Download or read book Pondering the Labyrinth written by Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion and published by The Pilgrim Press. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as a tool for those who are just learning about the labyrinth or those who use it frequently, "Pondering the Labyrinth" provides hundreds of questions to help individuals embrace their spiritual journey. Beginning with answers to frequently asked questions about labyrinths and ending with questions to ponder for special reasons including constructing a labyrinth, the author provides thoughtful, transforming questions such as: where are my longings leading? what is dying in me? where am I most at home? and what am I circling and what is encircling me? Each question opens fresh space and inspires not only answers, but one's own questions. Each chapter includes a reflection page with space to write your own questions. The book also contains black and white line drawings of fifteen labyrinths from around the world.

Download or read book Pondering the Labyrinth written by Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion and published by . This book was released on 2002-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as a tool for those who are just learning about the labyrinth or those who use it frequently, Pondering the Labyrinth provides hundreds of questions to help individuals embrace their spiritual journey. Beginning with answers to frequently asked questions about labyrinths and ending with questions to ponder for special reasons including constructing a labyrinth, the author provides thoughtful, transforming questions such as: where are my longings leading? what is dying in me? where am I most at home? and what am I circling and what is encircling me? Each question opens fresh space and inspires not only answers, but one's own questions. Each chapter includes a reflection page with space to write your own questions. The book also contains black and white line drawings of fifteen labyrinths from around the world.

Download or read book Praying the Labyrinth written by Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion and published by The Pilgrim Press. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Praying the Labyrinth" is a journal that leads readers into a spiritual exercise of self-discovery through a labyrinth, including scripture selections, journaling questions, and poetry, with generous space for personal reflection. It is unique and is the perfect introduction for those preparing for their first journey through the labyrinth as well as a helpful meditative resource for seasoned labyrinth users who seek to bring new and deeper meaning to their spiritual lives.

Download or read book Labyrinth and the Song of Songs written by Jill Kimberly Hartwell Geoffrion and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrion has created a unique spiritual experience cleverly intertwining traditional labyrinthine concepts and the entire Hebrew Scriptures love poem "Song of Songs."

Download or read book Labyrinth written by Burhan Sönmez and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notable International Crime Novel of the Year – Crime Reads / Lit Hub From a prize-winning Turkish novelist, a heady, political tale of one man’s search for identity and meaning in Istanbul after the loss of his memory. A blues singer, Boratin, attempts suicide by jumping off the Bosphorus Bridge, but opens his eyes in the hospital. He has lost his memory, and can't recall why he wished to end his life. He remembers only things that are unrelated to himself, but confuses their timing. He knows that the Ottoman Empire fell, and that the last sultan died, but has no idea when. His mind falters when remembering civilizations, while life, like a labyrinth, leads him down different paths. From the confusion of his social and individual memory, he is faced with two questions. Does physical recognition provide a sense of identity? Which is more liberating for a man, or a society: knowing the past, or forgetting it? Embroidered with Borgesian micro-stories, Labyrinth flows smoothly on the surface while traversing sharp bends beneath the current.

Download or read book One Step at a Time written by Timothy C. Geoffrion and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, tens of thousands of pilgrims walk el Camino de Santiago--the Way of St. James--a 500-mile route across northern Spain that has existed for over a thousand years. Tim Geoffrion, author of The Spirit-Led Leader, made this pilgrimage with his wife and teenage sons in 2006. He writes in One Step at a Time not about his own journey but about how God works in those who seek to be led by the Spirit. Using pilgrimage as a metaphor for the Spirit-led life, he offers his experiences, thoughts, and reflections as a catalyst for readers' own spiritual pilgrimage--the lifelong journey of growth into the life Christ intends for us. Geoffrion has written so that readers can learn to recognize God's activity in our lives, to live more fully in God's love, to follow Jesus Christ according to our unique calling and purpose, and to let the Holy Spirit fill and lead us in every aspect of the journey. One Step at a Time is for those who value spiritual vitality and growth enough to learn how to live Spirit-led lives. It is for those willing to invest sufficient time and energy into seeking and finding the spiritual treasures available to us. It is for those who are seeking to better root their lives in God and orient themselves around spiritual truths. Whether or not we ever travel a path like el Camino, we each walk a spiritual pilgrimage, one step at a time.

Download or read book Walking a Sacred Path written by Lauren Artress and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauren Artress reintroduces the ancient labyrinth, a walking meditation that trancends the limits of still meditation, and shows us the possibilities it brings for renewal and change. 'Walking the Labyrinth' has reemerged today as a metaphor for the spiritual journey and a powerful tool for transformation. This walking meditation is an archetype, a mystical ritual found in all religious traditions. It quiets the mind and opens the soul. Walking a Sacred Path explores the historical origins of this divine imprint and shares the discoveries of modern day seekers. It shows us the potential of the Labyrinth to inspire change and renewal, and serves as a guide to help us develop the higher level of human awareness we need to survive in the twenty-first century.

Download or read book Just Begin written by Dann E. Wigner and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritual practices for beginners and practitioners all in one volume. Just Begin is an indispensable reference tool for the interested spiritual practitioner who wants to add new methods and exercises to their mystical “toolbox.” In simple terms, basic steps, and encouraging language, Dr. Wigner introduces readers to more than 40 different practices from Eastern and Western traditions, encompassing everything from mindfulness to music, yoga to the Lord’s Prayer. In each short description, the focus is to “just begin” to practice and experiment, grow, and develop spiritually on the way. No one can take a journey without taking the first step, and Dr. Wigner provides the first steps for multiple practices in various religious traditions. These spiritual exercises will help spur people of faith to deeper self-awareness, holistic living, and prayer. The book’s sections are organized around types of practices: Meditating, Listening, Being, Sensing, and Embodying, with a final section: Doing. Each chapter forms a short three to five page introduction to a mystical practice, consisting of segments on definition, background, how to practice, resources for further study, journal prompts and discussion questions, and common problems that sometimes “get in the way” of one’s practice.

Download or read book Kids on the Path written by Marge McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kids on the Path" was designed to guide school personnel on how to plan, build, and maintain a labyrinth at their school site. It was first published in 2007. It stresses the importance of total buy-in from: teachers, staff, parents and especially the students. The book provides labyrinth-themed lessons for the classroom in all subject areas: math, science, art, music, health and wellness, affective/social domains, language arts, art, social studies. The book has been sold across North and South America, Europe, Australia and Africa. Perhaps the popularity of labyrinths in schools today is a result of the frantic pace of our society. Children feel pressured to succeed academically, to excel at sports, to be popular, to participate in a multitude of after-school activities and to please their parents and teachers. The labyrinth is a tool that allows calming of the mind, body, and spirit - for children, teachers, and school personnel. Enjoy walking the path of this book in creating your labyrinth.

Download or read book The Labyrinth written by Philip Appleman and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Appleman sagely and eloquently addresses such questions as where we came from, whether there is a God, and if there is, why there is so much evil and turmoil in the world. Putting this in the illuminating context of our evolutionary development and cultural history, he also ponders the notion of an afterlife and what role it has in determining our behaviour while we are alive. Twenty-first-century thinkers, reflecting on the long and horrendous history of religious wars and atrocities, are no longer willing to pay the traditional deference to religious authority, preferring instead to seek inside their own lives, thoughts and actions for the answers to life's greatest questions. Appleman concludes that a life well lived, short as it is in the eons of our planet's existence, is its own reward.

Download or read book Unfolding the Labyrinth Open Problems in Physics Mathematics Astrophysics and other areas of science written by Florentin Smarandache and published by Infinite Study. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout this book, we discuss some open problems in various branches of science, including mathematics, theoretical physics, astrophysics, geophysics etc. It is of our hope that some of the problems discussed in this book will find their place either in theoretical exploration or further experiments, while some parts of these problems may be found useful for scholarly stimulation.The present book is also intended for young physics and mathematics fellows who will perhaps find the unsolved problems described here are at least worth pondering. If this book provides only a few highlights of plausible solutions, it is merely to keep the fun of readers in discovering the answers by themselves. Bon voyage!

Download or read book The Riddle of the Labyrinth written by Margalit Fox and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Simon Winchester and Dava Sobel, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative. When famed archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed the ruins of a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization that flowered on Crete 1,000 years before Greece’s Classical Age, he discovered a cache of ancient tablets, Europe’s earliest written records. For half a century, the meaning of the inscriptions, and even the language in which they were written, would remain a mystery. Award-winning New York Times journalist Margalit Fox's riveting real-life intellectual detective story travels from the Bronze Age Aegean—the era of Odysseus, Agamemnon, and Helen—to the turn of the 20th century and the work of charismatic English archeologist Arthur Evans, to the colorful personal stories of the decipherers. These include Michael Ventris, the brilliant amateur who deciphered the script but met with a sudden, mysterious death that may have been a direct consequence of the deipherment; and Alice Kober, the unsung heroine of the story whose painstaking work allowed Ventris to crack the code.

Download or read book The General in His Labyrinth written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK! General Simon Bolivar, “the Liberator” of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life. Infinitely charming, prodigiously successful in love, war and politics, he still dances with such enthusiasm and skill that his witnesses cannot believe he is ill. Aflame with memories of the power that he commanded and the dream of continental unity that eluded him, he is a moving exemplar of how much can be won—and lost—in a life.

Download or read book Thinking to Transform Companion Manual written by Jillian M. Volpe White and published by IAP. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through courses, internships, community engagement, social organizations, and daily interactions with others, every day we accumulate experiences; however, learning does not happen through experience but from reflection on experiences. This manual provides guidance for facilitating reflection in leadership learning and features over 50 activities from 52 reflective leadership educators. Guided by a framework for reflection in leadership learning, we focus on six methods for reflection: contemplative, creative, digital, discussion, narrative, and written. Through prioritizing time, holding space, and asking questions that challenge assumptions, educators facilitate reflection in leadership learning. This intentional focus on making meaning of leadership processes enhances the capacity of learners to work collaboratively for change.

Download or read book Celebrating the Labyrinth written by Gailand MacQueen and published by Wood Lake Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labyrinths and labyrintine borders have been around for a very long time. In fact, they have been used outside of formal religion as a ritual object to express spiritual values for at least 3500 years in countries all over the world, including China, India, the Holy Land, Ireland, Southern Europe, Scandinavia, pre-Columbian America, and England. They can be found at Neolithic and Sardinian and Hopi rock art sites, in Hindu temples and Taoist shrines, bordering Minoan frescoes, and in Roman mosaics. They have been incorporated into Roman Catholic and Episcopal cathedrals, Protestant churches, and in New Age retreat centres. They have been carved into rocks, turf, and wood; engraved in metal; laid out in stones; woven in reeds; set in tiles; painted and drawn. In other words, the labyrinth is a nearly universal form and comes as close as we can to an archetype. An archetype is a symbol that appeals to us at an unconscious level. We don’t have to struggle with its meaning intellectually. Its symbolic meaning is somehow ingrained in us, part of our very nature. As a result, it may appeal to us without our even understanding why. It is always risky to talk about the meaning of such an archetypal symbol. We know that it must carry a wealth of meaning to appeal to so many different sorts of people over such a long stretch of time. But we can, tentatively, explore some of its meanings if we stay aware that we can never really plumb all of its riches.

Download or read book A Quiet Happy Place written by Melinda M Cropsey and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-of-a-kind introduction to the labyrinth is designed for children of all ages. With over 30 magnificent photos from around the world, children are encouraged to playfully explore and create labyrinths of their very own. This book is the perfect gift for labyrinth-lovers to share with special children in their lives.

Download or read book The Final Six written by Alexandra Monir and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the near future, this action-packed YA novel—already optioned by Sony Pictures—will take readers out of this world and on a quest to become one of six teens sent on a mission to Jupiter’s moon. This is the next must-read for fans of Illuminae and The Martian. When Leo and Naomi are drafted, along with twenty-two of the world’s brightest teenagers, into the International Space Training Camp, their lives are forever changed. Overnight, they become global celebrities in contention for one of the six slots to travel to Europa—Jupiter’s moon—and establish a new colony, leaving their planet forever. With Earth irreparably damaged, the future of the human race rests on their shoulders. For Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, this kind of purpose is a reason to go on after losing his family. But Naomi, an Iranian-American science genius, is suspicious of the ISTC and the fact that a similar mission failed under mysterious circumstances, killing the astronauts onboard. She fears something equally sinister awaiting the Final Six beneath Europa’s surface. In this cutthroat atmosphere, surrounded by strangers from around the world, Naomi finds an unexpected friend in Leo. As the training tests their limits, Naomi and Leo’s relationship deepens with each life-altering experience they encounter. But it’s only when the finalists become fewer and their destinies grow nearer that the two can fathom the full weight of everything at stake: the world, the stars, and their lives.