Download or read book The Seeker and the Sought written by Dwight Samuels and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, The Seeker and the Sought, Dwight Samuels has attempted to share with the reader some of his personal spiritual experiences that have transformed his Christian belief system and his beliefs about religions as a whole, coming to the realization that it was far from most of what he had been taught in churches, his worldly experiences surrounding the question of this creation, God, and Jesus Christ as the only son of God. Through his seeking from an early age, he was able to discover many hidden spiritual truths that enlightened his higher consciousness as to who and what God is after finally meeting and being initiated into the “Spiritual Path” or as the Bible refers to it, “The Way” by a Perfect Living Master! This was after realizing that he knew absolutely nothing about most things in life except what he was taught either in school or by his mother which was also very limited and coming to the realization that anything that he really learned he learned through his own experience. Even while in school, you have to practice your ABCs, learn to read and write, or practice math to make it to higher levels of mathematics! Well, guess what? The spiritual path is no different. You cannot just read the Bible, Koran, Vedas, or Torah and expect anything, except your own mental gymnastics of what is being said in them. One has to have a “real spiritual teacher.” It was thirty-seven years ago that the “love and grace of God” was bestowed upon me, and the Perfect Living Master of our time came into my life and initiated me onto the spiritual path, and through real practice, the realizations that he has shown me has confirmed many of the events that Christ describes in the Bible. I pray that you, the reader, has the same opportunity.
Download or read book The Spectrum of Consciousness written by Ken Wilber and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilber's groundbreaking synthesis of religion, philosophy, physics, and psychology started a revolution in transpersonal psychology. He was the first to suggest in a systematic way that the great psychological systems of the West could be integrated with the noble contemplative traditions of the East. Spectrum of Consciousness, first released by Quest in 1977, has been the prominent reference point for all subsequent attempts at integrating psychology and spirituality.
Download or read book All Else Is Bondage written by Wei Wu Wei and published by Sentient Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 34 powerful essays, Wei Wu Wei explains Taoist and Buddhist thought in the context of modern experience, using wit and precision to convey profound insight into the nature of existence.
Download or read book The Seekers written by Daniel J. Boorstin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999-10-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year From the author of The Discoverers and The Creators, an incomparable history of man's essential questions: "Who are we?" and "Why are we here?" Daniel J. Boorstin, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Americans, introduces us to some of the great pioneering seekers whose faith and thought have for centuries led man's search for meaning. Moses sought truth in God above while Sophocles looked to reason. Thomas More and Machiavelli pursued truth through social change. And in the modern age, Marx and Einstein found meaning in the sciences. In this epic intellectual adventure story, Boorstin follows the great seekers from the heroic age of prophets and philosophers to the present age of skepticism as they grapple with the great questions that have always challenged man.
Download or read book Inrushes of the Heart written by Mohammed Rustom and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inrushes of the Heart delves deeply into the life and thought of 'Ayn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī (d. 525/1131), a major Muslim philosopher, Sufi master, and religious judge who was executed by the Seljuq government at the age of thirty-four. Mohammed Rustom presents nearly eight hundred passages in translation (most of which appear here for the first time in English) from 'Ayn al-Quḍāt's Arabic and Persian writings alongside a step-by-step commentary that outlines every major theme that guides his worldview. Contextualizing 'Ayn al-Quḍāt's life, influence, and self-perception as a teacher and scholar extraordinaire, the book then carefully unpacks his highly original teachings on God, cosmology, human agency, spiritual practice, imagination, death, knowledge, scripture, beauty, and love.
Download or read book The Collected Works of J Krishnamurti written by Jiddu Krishnamurti and published by Krishnamurti Foundation of America. This book was released on 1991 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Krishnamurti takes great care to elucidate this necessity of a revolution within our consciousness where the problem lies before we expect any kind of revolutionary change outside of ourselves. Krishnamurti posits that if the politicians and scientists wanted to end starvation in the world it could be done." It could be done, but they are not going to do it as long as their thinking is based on nationalism, on motives of their own personal profit. And even if this far-reaching outward change were brought about, it seems to me that the problem is much deeper." "The problem is not merely starvation, war, the brutality of man to man; it is the crisis in our own consciousness. Fundamentally the problem lies within." (p. 295)
Download or read book Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences written by Susan A. Nolan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nolan and Heinzen’s engaging introduction to statistics has captivated students with its easy readability and vivid examples drawn from everyday life. The mathematics of statistical reasoning are made accessible with careful explanations and a helpful three-tier approach to working through exercises: Clarifying the Concepts, Calculating the Statistics, and Applying the Concepts. New pedagogy, end-of-chapter material, and the groundbreaking learning space StatsPortal give students even more tools to help them master statistics than ever before.
Download or read book The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation Or The Method of Realizing Nirv a Through Knowing the Mind written by Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To introduce this great published work on the Eastern, yoga-inspired method of attaining enlightenment, Evans-Wentz presents 100 pages of explanatory notes. Psychoanalyst C.G. Jung offers commentary on the differences between Eastern and Western thought, and Donald S. Lopez, Jr., writes the Foreword. 9 halftones.
Download or read book The Two Step written by Eileen McCann and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equating the struggle to achieve intimacy with the choreography of a simple dance, the author demonstrates how easy it can be to sidestep conflicts of power and distance and transform them into a meaningful closeness
Download or read book We Could ve Had a Great Date If It Weren t for You written by Bruce Derman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's prisons are bursting at the seams. More than two million Americans are now behind bars, with the inmate population growing more than 10% year. Since it costs more to maintain a prisoner than to send someone to the finest medical or law school, this has become a corrosive political and social issue, capturing unprecedented media attention: cover stories in The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, The Economist, American Prospect, and Atlantic Monthly; a five-part Nightline series with Ted Koppel reporting from behind bars, etc. Fidel & Leo (the title is a pun on Beethoven's prison opera, Fidelio) is the story of a young Venezuelan software genius (Rocco, nicknamed "Fidel"), an old holocaust survivor (Leo), and a pioneering American woman filmmaker (Nora) who find a way to solve this problem by creating a new industry: small, inexpensive, and humane prisons with computer-simulated environments. The prisons are adapted from ordinary commercial real estate, franchised, and adopted all over the world, making billionaires of the partners. The story is about what happens to them, their prisoners and America.
Download or read book The Seeker Or The Exiled Spirit written by C. H. Garber and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steps of the Seekers Madaarij Al Salikin 1 written by Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya and published by Alreshah. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: one of Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya great books it revolves around the first chapter of the Quran, this book is the first part of three books. it reflecting this great scholar thinking, his views, and approach to spirituality.
Download or read book Truth Seekers written by Sid Roth and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You will be inspired by these ten amazing stories-seekers who walked different paths in life, yet shared one common passion-LOVE FOR THE TRUTH. They all desired lasting answers. They all knew that religion alone could never satisfy their spiritual thirst. They longed for supernatural revelation-transformation-ultimate reality. Co-authors Sid Roth and Mike Shreve were both extreme seekers. Sid practiced psychic mind control. Mike ran a Kundalini Yoga ashram. Then they both had amazing encounters with God that changed everything. Their spiritual journeys are featured in this book, along with eight others: Robin Harfouche - a rising star in Hollywood who experienced the dark side of the psychic realm, then received a miracle healing from God Stanley Petrowski- a student of the world's mystery religions who met God on a trek through the Himalayan Mountains Michael Graham - a prominent follower of Swami Muktananda and teacher of the Avatar© Course who finally experienced true enlightenment Laurette Willis - a Hatha Yoga teacher who was quite startled when God asked her a 'dangerous question' Rafi Cohen - an advanced disciple of Sai Baba who received an astonishing revelation Vail Carruth - a teacher of Transcendental Meditation who learned the power of the Name of the Lord Jean LaCour - a political activist who turned to yoga and Rosicrucianism before finding "the Way" John Alper - a follower of Yogananda who discovered the fountain of infinite life Not only did they seek the truth - THEY FOUND IT!
Download or read book The Song of Silence written by Deep Suri and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing and experiencing the world as it is is freedom and peace in itself, but the spiritual seeker who seeks the answer to life’s biggest mystery, "Who is the experiencer of the I," must aspire, through self-contemplation, to find an articulate, all-embracing answer to the true meaning and significance of the concepts of “freedom” and “peace.” What is their true power. Can freedom and peace be internalized through the intellect, or is true, genuine freedom and peace an experience and a state in itself, a state where true and false do not configure, a state where opposites cannot force their entry, an unshakable point in the emptiness, in the empty space. In the empty inner and outer space, united and undivided, where silence and awareness merge in an ... By embracing silence in an atmosphere of absolute presence, where the limitations of language fade away and the all-pervading power of silence fills the space surrounding the human body, communication will occur without effort. This eternal, ever-present silence is the universal language for all beings that enter this universe. Observing each other in silence is to transcend the world of conclusions, where outwardly, two different entities with their own perceptions of the world, limited by nationality, culture, and religion, merge into one entity that communicates through the timeless language of silence. The most profound discovery we can make on this stage of life is that there is no “I,” that our existence is merely a mental projection playing out in the mind, through the stormy sea of learned concepts and ideas.
Download or read book Saddarshana written by Commentary by Swami Tejomayananda and published by Central Chinmaya Mission Trust. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrow vision is divisive, a noble vision is unifying but a divine vision is all-inclusive, infinite and liberating. Saddarsana of Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi guides us to attain a divine 'Vision of Truth' by searching the very core of our being and inquiring into the root of who we really are. Swami Tejomayananda's lucid commentary guides us in our inner search with profound concepts put into thought provoking notes. Swami Tejomayananda is an outstanding teacher of Vedanta, with a profound depth beneath his simplicity and humility. He has a simple conviction - to fortify, strengthen and actualise the vision of his Guru, Swami Chinmayananda. Swamiji has written commentaries on many Vedantic texts and authored many original compositions on Vedanta and Bhakti (Devotion). He is the current head of Chinmaya Mission - a global spiritual organisation with more than 250 centres worldwide.
Download or read book Sightings written by Joyce O. Lowrie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirrors are mesmerizing. The rhetorical figure that represents a mirror is called a chiasmus, a pattern derived from the Greek letter X (Chi). This pattern applies to sentences such as “one does not live to eat; one eats to live.” It is found in myths, plays, poems, biblical songs, short stories, novels, epics. Numerous studies have dealt with repetition, difference, and Narcissism in the fields of literature, music, and art. But mirror structures, per se, have not received systematic notice. This book analyses mirror imagery, scenes, and characters in French prose texts, in chronological order, from the 17th to the 20th centuries. It does so in light of literal, metaphoric, and rhetorical structures. Works analysed in the traditional French canon, written by such writers as Laclos, Lafayette, and Balzac, are extended by studies of texts composed by Barbey d’Aurevilly, Georges Rodenbach, Jean Lorrain, and Pieyre de Mandiargues. This work appeals to readers interested in linguistics, French history, psychology, art, and material culture. It invites analyses of historical and ideological contexts, rhetorical strategies, symmetry and asymmetry. Ovid’s Narcissus and Alice in Wonderland are paradigms for the study of micro and macro-structures. Analyses of mirrors as cultural artefacts are significant to Lowrie’s sight seeing.
Download or read book Within the Space of the Moment written by Espen Vidar and published by Turning Stone Press. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Mollat woke up in the dunes of Arambol Beach, Goa, India with an agonizing hangover. The year was 2000 and the apocalypse was still a figment of collective imagination – the millennium celebration had lasted Simon for four consecutive months. A more enlightened soul would have enjoyed the sunrise, but not Simon. He was being pissed on by a stray dog, and somewhere in the back of his mind Pink Floyd wandered in and around his aching head. Is there anybody out there? Once he had been a promising young man from the land of the midnight sun. Current status? Man on the lam suffering from depression and aimlessness, a stray dog’s pissing post. His thoughts turned to the stones he’d stuffed in his pocket during the night, the boat he could easily “borrow” that could take him away, far into the water. He would slip out of the boat and dive downward and away from all of his suffering. Something intervened and took Simon out of his suicidal head and the recurring Pink Floyd soundtrack; it was something itchy and stuffed in the neck opening of his t-shirt. It was a balled up piece of paper with the photograph of a withered Indian man and a message that read, “Freedom from this ‘me’” and signed by someone named Raman Kavalam. It smelled of incense and made Simon think of sects, robes, and cultist brainwashing. Simon was by no means a religious person, he didn’t even believe in God. But something compelled him forward to seek out this Raman Kavalam, something much larger than himself. And, so begins the odyssey of Simon Mollat’s spiritual awakening. Within the Space of the Moment takes readers on an unforgettable journey from despair and outer pleasure to inner peace and the feeling of being intensely alive. “If there is any formula at all to discovering the truth of who you are, it lies in the distinction between an occupied mind and a still or clear one.”
