Download or read book Sacred Signposts written by Benjamin J. Dueholm and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our increasingly secular world, what good are the church’s sacred practices, and why do they even matter anymore? With insight, wit, and unsparing honesty, Benjamin Dueholm in this book explores the crucial place and power of Christian practices in ordinary, everyday life. Drawing on modern-day realities and ancient roots, firsthand experience and centuries of history, pop culture and high theology, Dueholm offers a visionary account of the critical, radical, life-affirming role that seven “sacred signposts” play in today’s post-Christian world.
Download or read book Signposts written by Denise Linn and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-09-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether we are conscious of it or not, the universe is communicating to us through signs. Native peoples have always known how to interpret these powerful messages, but with the development of technology and the increasing stress of our modern lives, we have become more and more removed from our connection to the earth and from our inner wisdom. We have lost our ability to decipher the signs that surround us and that appear in our dreams, and we are largely unable to tap in to our innate intuition. Drawing on her Cherokee Indian heritage and her experience with the native tribes of Africa, Australia and New Zealand, international healer Denise Linn helps us to reconnect with the magic of our inner selves so that we may properly interpret these signs and the true meanings of our dreams - and make the right decisions and choices in our lives. Including a comprehensive dictionary of signs and dreams for ease of reference, SIGNPOSTS is essential reading for anyone who wishes to truly hear the `whispers of the universe'.
Download or read book Signposts of the Spiritual Journey written by John Siddique and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Janey Loves 2022 Platinum Award Popular meditation leader and poet John Siddique draws on more than 40 years of practice to offer this uniquely helpful road map to the spiritual journey, highlighting the changes that show us we’re making progress and the obstacles that will certainly come up. This book is a guide to the spiritual path that clearly reveals the signposts of success on the journey, as well as the blockages and traps that hold us back from a life of presence, meaning and enlightenment. By laying out the signs and blockages clearly and honestly and with a lot of love and humour, the book offers a wonderful resource for growth. Whatever level of freedom the reader feels drawn to – basic human freedom, or the great goal of the spiritual life of enlightenment – this roadmap will guide readers to tread the path of their ordinary life and receive the benefit in the here and now. From Signpost 1, The Arising of Questions to, finally, Signpost 16, Giving Everything to Love, the book explores all the indications of progress those who embark on a spiritual journey will encounter, offering reassurance as well as highlighting blocks such as the painbody, object consciousness, spiritual bypassing, the cult of individualism and dualistic thinking, and hard-to-spot cultural, religious and spiritual influences. In addition to sharing encouraging real-life stories, the books also offers a huge range of tools and practices, from using writing and drawing to explore our own teachability to self-reflections designed to expand awareness and let go of ego, to instructions for effective, safe, meditative practices little known in the West.
Download or read book Roadsigns written by Philip Goldberg and published by Sentient+ORM. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential guide to navigating the paradoxes of the spiritual path, whether you've been on it for 30 days or 30 years. Full of travel trips for those who think for themselves, this book helps readers come to grips with their spiritual dilemmas and arrive at fresh insights through the best kind of guidance—that which springs from their own self-awareness. Regardless of their chosen paths, readers will discover their personal spiritual truths with the aid of this guide.
Download or read book Signposts of the Last Days written by Bill Goodwin and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SIGNPOSTS of The Last Days is not an attempt to sensationalize predicted events from prophecy implying they will happen in a particular manner. Remember that when Jesus came the first time, all but two people were looking for a different kind of Messiah than the One they got. Instead you will find the Biblical basis for twelve predicted events of the Last Days. This book is written to review some of the available passages concerning these events that will lead to the end of the Last Days and how they relate to each other. They are arranged in the order they are expected to happen. It also is designed to relate coming events to the past times in which God has presented Himself to the world using different people. This is your opportunity to separate the modern day scenarios seemingly written for Hollywood from what we might realistically expect should we be alive to see it all unfold. Please read them all with the understanding that there may be fewer than two individuals who get close to the actual truth this time around.
Download or read book Permission to Come Home written by Jenny Wang and published by Balance. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dr. Jenny T. Wang has been an incredible resource for Asian mental health. I believe that her knowledge, presence, and activism for mental health in the Asian American/Immigrant community have been invaluable and groundbreaking. I am so very grateful that she exists.”—Steven Yeun, actor, The Walking Dead and Minari Asian Americans are experiencing a racial reckoning regarding their identity, inspiring them to radically reconsider the cultural frameworks that enabled their assimilation into American culture. As Asian Americans investigate the personal and societal effects of longstanding cultural narratives suggesting they take up as little space as possible, their mental health becomes critically important. Yet despite the fact that over 18 million people of Asian descent live in the United States today — they are the racial group least likely to seek out mental health services. Permission to Come Home takes Asian Americans on an empowering journey toward reclaiming their mental health. Weaving her personal narrative as a Taiwanese American together with her insights as a clinician and evidence-based tools, Dr. Jenny T. Wang explores a range of life areas that call for attention, offering readers the permission to question, feel, rage, say no, take up space, choose, play, fail, and grieve. Above all, she offers permission to return closer to home, a place of acceptance, belonging, healing, and freedom. For Asian Americans and Diaspora, this book is a necessary road map for the journey to wholeness. .
Download or read book Wisdom of the Oracle Divination Cards Guidebook written by Colette Baron-Reid and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pain of Unbelonging written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the obvious and enduring socio-economic ravages it unleashed on indigenous cultures, white settler colonization in Australasia also inflicted profound damage on the collective psyche of both of the communities that inhabited the contested space of the colonial world. The acute sense of alienation that colonization initially provoked in the colonized and colonizing populations of Australia and New Zealand has, recent studies indicate, developed into an endemic, existential pathology. Evidence of the psychological fallout from the trauma of geographical deracination, cultural disorientation and ontological destabilization can be found not only in the state of anomie and self-destructive patterns of behaviour that now characterize the lives of indigenous Australian and Maori peoples, but also in the perpetually faltering identity-discourse and cultural rootlessness of the present descendants of the countries’ Anglo-Celtic settlers. It is with the literary expression of this persistent condition of alienation that the essays gathered in the present volume are concerned. Covering a heterogeneous selection of contemporary Australasian literature, what these critical studies convincingly demonstrate is that, more than two hundred years after the process of colonisation was set in motion, the experience that Germaine Greer has dubbed 'the pain of unbelonging' continues unabated, constituting a dominant thematic concern in the writing produced today by Australian and New Zealand authors.
Download or read book The Contract written by Kevin Patrick Fitzgerald and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2001, Kevin Fitzgerald and his wife had a spiritual epiphany that changed their lives, leading them on a seven year journey of Self discovery. What they learned was that ultimately, forgiveness is the key to reclaiming our divine identity and living in peace and happiness. Imagine you suddenly lost everything you ever had: your work, your money, your home, your wife, your kids, even your reputation. How would you feel? What would you do? In this inspiring book, Kevin Fitzgerald takes us on an amazing journey of self-discovery in which he "loses it all," only to discover that, in truth, he has gained everything. Chapter by chapter, we watch the dismantling of the life of a "successful" businessman, until he is left alone with nothing but God and a fire in his heart. Even more amazing, God begins to talk to him, teaching him how to forgive and build a solid foundation for his life. Through a series of remarkable and inspiring dialogues with the Source, Kevin discovers that his losses are all part of a divine initiation--a brilliant and intricately orchestrated plan to help him "wake up" to his inherent divinity and his true purpose in life. He also discovers that his ex-wife is one of the main instruments in his awakening and that Spirit is creating opportunities for people everywhere to use forgiveness in order to purify their minds and open to their divine birthright. For all those who find themselves struggling with life's daily challenges, this book is a message of hope and inspiration--a shining example of how we can all use our most difficult relationships to strengthen our spirits and turn suffering into joy and fulfillment.
Download or read book Fictions of Femininity written by Edith Sarra and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Japanese memoir literature began over a thousand years ago, its greatest practitioners being women of the middle ranks whose literary talents won many of them positions as ladies-in-waiting at the Heian imperial court. As female writers they both inhabited and helped create a discursive world obsessed with the arts of concealment and self-display, the perils and possibilitieserotic, political, and literaryof real and metaphorical peepholes. As memoirists they were virtuosos in the exacting art of feminine self-representation. Fictions of Femininity explores the Heian memoirists creations of themselves in four texts: Kagero nikki (The Kagero Memoir, after 974), Makura no soshi (The Pillow Book, after 994), Sarashina nikki (The Sarashina Memoir, after 1058), and Sanuki no suke nikki (The Memoir of the Sanuki Assistant Handmaid, after 1108). Essays on the individual memoirs pursue a dual interest, asking how each text works as a rhetorical construct and how it reflects the authors negotiations with Heian fictions about women and writing. Letting the memoirs themselves set the terms for exploring gender constructions, Fictions of Femininity addresses a spectrum of related issues. The reading of The Kagero Memoir probes two traditional avenues of feminine expression: the writing of waka and the discourse of Buddhist nunhood. Two essays on The Sarashina Memoir reveal a fine weave of literary, religious, and autoerotic fantasies, highlighting the intellectual gifts of a memoirist long misread as naive and girlish. The essay on The Memoir of the Sanuki Assistant Handmaid examines the use of spirit possession as metaphor for commemorative writing, tracing the balancing act its author performed in the midst of political intrigues at court. The relationship between the memoir and voyeurism takes center stage in the closing essay on The Pillow Book, which compares its authors treatment of the thematics of seeing and being seen with that of her chief rival, Murasaki Shikibu, creator of The Tale of Genji. Taken together, the essays in this book underscore the diversity of the Heian memoirists responses to their roles as women and as writers in one of the most unusual epochs of Japanese history.
Download or read book Twelve Jewish Steps to Recovery 2nd Edition written by Kerry M. Olitzky and published by Jewish Lights Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's for all people who would gain insight-and strength to heal-from Jewish tradition.
Download or read book The Hidden Power written by Luiz Santos and published by Vellaz Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hidden Power - Metatron and the Secret Path Within the pages of this book, a latent power awakens, guided by the enigmatic presence of Metatron, a guardian of hidden truths. The journey is silent, profound, and revealing, with each teaching drawing the reader toward an ancient path reserved for those seeking something beyond the visible. The mysteries of chakras and vital energy are unveiled here, not as mere concepts, but as portals leading to the essence of the soul itself. Through practices of alignment and purification, the reader is gently led to a space of inner peace and elevated awareness, where each chakra becomes a link with the universe. Through meditations and visualizations that transcend time, this book calls to those ready to explore the hidden potential of their own energy and attune to the subtle vibrations of existence. Spiritual protection and positive manifestation techniques emerge as tools for a life in harmony with the whole, where each thought and intention resonates within the universal web. The Hidden Power offers an invitation not just to read, but to experience—to find within the quiet of its pages a wisdom that reminds us that the divine pulses in every breath and that true power lies in becoming a pure channel of harmony and light.
Download or read book My Ex Wife My Savior written by Kevin Patrick Fitzgerald and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine you suddenly lost everything you ever had: your work, your money, your home, your wife, your kids, even your reputation. How would you feel? What would you do? In this inspiring book, Kevin Fitzgerald takes us on an amazing journey of self-discovery in which he "loses it all," only to discover that, in truth, he has gained everything. Chapter by chapter, we watch the dismantling of the life of a "successful" businessman, until he is left alone with nothing but God and a fire in his heart. Even more amazing, God begins to talk to him, teaching him how to forgive and build a solid foundation for his life. Through a series of remarkable and inspiring dialogues with the Source, Kevin discovers that his losses are all part of a divine initiation--a brilliant and intricately orchestrated plan to help him "wake up" to his inherent divinity and his true purpose in life. He also discovers that his ex-wife is one of the main instruments in his awakening, and that Spirit is creating opportunities for people everywhere to use forgiveness in order to purify their minds and open to their divine birthright. For all those who find themselves struggling with life's daily challenges, this book is a message of hope and inspiration--a shining example of how we can all use our most difficult relationships to strengthen our spirits and turn suffering into joy and fulfillment.
Download or read book Twelve Jewish Steps to Recovery written by Kerry M. Olitzky and published by Jewish Lights Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By presenting a Jewish perspective on The Twelve Steps and offering consolation, inspiration, and motivation towards recovery, this guide explains how the Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous are relevant for Jewish people as well as Christians. Afterword on "Where to Go for Help" by The JACS Foundation (Jewish Alcoholics, Chemically Dependent Persons and Significant Others). Illustrations by Maty Grunberg.
Download or read book What the Qur an Says written by Asaduzzaman Malik and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-07-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is unfortunate that Islam is a most misunderstood religion in the world. ManyNon-Muslims have misgivings about Islam due to prejudice and ignorance and also for the actions of some sections of Muslims who manipulate the teachings of the Quran according to their vested interests or half-baked knowledge. This book throws light on the actual Quranic guidance on the religious, familial, social, economic and other aspects of life quoting relevant verses from the Quran. It is hoped that both the Non-Muslims and Muslims worldwide will evince keen interest in this book, especially since many Islamic issues have been raised in recent years. The Quran says that it is the Book(Quran) wherein there is no doubt, a guidance for the people who believe.(Surah Al Baqara verse 2) The Quran also mentions that God has sent down to you the Book(Quran) in truth, confirming the Scriptures revealed before it. He sent down the Taurat(Tora) and the Injil(Gospel).(Surah Al Imran verse 3)
Download or read book The Upper Room Disciplines 2025 written by and published by Upper Room Books. This book was released on 2024-09-01 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longing for daily spiritual renewal with God? Disciplines, the beloved and bestselling year-long devotional from The Upper Room, offers a unique opportunity to ground and center your day in God's word. With daily meditations and prayers crafted by renowned and diverse Christian thought leaders, you'll be guided through a transformative exploration of scripture to deepen and inspire your daily life with God. Following the Revised Common Lectionary, a three-year cycle of scripture readings, Disciplines sparks new insights and revelations as you engage with the timeless truths of the Bible. Each week, a different thought leader will lead you on a journey of spiritual discovery, providing fresh perspectives and meaningful reflections to deepen your understanding of scripture and God's longings for you and your community. The Upper Room Disciplines also includes a Guide to Daily Prayer and a Small Group Leader's Guide, making it perfect for individual study or group discussion. Whether you are seeking personal growth or nurturing a community of believers, this devotional guide is the perfect companion on your spiritual journey. The Upper Room Disciplines is essential reading for all who yearn to live everyday grounded in God's word and hope. Order your copy today and start your journey towards a deeper relationship with Christ. Among the writers for the 2025 edition of Disciplines are Jorge Acevedo, Bishop Sidwell Mokgothu, Osheta Moore, J. Dana Trent, Bishop Cedrick Bridgeforth, and Nadiyka Gerbish. The Upper Room Disciplines features: A focal scripture passage for each day of the year Brief, insightful meditations from 53 thought leaders from diverse Christian traditions A prayer or reflection to carry with you each day Weekly scripture overviews An index of scripture readings A guide to daily prayer A small group leader’s guide
