On Living

Author : Kerry Egan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780698409323

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On Living by Kerry Egan Pdf

"A poetic and philosophical and brave and uplifting meditation on how important it is to make peace and meaning of our lives while we still have them.” –Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat Pray Love "Illuminating, unflinching and ultimately inspiring... A book to treasure.” –People Magazine A hospice chaplain passes on wisdom on giving meaning to life, from those taking leave of it. As a hospice chaplain, Kerry Egan didn’t offer sermons or prayers, unless they were requested; in fact, she found, the dying rarely want to talk about God, at least not overtly. Instead, she discovered she’d been granted a powerful chance to witness firsthand what she calls the “spiritual work of dying”—the work of finding or making meaning of one’s life, the experiences it’s contained and the people who have touched it, the betrayals, wounds, unfinished business, and unrealized dreams. Instead of talking, she mainly listened: to stories of hope and regret, shame and pride, mystery and revelation and secrets held too long. Most of all, though, she listened as her patients talked about love—love for their children and partners and friends; love they didn’t know how to offer; love they gave unconditionally; love they, sometimes belatedly, learned to grant themselves. This isn’t a book about dying—it’s a book about living. And Egan isn’t just passively bearing witness to these stories. An emergency procedure during the birth of her first child left her physically whole but emotionally and spiritually adrift. Her work as a hospice chaplain healed her, from a brokenness she came to see we all share. Each of her patients taught her something about what matters in the end—how to find courage in the face of fear or the strength to make amends; how to be profoundly compassionate and fiercely empathetic; how to see the world in grays instead of black and white. In this hopeful, moving, and beautiful book, she passes along all their precious and necessary gifts.

Author : Nazim Hikmet
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780892552740

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Poems of Nazim Hikmet Revised and Expanded Edition by Nazim Hikmet Pdf

The definitive selection by the first and foremost modern Turkish poet. A centennial volume, with previously unavailable poems, by Turkey's greatest poet. Published in celebration of the poet's one hundredth birthday, this exciting edition of the poems of the Nazim Hikmet (1902-1963) collects work from his four previous selected volumes and adds more than twenty poems never before available in English. The Blasing/Konuk translations, acclaimed for the past quarter-century for their accuracy and grace, convey Hikmet's compassionate, accessible voice with the subtle music, innovative form, and emotional directness of the originals.

Author : Will Schwalbe
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780804172752

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Books for Living by Will Schwalbe Pdf

From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity. "[A] gift, and one that keeps giving.” —USA Today For Will Schwalbe, reading is a way to entertain himself but also to make sense of the world, and to find the answers to life’s questions big and small. In each chapter, he discusses a particular book and how it relates to concerns we all share. These books span centuries and genres—from Stuart Little to The Girl on the Train, from David Copperfield to Wonder, from Giovanni's Room to Rebecca, and from 1984 to Gifts from the Sea. Throughout, Schwalbe tells stories from his life and focuses on the way certain books can help us honor those we've loved and lost, and also figure out how to live each day more fully.

Author : Donald Swofford
Publisher : LifeRich Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781489711236

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Working on Living by Donald Swofford Pdf

Working on Living is not just about labor. It also gives you an insight on working for the Lord, why its so important to work for him, and the pay youll receive. It has some poetry that has to do with labor of all sorts. The book will enlighten you on how to be a better person.

Author : United States. Agricultural Research Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UVA:X030490762

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Imprint on Living by United States. Agricultural Research Service Pdf

Author : Veronica Bhandaire
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781504940450

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Lessons On Living Well by Veronica Bhandaire Pdf

If life is a journey, then on our way, we come to many crossroads, sometimes roadblocks, or even lose our way. These are the experiences which can teach us many things, if we are willing to take responsibility, and grow with the lessons learned, bringing heightened awareness to each and everyone of us. Everyone’s path is individual, so the experiences and outcomes are unique to each person. This concise book offers insights as to how we can approach each new day, with the ability to be the best that we can be, in an empowered way, with the knowledge that we are all important in the weaving of this world, with what is wonderful, not so wonderful, and what is downright awful. It’s time to become responsible, step up to the plate, and walk the walk, as well as talking the talk. Divided into twenty one lessons of discernment, followed with an affirmation, and place to take notes on your progress, this book can show you how to be the difference you want to be within yourself, and who you reflect to your world.

Author : Cicero
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780718194017

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On Living and Dying Well by Cicero Pdf

In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship, religion, death, fate and scientific inquiry. A pragmatist at heart, Cicero's philosophies were frequently personal and ethical, drawn not from abstract reasoning but through careful observation of the world. The resulting works remind us of the importance of social ties, the questions of free will, and the justification of any creative endeavour. This lively, lucid new translation from Thomas Habinek, editor of Classical Antiquity and the Classics and Contemporary Thought book series, makes Cicero's influential ideas accessible to every reader.

Author : Edwina Reizer
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781435705593

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Reflections on Living - Book Two by Edwina Reizer Pdf

Edwina Reizer's "Reflections On Living - Book 2" continues with her thoughts and images as she sees them in the world today. It is her hope to inspire a new interest in poetry through verse and rhyme.

Author : James Turner (P.R.C.V.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590996615

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A register of experiments ... performed on living animals by James Turner (P.R.C.V.S.) Pdf

Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 923 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547750307

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The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau's Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature by Henry David Thoreau Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau's Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Introduction: Thoreau by Ralph Waldo Emerson Books: Walden (Life in the Woods) A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers The Maine Woods Essays: Walking A Winter Walk A Walk to Wachusett Natural History of Massachusetts The Landlord The Succession of Forest Trees Autumnal Tints Wild Apples Night and Moonlight The Highland Light Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.

Author : Federico Olóriz,Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461548379

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Advancing Research on Living and Fossil Cephalopods by Federico Olóriz,Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar Pdf

Relying on the latest analytical techniques, this all-embracing new reference offers comprehensive coverage of the development, evolution, and morphology of both fossil and living cephalopods. In 34 in-depth chapters a group of 51 international neontologists and peleontologists offer and opverview of current methods, data, analyses, and interpretations, and posit suggestions for future research. With its unparalleled combination of first-rate contributions on living and fossil cephalopods, this book provides researchers and advanced students in paleontology, invertebrate zoology, evolutionary biology, and allied disciplines with a trove of recent data and authoritative interpretations that will immeasurably benefit their own studies.

Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781455501755

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Living with a Wild God by Barbara Ehrenreich Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist, and advocate for social justice. In LIVING WITH A WILD GOD, she recounts her quest-beginning in childhood-to find "the Truth" about the universe and everything else: What's really going on? Why are we here? In middle age, she rediscovered the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence, which records an event so strange, so cataclysmic, that she had never, in all the intervening years, written or spoken about it to anyone. It was the kind of event that people call a "mystical experience"-and, to a steadfast atheist and rationalist, nothing less than shattering. In LIVING WITH A WILD GOD, Ehrenreich reconstructs her childhood mission, bringing an older woman's wry and erudite perspective to a young girl's impassioned obsession with the questions that, at one point or another, torment us all. The result is both deeply personal and cosmically sweeping-a searing memoir and a profound reflection on science, religion, and the human condition. With her signature combination of intellectual rigor and uninhibited imagination, Ehrenreich offers a true literary achievement-a work that has the power not only to entertain but amaze.

Author : Eugene H. Peterson
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781601429803

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On Living Well by Eugene H. Peterson Pdf

In these never-before-published stories, sayings, and biblical teachings, the beloved author and translator of The Message Bible shows us how the wisdom of deep faith helps us live well. “Calming, encouraging, and profound.”—Matt Chandler, lead pastor of The Village Church “Jesus’ words bring us the news of an expanded world, a bright world, a full-dimensioned world, a world in which God rules, mercy is common experience, and love is the daily working agenda.” Eugene H. Peterson (1932–2018) was one of the most beloved authors, pastors, poets, and professors of our time. While millions have read his bestselling paraphrased Bible translation, The Message, far fewer have heard his direct practical insights and wisdom about how to live well. Eugene knew the extraordinary spirituality of ordinary life. He understood that we actually become more, not less, human as we grow to live like Jesus. And living like Jesus means living well. On Living Well collects some of Eugene’s best never-before-published short writings to help you walk in the way of Jesus with a little more courage, passion, and hope—by offering new ways to practice generosity, community, prayer, simplicity, worship, inner peace, and so much more . . . even with the challenges of today. This book is a rich feast for the soul, ideal as a daily spiritual touchpoint or simply to nourish a heart hungry for pastoral wisdom. It is your invitation to enter into the meaningful simplicity of life with Jesus in a world of immense beauty, real difficulty, and endless wonder.

Author : Jiddu Krishnamurti
Publisher : Quest Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1956-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0835603903

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Commentaries on Living by Jiddu Krishnamurti Pdf

Krishnamurti's essential message is that, to find truth, we must go beyond the limits of ordinary thought. In public talks worldwide, he strove to free listeners from conventional beliefs and psychological mind-sets in order to understand what is. This 3-volume series records his meetings with individual seekers from all walks of life, during which he comments on the struggles common to those who work to break the boundaries of personality and self-limitation. In the first volume Krishnamurti discusses many topics, including knowledge, belief, simplicity of the heart, love in relationship, ambition, and clarity in action.

Author : Cara Haycak
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101032879

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Living on Impulse by Cara Haycak Pdf

Mia Morrow is impulsive, plain and simple. While her friends are concerned with grades and colleges, Mia would rather focus on the things that make her happy— like chasing boys or snatching something off a department store shelf. No big deal, right? But then Mia gets caught shoplifting, and her thoughtless behavior doesn’t just push her friends away, it gets her into a lot of trouble, too. In this eye-opening tale of friendships, family, and negative impulses, Cara Haycak subtly shows that the power to heal is within all of us, and it almost always starts with forgiveness.