Dialogue With Death

Author : Eknath Easwaran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 8172247575

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Dialogue With Death by Eknath Easwaran Pdf

Dialogue with Death is not a book on death and dying. It is a book about life and living: what life is for, who we are as human beings, why we are here. Yet it is death that forces these questions on us. If we could live forever, there would be little urgency in finding answers. But the fact is that whatever our age or the status of our health, none of us has time to waste in learning what life is for.We begin to take life seriously when we take death seriously. Otherwise, as Thoreau said, we run the risk of discovering, when we come to die, that we have never lived. This is not a negative observation. It is completely positive, for it brings life into focus. Every moment is precious. There is so little time: not a day to waste on quarreling with those we love, no time for anything that robs our lives of joy, hope, and meaning. Fulfilling the purpose of life becomes our overriding priority, and that brings joy, hope, love, and meaning to us and to those around us. Let this book be your guide.

Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446546031

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Dialogue with Death by Arthur Koestler Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Rohit Mehta
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8120812239

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The Dialogue with Death by Rohit Mehta Pdf

In the Dialouge with Death the author presents the superb mtsticism of Sri Aurobindo as he has expounded it in his own inimitable style in the exquisite poem Savitri.Savitri is a movemental work in which sri Aurodindo is seen as a yogi and a philosopher a mystic and an occultist a poet and a lover all at once. It contains the quintessence of Sri Aurobindo`s great spirtiual adventure which aimed at bridging the gulf between Heaven and Earth.

Author : Terence O'Connell
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9789042026285

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Dialogue on Grief and Consolation by Terence O'Connell Pdf

Have you lost a loved one? The loss can be inestimable, the grief excruciating. What helped you? Did someone say something comforting? Did someone offer a consolation, which you resented? Have you ever tried to comfort someone with a terminal illness or one who has lost a loved one? Knowing how to help or what to say that is not trite, insincere, or superficial can be difficult. The point of view of a grieving person is quite different from that of those who wish to offer comfort. In a multicultural society such as ours, anticipating the beliefs of the grieving person can be even more difficult. This book explores the perspective of a grieving person. It considers the merits and potential harm of alternative comfort strategies. As a philosophical analysis of grief, it emphasizes an understanding of the beliefs that underlie grief and the usefulness or dangers of emotions. Because grief is so complex and sensitive, a narrow approach runs the risk of alienating the grieving person. The ideas in this book are expressed in a dialogue among three characters. Their discussion is broad and fundamental. Starting from the familiar consolation, “She’s no longer suffering” and the grieving person’s resentment toward the expression, the three friends articulate the value of life and the evils of death. Their discussion enriches their understanding of grief. Many consolations offered to mourners are poor arguments. Even the better ones do their work best in the context of a greater understanding of grief.

Author : Commentary by swami Chinmayananda
Publisher : Central Chinmaya Mission Trust
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788175976627

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KATHOPANISHAD by Commentary by swami Chinmayananda Pdf

Kathopaniñad is a unique Upaniñad which starts with a kathä (a story) of a young boy who is ready to face the Lord of Death in his quest for Truth to know what lies beyond death. He asks the very pertinent and philosophical question, ‘Is there or is there not, and if it is what is it?’ In short, this teaching is an extravaganza of spiritual knowledge and meditation that guides a student step by step to the glorious state of immortality, peace and bliss.

Author : Lloyd Steffen,Dennis R. Cooley
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451487572

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The Ethics of Death by Lloyd Steffen,Dennis R. Cooley Pdf

In The Ethics of Death, the authors, one a philosopher and one a religious studies scholar, undertake an examination of the deaths that we experience as members of a larger moral community. Their respectful and engaging dialogue highlights the complex and challenging issues that surround many deaths in our modern world and helps readers frame thoughtful responses. Unafraid of difficult topics, Steffen and Cooley fully engage suicide, physician assisted suicide, euthanasia, capital punishment, abortion, and war as areas of life where death poses moral challenges.

Author : Arthur Koestler
Publisher : Random House
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781409018735

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The Invisible Writing by Arthur Koestler Pdf

The second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon. Taken together, Arthur Koestler's volumes of autobiography constitute an unrivalled study of a twentieth-century life. The Invisible Writing picks up where the first volume, Arrow in the Blue, ended, with Koestler joining the Communist Party. This second volume goes on to detail some of the most important, gruelling and electrifying experiences in his life. This book tells of Koestler's travels through Russia and remote parts of Soviet Central Asia and of his life as an exile. It tells of how he survived in Franco's prisons under sentence of death and in concentration camps in Occupied France and ends with his escape in 1940 to England, where he found stability and a new home.

Author : Josh McDowell,Dave Sterrett
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781575679402

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Did the Resurrection Happen . . . Really? by Josh McDowell,Dave Sterrett Pdf

With over 40 million books sold, bestselling author Josh McDowell is no stranger to creatively presenting biblical truth. Now, partnering with fellow apologist Dave Sterrett, Josh introduces a new series targeted at the intersection of story and truth. The Coffee House Chronicles are short, easily devoured novellas aimed at answering prevalent spiritual questions. Each book in the series tackles a long-contested question of the faith, and then answer these questions with truth through relationships and dialogue in each story. In Did the Resurrection Happen, Really?: A Dialogue on Life, Death, and Hope, the college campus is rocked by a shooting spree that leaves nine students dead. Their up-close experience with mortality allies the coffee house discussion group together to really wrestle with the spiritual and eternal ramifications of whether or not Jesus rose from the dead. The other two books in the series: Is the Bible True, Really? and Who is Jesus, Really? continue the unfolding story at the college campus and the coffee house down the road.

Author : Giacomo Leopardi
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141192550

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Great Ideas V Dialogue Between Fashion and Death by Giacomo Leopardi Pdf

Leopardi, poet and philosopher, explores in humorous but savage dialogue the power of fashion and its strange irrationality. He also imagines conversations between Hercules and Atlas, Nature and an Icelander, and the Earth and the Moon, as well as producing a simple essay praising the humble bird. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Author : Paola Cavalieri
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780231518239

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The Death of the Animal by Paola Cavalieri Pdf

While moral perfectionists rank conscious beings according to their cognitive abilities, Paola Cavalieri launches a more inclusive defense of all forms of subjectivity. In concert with Peter Singer, J. M. Coetzee, Harlan B. Miller, and other leading animal studies scholars, she expands our understanding of the nonhuman in such a way that the derogatory category of "the animal" becomes meaningless. In so doing, she presents a nonhierachical approach to ethics that better respects the value of the conscious self. Cavalieri opens with a dialogue between two imagined philosophers, laying out her challenge to moral perfectionism and tracing its influence on our attitudes toward the "unworthy." She then follows with a roundtable "multilogue" which takes on the role of reason in ethics and the boundaries of moral status. Coetzee, Nobel Prize winner for Literature and author of The Lives of Animals, emphasizes the animality of human beings; Miller, a prominent analytic philosopher at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, dismantles the rationalizations of human bias; Cary Wolfe, professor of English at Rice University, advocates an active exposure to other worlds and beings; and Matthew Calarco, author of Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida, extends ethical consideration to entities that traditionally have little or no moral status, such as plants and ecosystems. As Peter Singer writes in his foreword, the implications of this conversation extend far beyond the issue of the moral status of animals. They "get to the heart of some important differences about how we should do philosophy, and how philosophy can relate to our everyday life." From the divergences between analytical and continental approaches to the relevance of posthumanist thinking in contemporary ethics, the psychology of speciesism, and the practical consequences of an antiperfectionist stance, The Death of the Animal confronts issues that will concern anyone interested in a serious study of morality.

Author : Jack Kevorkian
Publisher : Poignant Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015071156502

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Medical Research and the Death Penalty by Jack Kevorkian Pdf

Author : John Perry
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1978-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603846417

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A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality by John Perry Pdf

Perry's excellent dialogue makes a complicated topic stimulating and accessible without any sacrifice of scholarly accuracy or thoroughness. Professionals will appreciate the work's command of the issues and depth of argument, while students will find that it excites interest and imagination. --David M. Rosenthal, CUNY, Lehman College

Author : ARTHUR KOESTELERS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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DARKNESS AT NOON by ARTHUR KOESTELERS Pdf

Author : Michael Hebb
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780738235318

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Let's Talk about Death (over Dinner) by Michael Hebb Pdf

For readers of Being Mortal and When Breath Becomes Air, the acclaimed founder of Death over Dinner offers a practical, inspiring guide to life's most difficult yet important conversation. Of the many critical conversations we will all have throughout our lifetime, few are as important as the ones discussing death—and not just the practical considerations, such as DNRs and wills, but what we fear, what we hope, and how we want to be remembered. Yet few of these conversations are actually happening. Inspired by his experience with his own father and countless stories from others who regret not having these conversations, Michael Hebb cofounded Death Over Dinner—an organization that encourages people to pull up a chair, break bread, and really talk about the one thing we all have in common. Death Over Dinner has been one of the most effective end-of-life awareness campaigns to date; in just three years, it has provided the framework and inspiration for more than a hundred thousand dinners focused on having these end-of-life conversations. As Arianna Huffington said, "We are such a fast-food culture, I love the idea of making the dinner last for hours. These are the conversations that will help us to evolve." Let's Talk About Death (over Dinner) offers keen practical advice on how to have these same conversations—not just at the dinner table, but anywhere. There's no one right way to talk about death, but Hebb shares time—and dinner—tested prompts to use as conversation starters, ranging from the spiritual to the practical, from analytical to downright funny and surprising. By transforming the most difficult conversations into an opportunity, they become celebratory and meaningful—ways that not only can change the way we die, but the way we live.

Author : Johannes von Saaz
Publisher : University of North Carolina S
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0807880221

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Death and the Plowman Or, the Bohemian Plowman by Johannes von Saaz Pdf

This dialogue about death from the year 1400 has no peer in early German Renaissance literature. Ernest Kirrmann presents an English translation of the German classic, as well as a preface by Alois Bernt giving an introduction to the context and significance of the work. The text is accompanied by five woodcuts reproduced from the earliest known printed version of the German original.