Only with her help can Jonas finally rest in peace. Will love conquer death? And if it does, can Darina set it free?
Download or read book I Had Nowhere to Go written by Jonas Mekas and published by . This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonas Mekas has worked together with Andy Warhol, George Maciunas, John Lennon, and many others. In New York he was an influential figure in the New American Cinema, although he came to film-making relatively late. In 1944 Mekas and his younger brother Adolfas had to flee from the Nazis for copying leaflets. They were interned for eight months in a labour camp in Elmshorn. The Soviet occupation prevented him from returning to his native Lithuania after the war and, classed as a ?displaced person?, he lived in DP camps in Wiesbaden and Kassel. Towards the end of 1949 he and his brother emigrated to New York. In his autobiography 'I Had Nowhere to Go' he describes his survival in the camps and his arrival in New York. Mekas tells a universal story, that of an émigré who can never go back, whose loneliness in his new world is emblematic of human existence.
Download or read book Aardvarks Disembark written by Ann Jonas and published by Greenwillow Books. This book was released on 1990-10-17 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the flood, Noah calls out of the ark a variety of little- known animals, many of which are now endagered.
Download or read book Jonas Brothers Happiness Begins written by Jonas Brothers and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). 14 songs arranged for piano and voice with guitar chord frames from the 2019 album marking the triumphant return of this trio of brothers who started out as Disney Channel stars. Includes: Comeback * Cool * Don't Throw It Away * Every Single Time * Happy When I'm Sad * Hesitate * I Believe * Love Her * Only Human * Rollercoaster * Strangers * Sucker * Trust * Used to Be.
Download or read book The Invoice written by Jonas Karlsson and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartfelt exploration of the cost of life and love—and the importance of the little things—from the author of the international bestseller, The Room Hilarious, profound, and achingly true-to-life, The Invoice explores the true nature of happiness through the eyes of hero you won’t soon forget. A passionate film buff, our hero’s life revolves around his part-time job at a video store, the company of a few precious friends, and a daily routine that more often than not concludes with pizza and movie in his treasured small space in Stockholm. When he receives an astronomical invoice from a random national bureaucratic agency, everything will tumble into madness as he calls the hotline night and day to find out why he is the recipient of the largest bill in the entire country. What is the price of a cherished memory? How much would you pay for a beautiful summer day? How will our carefree idealist, who is content with so little and has no chance of paying it back, find a way out of this mess? All these questions pull you through The Invoice and prove once again that Jonas Karlsson is simply a master of entertaining, intelligent, and life-affirming work.
