Download or read book Steps to Paradise written by John Climacus and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in English, we present Fra. Luis de Granada's "Libro de la Escala Espiritual", (1562) of J. Climacus' "Ladder of Divine Ascent." This work is from his initial effort of 1551. This particular work has endured more than any other ascetic wring. It remains the most influential early work regarding ascetic practices and deep spiritual growth for those who are and are not under a vowed vocation. The chain of this thought is preserved in the writings of Symeon the New Theologian, a 10th century "Climacus type figure", who likewise has a dual thread in his spirituality. In the early 20th century, L. Moore makes a comment, in his translation of "Ladder of Divine Ascent". A few centuries later, Nicholas of Cusa, makes a compelling remark in one of his later works, "On Seeing God." By the early 1500's Nil Sorsky will continue the link to Climacus and other hesychast practitioners. Lastly, the late V. Loskky has also cited this issue.
Download or read book A Step Away from Paradise written by Thomas K. Shor and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED... If Lewis Carroll had proclaimed the reality of Alice's Wonderland? What if he had gathered a following & launched an expedition? THE TRUE STORY OF A JOURNEY TO A FANTASTIC LAND IT WAS THE EARLY 1960s. The place, a far-off corner of the Himalayas long fabled in Tibetan tradition to be hiding a valley of immortality among its peaks and glaciers--a real-life Shangri-La. They waited generations for the prophesied lama to come, the one with the secret knowledge of how to 'open' the Hidden Land. Then, one day, he came. His name was Tulshuk Lingpa. THIS BOOK TELLS THE TRUE STORY of this charismatic visionary lama and his remarkable expedition. Against the wishes of the kings of both Sikkim and Nepal, he and over three hundred followers ventured up the snowy slopes of the third highest mountain of the planet. Their aim: to open a crack in the very fabric of reality and go to a land we would all wish to inhabit if it were only there--a land of peace and concord. FORTY YEARS LATER, the author spends over five years tracking down the surviving members of this extraordinary expedition. He deftly weaves their stories together with humor, wisdom, and scholarly research into Tibetan traditions of Hidden Lands, all the while reflecting on what this means for the rest of us. "LIKE NO OTHER BOOK I have ever read...a riveting tale of adventure...honest to the real spirit of Tibet...both unique and intriguing...an engrossing read. Highly recommended." JETSUNMA TENZIN PALMO, from the Foreword From Tulshuk Lingpa's Guidebook to the Hidden Land: "DON'T LISTEN TO ANYBODY. Decide by yourself and practise madness. Develop courage for the benefit of all sentient beings. Then you will automatically be free from the knot of attachment. Then you will continually have the confidence of fearlessness and you can then try to open the Great Door of the Hidden Place." FIRST PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN 2011 CITY LION PRESS EDITION 2017 THIS EDITION IS NOT FOR SALE IN SOUTH ASIA, MALAYSIA, OR SINGAPORE
Download or read book SHIFT to Professional Paradise written by Vicki Hess and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us are still waiting for our boss, our organization, our coworkers or our customers to change because we think that when they get it right, then we will be happy. The fact of the matter is that you are the CPO - Chief Paradise Officer - of your job. It's up to you to create the good life at work.The good news is that you can! The simple, five-step SHIFT technique is your Passport to Professional Paradise. More than just a clever memory tool, SHIFT will help you permanently change unproductive thoughts patterns, actions and habits so that you can experience less stress, more energy and remarkable results every day."As a CEO, I've learned that t=only engaged employees can take your company to new heights. Every employee would be well served to utilize the techniques that Vicki Hess espouses in SHIFT to Professional Paradise. It's entertaining and easy to read and, more importantly, east to up into practice. I recommend it highly!" Donald H. Totter, President, The Make It Rain Group, Inc."This book could not have come at a better time! My sales staff was entering into a new year filled with uncertainty, a tumbling economy, nothing but negativity on the nightly news...and me looking for creative ways to inspire sales when it appeared as if there were none to be had. Your book helped give my team new ways to tackle old problems and reminders to step back and think about what they really can control...I would recommend your book to anyone looking for a new way to present personal control over attitude and the positive impact on overall well-being." Patty North, CPC, Regional ManagerCelebrity Staff
Download or read book A Beginner s Guide to Paradise written by Alex Sheshunoff and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2015 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a true story of a quarter-life crisis, the author shares his experiences living on the remote Pacific island of Yap, covering such topics as loincloth-tying, monkey-diapering, and the effects of global capitalism.
Download or read book Seven Steps to Heaven written by Fred Khumalo and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2007 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sis Lettie, the streetwise philosopher of the shebeens and entrepreneur par excellence, retires just a little in Fred Khumalo's new book seven steps to heaven. Her son Kokoroshe, street urchin turned lawyer, now takes centre stage. This is a family saga, a riveting tale of love, betrayal, and a search for identity - sexual and otherwise. Dark, yet with the boisterous and in -your-face humour that made bitches' brew a hit with readers and critics alike, seven steps to heaven is the work of a novelist of great talent.
Download or read book Ways to Paradise written by Michael Loewe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-04-30 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979, in Ways to Paradise Michael Loewe, an internationally recognised authority on Han China, assesses a wealth of an archaeological evidence in an attempt to uncover the attitudes of the pre-Buddhist Chinese to matters relating to death and hereafter. Dr Loewe examines in particular three major subjects of Han art and iconography: a recently found silk painting from Central China dating from around 168 BC; the numerous bronze mirrors of the so-called TLV pattern that came into fashion at the beginning of the Christian era, and which are especially rich in cosmological symbolism; and the representations of the Queen Mother of the West which appear as a leading motif of Chinese art from perhaps a century later. These Dr Loewe sets within a framework of contemporary literature and historical incident to create a wonderfully vivid picture of religious life and thought in this early and fascinating period of Chinese history which was to contribute so much to later developments in Far Eastern Philosophy, religion and art.
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Download or read book Thirty Steps to Heaven written by Vassilios Papavassiliou and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many laypeople have attempted to read the great spiritual classic, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, but have been frustrated in attempting to apply the lessons of this monastic text to their everyday lives in the world. Archimandrite Vassilios interprets the Ladder for the ordinary Christian without sacrificing any of its beauty and power. Now you too can accept the challenge offered by St. John Climacus to ascend closer to God with each passing day.--
Download or read book The South Western Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, and Court of Appeals of Kentucky; Aug./Dec. 1886-May/Aug. 1892, Court of Appeals of Texas; Aug. 1892/Feb. 1893-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals of Texas; Apr./June 1896-Aug./Nov. 1907, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory; May/June 1927-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Appeals of Missouri and Commission of Appeals of Texas.
Download or read book Paradise Lost written by John Milton and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon John Milton’s Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen angel, Satan, is a profound meditation on fate, free will, and divinity, and one of the most beautiful works in world literature. Extracted from the Modern Library’s highly acclaimed The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, this edition reflects up-to-date scholarship and includes a substantial Introduction, fresh commentary, and other features—annotations on Milton’s classical allusions, a chronology of the writer’s life, clean page layouts, and an index—that make it the definitive twenty-first-century presentation of John Milton’s timeless signature work.
Download or read book To Paradise written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the award-winning, best-selling author of the classic A Little Life—a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: VOGUE • ESQUIRE • NPR • GOODREADS To Paradise is a fin de siècle novel of marvelous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagihara’s understanding of the aching desire to protect those we love—partners, lovers, children, friends, family, and even our fellow citizens—and the pain that ensues when we cannot. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist’s damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him—and solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearances. These three sections comprise an ingenious symphony, as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness, and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family, and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful, and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it can’t exist. What unites not just the characters, but these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness.
Download or read book The first four books of Milton s Paradise lost with notes by C W Connon written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Made for Paradise written by Patricia Hart Terry and published by New Hope Publishers. This book was released on 2006-11-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made for Paradise reveals to us that, in the beginning, God created a paradise with everything we would need for perfect, healthy living--healthy eating, physical exercise, and rest. God's creation provided for our complete wellness. The fabulous part is--He designed this paradise for you!
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