Download or read book The Wisdom of Stones written by Brian W. Flynn and published by Seahill Press Incorporated. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wisdom of Stones combines fine photography and inspirational text intended to provoke thought, promote reflection, and engender connections between people and their environment. The book was born of psychologist/ photographer Brian Flynn's observation of people's fascination and connection with beach stones on the shores of Campobello Island, Canada. Many of the island's visitors spend time walking silently on the beaches, seldom looking up from the stones underfoot. Periodically, beachcombers stoop down, pick up stones, examine them, and place them in their pockets. This often goes on for hours. At the end of the day, they proudly display their treasures for whomever will look. Seldom has a vistor left without a bag full of stones to display or add to their collection. Brain Flynn's work has been focused primarily on large-scale trauma--disasters and terrorism. These experiences have fueled his passion to find beauty where others do not (or cannot) see it, to find order in what others see as randomness and chaos, and to nurture hope and meaning where and when he can.
Download or read book Stone Age Wisdom written by Tom Crockett and published by Fair Winds Press (MA). This book was released on 2003 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shamanism is one of the world's oldest religions and is the practice of communicating with the natural and spiritual worlds through shamans, or medicine men. It may appeal to spiritual seekers who are disillusioned with traditional religions or New Age gurus because it offers a unique perspective, one based on experience rather than dogma and a celebration of the natural world and our place in it.
Download or read book Spirit of the Stones written by Amalia Camateros and published by Earthspeak Publications. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spirit of the Stones" is a fascinating true story of the author's unexpected journey into the heartlands of the Earth. Her journey begins with a compelling series of omens, dreams, and visions, which reveal an ancient Earth assignment that she had begun in the ancient Anasazi Era.
Download or read book Stone Me written by and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his own words-from rock's most legendary bad boy. Rock 'n' roll legend and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has quite a few things to say: about Mick Jagger, the Stones, sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, and life itself. Sample these nuggets of wit and wisdom chipped from the tablets of Stone: On etiquette: "I've never turned blue in someone else's bathroom. I consider that the height of bad manners." On Mick Jagger: "My aim is always to try to introduce a bit of levity into his life." On the police: "There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting." On family: "My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow." On dental care: "Miraculously, due to abstinence and prayer, my teeth grew back."
Download or read book Circle of Wisdom written by Robert Stone and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Circle of Wisdom is a path for discovering and uncovering the wisdom in, and the solution to, the problems we face, whether in our own lives or in business. No one can give you this Wisdom, because it already exists within you. This path of this discovery is a circle. It doesn't stop. Being on the path is the point. Success isn't something attained, it is the path itself. How many of the most successful people and businesses are now obsolete or on the brink of failure? When we take the path of Wisdom, we are freeing ourselves from past ways experiencing and decision making. We become natural leaders with the ability to affect and direct at all levels human interaction.
Download or read book Whisper Words of Wisdom written by Paul Stone and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1865, Confederate soldier Clyde Blake leaves the Civil War behind and heads west to settle a town he names Willow Creek. Among the belongings he carries with him is a doll – a doll that comes to be known as The Silent Witness. Just under one hundred years later – on a warm summer night in 1963 – six-year-old William Blake first hears the story of his great, great grandfather’s Civil War service and how Willow Creek came to be Willow Creek, but hears nothing about The Silent Witness. And in 1990, William finally comes to know The Silent Witness and all not revealed back in 1963; that’s where our journey both begins and ends. What lies in between 1963 and 1990 is the saga of a family called Blake. Hippies and pot, feminism and family values, homosexuality and HIV, God’s will and personal responsibility – all collide as, one by one, and sometimes two by two, members of the Blake family struggle with the search for peace inside the turmoil that is life, until ultimately, William, the last of the family’s tortured souls, finds his peace in what his mother tells him would come to him in whispered words of wisdom.
Download or read book Daughters of the Stone written by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers It is the mid-1800s. Fela, taken from Africa, is working at her second sugar plantation in colonial Puerto Rico, where her mistress is only too happy to benefit from her impressive embroidery skills. But Fela has a secret. Before she and her husband were separated and sold into slavery, they performed a tribal ceremony in which they poured the essence of their unborn child into a very special stone. Fela keeps the stone with her, waiting for the chance to finish what she started. When the plantation owner approaches her, Fela sees a better opportunity for her child, and allows the man to act out his desire. Such is the beginning of a line of daughters connected by their intense love for one another, and the stories of a lost land. Mati, a powerful healer and noted craftswoman, is grounded in a life that is disappearing in a quickly changing world. Concha, unsure of her place, doesn't realize the price she will pay for rejecting her past. Elena, modern and educated, tries to navigate between two cultures, moving to the United States, where she will struggle to keep her family together. Carisa turns to the past for wisdom and strength when her life in New York falls apart. The stone becomes meaningful to each of the women, pulling them through times of crisis and ultimately connecting them to one another. Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa shows great skill and warmth in the telling of this heartbreaking, inspirational story about mothers and daughters, and the ways in which they hurt and save one another.
Download or read book Book of Wisdom written by Swami Rama and published by Himalayan Institute Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swami Rama's commentary on one of the most celebrated Upanishads. Serves as an introduction to yoga philosophy.
Download or read book Ibn Al Arabi written by Ibn al-ʻArabī and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great 13th century Muslim philosopher explores the mysteries of divine love and wisdom, using the symbolic examples of Biblical figures, prophets and holy men, from Adam to Muhammad.
Download or read book The Book of Stones written by Robert Simmons and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in association with North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California.
Download or read book Stone Upon Stone written by Wieslaw Mysliwski and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the PEN Translation Prize A “sweeping . . . irreverent” masterpiece of postwar Polish literature that “chronicles the modernization of Poland and celebrates the persistence of desire” (The New Yorker) Hailed as one of the best ever books in translation, Stone Upon Stone is Wieslaw Mysliwski’s grand epic in the rural tradition—a profound and irreverent stream of memory cutting through the rich and varied terrain of one man’s connection to the land, to his family and community, to women, to tradition, to God, to death, and to what it means to be alive. Wise and impetuous, plainspoken and compassionate, Szymek recalls his youth in their village, his time as a guerrilla soldier, as a wedding official, barber, policeman, lover, drinker, and caretaker for his invalid brother. Filled with interwoven stories and voices, by turns hilarious and moving, Szymek’s narrative exudes the profound wisdom of one who has suffered, yet who loves life to the very core.
Download or read book Sacred Stones written by Philip Permutt and published by CICO Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the dawn of mankind, stones and rocks have been revered throughout the world. From Stonehenge in England to Uluru (Ayers Rock) in Australia, and from Easter Island to the Côte des Mégalithes in Brittany, France and Petroglyphs in Arizona, stones are regarded as sacred. You may have collected pebbles and stones that have caught your eye, picked them up, examined them, befriended them and taken them home to make treasures of them. You may have been drawn to a crystal and amazed by an ancient sacred site. Sacred Stones is a guide to discovering your personal connection to the world of stones, pebbles and crystals, all of which have an innate energy - learn how to tune into and benefit from that energy. Discover how to read the faces in stones and develop your own special relationship with individual stones and crystals. Gain pleasure from the simple exercises that enable you to use stones and crystals to benefit your health and wellbeing. Sacred Stones takes you on a personal journey of discovery leading to a deeper connection, which can benefit your wellbeing on a physical, emotional and spiritual level. * Find out how stones, pebbles and crystals can focus, store, transmit and transmute energy. * Learn practical exercises you can do both at sacred stone sites and with the pebbles in your pocket, including meditation and dowsing. * Philip Permutt's previous books have been bestsellers: The Crystal Healer (more than 55,000 copies sold); The Little Book of Crystal Tips & Cures (more than 55,000 copies sold) and The Complete Guide to Crystal Chakra Healing (more than 28,000 copies sold), and The Crystal Tarot.
Download or read book Building Stone Walls written by Charles McRaven and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 1999-01-11 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
Download or read book Tamika and the Wisdom Rings written by Camille Yarbrough and published by Sankofa Books. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tamika finds strength in her family, her friends, and herself as she copes with the murder of her father by drug dealers.
Download or read book Crazy Wisdom Saves the World Again written by Wes "Scoop" Nisker and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Upgrade your metaphysics" with funny yet profound insights into science, religion, and meaning.
Download or read book The 10 Book of Priceless Wisdom written by Cory Brodnax and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fragile Wisdom written by Grazyna Jasienska and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So many women who do everything right to stay healthy still wind up with breast cancer, heart disease, or osteoporosis. In The Fragile Wisdom, Grazyna Jasienska provides an evolutionary perspective on the puzzle of why disease prevention among women is so frustratingly difficult. Modern women, she shows, are the unlucky victims of their own bodies’ conflict of interest between reproductive fitness and life-long health. The crux of the problem is that women’s physiology has evolved to facilitate reproduction, not to reduce disease risk. Any trait—no matter how detrimental to health in the post-reproductive period—is more likely to be preserved in the next generation if it increases the chance of giving birth to offspring who will themselves survive to reproductive age. To take just one example, genes that produce high levels of estrogen are a boon to fertility, even as they raise the risk of breast cancer in mothers and their daughters. Jasienska argues that a mismatch between modern lifestyles and the Stone Age physiology that evolution has bequeathed to every woman exacerbates health problems. She looks at women’s mechanisms for coping with genetic inheritance and at the impact of environment on health. Warning against the false hope gene therapy inspires, Jasienska makes a compelling case that our only avenue to a healthy life is prevention programs informed by evolutionary understanding and custom-fitted to each woman’s developmental and reproductive history.
