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Abandoned Breaths: Revised and Expanded Edition

Author : Alfa
Publisher : Castle Point Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781250233561

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Abandoned Breaths: Revised and Expanded Edition by Alfa Pdf

An exhalation of love, loss, and heartbreak, Abandoned Breaths is a poetic work of catharsis. From the acclaimed author of I Find You in the Darkness, Alfa’s writing is at once deeply personal and universal—resulting in an emotive force that stays with you. This new edition of Abandoned Breaths includes an updated introduction and a brand-new chapter of modern poetry. Find respite, resilience, and rejuvenation from the moving poetry of Abandoned Breaths. There are words that need to be said. Buried beneath pride and fear. Rejection has suffocated their tenacity to bloom. So, they stay dormant and fester. Dwelling in the darkest and dusty corners of a crying soul. Unseen, yet felt. Not alive, but not dead. Abandoned breaths. Words that need to be said. -Alfa

Abandoned Breaths

Author : Alfa
Publisher : Alfaworldwide
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 099805030X

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Abandoned Breaths by Alfa Pdf

Abandoned Breaths is the debut poetic collection from Alfa. Between these pages she has gathered the warehouses of the unsaid, and weaved together the voices that have remained silent in our heartbroken hotels. All the abandoned breaths that we hold on to after serving time in heart warfare never really go away. They cling to dusty shelves, tucked into darken chambers among past wreckage; longing to be given life. She has cleaned house and opened musty windows, letting pulsing words breathe and transform into poetic release. The focus of these writings is to give the heart and soul permission to ache after love and loss. The author is unapologetic about her realistic take on heartache and grieving. She touches on the past, trying to make sense of her experiences, to move forward. This book is filled with timeless and vintage feeling poetry. It will touch every individual heart that reads it, no matter the age group.

Silent Squall

Author : Alfa
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781250233585

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Silent Squall by Alfa Pdf

A poetic portrayal of the unseen tempests of emotional and physical abuse, Silent Squall gives voice to the wounded heart. Raw and honest, the acclaimed author of I Find You in the Darkness shares her intensely personal, yet relatable stories through finely woven poetry. This new edition of Silent Squall includes an updated introduction and a brand-new chapter of modern poetry. Find understanding, comfort, and hope from the affecting poetry of Silent Squall. I have singed wings, and the edges of my heart are charred, and crisp by flames of your dismissal. Yet even though I sift through ashes of the past, as I maneuver through tomorrow... my soul’s fingerprint will be everlasting. -Alfa

What Fire

Author : Alice Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781800859623

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What Fire by Alice Miller Pdf

What Fire is about how to continue as catastrophe crawls in, when the climate crisis has its grip on everyone, the internet has been shut down, and the buildings are burning up. What happens when the philosophers never arrive? What songs are still worth singing? In her third collection, Alice Miller takes a fierce, unflinching look at the world we live in, at what we have made, and whether it is possible to change.

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume VI

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1680 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400833269

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The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume VI by Anonim Pdf

The sixth book of the Ramayana of Valmiki, the Yuddhakanda, recounts the final dramatic war between the forces of good led by the exiled prince Rama, and the forces of evil commanded by the arch demon Ravana. The hero Rama's primary purpose in the battle is to rescue the abducted princess Sita and destroy the demon king. However, the confrontation also marks the turning point for the divine mission of the Ramavatara, the incarnation of Lord Visnu as a human prince, who will restore righteousness to a world on the brink of chaos. The book ends with the gods' revelation to Rama of his true divine nature, his emotional reunion with his beloved wife, his long-delayed consecration as king of Kosala, and his restoration of a utopian age. The Yuddhakanda contains some of the most extraordinary events and larger-than-life characters to be found anywhere in world literature. This sixth volume in the critical edition and translation of the Valmiki Ramayana includes an extensive introduction, exhaustive notes, and a comprehensive bibliography.

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume VII

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1544 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691182926

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The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume VII by Anonim Pdf

The seventh and final book of the monumental Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki, the Uttarakāṇḍa, brings the epic saga to a close with an account of the dramatic events of King Rāma’s millennia-long reign. It opens with a colorful history of the demonic race of the rākṣasas and the violent career of Rāma’s villainous foe Rāvaṇa, and later recounts Rāma’s grateful discharge of his allies in the great war at Lankā as well as his romantic reunion with his wife Sītā. But dark clouds gather as Rāma makes the agonizing decision to banish his beloved wife, now pregnant. As Rāma continues as king, marvelous tales and events unfurl, illustrating the benefits of righteous rule and the perils that await monarchs who fail to address the needs of their subjects. The Uttarakāṇḍa has long served as a point of social and religious controversy largely for its accounts of the banishment of Sītā, as well as of Rāma’s killing of a low-caste ascetic. This seventh volume in the critical edition and translation of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa includes an extensive introduction and describes the complex reception history of the Uttarakāṇḍa, as well as exhaustive notes and a comprehensive bibliography.

World of Wonders

Author : Alf Hiltebeitel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197538227

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"This is the first book in over a thousand years to approach the Mahābhārata and the Harivaṃśa via rasa theory. It argues that both texts put adbhutarasa, the "mood of wonder," to work as their dominant rasa, in a way that takes readers from their heroes' rollicking adventures to the text's profoundest moments. Two Kashmiris, Ānandavardhana (9th century) and Abhinavagupta (10th century), launched such inquiry, claiming that the Mahābhārata's dominant rasa was śāntarasa, the "mood of peace." Both worked the Harivaṃśa as a related text into their argument, which emphasized peace along with dispassion and the quest for liberation. Although they used some textual highjinks to make their case, their argument prevailed, and has remained the only serious contestant for rasic interpretation. This book disputes their claim, and can expect controversy. Some may continue to favor śāntarasa. Some may cite the two Kashmiris' view that adbhuta cannot sustain a major work. This book contests that by putting "the work of adbhutarasa" into its title and arguing for the hard work it does. Some may also be uncomfortable with a temporal incongruity the book poses in that the Mahābhārata and Harivaṃśa are probably four or five centuries earlier than the first text to explore rasas, the Nāṭyaśātra. Śāntarasa faced the same problem but Ānandavardhana and Abhinavagupta, lacking a modern sense of the relative dates, overlooked it. The answer here goes to the heart of this book's argument: our texts deploy the "proper terms" adbhuta, "wonder" and vismaya, "surprise," to work adbhutarasa through rich and contrasting textual strategies. They must have worked out their program with these terms before the śāstra"--

Poetics of Breathing

Author : Stefanie Heine
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438483597

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Breathing and its rhythms—liminal, syncopal, and usually inconspicuous—have become a core poetic compositional principle in modern literature. Examining moments when breath's punctuations, cessations, inhalations, or exhalations operate at the limits of meaningful speech, Stefanie Heine explores how literary texts reflect their own mediality, production, and reception in alluding to and incorporating pneumatic rhythms, respiratory sound, and silent pauses. Through close readings of works by a series of pairs—Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg; Robert Musil and Virginia Woolf; Samuel Beckett and Sylvia Plath; and Paul Celan and Herta Müller—Poetics of Breathing suggests that each offers a different conception of literary or poetic breath as a precondition of writing. Presenting a challenge to historical and contemporary discourses that tie breath to the transcendent and the natural, Heine traces a decoupling of breath from its traditional association with life, and asks what literature might lie beyond.

Mindfulness of Breathing

Author : Bhikkhu Nanamoli
Publisher : Buddhist Publication Society
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789552401671

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This book brings together the most important suttas from the Pali Canon and extracts from the commentaries dealing with anapanasati—the meditative practice of mindfulness of breathing Anapanasati or “mindfulness of breathing” was the method of meditation that the Buddha himself used to attain enlightenment, and during his long teaching career he often stressed its importance to his disciples. In the living Buddhist tradition mindfulness of breathing is regarded as the “root” meditation subject, the basis for all other approaches to meditation as well as a self-sufficient system that covers the entire range of practice for gaining calm and insight. The present book is an anthology of all the important source material from the Pali Canon and Commentaries on this core system of meditation. The book includes the famous Anapanasati Sutta, the Discourse on Mindfulness of Breathing (Majjhima Nikaya Sutta 118); the commentary on this sutta (including a substantial passage from the Visuddhimagga); an analytical treatise from the canonical Patisambhidamagga; and a selection of suttas from the Pali Canon. All this material has been rendered into lucid English by Bhikkhu Nyanamoli, one of the foremost translators of Pali Buddhist texts in our age.

Awe: Ritual Abandon

Author : Adam Graves
Publisher : Æ Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798377441809

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Awe: Ritual Abandon by Adam Graves Pdf

When the world abandons you, abandon the world. At the University of Washington and having an active philosophy discourse, hopes for the future were not enough to fight chronic pain. The past remained the past, and therapy could not change that. Ritual Abandon is an honest memoir of self-sacrifice when the self was too much to manage and something of a higher nature was needed. Part I of Awe.

An Adele Sharp Mystery Bundle: Left to Crave (#13) and Left to Loathe (#14)

Author : Blake Pierce
Publisher : Blake Pierce
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781094377094

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An Adele Sharp Mystery Bundle: Left to Crave (#13) and Left to Loathe (#14) by Blake Pierce Pdf

A bundle of books #13 (LEFT TO CRAVE) and #14 (LEFT TO LOATHE) in Blake Pierce’s Adele Sharp Mystery series! This bundle offers books thirteen and fourteen in one convenient file, with over 100,000 words of reading. In LEFT TO CRAVE (Book #13), after so many years on the force, FBI Special Agent Adele Sharp is pretty sure she’s seen it all—until bodies begin to appear, shipped in crates to Europe’s elite auction houses. With billionaires’ antiques compromised, and the case in the media’s crosshairs, the pressure couldn’t be higher. Who is the killer? Why are they shipping these bodies? And can Adele stop them before he strikes again? In LEFT TO LOATHE (Book #14), FBI Agent Adele Sharp is an invaluable asset in bringing criminals to justice as they cross American and European borders, and when bodies begin turning up at brothels around Amsterdam’s red-light district, Adele is called in to investigate. But the seemingly straightforward case soon spirals out of control, and Adele must use every trick at her disposal to piece together the mystery. An action-packed mystery series of international intrigue and riveting suspense, the ADELE SHARP mystery series will have you turning pages late into the night. Books #15-#16 are also available!

Mindfulness with Breathing

Author : Buddhadasa
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780861717163

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Any practitioner, after meditating for some time, inevitably wonders what meditation method the historical Buddha Shakyamuni himself used while beneath the Bodhi Tree. Many people understand that prior to his realization, Shakyamuni Buddha studied with many of the great yogis of his time, but most do not know what method he ultimately found leads most directly to nirvana. In Ajahn Buddhadasa Bhikkhu's book, Mindfulness With Breathing, the Thai meditation master provides practitioners with penetrating insights into theAnapanasati Sutta, the canonical text which many believe is the most direct transmission of Shakyamuni Buddha's breath meditation methods. Combined with a concise translation of the sutta itself, Mindfulness with Breathing is one of the best guides to Buddhist meditation practice available in the English language.

Abandon

Author : Tim Timberlake
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780768406726

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Your secret to living the life beyond your wildest dreams! Do you have a vision for how your life should turn out? Big plans? Great dreams? Get ready to trade it in for something a whole lot bigger and infinitely greater! In Abandon, Tim Timberlake shows you how to exchange your life for Gods life. Obedience to God is not a burden, as many have thought. Instead, obedience is your key to experiencing the life of Heaven right now! Youll learn how to: Discover the life that will truly fulfill you and start living out your divine destiny Focus on your purposeand not get distracted by your problems Overcome roadblocks to enjoying Gods best and experience victory over your doubts, failures, and temptations Hunger for God more than anythingand confidently entrust your future into His hands As you abandon yourself to Gods plan, get ready to experience a life that is far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! (Eph. 3:20, Message).

Acupressure for Emotional Healing

Author : Michael Reed Gach, PhD,Beth Ann Henning, Dipl., A.B.T.
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780307481153

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Acupressure for Emotional Healing by Michael Reed Gach, PhD,Beth Ann Henning, Dipl., A.B.T. Pdf

Increased stress and traumatic events in our lives have resulted in many millions of people who suffer from insomnia, nightmares, anxiety attacks, depression, and tension headaches. ACUPRESSURE FOR EMOTIONAL HEALING offers relief at your fingertips, quickly and safely, for a wide range of emotional problems. It explains how emotional distress becomes lodged in the body as muscular tension and blocked energy, and shows how acupressure can relieve not just the resulting physical symptoms, but also their emotional source--often without the need for extensive talk therapy or medication. Acupressure stimulates the same points used in acupuncture, but instead of needles, firm finger pressure is used on the surface of the skin. The pressure releases neurochemicals called endorphins that relieve pain. As in acupuncture, specific pressure points are connected with internal organs and energy pathways in the body (called meridians) that regulate the flow of electrical energy to all systems. Unlike acupuncture, acupressure can be used safely by anyone, with only the hands as equipment. ACUPRESSURE FOR EMOTIONAL HEALING offers a comprehensive A-Z guide to emotional ailments (from abandonment to worry and obsessive thinking), with fully-illustrated instruction on dozens of precise acupressure point locations and how to activate them, combined with yogic breathing, stretching, and movement routines. Case histories from the authors' practice further illuminate each condition and the path to emotional balance and healing. Most routines can be used independently for self-care and on-the-spot relief. There are also sections on how to use the techniques to help others, with appropriate safeguards.

Music and Consciousness

Author : David Clarke,Eric Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199553792

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Music and Consciousness by David Clarke,Eric Clarke Pdf

What is consciousness? Why and when do we have it? Where does it come from, and how does it relate to the lump of squishy grey matter in our heads, or to our material and social worlds? While neuroscientists, philosophers, psychologists, historians, and cultural theorists offer widely different perspectives on these fundamental questions concerning what it is like to be human, most agree that consciousness represents a 'hard problem'.The emergence of consciousness studies as a multidisciplinary discourse addressing these issues has often been associated with rapid advances in neuroscience-perhaps giving the impression that the arts and humanities have arrived late at the debating table. The longer historical view suggests otherwise, but it is probably true that music has been under-represented in accounts of consciousness. Music and Consciousness aims to redress the balance: its twenty essays offer a timely andmulti-faceted contribution to consciousness studies, critically examining some of the existing debates and raising new questions.The collection makes it clear that to understand consciousness we need to do much more than just look at brains: studying music demonstrates that consciousness is as much to do with minds, bodies, culture, and history. Incorporating several chapters that move outside Western philosophical traditions, Music and Consciousness corrects any perception that the study of consciousness is a purely occidental preoccupation. And in addition to what it says about consciousness the volume also presents adistinctive and thought-provoking configuration of new writings about music.