Download or read book RIGHT HERE LIVING AN ORDINARY LIFE B W written by Katherine Eatmon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of evocative and emotional poetry on personal growth and recovery. Ms. Eatmon uses strong images and descriptive language to portray everyday experiences in an extraordinary manner.
Download or read book Last Lecture written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Being Right Here written by James Low and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The treasure text of Nuden Dorje renders a very clear and authentic account of the view and essential meditation of dzogchen the practice of nondual experience. The presentation is in the Men ngag style, a personal instruction distilling the author's own realization in a manner both beautiful and deeply meaningful. Short verses show with pithy clarity how the various aspects of dzogchen fit together. The text provides both an authentic portrayal of the practice and a clear instruction in how to apply it.
Download or read book Right Here Right Now written by Amy G. Oden and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians have always practiced mindfulness. Yet, from the popular landscape of mindfulness movement, you’d never know that. Where is the Christian voice in this fast-growing movement? Many Christians practice mindfulness outside of church and believe it does not belong to our faith tradition. This book reveals the Christian roots of mindfulness and the actual practices that, when reclaimed, deepen the life of faith and the power of our mission of love in the world. When we understand how radical it is to live in God’s presence right here, right now, our lives are transformed toward mercy, justice and abundant life. Amy Oden shows how the practice of Christian mindfulness begins with the teachings of Jesus and continues throughout Christian history. It also includes step-by-step instructions for the practice of Christian mindfulness today. Pastors and leaders will find this book useful on the ground as they curate current culture and guide Christians in spiritual practices. " ... this is the best introduction to Christian mindfulness I have read." —Shaun Lambert, Senior Minister of Stanmore Baptist Church, United Kingdom “Amy Oden knows the history of Christian spirituality as well as anyone, and she helps us see what might seem surprising to many—that mindfulness has deep roots in the Christian tradition. The wisdom she shares in this clear, winsome book has already deepened my own life of prayer. I know this book will bear fruit in classrooms and congregations as readers heed its call to stop and pay prayerful attention to what God is doing, right here, right now.” —L. Roger Owens, Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality and Ministry, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, PA “Oden deftly lifts up a clear template for what lies at the core of all spiritual practice: mindfulness—a simple awareness within ordinary life of divine presence, here and now. Unlike many generic practices of mindfulness now popular in business, education, and the fitness industry, Oden underscores that Christian mindfulness is not an end in itself but an awareness that turns us toward God. Amy’s words become a litany of invitation into the posture of open-hearted presence to the Presence, right here, right now.” (from the foreword) —Marjorie J. Thompson, author of Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life, former Director of Pathways in Congregational Spirituality with Upper Room Ministries, and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian church (USA)
Download or read book Ordinary Lives written by Ben Highmore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study from Ben Highmore looks at the seemingly banal world of objects, work, daily media, and food, and finds there a scintillating array of passionate experience. Through a series of case studies, and building on his previous work on the everyday, Highmore examines our relationship to familiar objects (a favourite chair), repetitive work (housework, typing), media (distracted television viewing and radio listening) and food (specifically the food of multicultural Britain). A chair allows him to consider the history of flat-pack furniture as well as the lively presence of inorganic ‘stuff’ in our daily lives. Distracted television watching and radio listening becomes one of the preconditions for experiencing wonder through the media. Ordinary Lives links the concrete study of routine existence to theoretical reflection on everyday life. The book discusses philosophers such as Jacques Rancière, William James and David Hume and combines them with autobiographical testimonies, historical research and the analysis of popular culture to investigate the minutiae of day-to-day life. Highmore argues that aesthetic experience is embedded in the mundane sensory world of everyday life. He asks the reader to reconsider the negative associations of habit and routine, focusing specifically on the intrinsic ambiguity of habit (habit, we find out, is both rigid and adaptive). Rather than ask ‘what does everyday life mean?’ this book asks ‘what does everyday life feel like and how do our sensual, emotional and temporal experiences interconnect and intersect?’ Ordinary Lives is an accessible, animated and engaging book that is ideally suited to both students and researchers working in cultural studies, media and communication and sociology.
Download or read book Chris Lynheart written by Dalton Reutlinger and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris Lynheart takes place in Washington DC in the year 2020. It is the story of a fourteen-year-old boy who is mistreated, abused and lied to because of his mysterious past. Chris has one dream in his life. He has never seen his mother and knows nothing of his family or his past. His only dream is to meet his mother and hear her say I love you and his life will be complete. However, there are problems that change his fate. A new terrorist group rises from the Middle East and declares war on all NATO forces. Europe, Asia, South America and North America are all threatened by this new terrorist force. WWIII begins and Chris finds out an important part of his past. He is a presumed failed military experiment and has the spirit of the Grim Reaper sealed within his body. And just to make things worse, the new terrorist brotherhood has created their own weapon. One that has been bred to destroy any enemy that opposes them. Will the Grim Reapers power to control the elements be enough to halt this rising threat? Or will the U.S government take advantage of Chris and destroy him emotionally? Inspired by Masashi Kishimotos Naruto and Naruto Shippuden Chris Lynheart will take your imagination to its limit.
Download or read book After Heaven written by Robert Wuthnow and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of American spirituality over the past fifty years is the subject of Robert Wuthnow's engrossing new book. Wuthnow uses in-depth interviews and a broad range of resource materials to show how Americans, from teenagers to senior citizens, define their spiritual journeys. His findings are a telling reflection of the changes in beliefs and lifestyles that have occurred throughout the United States in recent decades. Wuthnow reconstructs the social and cultural reasons for an emphasis on a spirituality of dwelling (houses of worship, denominations, neighborhoods) during the 1950s. Then in the 1960s a spirituality of seeking began to emerge, leading individuals to go beyond established religious institutions. In subsequent chapters Wuthnow examines attempts to reassert spiritual discipline, encounters with the sacred (such as angels and near-death experiences), and the development of the "inner self." His final chapter discusses a spirituality of practice, an alternative for people who are uncomfortable within a single religious community and who want more than a spirituality of endless seeking. The diversity of contemporary American spirituality comes through in the voices of the interviewees. Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, and Native Americans are included, as are followers of occult practices, New Age religions, and other eclectic groups. Wuthnow also notes how politicized spirituality, evangelical movements, and resources such as Twelve-Step programs and mental health therapy influence definitions of religious life today. Wuthnow's landmark book, The Restructuring of American Religion (1988), documented the changes in institutional religion in the United States; now After Heaven explains the changes in personal spirituality that have come to shape our religious life. Moreover, it is a compelling and insightful guide to understanding American culture at century's end. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999. The evolution of American spirituality over the past fifty years is the subject of Robert Wuthnow's engrossing new book. Wuthnow uses in-depth interviews and a broad range of resource materials to show how Americans, from teenagers to senior citizens, def
Download or read book Grateful Heart The Living the Christian Message written by Wilkie Au and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating the findings of modern psychology and traditional Christian spirituality, this book presents a spirituality of gratitude that can guide contemporary Christians in living with an expanded awareness of how grace abounds everywhere, as well as the personal and cultural hurdles that stand in the way of being grateful.
Download or read book Remembering Who You Really Are written by Ronda Ackles Larue, M.S. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " A wonderfully honest, lyrically written and profoundly insightful discussion of the most essential of all human endeavors, the journey to know oneself."-Richard Moss, author/teacher; The Second Miracle There's A Secret Waiting For You Behind Life's Questions, Struggles, And Searches There is a voice calling to us through the passageways of our normal everyday living, calling us to look and listen more deeply, calling us home to the fullness of our True Nature. It whispers through the heart of our desires; it calls through the sound of our worries and confusion; it cries out through the devastation of life crises, ushering us to the entrance of the invisible doorway of Love Itself, as we ask the important life questions: "What is my life's purpose?" "What is the meaning behind my struggles?" "Why am I here?" Ronda Ackles LaRue, noted artist and business consultant, takes you right in with her in this lucid and vulnerable exposé, as she enters into an intimate process of life crisis, spiritual struggle, and the search for meaning that foreshadowed her awakening into the fullness of Being. With an unusual mix of transparency, humor, shining clarity, deep intelligence, and poetic juice, Re-membering Who You Really Are takes you in like a good novel and won't let you go until you too hear the music of All. www.rondalarue.com
Download or read book A Small World written by Davin Heckman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceived in the 1960s, Walt Disney’s original plans for his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) outlined a utopian laboratory for domestic technology, where families would live, work, and play in an integrated environment. Like many of his contemporaries, Disney imagined homes that would attend to their inhabitants’ every need, and he regarded the home as a site of unending technological progress. This fixation on “space-age” technology, with its promise of domestic bliss, marked an important mid-twentieth-century shift in understandings of the American home. In A Small World, Davin Heckman considers how domestic technologies that free people to enjoy leisure time in the home have come to be understood as necessary parts of everyday life. Heckman’s narrative stretches from the early-twentieth-century introduction into the home of electric appliances and industrial time-management techniques, through the postwar advent of television and the space-age “house of tomorrow,” to the contemporary automated, networked “smart home.” He considers all these developments in relation to lifestyle and consumer narratives. Building on the tension between agency and control within the walls of homes designed to anticipate and fulfill desires, Heckman engages debates about lifestyle, posthumanism, and rights under the destabilizing influences of consumer technologies, and he considers the utopian and dystopian potential of new media forms. Heckman argues that the achievement of an environment completely attuned to its inhabitants’ specific wants and needs—what he calls the “Perfect Day”—institutionalizes everyday life as the ultimate consumer practice.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir in bite-size chunks from the author of the viral Modern Love column “You May Want to Marry My Husband.” “[Rosenthal] shines her generous light of humanity on the seemingly humdrum moments of life and shows how delightfully precious they actually are.” —The Chicago Sun-Times How do you conjure a life? Give the truest account of what you saw, felt, learned, loved, strived for? For Amy Krouse Rosenthal, the surprising answer came in the form of an encyclopedia. In Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life she has ingeniously adapted this centuries-old format for conveying knowledge into a poignant, wise, often funny, fully realized memoir. Using mostly short entries organized from A to Z, many of which are cross-referenced, Rosenthal captures in wonderful and episodic detail the moments, observations, and emotions that comprise a contemporary life. Start anywhere—preferably at the beginning—and see how one young woman’s alphabetized existence can open up and define the world in new and unexpected ways. An ordinary life, perhaps, but an extraordinary book.
Download or read book Shamanism As a Spiritual Practice for Daily Life written by Tom Cowan and published by Crossing Press. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspirational book blends elements of shamanism with inherited traditions and contemporary religious commitments. Drawing on shamanic practices from the world over, SHAMANISM AS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE FOR DAILY LIFE addresses the needs of contemporary people who yearn to deepen their own innate mystical sensibilities. This inspirational book shows how to develop a personal spiritual practice by blending elements of shamanism with inherited traditions and current religious commitments. Contents include: The central role of power animals and spirit teachers. Visionary techniques for exploring the extraordinary in everyday life. Elements of childhood spirituality including songs, secret hiding places, power spots, and imaginary power figures. A journey to an ancestral shaman to recover lost knowledge.
Download or read book Ordinary on Purpose written by Mikala MD Albertson and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty is Found in the Ordinary The world is shouting at us to be more. Strive. Achieve. Overachieve. Never stop pushing. As a family practice doctor, wife, and mother, Mikala Albertson appeared to be living a "perfect" life, but really her whole world was falling apart. Married seven years to an alcohol and drug addict while raising two young children and finishing residency, Mikala eventually reached a breaking point. And surrendered. In sifting through the shattered pieces of her life, she realized she had been chasing something that doesn't exist. Perfect is pretend. And what she desperately needed to embrace was ordinary. A good, hard, messy, gritty, lovely, ordinary life. In Ordinary on Purpose, Mikala shares her heartfelt journey in a raw and revealing way as she invites you to lay down your own endless chase for perfection and embrace this beautiful, messy life exactly as it is with our perfect, loving God right by your side. What would it look like to stop pretending to be "perfect" and be ordinary? Instead of always feeling overwhelmed and alone, you might discover the beauty of a good, hard life grounded in the radiant hope of God's unending love. Life happens in the ordinary, after all.
Download or read book Where Loyalties Lie written by Jill Ramsower and published by Jill Ramsower, LLC. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buckle up for this steamy mafia series by dark romance author Jill Ramsower... Emily I left my family and everything I knew. Hid myself away where no one would find me. I thought I was safe. Untraceable. I was wrong. Now, there’s only one thing I can do if I want to stay alive. Run. Tamir I like to think I help balance the scales of good and evil, one payday at a time. No messy red tape. No long, drawn out legal proceedings. Just me, my mark, and a mountain of sins. Some might ask who I was to play judge and jury about another man’s worth. I would say, piss off. No one asked you. Most of my targets are just another day’s work, but her? She’s different. I feel an unrelenting need to lay my eyes on all of her coveted secrets. To learn the extent of her corruption and see how it compares to my own. She thinks she can escape me. I’ll never let her go. Where Loyalties Lie is a spin-off novel in The Five Families series meant to be read after book 3, although all books in the Five Families world can be read as standalones. A dark romance with adult themes, it may not be suitable for sensitive audiences. But if you like a HOT romantic story with a guaranteed happily ever after, this enemies to lovers romance will have you begging for more!
Download or read book Twelve Stones written by Barbara Carole and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve Stones is the story of Barbara Ilaynia, a secular Jew who worships Art and Romance, who tries to unravel the meaning of existence and make every moment a masterpiece. She lives and loves with passion, though not always with wisdom, in Parisian garrets and in Moroccan villages, in the light of Southern France and in sunny California. While embracing the drama of life and inhaling the fragrance of flowers along her path, her search is sometimes misguided by intensity and misled by intellectualism. At the zenith of her quest, Barbara discovers something even more meaningful than truth: She encounters the Source of love. Her life-changing confrontation with God transforms a strong willed, sensual, tough-minded individualist . . . and then her real journey begins. This book is Barbara's altar of remembrance, built from the stones she has pocketed along her winding path. She builds this altar to honor the God of miracles.
Download or read book Advanced Yoga Practices Easy Lessons for Ecstatic Living Vol 2 written by and published by AYP Publishing. This book was released on with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Searching for God the Precious Treasure in My Daily Life written by Reverend Peter G. Vu and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an increasingly tumultuous world, knowing God is by your side can make an enormous difference, bringing strength, comfort, and peace. In Searching for God, the Precious Treasure, in My Daily Life, Rev. Peter G. Vu helps you see God’s presence in everyday events and find the encouragement necessary to thrive in times of challenge. Through prayer, acts of charity, and interactions with others, you will see that God is before you, behind you, and all around you, a benevolent guiding force to help you walk the path of the righteous. “A portion of the proceeds from book sales will benefit the American Red Cross and the Catholic Relief Services, in addition to other charities”.
