Download or read book Shared Reality written by E. Tory Higgins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be human? Why do we feel and behave in the ways that we do? The classic answer is that we have a special kind of intelligence. But to understand what we are as humans, we also need to know what we are like motivationally. And what is central to this story, what is special about human motivation, is that humans want to share with others their inner experiences about the world--share how they feel, what they believe, and what they want to happen in the future. They want to create a shared reality with others. People have a shared reality together when they experience having in common a feeling about something, a belief about something, or a concern about something. They feel connected to another person or group by knowing that this person or group sees the world the same way that they do--they share what is real about the world. In this work, Dr. Higgins describes how our human motivation for shared reality evolved in our species, and how it develops in our children as shared feelings, shared practices, and shared goals and roles. Shared reality is crucial to what we believe--sharing is believing. It is central to our sense of self, what we strive for and how we strive. It is basic to how we get along with others. It brings us together in fellowship and companionship, but it also tears us apart by creating in-group "bubbles" that conflict with one another. Our shared realities are the best of us, and the worst of us.
Download or read book The Crying Book written by Heather Christle and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling "lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study" is an examination of why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry from a woman on the cusp of motherhood confronting her own depression (The New York Times Book Review). Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen–tear–shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear–collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. Honest, intelligent, rapturous, and surprising, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science, history, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life, loss, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.
Download or read book Tears We Cannot Stop written by Michael Eric Dyson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A hard-hitting sermon on the racial divide, directed specifically to a white congregation.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review A New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Boston Globe Bestseller As the country grapples with racial division at a level not seen since the 1960s, Michael Eric Dyson’s voice is heard above the rest. In Tears We Cannot Stop, a provocative and deeply personal call or change, Dyson argues that if we are to make real racial progress, we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how Black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, and discounted. In the tradition of James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time—short, emotional, literary, powerful—this is the book that all Americans who care about the current and long-burning crisis in race relations need to read. Praise for Tears We Cannot Stop Named a Best/Most Anticipated Book of 2017 by: The Washington Post • Bustle • Men’s Journal • The Chicago Reader • StarTribune • Blavity• The Guardian • NBC New York’s Bill’s Books • Kirkus Reviews • Essence “Elegantly written and powerful in several areas: moving personal recollections; profound cultural analysis; and guidance for moral redemption. A work to relish.” —Toni Morrison “Here’s a sermon that’s as fierce as it is lucid . . . If you’re black, you’ll feel a spark of recognition in every paragraph. If you’re white, Dyson tells you what you need to know—what this white man needed to know, at least. This is a major achievement. I read it and said amen.” —Stephen King “One of the most frank and searing discussions on race . . . a deeply serious, urgent book, which should take its place in the tradition of Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time and King’s Why We Can’t Wait.” —The New York Times Book Review
Download or read book When Tears Sing written by Blaine-Wallace, William and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through narrative examples, the author describes "lament" as the act of bringing more of our lived experience into congregational and communal life"--
Download or read book Shared written by Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick and published by Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick. This book was released on 2011 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Verge of Tears written by Michele Byers and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea for this book began with David Lavery’s 2007 column for flowtv.org. “The Crying Game: Why Television Brings Us to Tears” asked us to consider that “age-old mystery”: tears. The respondents to David’s initial survey—Michele Byers among them—didn’t agree on anything ... Some cried more over film, some television, some books; some felt their tears to be a release, others to be a manipulation. They did agree, however, as did the readers who responded to the column, that crying over stories, and even “things,” is something that is a shared and familiar cultural practice. This book was born from that moment of recognition. On the Verge of Tears is not the first book to think about crying. Tom Lutz’s Crying: The Natural & Cultural History of Tears, Judith Kay Nelson’s Seeing Through Tears: Crying and Attachment, Peter Schwenger’s The Tears of Things: Melancholy and Physical Objects, and Henry Jenkins’ The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture also offer forays into this familiar, if not always entirely comfortable, emotional space. This book differs markedly from each of these others, however. As a collection of essay by diverse hands, its point of view is multi-vocal. It is not a history of tears (as is Lutz’s superb book); nor is its approach psychological/sociological (as is Nelson’s). It does not limit itself to very contemporary popular culture (as does Jenkins’ book) or material culture (as does Schwenger’s study). What On the Verge of Tears offers are personal, cultural, and political ruminations on the tears we shed in our daily engagements with the world and its artifacts. The essays found within are often deeply personal, but also have broad implications for everyday life. The authors included here contemplate how and why art, music, film, literature, theatre, theory, and material artifacts make us weep. They consider the risks of tears in public and private spaces; the way tears implicate us in tragedy, comedy, and horror. On the Verge of Tears does not offer a unified theory of crying, but, instead, invites us to imagine tears as a multi-vocal language we can all, in some manner, understand.
Download or read book The Glass Tears Poem Journal written by Randal S. Doaty and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ray of sunlight came through a pane in the glass studio workshop. The scrap glass bucket was nearly full. On top of this heap was a hardened drip of glass that had carelessly fallen from a glass artists punti. Glimmering in the sunlight that morning was the very first Glass Teardrop. It may have remained just scrap until the simple words glass tears softly whispered in the imagination of a would-be poet. Two totally different art forms were about to be married. The story of Glass Tears is purely serendipitous. The need for a unique and meaningful sympathy gift happened at just about the same time as the glass teardrop appeared at the studio. The poem, Glass Tears came to Randal S. Doaty as unexpectedly as the teardrop itself. He had never written a poem before, but he felt the need to give his new teardrop a voice. The Glass Tears Poem Journal is a collection of what many different Glass Tears have spoken through the voice of this poet.
Download or read book Mind Fuel written by Bear Grylls and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most recognised adventurer Bear Grylls offers daily tips to help you build mental resilience. Bear Grylls draws on his survival experience to share the principles that have helped him overcome fear, develop a positive mindset and break through the obstacles that limit success in everyday life. With emotional health advocate Will Van Der Hart, MIND FUEL offers you practical insights to help you to increase your resilience, combat stress and live life with confidence. Topics are categorised into eight broader themes at enable you to access the material you need most - covering wisdom, battles, motivation, courage, relationships, self-care, spirituality and determination. From the bestselling author of Mud, Sweat and Tears, MIND FUEL gives you a whole year's worth of guidance to face whatever life throws at you.
Download or read book Contesting Tears written by Stanley Cavell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Note on the Captions Preface Introduction 1: Naughty Orators: Negation of Voices in Gaslight 2: Psychoanalysis and Cinema: Moments of Letter from an Unknown Woman3: Ugly Duckling, Funny Butterfly: Bette Davis and Now, Voyager 4: Postscript: To Whom It May Concern 5: Stella's Taste: Reading Stella Dallas Notes Bibliography Filmography Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Download or read book So She Wrote A Book written by A. Maksimow and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The romance novel So She Wrote a Book is based on a true modern love story. This book was written to inspire people all around the world to first seek the ultimate power of love within themselves, and to further share with a soulmate. This book was written to help us understand the many different forms of love we can encounter and experience including love for ourselves, friends, family, and partner. We gain further depth on all the power and beauty the gift of love has to offer. We learn how to overcome real-life challenges and situations in the modern world we live in today while love is sought all around us. This is a story of how once a fearful lonely and lost child with limited resources finally found love within herself before she learned to share the highest power of true love. Once a scared and hopeless child is faced with tremendous opposition around her and discovers true love is very real in her middle age. This is a story shared to inspire us to seek our individual passion through our very own voice we hear from deep within, directing our thoughts and filling our minds. This book was written for those who believe they can overcome and succeed in finding true love within without ever giving up on hope!
Download or read book When Therapists Cry written by Amy Blume-Marcovici and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Therapists Cry addresses one of the most authentic and singularly human experiences a therapist can have in therapy: crying. While therapist crying in therapy is the explicit focus of this book, it is used as a springboard for understanding the various ways in which therapists’ emotions come alive—and become visible—in the therapy room. In depth clinical examples and conceptualizations from expert contributors illustrate what the experience of therapist crying looks and feels like: why therapists cry, how crying impacts the therapist and the treatment, what therapists feel about their tears, and the many ways in which therapists may engage with their own tears in order to facilitate therapeutic progress, ensure appropriate professional conduct, and deepen their clinical work.
Download or read book Telling Tears in the English Renaissance written by Marjory E. Lange and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tears and weeping are, at once, human universals and socially-constrained phenomena. This volume explores the interface between those two viewpoints by examining medical literature, sermons, and lyric poetry of the 16th and 17th centuries to see how dominant paradigms regarded who could, who must, and who must not weep. These paradigms shifted in some cases radically, during these centuries. Without a clear understanding of how the Renaissance 'read' tears, it is difficult to avoid using our own preconceptions -- often quite different and very misleading. There are five chapters; one on medical and scientific material, two on sermons, and two on different types of lyric.
Download or read book The Tears I Couldn t Cry written by Patricia Grueninger Beasley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walk in my shoes as a Sister in a religious order in the United States from 1955-78. Do what I did. Feel what I felt. Live the life I lived in utmost secrecy. Pats incredible story takes readers on a terrifying journey through 22 years of convent life in 20th century America. Promised to God when she was dying at age 3, she eventually enters a Catholic order of women where she is controlled by rigid rules and must wear a cumbersome 17th century habit looking like a flying nun. During 3 years of formation she is stripped of her own identity and forced into a mold. She must give up the family she loves, while her Superiors squash her passion for art, music, and nature. She must live under vows that require blind obedience, no pay for her work, and untainted celibacy. All of these sacrifices are demanded in Gods all-justifying Name. Leaving the convent would be turning her back on God and risking eternal damnation, Superiors say. After reading Pats true story, readers are faced with a question: Was Pat, and thousands of other women like her, abused by the very religion they loved? Emmy-award winning screenwriter and one of Pats mentors, Vickie Patik, says, THE TEARS I COULDNT CRY is a triumph of the human spirit and an inspiration to anyone who is working up the courage to question cherished beliefs and seek closure through honest reflection and self-healing. Barnaby Conrad, co-founder of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference and its co-director for 33 years says that Pat has written her story that is terrifying and beautiful and VERY moving.
Download or read book No More Tears written by Alvinita Orduna and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abducted in a strange country, Michelle's faith and courage was put to a test. She finds herself placed into the possession of her abducter''s son to serve as his personal slave. Jahan couldn''t quench the dangerous desire to care for Michelle. But suprisingly through a never-ceasing battle to tear them apart, their friendship flourish. Until a secret escapes! Jahan now holds the key that could unlock the truth, but was he willing to sacrifice his happiness?
Download or read book Love Will Find You written by Gaurav Zinta and published by Authors Click Publishing . This book was released on 2024-08-07 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In pursuit of his parents' dream for him to become a writer in London, Veer's life takes an unexpected and poetic turn after a heart-wrenching loss leaves him grappling with their unfulfilled aspirations. But destiny has its own script, and when one letter meant for Navya, a captivating enigma, comes into play, Veer's dreams of a prestigious publishing career appear to hang in the balance. In the depths of his despair, a mysterious and unexpected ally surfaces, guiding Veer along an uncharted path. Meanwhile, Navya, enraptured by the cryptic verses of an anonymous poet on Instagram, embarks on a soul-stirring journey. Their destinies interweave once more as Navya's quest leads her back into Veer's world, unveiling long-held secrets and unraveling hidden truths. In 'Love Will Find You,' immerse yourself in a tale that weaves the enchanting threads of enduring love, dreams that defy the odds, and the captivating allure of a single letter that holds the key to their destiny.
Download or read book Youth Emmaus 2 written by Dot Gosling and published by Church House Publishing. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fourteen-session interactive Christian discipleship course for young people, designed to help 11- to 16-year-olds integrate their faith into life and to equip them as worshippers and disciples.
Download or read book The Sixth Coming written by Richard Donahue and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every 25,000 years - the earth passes through the galactic plane - with a cycle of death and rebirth. The next time this will happen will be on December 21, 2012. Come to know the five benevolent gods and their creations - and - the coming of the sixth - who is far from benevolent. This is a magical journey of births - deaths and rebirths - resplendent with - Mythical Beings possessing all too human frailties. Experience the Reality behind the Mirror - and - ask yourself: "Are we but a mere reflection of some greater reality?" The first of a planned trilogy - this is indeed a journey not to forget.
