Lies Behind Love

Author : Mandy Len Catron
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781501137464

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How to Fall in Love with Anyone by Mandy Len Catron Pdf

“A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir” (Los Angeles Review of Books) from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy. What really makes love last? Does love ever work the way we say it does in movies and books and Facebook posts? Or does obsessing over those love stories hurt our real-life relationships? When her parents divorced after a twenty-eight year marriage and her own ten-year relationship ended, those were the questions that Mandy Len Catron wanted to answer. In a series of candid, vulnerable, and wise essays that takes a closer look at what it means to love someone, be loved, and how we present our love to the world, “Catron melds science and emotion beautifully into a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation” (Bookpage). She delves back to 1944, when her grandparents met in a coal mining town in Appalachia, to her own dating life as a professor in Vancouver. She uses biologists’ research into dopamine triggers to ask whether the need to love is an innate human drive. She uses literary theory to show why we prefer certain kinds of love stories. She urges us to question the unwritten scripts we follow in relationships and looks into where those scripts come from. And she tells the story of how she decided to test an experiment that she’d read about—where the goal was to create intimacy between strangers using a list of thirty-six questions—and ended up in the surreal situation of having millions of people following her brand-new relationship. “Perfect fodder for the romantic and the cynic in all of us” (Booklist), How to Fall in Love with Anyone flips the script on love. “Clear-eyed and full of heart, it is mandatory reading for anyone coping with—or curious about—the challenges of contemporary courtship” (The Toronto Star).

Author : A. H. Almaas
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781570628597

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Spacecruiser Inquiry by A. H. Almaas Pdf

Over the past twenty-five years A. H. Almaas—widely recognized as a leader in integrating spirituality and psychology—has been developing and teaching the Diamond Approach, a spiritual path that integrates the insights of Sufism, Buddhism, Gurdjieff, and other wisdom traditions with modern psychology. In this new work, Almaas uses the metaphor of a "spacecruiser" to describe a method of exploring the immediacy of personal experience—a way of investigating our moment-by-moment feelings, thoughts, reactions, and behaviors through a process of open-ended questioning. The method is called the practice of inquiry, and Spacecruiser Inquiry reveals what it means to engage with this practice as a spiritual path: its principles, challenges, and rewards. The author explores basic elements of inquiry, including the open-ended attitude, the focus on direct knowledge, the experience of not-knowing, and the process of questioning. He describes the experience of "Diamond Guidance"—the inner wisdom that emerges from our true nature—and how it can be realized and applied. In this process Almaas looks at many of the essential forms of Diamond Guidance, including knowing, clarity, truth, love, intelligence, compassion, curiosity, courage, and determination. Also included are exercises and questions and answers from the original talks by Almaas on which the book is based.

Author : Kristin Hannah
Publisher : Macmillan Audio
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1427212678

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The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah Pdf

In love we find out who we want to be. In war we find out who we are. FRANCE, 1939 In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France...but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne's home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive. Vianne's sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can...completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others. With courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of WWII and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France--a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.

Author : Anthony C. Thiselton
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802840363

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1 Corinthians by Anthony C. Thiselton Pdf

Anthony Thiselton's lengthy New International Greek Testament Commentary volume The First Epistle to the Corinthians (2000) has become a standard work on 1 Corinthians. In this "shorter" commentary Thiselton draws on his excellent exegesis from that volume but combines it afresh with keen practical and pastoral application for readers at all levels. Thiselton delves deeply into the context and text of Paul's first Corinthian letter as he suggests, section by section, how the book applies to pastoral and practical issues. He draws vivid parallels between the growing church in Corinth and the twenty-first-century church, demonstrating that today's church also faces a seductive culture of competition and consumerism. The church in Corinth preferred its self-centered theology to the Christ-centered gospel of the wider apostolic church. Paul's response in 1 Corinthians, amplified by Thiselton's commentary, becomes a living, practical, transforming word from God for Christians today.

Author : Alice Gardner
Publisher : Awake Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780979243509

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Life Beyond Belief by Alice Gardner Pdf

Learn how everyday life can be your most vital spiritual practice, no matter what your religion or tradition. This book crosses all of the spiritual and religious boundaries through the commonality of our everyday experience. It is a deeply personal book giving a down-to-earth account of the experience of spiritual awakening and the process of bringing awakening into each moment.

Author : Andrew T. Lincoln,J. Gordon McConville,Lloyd K. Pietersen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725248144

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The Bible and Spirituality by Andrew T. Lincoln,J. Gordon McConville,Lloyd K. Pietersen Pdf

The essays in this volume aim to contribute to the newly developing academic subject of biblical spirituality. It is prompted by the belief that, although the Christian tradition has always nurtured an emphasis on spirituality rooted in the Bible and its interpretation, few biblical scholars, until recently, have pursued their work by making connections with either this religious tradition or present-day interest in the broader phenomenon of spirituality. Spiritual interpretation has overlaps with theological interpretation but is distinctive because of its focus on the wisdom of lived experience and practice. The essays therefore attempt, from within the context of the academy, responsible readings of Scripture that have as a major focus the study of how particular texts might contribute to a spirituality in which individual and communal flourishing is a major feature. The essays began as papers produced for an international symposium on the Bible and Spirituality in May 2012, hosted by the Centre for the Study of the Bible and Spirituality in the School of Humanities at the University of Gloucestershire.

Author : Alvah Hovey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Bible
ISBN : UVA:X030510114

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An American Commentary on the New Testament by Alvah Hovey Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Starling Hunter
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780929874975

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The Compass of Light, Volume 2: Etymology in the Great Invocation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HXV8PE

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The Oxford Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Preaching
ISBN : WISC:89077078541

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The Metropolitan Pulpit by Anonim Pdf

Author : Greg Stallworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1960065467

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Behind My Vows, Love, Lies and Deceit by Greg Stallworth Pdf

Behind My Vows, Love, Lies and Deceit is a very dramatic romantic mystery of the perils of sharing your marital and dating relationship. Especially when you are having problems in your romantic union. Even to the point where you rely on your best friend to give you comfort.

Author : Shaka Saye Bambata Dolo
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467024464

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The Genesis of the Bible by Shaka Saye Bambata Dolo Pdf

This book is about Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and how the Arabs and Europeans took these Afrikan Religious Belief Systems from ancient Egypt, North Afrika and used them during The Trans-Sahara Afrikan Slave Trade by the Arabs in the name of Allah, and followed by The Transatlantic Afrikan Slave Trade by the Europeans in the name of Jesus, to enslave the bodies, minds, and souls of the Afrikan Race. This book is about the Jesus Deception that has been passed on down through history by European historians, that is still being taught around the world today. This book takes a provocative intellectual, scholastic, historical, cultural, and sociological look at the Bible. This book identifies the names of the translators of the King James Bible of 1611 A. D., and when the chapters and verses in the Bible were created and who created them. The purpose of this book is to expose the historical, cultural, sociological, religious and theological lies of the Europeans and the Arabs. This book reveals the truth of the origination of The Bible, as There Is No Religion Higher Than The Truth. Join me in an intellectual odyssey through time. Here, I feel like a Lone Warrior standing before a mighty army. Come with me on this perilous pilgrimage as we travel through a parallel universe. I dedicate this book to my mother and father who gave me life. To the rest of my Native Afrikan family for supporting me and encouraging me on this publishing venture. To the Heavenly Father, without whom none of this would be possible. There are others I would also like to thank for being a part of helping me through this journey called Life, such as my professors at the Alabama State University where many a great scholars paths I have crossed. To my American family and friends in Mobile, Alabama who nurtured and taught me from childhood to adulthood. The many friends and colleagues I met in my travels all across America in my intellectual journey, and last but certainly not least, to my publisher for granting me the opportunity to speak to many all around the world in this forum. I am eternally indebted to you all-Thank you.

Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674637122

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The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Helen Vendler Pdf

Analyzes all of Shakespeare's sonnets in terms of their poetic structure, semantics, and use of sounds and images.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081675799

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Good Words by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lynne Pearce
Publisher : Polity
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780745630052

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Romance Writing by Lynne Pearce Pdf

Romance Writing explores the changing nature of both the romance genre and the discourse of romantic love from the seventeenth century to the present day. Indeed, it is one of the first studies to approach romantic love as both genre and discourse in more than sixty years. Faced with the challenge of writing a cultural history for what is commonly understood to be one of lifes most universal, a-historical and cross-cultural phenomena, Lynne Pearce has invoked the concept of the gift to calculate loves added value at different cultural/historical moments. Building upon those philosophical traditions which have argued for the powerfully transformative nature of romantic love, Pearce shows how in the history of literature lovers have utilized its spark to change not only themselves, but also their worlds, through acts of creativity and heroism. The gift of love ranges from the simple gift of a name in the seventeenth century, through notions of immortality, self-sacrifice and selfhood in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, through to the liberating temporal and spatial dislocations of the postmodern age. The opening chapter, The Alchemy of Love, also undertakes an in-depth engagement of the changing nature, and meaning, of romantic love. Providing a judicious blend of close reading and cultural history, Romance Writing will be essential reading for undergraduate students as well as postgraduates and scholars working in the field, while also offering much of interest to the general reader.