Download or read book The Courage to Teach written by Parker J. Palmer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-05-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is for teachers who have good days and bad -- and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves. It is for teachers who refuse to harden their hearts, because they love learners, learning, and the teaching life." - Parker J. Palmer [from the Introduction] Teachers choose their vocation for reasons of the heart, because they care deeply about their students and about their subject. But the demands of teaching cause too many educators to lose heart. Is it possible to take heart in teaching once more so that we can continue to do what good teachers always do -- give heart to our students? In The Courage to Teach, Parker Palmer takes teachers on an inner journey toward reconnecting with their vocation and their students -- and recovering their passion for one of the most difficult and important of human endeavors.
Download or read book The Uncharted Journey written by Don Rosenthal and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the story of the author's self-discovery, a personal journey from dissatisfaction to joyful wholeness. This book tells how the author couldn't escape the emptiness inside.
Download or read book Awakening Through Dreams written by Nigel Hamilton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Western approaches to dreams are limited to a psychological paradigm. Building on Jung's work, which was heavily influenced by the transformative model of alchemy, a new multidimensional approach to the process of human transformation through dreams has been developed which recognises the interrelationship of the psychological and the spiritual, and works with the mirroring body in service of both. In the approach presented here, dreams are seen as a mixture of worldly impressions and expressions of our individual spirit, which is trying to speak to us through the metaphors and narrative of our dreams. In this way, the spiritual comes through the psychological dimension. Though it may seem to be a contradiction, our dreams hold the key to our 'awakening' and, by actively engaging with them we can unlock their potential for initiating and facilitating our own unfoldment. This book is about recognising this process when it occurs in dreams, and how to work with them in the service of our growth and self-realisation.
Download or read book Sounding the Inner Landscape written by Kay Gardner and published by Element Books Limited. This book was released on 1990 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sound has the capacity to affect us on all levelsphysical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Popular composer and musician Kay Gardnerwhose recording "A Rainbow Path" is considered a classic draws upon research into mathematics, chemistry, physics, and ancient cultures, to explain the healing effects of different instruments, keys, and musical forms. References to well-known musical works, as well as photographs, musical notations, and illustrations, enrich this transformative book.
Download or read book Garden of Bliss written by Debra Moffitt and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garden of Bliss begins on the French Riviera, where Moffitt, despite her glamorous European lifestyle, feels empty. Realizing that financial success doesn't necessarily equate to happiness, she looks inside herself and decides to make some changes. The message of her journey is simple: bliss is a destination that exists within all of us. Using the metaphor of a secret garden, Moffitt encourages her readers to manifest this space in the physical world and connect with the divine feminine through nature.
Download or read book Anam Cara written by John O'Donohue and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anam Cara is a rare synthesis of philosophy, poetry, and spirituality. This work will have a powerful and life-transforming experience for those who read it." —Deepak Chopra John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you through the spiritual landscape of the Irish imagination. In Anam Cara, Gaelic for "soul friend," the ancient teachings, stories, and blessings of Celtic wisdom provide such profound insights on the universal themes of friendship, solitude, love, and death as: Light is generous The human heart is never completely born Love as ancient recognition The body is the angel of the soul Solitude is luminous Beauty likes neglected places The passionate heart never ages To be natural is to be holy Silence is the sister of the divine Death as an invitation to freedom
Download or read book Retrograde Planets written by Erin Sullivan and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2006-10-11 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Geocentricity might well be egocentricity" the phenomenon of retrograde motion is based on our Earth-centered view of the solar system, but the movement and cycles of retrograde planets are based entirely on the apparent motion of the Sun through the zodiac. Sullivan organizes and explains retrograde motion from a systems-view-point the system of the Sun and planets and interprets retrograde planets natally, by progression, and in transit.
Download or read book Walking in Wonder written by John O'Donohue and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a Foreword by Krista Tippett–a poignant and beautiful collection of conversations and presentation from John O’Donohue’s work with close friend and former radio broadcaster John Quinn John O'Donohue, beloved author of To Bless the Space Between Us, is widely recognized as one of the most charismatic and inspirational enduring voices on the subjects of spirituality and Celtic mysticism. These timeless exchanges, collated and introduced by Quinn, span a number of years and explore themes such as imagination, landscape, the medieval mystic Meister Eckhart, aging, and death. Presented in O'Donohue's inimitable lyrical style, and filled with rich insights that will feed the "unprecedented spiritual hunger" he observed in modern society, Walking in Wonder is a welcome tribute to a much-loved author whose work still touches the lives of millions around the world.
Download or read book Inner Landscape written by May Sarton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strong-willed and emotional collection hidden under a well-groomed landscape of words With her debut collection of poems, Encounter in April, May Sarton made an incredible splash in the world of poetry. Her work is impossible to imitate: a mix of stately verse and depth of emotion that lurks beneath every line, creating a tantalizing, magnetically charged distance between reader and poet. With Inner Landscape, Sarton beckons us forth while eluding easy understanding, in a volume that brilliantly walks the line between enticing and satisfying.
Download or read book The Inner Landscape written by Jason C. Kuo and published by New Academia Publishing/ The Spring. This book was released on 2013 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jason C. Kuo's in-depth study of the paintings of Gao Xingjian significantly enriches our understanding of a major cultural polymath. This lavishly illustrated book enables us to make important connections between painting and writing, a type of synthesis often downplayed by western post-Enlightenment tendencies toward cultural specialization but very much at the heart of the Chinese literati tradition." ―Paul Gladston (University of Nottingham), principal editor of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art and author of Contemporary Chinese Art: A Critical History. "In The Inner Landscape: The Paintings of Gao Xingjian, Jason C. Kuo offers his readers a multifaceted lens through which to frame an engagement with the remarkable pictorial, filmic, and literary art of the Chinese writer and 2000 Nobel laureate in literature, Gao Xingjian. A central theme in his oeuvre is reflection on his life as a writer in self-exile in France, a life at once burdened with the memory of his homeland and yet artistically liberating. Kuo illuminates our understanding of the meaning and significance of his art by situating it within a critical discussion of the contemporary context of global modernity, a context that challenges our notions of national cultural identity in an age of mobile subjectivity and the deterritorialization of cultural practices." ―Stephen J. Goldberg (Hamilton College), author of Dislocating the Center: Contemporary Chinese Art Beyond National Borders. "The Inner Landscape: The Paintings of Gao Xingjian presents almost 300 paintings by the contemporary artist, poet, film-maker, author, and Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian. Jason C. Kuo's erudite study not only details Gao's development as an intellectual, but also contextualizes and explores his attitudes toward writing, painting, and film-making in the interstices of 'East' and 'West'." ―Katharine P. Burnett (University of California, Davis), author of Dimensions of Originality: Essays in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Art Criticism. "The Inner Landscape: The Paintings of Gao Xingjian by Jason C. Kuo is a most thought-provoking and intelligent study of the art of Gao Xingjian. Kuo, driven by a desire for synthesis in his scholarship, brings a modernist practice to bear on a long tradition of intellectual discourse in China." ―Frances Klapthor, Baltimore Museum of Art.
Download or read book Music As Medicine written by Deforia Lane and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1996-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the miraculous story of a music therapist who treats terminally ill and mentally handicapped patients with the medicine of music.
Download or read book Washington s Gardens at Mount Vernon written by Mac K. Griswold and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For both gardeners and early American history buffs, this book documents the unknown George Washington: landscaper, farmer, and gardener of Mount Vernon. 156 color photos. 30 illustrations.
Download or read book To Bless the Space Between Us written by John O'Donohue and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the bestselling Anam Cara comes a beautiful collection of blessings to help readers through both the everyday and the extraordinary events of their lives. John O’Donohue, Irish teacher and poet, has been widely praised for his gift of drawing on Celtic spiritual traditions to create words of inspiration and wisdom for today. In To Bless the Space Between Us, his compelling blend of elegant, poetic language and spiritual insight offers readers comfort and encouragement on their journeys through life. O’Donohue looks at life’s thresholds—getting married, having children, starting a new job—and offers invaluable guidelines for making the transition from a known, familiar world into a new, unmapped territory. Most profoundly, however, O’Donohue explains “blessing” as a way of life, as a lens through which the whole world is transformed. O’Donohue awakens readers to timeless truths and shows the power they have to answer contemporary dilemmas and ease us through periods of change.
Download or read book Boy in Darkness written by Mervyn Peake and published by . This book was released on 1998-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Power of the Mind Consciousness and Journey Through the Inner Landscape written by Aseem Kumar Katoch and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-07-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mind-the consciousness is the ultimate gift to man, which has never been explored to its full potential. The mind, with its full concentration, intensity and focus can achieve anything as long as it is stretched till that stage. As William James writes, "If you can change your mind, you can change your life." The Universe is a panorama of endless movement and we are all connected with our inner self, and the cosmic world, through our consciousness called the 'mind'. The human mind is a complex phenomenon that can be changed, tamed, and programmed to meet the changing realities of the time. You must stay connected with your inner self through your consciousness. We all have come into this world for a purpose and how to find our purpose is our utmost purpose. Once things have been internalized and crystalized, it changes your internal dynamics, normative order and soon there is a 'paradigm shift', and then you can set a thought pattern in your desired direction. During this entire process, you must continue to aspire for the intended goal or beyond. You must try to imagine, live, behave, act, react for all that you intend to be. As you continue to aspire for your goal or vision, it is like your ideation will continue murmuring about your goal. This paradigm shift would give you a clear and comprehensive description, redefine your life journey and your success is a foregone conclusion. The Mind is the most unexplored territory and has not been fully realized or used. The mind is bombarded with thousands of thoughts during the daytime, thoughts of varied kinds. There will be constant clash and cohesion at physical and psychic levels of these negatives, thoughts, and emotions unless it's not diluted and banished with positives; otherwise, it will continue to create chaos and confusion, which would lead to narrow, darkened, stagnated, and frustrating life ahead. As Albert Einstein beautifully writes, 'Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why yet sometimes seeming to divine purpose.' You have to awaken the cognitive faculties latent in your mind. And you might ask, how should one do that? It can be done by the right approach, right-thinking, use of intention, expectation, perception, intuition, willpower, and imagination. Once you master your mind and master your energies, only then you will be able to strive for excellence in any area of your existence. How are the mind and time related? Time is nothing but timelessness. There is no such thing as time, as it pervades in the consciousness. Time is an idea and if you do not think about it, it will die out in the mind. What is Time? Where does Time go? You will find answers to these questions and many more. The human mind is scattered in all directions, with extreme divergent flows, negatives and it is not easy to tame the wavering thoughts of the mind, as they are like surging waves in the ocean of motion. What is consciousness and how does it go beyond space and time? Is it eternal and timeless? From conception to perception, all is within you. We are connected with everything through our minds. We create a mental picture and imagination of our desire things and then sow the seeds of success, failures, and fears within. Essentially, it is the mind in our inner landscape that is the greatest repository of infinite power, and we must utilize it to its full power, potential and experience its extensity. How should one control the wavering thoughts of the mind as they are like the surging waves in the Ocean of motion? As rightly said by Spinoza, "In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity."
Download or read book Inner Landscapes written by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1990-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beauty written by John O'Donohue and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beauty does not linger, it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm, it calls us to feel, think, and act beautifully in the world: to create and live a life that awakens the Beautiful. Beauty is a gentle but urgent call to awaken. Bestselling author John O'Donohue opens our eyes, hearts, and minds to the wonder of our own relationship with beauty by exposing the infinity and mystery of its breadth. His words return us to the dignity of silence, profundity of stillness, power of thought and perception, and the eternal grace and generosity of beauty's presence. In this masterful and revelatory work, O'Donohue encourages our greater intimacy with beauty and celebrates it for what it really is: a homecoming of the human spirit. As he focuses on the classical, medieval, and Celtic traditions of art, music, literature, nature, and language, O'Donohue reveals how beauty's invisible embrace invites us toward new heights of passion and creativity even in these uncertain times of global conflict and crisis.
