Download or read book Kiss the Joy as it Flies written by Sheree Fitch and published by Nimbus+ORM. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning, bestselling author takes readers on “a thrilling joy-ride through a week in the life of a self-made woman facing her deepest fears” (Sea and Be Scene). With all the wisdom, humor and joy we’ve come to expect from Sheree Fitch, Kiss the Joy as It Flies, first published in 2008, marked the well-loved author’s move from children’s literature to adult fiction. Set in the fictional Maritime town of Odell, with a cast of exasperating but lovable characters, Kiss the Joy as It Flies promises to be a remarkable debut and a reader’s favorite. Panic-stricken by the news that she needs exploratory surgery, forty-eight-year-old Mercy Beth Fanjoy drafts a monumental to-do list and sets about putting her messy life in order. Among other things (hide the vibrator!), she’s determined to finally uncover the identity of her secret admirer; reconnect with long-lost friend and rival Teeny Gaudet; and, most importantly, get her hands on the note her father left before committing suicide all those years ago. But tidying up the edges of her life means the past comes rushing back to haunt her and the present keeps throwing up more to-dos. Between fits of weeping and laughter, ranting and bliss, Mercy must contemplate the meaning of life in the face of her own death. In a week filled with the riot of an entire life, nothing turns out the way she’d expected. “Kiss the Joy as It Flies is funny and heartbreaking and thought-provoking and sometimes all three—and more—at once. Fitch made us wait a long time for her first novel, but it was worth it. It’s a rare and lovely book.” —January Magazine

Download or read book The Meditator s Dilemma written by Bill Morgan and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When practiced regularly, meditation naturally deepens self-awareness and leads to spiritual insight. In our hyper, instant-gratification culture, however, most people miss out on those powerful outcomes because it’s hard to commit to a long-term practice. Despite the increasing popularity of mindfulness and its documented mental health benefits, the silent majority of meditators struggle to maintain a regular practice. In fact, research indicates that more than fifty percent of meditators give up on the practice. Through time-tested teachings and exercises, The Meditator’s Dilemma shows you how to deepen your meditation practice while cultivating ease and delight—for both beginners and longtime practitioners. The Meditator’s Dilemma, written by a psychologist with forty years’ experience practicing and teaching meditation, confronts this problem and its causes and provides specific, accessible techniques and exercises that greatly enhance everyday meditation practice. Bill Morgan’s teachings and guided meditation exercises are designed to generate the all-too-often missing delight and enjoyment in meditation.

Download or read book The Woman s Book of Spirit written by Sue Patton Thoele and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sue Patton Thoele opens a door to the often hidden treasures of the sacred. Treasures which impregnate the nitty-gritty of a woman’s life.” —Paula Payne Hardin, author of What Are You Doing With the Rest of Your Life? When the Divine Feminine instructed Sue Patton Thoele to “pour water on my women,” Thoele set about writing a book to provide women with spiritual sustenance for every area of their lives. The Woman’s Book of Spirit is Thoele’s take on what it’s like to have the best intentions in the world and blow it—and not just once. It’s a book that asks us to meditate on a series of anecdotes and stories that touch on intimate portrayals of everyday living, from knowing how to receive love to handling grief. Each daily reflection in this book evokes a nourishing and motivational sense of self that empowers and heals, so that you may move forward in your journey. The Woman’s Book of Spirit: Is written in a series of short meditations that allows you to connect more deeply to yourself Contains the meaning behind “the Sacred Feminine Voice” that teaches you how to heal your wounds Includes quotes from distinguished women to revitalize your heart “Gently encourages the relationship with spirit, the spirit that is already within us, the spirit we need to develop, the relationship to spirit that is every woman’s birthright.” —Daphne Rose Kingma, bestselling author of Coming Apart “An inspirational source of comfort, joy, and wisdom.” —Angeles Arrien, author of Living in Gratitude “The passages are offered with great respect and loving kindness from a wise and experienced traveler on the spiritual journey.” —Vimala McClure, author of The Tao of Motherhood

Download or read book The Book of Kisses written by William Cane and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Lord Byron's "first kiss of love" to Kevin Costner's "long slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last for three days, " The Book of Kisses contains the most charming, witty and memorable quips to cross the lips of such famous and infamous kissers as Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Madonna, Boris Yeltsin, Walter Cronkite, and hundreds of others. The quotes cover first kisses (Errol Flynn, Elizabeth Barrett Browning) funny kisses (Jay Leno, Minnie Pearl), sensual kisses, romantic kisses, literary kisses, celebrity and movie-star kisses (Burt Reynolds, Kim Basinger), kissing definitions (Ingrid Bergman, Mickey Spillane), kissing proverbs, kissing advice and techniques (William Shakespeare, Louis Armstrong, Ronald Reagan), and kissing quotes from around the world. Who could forget legendary celluloid smooches like Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis's kiss in Some Like It Hot or Woody Allen and Diane Keaton's first kiss in Annie Hall? Or the first time F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gatsby kisses his beloved Daisy: "at his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower"? From Earnest Hemmingway to Spike Lee, from Napoleon and Josephine to Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett, The Book of Kisses provides plenty of pucker power and passionate inspiration for anyone searching for words to describe that elusive, soul-touching thrill of the perfect kiss.

Download or read book Intensity written by Judith A. Jones and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A challenging, iconoclastic study that makes clear the underlying unity of Whitehead's vision of the world. This important and provocative book on the work of Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) explores how his avowed atomism is consistent with his equally essential commitment to a view of reality as a thoroughly interconnected sphere of relations. Judith Jones challenges Whitehead's readers to reconsider certain prevailing interpretations of his organic philosophy. To Jones, a rereading of Whitehead's overall philosophic project is essential to evaluating his contributions to metaphysics and ontology. SinceWhitehead's basic worldview is holistic, a return to viewing Whitehead's work as a whole helps clarify his ontological intentions and contributions to metaphysics. For this purpose, the concept of "intensity," which Jones defines as the quality and form of feeling involved in subjective experience, is basic to Whitehead's thinking about process at all naturalistic levels and is therefore particularly useful as a lens through which to view his entire system. "Intensity" is at once Whitehead's most basic metaphysical idea and a notion useful in deciphering the overall unity of purpose in his writings. A central aim of this book is to develop an aesthetically sensitive sense of being that demonstrates the profound and original contributions of process philosophy to realism. Jones shows that a thorough understanding of the concept of intensity yields modes of thought that help overcome knotty problems in conceiving Whitehead's distinction between the private experience of individuals and the public relations those individuals experience in relationship to other entities. Drawing frequently on poetic allusions to aid her interpretations, she focuses specifically on the status of intensity in intellectual and moral experience and develops an ethics of "attention" as an elaboration of Whitehead's aesthetic metaphysics. The result is a book that should be enthusiastically greeted and debated by scholars of Whitehead and by all who are interested in the field of process thought, including students of theology, literature, and feminist studies. Jones's unorthodox conclusions, backed up with scrupulous attention to both the Whitehead canon and related secondary literature, present challenges to accepted interpretations that cannot be ignored.

Download or read book Eternity s Sunrise written by Marion Milner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from A Life of One’s Own and An Experiment in Leisure, Eternity’s Sunrise explores Marion Milner’s way of keeping a diary. Recording small private moments, she builds up a store of ‘bead memories.’ A carved duck, a sprig of asphodel, moments captured in her travels in Greece, Kashmir and Israel, circus clowns, a painting - each makes up a 'bead' that has a warmth or glow which comes in response to asking the simple question: What is the most important thing that happened yesterday? From these beads – sacred, horrific, profane, funny – grows a sense of an ‘answering activity’, the result of turning one’s attention inwards to experience real joy. What Marion Milner conveys so vividly and inspirationally is her lifelong intention to live as completely as possible in the moment. With a new introduction by Hugh Haughton, Eternity’s Sunrise will be essential reading for all those interested in reflecting on the nature of their own happiness – whether readers from a literary, an artistic, a historical, an educational or a psychoanalytic/psychotherapeutic background.

Download or read book Endymion a Poetic Romance written by John Keats and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Spell of the Horse written by Pam Billinge and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique exploration into the spiritual relationship between horses and humans and their capacity to help us heal.

Download or read book Sarah s Psalm written by Florence Ladd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-08-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the background of the civil rights movement and the beginnings of Afrocentrism in the late 1960s, Florence Ladd tells the story of a young African-American woman's search for her love and identity--a journey that takes her from Massachusetts to Senegal, and from a stifling marriage to a life filled with the riches of a new culture, marriage, and motherhood.

Download or read book The Subtle Art of Caring written by River Wolton and published by Windhorse Publications. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspired guide to sustaining compassion. The Buddha taught the practices of loving kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity. These guide us in cultivating positive emotions and minimising harmful ones. Poet, writer, activist, mentor, and Buddhist teacher River Wolton gives new life to these teachings as resources for a life in which compassion for self and others are mutually sustaining. Beautifully illustrated and with exercises, meditations, and reflections.

Download or read book Mindfulness and Psychotherapy written by Christopher K. Germer and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2005-03-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responding to growing interest among psychotherapists of all theoretical orientations, this practical book provides a comprehensive introduction to mindfulness and its clinical applications. The authors, who have been practicing both mindfulness and psychotherapy for decades, present a range of clear-cut procedures for implementing mindfulness techniques and teaching them to patients experiencing depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and other problems. Also addressed are ways that mindfulness practices can increase acceptance and empathy in the therapeutic relationship. The book reviews the philosophical underpinnings of mindfulness and presents compelling empirical findings. User-friendly features include illustrative case examples, practice exercises, and resource listings.

Download or read book Death with Style and Grace written by Virgil L Brady and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughtful and intentional preparation is important for ensuring that an event or task in life fulfills our desires and expectations. Dr Brady invites you to prepare emotionally, intellectually and spiritually for your death, thereby giving meaning and purpose to this significant event of life. Thoughts and feelings linked to our mortality are frequently difficult, and this is an understatement. Those who dare to prepare for death with style and grace will experience the fullness of life. If you want death anxiety to become less frequent and intense, write a book about it. If you do not want to write a book, read this book. Here is a valuable resource for personal reflection as well as group discussion. Topics include how to have a successful death, what happens after we die and how to live each moment to the fullest.

Download or read book Works written by Campbell Praed and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Take Your Time written by Eknath Easwaran and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life today can feel so fragmented. Often we face enormous pressures both on the work front and at home. Irritable and drained at the end of a long day, we wonder what it is all about. But if we look at our choices through Easwaran's eyes, it's surprising how quickly we begin to discover patience, peace, and meaning. Easwaran shows that the key to finding peace isn't necessarily changing how we work or what we do, but how we think. ''We may not realize it,'' he writes, '' but it is the mind, not external events, that drives our constant sense of urgency and restlessness.'' When we're tired, we need a book we'll enjoy. Easwaran is a master storyteller, and Take Your Time has many entertaining, all-too-recognizable everyday anecdotes to make us smile as we read his insights.

Download or read book The Perfect Love written by Ruth Myers and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHERE CAN YOU FIND THE KIND OF LOVE YOU TRULY NEED? “If we want real love, ideal love, limitless love, God’s heart is where to find it. It’s the only love big enough to meet the God-sized needs of your life.” --Ruth Myers Most people–even those with a deep faith–fail to really grasp the incredibly deep and passionate love God has for them. Yet, while God’s love for us is beyond description, it doesn’t have to be beyond our experience. In The Perfect Love, Ruth Myers helps uncover the surprising, quiet clues and expressions in Scripture of just how much God loves you. With the expressions of prayer and praise at the end of each chapter, you’ll learn to experience God’s love more deeply and return it more fully in worship. And you’ll welcome a new sense of security, honor, and significance that comes from experiencing how God’s love — The Perfect Love–truly meets your deepest needs.

Download or read book Poetry and Zen written by R. H. Blyth and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before published letters and uncollected short writings of R. H. Blyth, champion of Zen and the person who brought haiku to the world. Poetry and Zen assembles a remarkable literary feast: the letters, articles, translations, reviews, and selections from the papers of Reginald Horace Blyth (1898–1964). Following on the landmark success of Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics (1942), Blyth’s voluminous writings on Zen, Japanese culture, and the Japanese verse forms haiku and senryū captured the imagination of English-speaking readers in the decades following World War II. His enlightening wit and inimitable style struck a particularly sensitive chord in the artistic community, providing inspiration to many poets and writers and helping to kindle global interest in Zen and haiku. Blyth’s penetrating insights on these topics in a series of books published between 1942 and 1970 helped lay the foundation for the remarkable expansion of Zen outside of East Asia, as well as the popularization of haiku as an international verse form that took place after his death. Poetry and Zen is the first collection of Blyth’s letters and short writings. The generous array of Blyth‘s literary output and personal writing on display here showcases the wide-ranging interests and brilliant mind of a pivotal figure in the history of modern Zen and Japanese poetry.

Download or read book Amphibian written by Carla Gunn and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2005-04-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book! Nine-year-old Phineas William Walsh has an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. What he can't understand is people and why they're poisoning the planet around him. Shouldn't everyone be losing sleep over the fact that so many animals are on the endangered species list?