Download or read book The Art of Embracing Nothingness written by Dr Robert J Glen and published by Dr Robert J Glen. This book was released on 2024-09-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Art of Embracing Nothingness" by Robert J Glen In a world consumed by constant noise, endless distractions, and the relentless pursuit of more, Robert J Glen offers a radical yet profoundly simple solution: embrace nothingness. This groundbreaking book challenges conventional wisdom, inviting readers on a transformative journey to discover the hidden power of emptiness. Glen masterfully weaves together ancient wisdom, modern mindfulness practices, and cutting-edge scientific insights to reveal how embracing nothingness can lead to unprecedented clarity, creativity, and inner peace. Discover how to: • Find serenity in a fast-paced world • Unlock your creative potential through moments of stillness • Cultivate emotional resilience and mental clarity • Let go of societal pressures and live authentically • Harness the transformative power of mindfulness and meditation "The Art of Embracing Nothingness" is not just a book; it's a roadmap to a more fulfilling life. Glen's accessible writing style and practical exercises make this complex concept approachable for everyone, from busy professionals to spiritual seekers. Are you ready to embrace the void and unlock the infinite possibilities that lie within? Turn the page and begin your journey to a lighter, more liberated existence. Your path to true freedom and self-discovery starts here.
Download or read book Niksen written by Olga Mecking and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dutch people are some of the happiest in the world. Their secret? They are masters of niksen, or the art of doing nothing. Niksen is not a form of meditation, nor is it a state of laziness or boredom. It's not scrolling through social media, or wondering what you're going to cook for dinner. Rather, to niks is to make a conscious choice to sit back, let go, and do nothing at all. With this book, learn how to do nothing in the most important areas of your life, such as: AT HOME: Find a comfy nook and sit. No technology or other distractions. AT WORK: Stare at your computer. Take in the view from your office. Close your eyes. IN PUBLIC: Forget waiting for the bus, enjoy some relaxing niksen time. Backed with advice from the world's leading experts on happiness and productivity, this book examines the underlying science behind niksen and how doing less can often yield so much more. Perfect for anyone who feels overwhelmed, burnt out, or exhausted, NIKSEN does not tell you to work harder. Instead, it shows you how to take a break from all the busyness while giving you sincere, heartfelt permission to do nothing.
Download or read book Nothing in MoMA written by Abraham Adams and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2018-09-22 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing in MoMA is a series of photographs captured in areas of Manhattan museums in which there are no artworks, written words, or people. Addressing the "grammar that organizes and secures our scene of looking," in the words of art historian David Joselit's introduction, the book imagines a composite empty museum or a narrative of marginal attention. Originally displayed in partial prototype as a children's board book at Artists Space in 2015, Nothing in MoMA is here collected for the first time in the series' entirety. Evoking the history of indeterminacy as much as that of institutional critique, the deadpan composition of Adams's photographs likewise recalls François Jullien's theory of bland aesthetics, in a playful reductio of socio-institutional space to a bare literality. Both a visual essay on museum phenomenology and a performance document, Nothing in MoMA describes a choreography of avoidance, in which a conceptual constraint becomes a means of seeing and navigating concrete space.
Download or read book Nothing Everything written by Val N Tine and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-28 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morality is a myth. Truth is a lie. Existence is meaningless. Read this book to find out why, and how to embrace rather than be destroyed by this nihilism.
Download or read book Niksen written by Annette Lavrijsen and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niksen is a simple Dutch philosophy for anyone looking to slow down, relax and daydream. Designed to combat our always-on world, it teaches us simple ways to incorporate active rest into our daily lives. Nowadays, doing nothing can feel almost impossible. Overwhelming workloads, social pressures, omnipresent smartphones and family commitments leave you exhausted, frantic and stressed. The Dutch have a simple 'be idle' solution: Niksen shows you how to resist the daily grind, ditch your endless to-do list and reclaim peace of mind. Studies show that you get more done when you work less. So find out when, why and how to niks for a happier, healthier and more productive you. Annette Lavrijsen offers can-do advice and easy exercises to get you started. Using this liberating book to cultivate niksen you can: Find new ways to relax, slow down and combat burnout Bust I’m-too-busy, nothingness-is-laziness myths Honestly communicate boundaries and reset your priorities Create a recuperative zen sanctuary that’s all yours Master the work-life balance Boost your creativity, mood and even productivity Raise a happy family and be a better friend With some sensible scheduling and a smart mindset niksen is easy to fit into your day, and soon will become your essential daily pick-me-up. To stop is to succeed so start enjoying life’s little pauses, claim your timeout and turn to this witty guide whenever you want to declutter your mind.
Download or read book Nothingness and the Meaning of Life written by Nicholas Waghorn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the meaning of life? Does anything really matter? In the past few decades these questions, perennially associated with philosophy in the popular consciousness, have rightly retaken their place as central topics in the academy. In this major contribution, Nicholas Waghorn provides a sustained and rigorous elucidation of what it would take for lives to have significance. Bracketing issues about ways our lives could have more or less meaning, the focus is rather on the idea of ultimate meaning, the issue of whether a life can attain meaning that cannot be called into question. Waghorn sheds light on this most fundamental of existential problems through a detailed yet comprehensive examination of the notion of nothing, embracing classic and cutting-edge literature from both the analytic and Continental traditions. Central figures such as Heidegger, Carnap, Wittgenstein, Nozick and Nagel are drawn upon to anchor the discussion in some of the most influential discussion of recent philosophical history. In the process of relating our ideas concerning nothing to the problem of life's meaning, Waghorn's book touches upon a number of fundamental themes, including reflexivity and its relation to our conceptual limits, whether religion has any role to play in the question of life's meaning, and the nature and constraints of philosophical methodology. A number of major philosophical traditions are addressed, including phenomenology, poststructuralism, and classical and paraconsistent logics. In addition to providing the most thorough current discussion of ultimate meaning, it will serve to introduce readers to philosophical debates concerning the notion of nothing, and the appendix engaging religion will be of value to both philosophers and theologians.
Download or read book Caravaggio in Film and Literature written by Laura Rorato and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although fictional responses to Caravaggio date back to the painter's lifetime (1571-1610), it was during the second half of the twentieth century that interest in him took off outside the world of art history. In this new monograph, the first book-length study of Caravaggio's recent impact, Rorato provides a panoramic overview of his appropriation by popular culture. The extent of the Caravaggio myth, and its self-perpetuating nature, are brought out by a series of case studies involving authors and directors from numerous countries (Italy, Great Britain, America, Canada, France and Norway) and literary and filmic texts from a number of genres - from straightforward tellings of his life to crime fiction, homoerotic film and postcolonial literature.
Download or read book TRAPPED IN AN EMBRACE written by Asim Razi and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did she want to die? Why did she want to kill herself? She had everything a woman her age could ever dream of: a loving husband, a beautiful daughter, a thriving career, caring friends, and a loving family. She was the desire of every man, envy of every woman, and pride of those who cared for her. Then why would she contemplate such an act? But some questions simply cannot be answered. You see, death, like everything else, is sometimes what a person just desires without reason. Life demands, death does not. It’s more like true love, which cannot be explained through logic or reason. It just is. It just happens. As soon as she convinced herself that her plan was for the best, a tear began forming in the corner of her eye and trickled down her cheek to meet its inevitable fate. She was crying but couldn’t remember the last time she had shed a tear. Despite the sadness, she couldn’t help but smile at the feeling it gave her. She appreciated every little nuance of every emotion life had to offer. She felt both, too much and too little. She stood and took a final look at the intricate allures of her life, her sanctuary, before embarking on the path she had planned to take. She took a deep breath, spread her arms like the wings of a bird soaring towards the zenith, closed her eyes and moved forward towards the edge of the cliff. Next was the leap of faith. Just in a moment. And that’s when she heard his voice.
Download or read book The Art of Dying and Living written by Kerry Walters and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers guidance on dying and living through the descriptions of the lives and virtues of nine inspirational men and women, including Joseph Bernardin, Thea Bowman, Etty Hillesum, Jonathan Daniels, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John Paul II, and Caryll Houselander.
Download or read book Reading Emptiness written by Jeff Humphries and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-08-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concludes that the closest thing in Western culture to the Middle Way of Buddhism is not any sort of theory or philosophy, but the practice of literature.
Download or read book Something and Nothingness written by John Neary and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Neary shows that the theological dichotomy of via negativa (which posits the authentic experience of God as absence, darkness, silence) and via affirmativa (which emphasizes presence, images, and the sounds of the earth) is an overlooked key to examining and comparing the works of John Fowles and John Updike. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of both Christian and secular existentialism within the modern theology of Barth and Levinas and the contemporary critical theory of Derrida and J. Hillis Miller, Neary demonstrates the ultimate affinity of these authors who at first appear such opposites. He makes clear that Fowles's postmodernist, metafictional experiments reflect the stark existentialism of Camus and Sartre while Updike's social realism recalls Kierkegaard's empirical faith in a generous God within a kind of Christian deconstructionism. Neary's perception of uncanny similarities between the two authors--whose respective careers are marked by a series of novels that structurally and thematically parallel each other--and the authors' shared long-term interest in existentialism and theology support both his critical comparison and his argument that neither author is "philosophically more sophisticated nor aesthetically more daring."
Download or read book Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition written by L. Lewisohn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farid al-Din Attar (d. 1221) was the principal Muslim religious poet of the second half of the twelfth century. Best known for his masterpiece "Mantiq al-tayr", or "The Conference of Birds", his verse is still considered to be the finest example of Sufi love poetry in the Persian language after that of Rumi. Distinguished by their provocative and radical theology of love, many lines of Attar's epics and lyrics are cited independently of their poems as maxims in their own right. These pithy, paradoxical statements are still known by heart and sung by minstrels throughout Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and wherever Persian is spoken or understood, such as in the lands of the Indo-Pakistani Subcontinent. Designed to take its place alongside "The Ocean of the Soul", the classic study of Attar by Hellmut Ritter, this volume offers the most comprehensive survey of Attar's literary works to date, and situates his poetry and prose within the wider context of the Persian Sufi tradition. The essays in the volume are grouped in three sections, and feature contributions by sixteen scholars from North America, Europe and Iran, which illustrate, from a variety of critical prespectives, the full range of Attar's monumental achievement. They show how and why Attar's poetical work, as well as his mystical doctrines, came to wield such tremendous and formative influence over the whole of Persian Sufism.
Download or read book 49 Days Spiritual Practice written by Adrian Cox B.Sc. and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2023-12-07 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 49-day spiritual journey presented above is a transformative exploration designed to awaken the reader to a deeper understanding of their authentic self. Each day focuses on a specific theme, such as mindfulness, gratitude, self-love, stillness, intuition, courage, and resilience. The journey encourages the reader to reflect on their experiences, challenges, and personal growth, fostering a connection with their true essence. The practices outlined, including journaling, mindfulness exercises, and self-reflection, aim to cultivate a profound awareness of one's thoughts, emotions, and inner world. By embracing gratitude, self-love, and courage, the reader is guided toward a more authentic and fulfilling life. The importance of resilience and the transformative power of stillness are emphasized, providing tools to navigate challenges and find inner strength. The journey concludes with a celebration of the reader's commitment to self-discovery and an acknowledgment that the path is an ongoing, lifelong process. The summary encourages continued exploration, setting intentions for integrating the wisdom gained into daily life, and embracing the evolving nature of self-discovery. Overall, the 49-day spiritual practice serves as a guide for those seeking a deeper connection with themselves, offering practical tools and insights to illuminate the path toward authenticity, self-awareness, and personal growth.
Download or read book Spain and Its Literature written by Ann L. Mackenzie and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Besides an Introduction, Bibliography and "Centenary Reappraisal", eighteen original articles by respected Hispanists from Britain, Spain and the United States have been collected in this homage volume. A high proportion of articles reflect Peers’ major interests in mysticism and the Romantic Movement. Part I, From the Middle Ages to the Siglo de Oro, includes essays that deal with Francisco de Osuna’s "higher memory", the "Dark Night" of San Juan de la Cruz, Judaeo-Islamic traditions in Luis de León and Miguel de Molinos’ Spiritual Guide. Part II, From the Dawn of Romanticism to the Twentieth Century, contains articles concerned with writers, works or themes as: Sánchez’s Colección and Percy’s Reliques, Rivas and tragedy, El moro expósito, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Victor Hugo and "La Nonne sanglante". An article, dealing comparatively with Goytisolo and Zorrilla, which provides "A Missing Link in the Dis-affiliation of a Post-Romantic Expatriate in Revolt?" aptly concludes the volume.
Download or read book Nothingness and Somethingness written by Marc Moderessi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How could an ignorant, insane, inane, incapable creature talk about spiritual, immaterial, nonphysical sign that requires highly rational, intellectual, celestial, transcendental energy, which prerequisites delicate extramentality impressions beyond mundane entity? We have killed humanity in the name of humanity, it is to the end of its last breath, and it is useless to attempt to save it. The question in debate is much more serious, complicated, and also obvious than we have realized. It is not just the question of who, or what we are, but how we have come into this world, and how we have lived without given it real earnest thought. How do we present, draw, or paint a colorless, weightless, countless, faceless, and faultless space? There are always emptiness, void, cavity, darkness, ignorance in the air, clear sky craving for life, and crying for help. Space the only unique element, is everywhere, covering everything indiscriminately offering freedom, and democracy only to enslave all for its purpose to show its true face, feature, and fable. The exact example of perfect nothingness is where, nothing can be found, nor a being exits, but in form of ignorance within emptiness of self. Everything is continuation of nothingness extended everywhere forever, it is the beginning, and the end of all things considered. If intelligence does not learn what nothingness is, it never reaches to other end to see somethingness.
Download or read book the emptiness of our hands written by phyllis cole-dai; james murray and published by Author House. This book was released on 2004-09-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During Lent and Holy Week, 1999, Phyllis Cole-Dai and James Murray lived voluntarily on the streets of Columbus, Ohio, the nation’s fifteenth largest city. They didn’t go out on the streets to satisfy idle curiosity, or to experience a strange new world. They didn’t go out to find answers to questions, solutions to problems. They didn’t go out to save anyone, or to hand out donations of food and blankets. They went out with one primary aim: to be as present as possible to everyone they met—to love their neighbor as themselves. Doing so, they were reminded just how difficult the practice of compassion can be, especially because of personal judgments, assumptions, fears and desires, all habits of mind that harden one’s regard for and behavior toward other people. The Emptiness of Our Hands: A Lent Lived on the Streets is a meditative narrative accompanied by nearly thirty black and white photographs, most of them shot by James using crude pinhole cameras that he constructed from trash. This book will thrust you out the door of your comfortable life, straight into the unknown. What can happen to a person without a home? Indeed, what might happen to you?
Download or read book Text Into Image Image Into Text written by Jeffrey Morrison and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text into Image: Image into Text is a truly interdisciplinary publication. Whilst all of the contributions focus upon the central problem of the relationship between literature and the visual arts -- one which has lost nothing of its fascination as the debate has expanded in numerous forms from antiquity into the realm of postmodern theory -- they come from contributors working in a large number of different areas. Represented are academics from the worlds of German Studies, French Studies, English Studies, Art History and Film Studies. Given their backgrounds each of the contributors can offer a different perspective upon the core issue of translation between media, but perhaps most valuable is the com-bination of perspectives made possible by the arrangement of the volume into sections dealing with aspects of the image/text debate. In the same way that the volume gains by ranging across traditional disciplinary boundaries so it also gains from dealing with a wide range of historical material from -- to take only one possible route -- Baroque icono-graphy through Romantic imagery to Expressionist agony.
