Download or read book Sweet Pain written by Richard Posner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casey Gordon is lean and limber, a 17-year-old senior at Westfield High School. Casey is a bright, energetic, caring girl but she seems to need to be hurt. She injures herself a little too much in track competitions and she always falls in love with real losers. She doesn’t really understand the conflicts inside of her and the feelings of unworthiness that set her up to get involved with Paul VanHorn. Paul is nineteen, and he graduated—under a cloud of scandal—from her high school the year before. Instead of going to college, he does construction work. A mysterious, attractive boy just over six feet and powerfully built, he is well-read, intelligent, and even romantic. He charms Casey and he pays attention to her deepest needs. But he comes from a terrible home—his father is an abusive alcoholic and his mother a submissive, suffering victim.
Download or read book SWEET PAIN written by Eero Sorila and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweet pain is a journey to twelve travel destinations, a detour from the ordinary travel style and a testimony that someone Greater cares for a small human being...
Download or read book Sweet Pain written by Sheri Bruno and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life, the world over, is saturated with all kinds of pain. However, in the midst of the pain there are escapes that allow us to breathe, love, smile, appreciate and enjoy whatever little we get to salvage. Sweet Pain is an epic of intentional adventures that overpowered a life that was destined for suffering and ultimately, destruction. Very simple events translated an ordinary experience into an extraordinary adventure! By this, an innocent but very attentive conscience blossomed into a gigantic heart of unspeakable gratitude. A heart overwhelmed with fascination over things that seem commonplace to many but to this heart a cherished luxury. “Sweet Pain” an Epic of Love overpowering Pain because Love never fails!
Download or read book Sweet Pain of Love written by Aadil Valiyani & Omkar Pawar and published by Aadil Valiyani. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book Sweet Pain of Love is a poetry book that consists of 3 chapters; Love, Heartbreak, and Hope. The year 2020 turned out that nobody expected it to be. Love can make you realize how can the pain given by your partner can be sweet. It is all about how falling in love can also get you pain. But with hope and courage can make you get through this phase as well. Not all love stories have a happy ending like the fairy tales, but you can be a better version of yourself in this journey. Love would come and go but pain would stay back, so all we need is hope and the courage to set everything back on track. This book would heal you and its poetry would give you the courage to go through the pain. Love is beautiful if it is with the right person. This book covers all the factors of being in love, later falling apart and the way you can move on by having hope and courage by your side. A person should not be the prisoner of its past as it was a life lesson, not a life sentence. This book would tell you the journey of being in love and how it turns into pain expressed in poetry.
Download or read book The Sweet Spot written by Paul Bloom and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It’s an exhilarating antidote to toxic positivity.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife One of Behavioral Scientist's "Notable Books of 2021" From the author of Against Empathy, a different kind of happiness book, one that shows us how suffering is an essential source of both pleasure and meaning in our lives Why do we so often seek out physical pain and emotional turmoil? We go to movies that make us cry, or scream, or gag. We poke at sores, eat spicy foods, immerse ourselves in hot baths, run marathons. Some of us even seek out pain and humiliation in sexual role-play. Where do these seemingly perverse appetites come from? Drawing on groundbreaking findings from psychology and brain science, The Sweet Spot shows how the right kind of suffering sets the stage for enhanced pleasure. Pain can distract us from our anxieties and help us transcend the self. Choosing to suffer can serve social goals; it can display how tough we are or, conversely, can function as a cry for help. Feelings of fear and sadness are part of the pleasure of immersing ourselves in play and fantasy and can provide certain moral satisfactions. And effort, struggle, and difficulty can, in the right contexts, lead to the joys of mastery and flow. But suffering plays a deeper role as well. We are not natural hedonists—a good life involves more than pleasure. People seek lives of meaning and significance; we aspire to rich relationships and satisfying pursuits, and this requires some amount of struggle, anxiety, and loss. Brilliantly argued, witty, and humane, Paul Bloom shows how a life without chosen suffering would be empty—and worse than that, boring.
Download or read book Sweet Pain written by Nancy Norris and published by . This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young couple's dreams are dashed when they discover that their newborn son is severely handicapped. Yet, this is just the start of an unexpected and exciting adventure. Those who begin reading Nancy and David Norris's reflections in "Sweet Pain", embark on an emotional roller coaster ride that brings them from a box of Kleenex to side-splitting laughter. Once you start the book, you can't put it down.
Download or read book Shout It Out Loud written by James Campion and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHOUT IT OUT LOUD: THE STORY OF KISS'S DESTROYER AND THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN ICON
Download or read book Best Climbs Red Rocks written by Jason D. Martin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best ClimbsRed Rocks appeals specifically to traveling climbers and local climbers who want the best local climbing. Although the Best Climbs guides feature routes of all grades, the emphasis is on easy to moderate routes in the 5.6 to 5.10 range. The book will include nearly 200 featured routes with each section including climbing area trivia and history in the form of short “callouts,” but the primary focus will be on the route selection and descriptions themselves. All routes will be shown clearly on detailed color photo topos, alongside stunning action photos and a contemporary design.
Download or read book Guruji written by Guy Donahaye and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN UNPRECEDENTED PORTRAIT OF A GREAT YOGA TEACHER AND THE WAYS IN WHICH TEACHINGS AND TRADITIONS ARE PASSED ON It is a rare and remarkable soul who becomes legendary during the course of his life by virtue of great service to others. Sri K. Pattabhi Jois was such a soul, and through his teaching of yoga, he transformed the lives of countless people. The school in Mysore that he founded and ran for more than sixty years trained students who, through the knowledge they received and their devotion, have helped to spread the daily practice of traditional Ashtanga yoga to tens of thousands around the world. Guruji paints a unique portrait of a unique man, revealed through the accounts of his students. Among the thirty men and women interviewed here are Indian students from Jois's early teaching days; intrepid Americans and Europeans who traveled to Mysore to learn yoga in the 1970s; and important family members who studied as well as lived with Jois and continue to practice and teach abroad or run the Ashtanga Yoga Institute today. Many of the contributors (as well as the authors) are influential teachers who convey their experience of Jois every day to students in many different parts of the globe. Anyone interested in the living tradition of yoga will find Guruji richly rewarding.
Download or read book Sacred Pain written by Ariel Glucklich and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why would anyone seek out the very experience the rest of us most wish to avoid? Why would religious worshipers flog or crucify themselves, sleep on spikes, hang suspended by their flesh, or walk for miles through scorching deserts with bare and bloodied feet? In this insightful new book, Ariel Glucklich argues that the experience of ritual pain, far from being a form of a madness or superstition, contains a hidden rationality and can bring about a profound transformation of the consciousness and identity of the spiritual seeker. Steering a course between purely cultural and purely biological explanations, Glucklich approaches sacred pain from the perspective of the practitioner to fully examine the psychological and spiritual effects of self-hurting. He discusses the scientific understanding of pain, drawing on research in fields such as neuropsychology and neurology. He also ranges over a broad spectrum of historical and cultural contexts, showing the many ways mystics, saints, pilgrims, mourners, shamans, Taoists, Muslims, Hindus, Native Americans, and indeed members of virtually every religion have used pain to achieve a greater identification with God. He examines how pain has served as a punishment for sin, a cure for disease, a weapon against the body and its desires, or a means by which the ego may be transcended and spiritual sickness healed. "When pain transgresses the limits," the Muslim mystic Mizra Asadullah Ghalib is quoted as saying, "it becomes medicine." Based on extensive research and written with both empathy and critical insight, Sacred Pain explores the uncharted inner terrain of self-hurting and reveals how meaningful suffering has been used to heal the human spirit.
Download or read book The Rebellious Spirit written by Osho and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The rebel is one who lives according to his own light, moves according to his own intelligence. He creates his path by walking on it' Osho We have all heard of rebels, those freelancers that don't care about anyone else but themselves . . . But what if we were all to spend a little more time doing exactly that? It might just be that we can begin to respond to what is happening in the world with a heartfelt need to change ourselves. In The Rebellious Spirit, Osho speaks to the spirit that lies hidden beneath our social conditioning, fanning a flame strong enough to burn through layers of rubbish, so that we can see with the crystal-clear gaze of an enlightened being. This is a book that will entice you, tickle your being with laughter, and give you the courage to be yourself in today's world.
Download or read book Voice Lessons written by Nancy Dean and published by Maupin House Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare your high school students for AP, IB, and other standardized tests that demand an understanding of the subtle elements that comprise an author's unique voice. Each of the 100 sharply focused, historically and culturally diverse passages from world literature targets a specific component of voice, presenting the elements in short, manageable exercises that function well as class openers. Includes teacher notes and discussion suggestions.
Download or read book New Zealand Verse written by William Frederick Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book An Anthology of Australian Verse written by Bertram Stevens and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book Champion s Handbook written by Rishank Jhavar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Don’t be mistaken. Champion’s Handbook isn’t a motivational book. More specifically, it isn’t merely a motivational book. Most motivational books are about following others’ lives and reading success stories. But Champion’s Handbook encourages you to write your own successful life story. This book doesn’t ask its readers to bring about drastic changes in their lives, nor does it contain dozens of foolish exercises that they may even forget after turning a few pages. Written in casual style, this book will help tweak their lives to attain success in their respective fields. It is casual and is meant to invoke a deeper sense of you, in you. Going through it promises to be an intimate experience, one that can actually help you achieve your aims and transcend them. A refreshing view is provided on some previously agreed upon topics, like anger being good, belief even when no one does among others. Beginning with addressing you as the underdog and emphasizing on acceptance as the first step towards betterment, it touches on all the aspects that make and break a champion. The aim is not the destination, but the journey. The journey from underdog, to champion."
Download or read book The Scars to Prove It written by Chris Gulino and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHRIS GULINO is a writer born in Buffalo, New York on C H R I S G U L I N O August 19, 1970 and now lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is a 43 year old Italian American who lives with his girlfriend Loretta Hembre and their soon to be born son Anthony Christopher Gulino. He enjoys playing drums and singing in his local Punk Rock band Urban Disposal and playing backgammon on his free time. Other than that, he is a very busy guy..
