How We Live Now Stories Of Daily Living

Author : Yu-Mei Balasingamchow
Publisher : Ethos Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789811836800

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How We Live Now: Stories of Daily Living by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow Pdf

How We Live Now offers a multi-faceted, multi-voiced view of contemporary life in Singapore: its comforts and conflicts, personal tragedies and social tensions, and also opportunities for joy, hope and empathy. Featuring an exciting ensemble of both established and new writers, the stories invite readers to think seriously about the world around them, with urgent contemporary challenges such as social inequality and mental health, as well as age-old frictions in personal relationships and friendships. As this slate of characters grapples with crisis, loss, and what it means to hold each other close in a rapidly changing Singapore, we are invited to ponder: if this is indeed how we live now, should we continue in this vein?

Author : Philip Holden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Marginality, Social
ISBN : 9811141738

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Hook and Eye by Philip Holden Pdf

Author : David T. Abalos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313019128

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La Comunidad Latina in the United States by David T. Abalos Pdf

La comunidad Latina, the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, has long been told that assimilation is the only way to succeed in American society. This book challenges that generally accepted view and concludes instead that transformation as a way of life is the only viable option for the Latino community as a whole, regardless of racial, class, regional, or religious differences. It highlights how in the everyday life of la comunidad Latina the members of the community can recognize the underlying ways of life, the stories, and the patterns of relationships that cripple them, and how to break with these ways of life, stories, and relationships to create fundamentally more loving and compassionate alternatives. Along with all men and women, Latinos and Latinas face four choices: retaining a blind loyalty to a romanticized past, assimilating, violating each other, or transforming their ethnic and racial group for the better. This examination of the underlying sacred meaning of the stories of the Latino culture attempts to determine whether these stories are destructive or creative. Now coming of age, la comunidad Latina, previously wounded by assimilation, continues to tell its story in art, literature, history, and religion so that the world may, perhaps for the first time, see its personal, political, historical, and sacred faces. The most important story now being lived is that of Latina women and Latino men who are making choices that will determine the ultimate meaning of a new Latino culture in this nation.

Author : Jeanne Van Bronkhorst
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738735221

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Premonitions in Daily Life by Jeanne Van Bronkhorst Pdf

Go inside your premonitions and find personal meaning from daily intuitive experiences Despite the common idea that premonitions involve dark visions and warnings of future disasters, the truth is they often give us glimpses of the small and personal details of daily life. This in-depth, three-part guide shows how to identify your premonitions, demystifies the assumptions and fears about them, and thoroughly demonstrates how to respond with common sense and without challenging your beliefs. Discover the answers to your most important concerns: What do premonitions say about me? How do I respond? How do I make sense of premonitions when my culture doesn’t believe in them? Premonitions in Daily Life is the only book that investigates the deeper meanings behind premonitions and helps you integrate them into everyday life. Learn how to trust your premonitions, how to influence the very nature of your future premonitions, and how to find a community where you can openly share your experiences. Praise: “Premonitions in Daily Life is a superb look at a very common experience—the sense of knowing a future event . . . Van Bronkhorst takes the mystery and confusion out of premonitions with this fascinating, reader-friendly book.” —Larry Dossey, M.D., author of The Power of Premonitions “[Van Bronkhorst] has compiled an in-depth series of guidelines for how to identify premonitions, how to normalize them, and how to integrate them in a sensible and useful way into your life.” —Sally Rhine Feather Ph.D., author of The Gift

Author : Sandra M. Levy-Achtemeier
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498225137

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The Fiction of Our Lives by Sandra M. Levy-Achtemeier Pdf

We are the author of our own lives. We create, re-create, and co-create our stories over the lifetime we have been given in order to make something of ourselves in the process. Blending new findings from brain science and psychology with spiritual and theological insights, Sandra Levy-Achtemeier has written a readable work translating complex scientific and spiritual categories into practical terms that can inform our everyday selves. From our evolutionary roots that equip us to sing meaning into our living, to the cultural menus we now draw from to script new meaning into our days, she has given us an incredible wealth of wisdom to inform the rest of our life journeys. Underneath it all, Levy-Achtemeier makes the case that God's Spirit and call are at the center of our story--from our brain synapses to the historical circumstances that impinge on our lives.

Author : Oliver Burkeman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780735232471

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Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This is the most important book ever written about time management.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of WorkLife What if you stopped trying to do everything, so that you could finally get around to what counts? Nobody needs to be told there isn’t enough time. Whether we’re starting our own business, or trying to write a novel during our lunch break, or staring down a pile of deadlines as we’re planning a vacation, we’re obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and ceaseless struggle against distraction. We’re deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient and life hacks to optimize our days. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the question of how best to use our ridiculously brief time on the planet, which amounts on average to about four thousand weeks. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern obsession with “getting everything done,” Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing that many of the unhelpful ways we’ve come to think about time aren’t inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we’ve made as individuals and as a society—and that we can do things differently. Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.

Author : R. Ruard Ganzevoort,Maaike de Haardt,Michael Scherer-Rath
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004264069

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Religious Stories We Live By by R. Ruard Ganzevoort,Maaike de Haardt,Michael Scherer-Rath Pdf

Stories have always been important in religion, but systematic explorations of the narrative dimensions of religion are more recent and interdisciplinary explorations of narrative approaches in theology and religious studies are scarce. Religious Stories We Live By paves the ground for these much needed interdisciplinary conversations. It first offers philosophical, psychological, and epistemological reflections on the importance of narrative approaches in the study of religion. The subsequent sections contain case studies and disciplinary overviews of narrative perspectives in biblical, empirical, systematic, and historical approaches in theology and religious studies. Combined, the contributions showcase the potential of narrative perspectives in bridging theology and religious studies, as well as descriptive and normative approaches. Narrative perspectives offer a fruitful common ground for the study of religion. Contributors include Angela Berlis, Marjo Buitelaar, James Day, Maaike de Haardt, Marieke den Braber, Luco van den Brom, Marjet Derks, Toke Elshof, Dorothea Erbele Küster, John Exalto, Ruard Ganzevoort, Joep van Gennip, Annelies van Heijst, Chris Hermans, Liesbeth Hoeven, Anne-Marie Korte, Edwin Koster, Marit Monteiro, Michael Scherer-Rath, Klaas Spronk, Piet Verschuren, Wim Weren, and Willien van Wieringen.

Author : Vincent Deary
Publisher : Random House
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780241008362

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How We Break by Vincent Deary Pdf

‘Exhilarating... Wise and compassionate’ New Statesman An expert, empathetic guide to the science, psychology and physiology of breaking, from the acclaimed author of How We Are What happens when our minds and bodies are pushed beyond their limits? Vincent Deary is a health psychologist who has spent years helping his patients cope with whatever life has thrown at them. In How We Break, he has written a book for all of us who sometimes feel we have reached our breaking point. Drawing on clinical case studies, cutting-edge scientific research, intimate personal stories and references from philosophy, literature and film, How We Break offers a consoling new vision of everyday human struggle. The big traumas in life, Deary points out, are relatively rare. More common is when too many things go wrong at once, or we are exposed to prolonged periods of difficulty or precarity. When the world shrinks to nothing but our daily coping, we become unhappy, worried, hopeless, exhausted. In other words, we break. Breaking, he shows us, happens when the same systems that enable us to navigate through life become dysregulated. But if we understand how the wear and tear of life affects us, then we have a better chance of navigating through times of burnout, stress, fatigue and despair. By equipping us with a better understanding of what happens to us when we're struggling to cope, and making a bold case for the power of rest and recuperation, How We Break helps chart a path through difficult times.

Author : Eihei Dogen,Francis Dojun Cook
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780861718757

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How to Raise an Ox by Eihei Dogen,Francis Dojun Cook Pdf

The writings of Zen master Dogen are among the highest achievements not only of Japanese literature but of world literature. Dogen's writings are a near-perfect expression of truth, beautifully expressing the best of which the human race is capable. In this volume, Francis Cook presents ten selections from Dogen's masterwork, the Shobogenzo, as well as six of his own essays brilliantly illuminating the mind of this peerless master.

Author : Madhavi Raju
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781637814864

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Unconditional Self Love by Madhavi Raju Pdf

How much do you love yourself? Have you ever asked yourself this question? In my book ‘Unconditional Self-love’, I have shared with you how we are confused and sacrificing our lives for others without loving ourselves. We often fall prey to the way people and society wants us to think and behave. In my book, I have shared many tools and techniques, which will help you get a clarity about who you truly are and what you want in your life. We all want to be happy but that happiness does not come easily to us. In my book, I have simplified life and how we can make it what we want it to be. Use the tools and techniques given here to live a happy, abundant, fulfilling life without sacrificing and compromising yourself.

Author : Aurora Levins Morales
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478003373

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Medicine Stories by Aurora Levins Morales Pdf

In this revised and expanded edition of Medicine Stories, Aurora Levins Morales weaves together insights and lessons learned over a lifetime of activism to offer a new theory of social justice. Calling for a politics of integrity that recognizes the complicated wholeness of individual and collective lives, Levins Morales delves among the interwoven roots of multiple oppressions, exposing connections, crafting strategies, and uncovering the wellsprings of resilience and joy. Throughout these twenty-eight essays—twenty-one of which are new or extensively revised—she exposes the structures and mechanisms that silence voices and divide movements. The result is a medicine bag full of techniques and perspectives to build a universal solidarity that is flexible, nuanced, and strong enough to fundamentally shift our world toward justice. Intimately personal and globally relevant, Medicine Stories brings clarity and hope to tangled, emotionally charged social issues in beautiful and accessible language.

Author : Hal Elrod
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781668060353

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The Miracle Morning (Updated and Expanded Edition) by Hal Elrod Pdf

Start waking up to your full potential every single day with the updated and expanded edition of the groundbreaking book that has sold more than two million copies. “So much more than a book. It is a proven methodology that will help you fulfil your potential and create the life you’ve always wanted.” —Mel Robbins, New York Times bestselling author of The High 5 Habit and The 5 Second Rule Getting everything you want out of life isn’t about doing more. It’s about becoming more. Hal Elrod and The Miracle Morning have helped millions of people become the person they need to be to create the life they’ve always wanted. Now, it’s your turn. Hal’s revolutionary SAVERS method is a simple, effective step-by-step process to transform your life in as little as six minutes per day: - Silence: Reduce stress and improve mental clarity by beginning each day with peaceful, purposeful quiet - Affirmations: Reprogram your mind to overcome any fears or beliefs that are limiting your potential or causing you to suffer - Visualization: Experience the power of mentally rehearsing yourself showing up at your best each day - Exercise: Boost your mental and physical energy in as little as sixty seconds - Reading: Acquire knowledge and expand your abilities by learning from experts - Scribing: Keep a journal to deepen gratitude, gain insights, track progress, and increase your productivity by getting clear on your top priorities This updated and expanded edition has more than forty pages of new content, including: - The Miracle Evening: Optimize your bedtime and sleep to wake up every day feeling refreshed and energized for your Miracle Morning - The Miracle Life: Begin your path to inner freedom so you can truly be happy and learn to love the life you have while you create the life you want

Author : Becky Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315298658

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Global Concepts for Young People by Becky Hunt Pdf

Learn how to teach global concepts and use them to increase critical thinking across the curriculum. In this new book from popular consultant Becky Hunt, you’ll get ready-to-use lesson plans, stories, and activities to help you teach five key global concepts—Change, Interdependence, Culture, Scarcity, and Power. Aligned with both the C3 Social Studies Framework and the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, these engaging lesson plans encourage critical thinking skills that will lead to increased creativity in problem solving. This book is an essential resource for teachers looking to: Create a framework to teach young people global concepts that will help them analyze and understand the world. Present stories and lessons connected to real-world issues that inspire students to develop innovative solutions. Engage students in lessons that will help them to understand and celebrate people from different cultures at home and around the world. Shape students into global citizens with an understanding of the world and a desire to bring about change. Special features include anchor stories, games, graphic organizers, and critical-thinking questions. Many of the tools are available as eResources on our website, www.routledge.com/9781138237940, so you can print and use them in your classroom immediately.

Author : Ken Plummer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509517046

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Narrative Power by Ken Plummer Pdf

Narratives are the wealth of nations: they animate life, sustain culture and cultivate humanity. They regulate and empower us, bringing both joy and discontent. And they are always embedded in ubiquitous power: stories shape power, and power shapes story. In this provocative and original study, Ken Plummer takes us on a journey to explore some of the key dimensions of this narrative power. His main focus is on what he calls ‘narratives of suffering’ and how these change through transformative narrative actions across an array of media forms. The modern world is in crisis, and long-standing narratives are being challenged in five major directions: through deep inequalities, global state complexities, digital risks, the perpetual puzzle of truth and the ever-emerging contingencies of time. Asking how we can build sustainable stories for a better future, the book advocates the cultivation of a narrative hope, a narrative wisdom and a politics of narrative humanity. Narrative Power suggests novel directions for enquiry, discusses a raft of innovative ideas and concepts, and sets a striking new agenda for research and action.

Author : Cynthia M. Goodwin
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-17
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781638742258

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God-Inspired Devotionals for Daily Life! by Cynthia M. Goodwin Pdf

Have you ever been brokenhearted, depressed, or stressed out so much it causes anxiety and prevents you from living your utmost for His calling? Many people are experiencing these and other health problems in this fast-paced world we live in; even more so now because of the Covid 19 pandemic. But take heart because God our Father cares so much for you, and He has written you a special love letter to tell you so, called the Bible. Within the pages of the Bible, Word of God is inspiring Scripture which can lift you up out of the miry pit and set your feet on the solid rock of Jesus Christ! It is for this reason God inspired me to write the 365 daily devotionals so it can be your aid in keeping Him in the front and center of your life. The focus is on God telling you to be strong and of good courage. Each day is filled with insight and practical application, along with Scripture verses to inspire you as you have your daily devotional with Him. In addition, after each devotional, I encourage you to delve deep into God’s Word by reading the Further Bible Reading section found at the end of each daily devotional. It is my prayer you will seek God first in all you do because He has a plan for you and desires for you to hear it and live it. Therefore: “Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, He it is that doth go with thee; He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee” (Deuteronomy 31:6).