The Four Desires

Author : Rod Stryker
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780440423287

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The Four Desires by Rod Stryker Pdf

“Desire is here to stay. The challenge we all face, and which I intend to guide you through, is to learn how to take into account the full measure of who you are and use the positive force of all four of your soul’s desires to lead you to your best life.” —Rod Stryker According to ancient Yogic tradition, your soul has four distinct desires: • The desire for purpose, the drive to become who you are meant to be • The desire for the means (money, security, health) to prosper in this world • The desire for pleasures like intimacy, beauty, and love • The desire for spiritual fulfillment and lasting freedom Learning to honor these four desires is the key to happiness, and to a complete and balanced life. But how can you discern what will truly satisfy your desires? How can you increase your capacity to achieve them? What if your desires seem to conflict with one another? Is it really possible to live a spiritual life while also wanting material pleasures and success? For more than three decades, master teacher Rod Stryker has taught yoga in the context of its deepest philosophy. His course, called The Yoga of Fulfillment™, has helped thousands recognize their soul’s call to greatness and to achieve their dreams. Now, in this wise and richly practical book, he has distilled those broad teachings into a roadmap for becoming the person you were meant to be. It is filled with revealing true stories, provocative exercises, and practices for unlocking your inner guidance. And even if you’ve never done a yoga pose, you can follow this step-by-step process to: • discover your soul’s unique purpose—the one you came into this world to fulfill. • recognize the goal(s) you need to focus on at any given time and enliven your capacity to reach them. • overcome self-defeating ideas and behavior. • recruit your deepest energies and strengthen your resolve to meet any challenge. • learn to live with joy at every stage of your growth. The Four Desires is nothing less than a complete path toward living your best life possible—a life that is rich in meaning and in means, a life that attracts and emanates happiness, a life that is your unique gift to yourself and the world.

Author : Rod Stryker
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780553803983

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Shares inspirational anecdotes to encourage readers to pursue happiness, outlining step-by-step meditations and practical exercises for identifying innermost desires and achieving fulfillment.

Author : Michael Pollan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780375760396

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The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan Pdf

“Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times “A wry, informed pastoral.” —The New Yorker The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?

Author : Veronika Černušková,Judith L. Kovacs,Jana Plátová
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004331242

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Clement’s Biblical Exegesis by Veronika Černušková,Judith L. Kovacs,Jana Plátová Pdf

The twelve essays in this work explore various aspects of Clement’s hermeneutical theory and his exegetical practice, including his use of allegory and his interpretation of specific texts such as Proverbs, the Sermon on the Mount, and Pauline letters.

Author : Steven Reiss
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-03-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0425183408

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Who am I? by Steven Reiss Pdf

What do we want? What makes us tick? From acceptance to vengeance to curiosity, this book explains the 16 basic and universal desires that shape our behavior—and shows how the ways we prioritize them determines our personalities. Grounded in up-to-date psychological research, this book can help parents comprehend their children’s needs and behavior couples understand each other better employers motivate their employees employees become more effective in their work YOU achieve greater satisfaction and happiness in life

Author : Ellen G. White
Publisher : Bytes 4 the Heart
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Seventh-Day Adventists
ISBN : UVA:X030804230

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The Desire of Ages by Ellen G. White Pdf

Author : Kimberly Kay Hoang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520960688

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Dealing in Desire by Kimberly Kay Hoang Pdf

This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam’s sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. Over the course of five years, author Kimberly Kay Hoang worked at four exclusive Saigon hostess bars catering to diverse clientele: wealthy local Vietnamese and Asian businessmen, Viet Kieus (ethnic Vietnamese living abroad), Western businessmen, and Western budget-tourists. Dealing in Desire takes an in-depth and often personal look at both the sex workers and their clients to show how Vietnamese high finance and benevolent giving are connected to the intimate spheres of the informal economy. For the domestic super-elite who use the levers of political power to channel foreign capital into real estate and manufacturing projects, conspicuous consumption is a means of projecting an image of Asian ascendancy to potential investors. For Viet Kieus and Westerners who bring remittances into the local economy, personal relationships with local sex workers reinforce their ideas of Asia’s rise and Western decline, while simultaneously bolstering their diminished masculinity. Dealing in Desire illuminates Ho Chi Minh City’s sex industry as not just a microcosm of the global economy, but a critical space where dreams and deals are traded.

Author : Thomas Baudinette
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472038619

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Regimes of Desire by Thomas Baudinette Pdf

Explores the limitations of sexual expression in Tokyo's "safe" nightlife district and in Japanese media

Author : Niloofar Haeri
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781503614253

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Say What Your Longing Heart Desires by Niloofar Haeri Pdf

Following the 1979 revolution, the Iranian government set out to Islamize society. Muslim piety had to be visible, in personal appearance and in action. Iranians were told to pray, fast, and attend mosques to be true Muslims. The revolution turned questions of what it means to be a true Muslim into a matter of public debate, taken up widely outside the exclusive realm of male clerics and intellectuals. Say What Your Longing Heart Desires offers an elegant ethnography of these debates among a group of educated, middle-class women whose voices are often muted in studies of Islam. Niloofar Haeri follows them in their daily lives as they engage with the classical poetry of Rumi, Hafez, and Saadi, illuminating a long-standing mutual inspiration between prayer and poetry. She recounts how different forms of prayer may transform into dialogues with God, and, in turn, Haeri illuminates the ways in which believers draw on prayer and ritual acts as the emotional and intellectual material through which they think, deliberate, and debate.

Author : Daniel Bergner
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780141956152

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The Other Side of Desire by Daniel Bergner Pdf

Jacob is a man with an overwhelming attraction to female feet. The Baroness is a clothing designer and evangelical sadist. Roy is a wedding band singer entranced by his step daughter. Ron and Laura are simply in love - only Laura lost both her legs in a car accident, and Ron is beguiled by a beauty many would be blind to. How do we deal with desire? Our own, and the desires of others? How do we comprehend desires that are extreme, or unacceptable? And how do those who have them, live with them? In A Map of Desire Daniel Bergner takes us on a journey into human passion suffered, endured, and celebrated. Desire is a sometimes anarchic, sometimes ecstatic, sometimes destructive, sometimes redeeming, and always powerful force.Immersing himself in it through the people whose lives he follows and the scientists he spends time with who are trying to understand it, slowly he exposes and illuminates layers of our humanity.

Author : Michelle Love,Scarlett King
Publisher : Blessings For All SC
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Billionaire’s Forbidden Desires by Michelle Love,Scarlett King Pdf

Enjoy this billionaire bad boy romance at a terrific discount. I’ve bent her near to the breaking point for what she’s stolen from me—my heart. But she will never carry my name. Only a woman of integrity can have that — only integrity isn’t my cup of tea. It’s time to grow up and be responsible. Leave the past where it belongs. Leave my sinful ways behind and find a good woman. A woman that my family will accept. She’ll have to stay with me—in secret—feeding my darkest desires. Keywords: cowboy romance, baby romance, billionaire, doctor romance, contemporary western romance, bad boy, new adult, alpha male, new adult romance, steamy romance, sweet romance, romantic novels, love, action, adventure, sexually romantic books, hot, alpha hero, contemporary romance, guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, sweet romance, love books, love stories, prequel, spin off

Author : David M. Buss
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780465093304

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The Evolution of Desire by David M. Buss Pdf

A “drop-dead shocker” (Washington Post Book World) that uses evolutionary psychology to explain human mating and the mysteries of love If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question, we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent psychologist David M. Buss. Based one of the largest studies of human mating ever undertaken, encompassing more than 10,000 people of all ages from thirty-seven cultures worldwide, The Evolution of Desire is the first work to present a unified theory of human mating behavior. Drawing on a wide range of examples of mating behavior — from lovebugs to elephant seals, from the Yanomamö tribe of Venezuela to online dating apps — Buss reveals what women want, what men want, and why their desires radically differ. Love has a central place in human sexual psychology, but conflict, competition, and manipulation also pervade human mating — something we must confront in order to control our own mating destiny. Updated to reflect the very latest scientific research on human mating, this definitive edition of this classic work of evolutionary psychology explains the powerful forces that shape our most intimate desires.

Author : Gregory E. Ganssle
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830890958

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Our Deepest Desires by Gregory E. Ganssle Pdf

As human beings, we are created with desires. We all long for meaningful relationships, lives that reflect goodness, engagements with beauty, and the freedom to pursue our lives with integrity. But where can our restless hearts find fulfillment for these universal longings? Philosopher and apologist Greg Ganssle argues that our widely shared human aspirations are best understood and explained in the light of the Christian story. With grace and insight, Ganssle explains how the good news of Jesus Christ makes sense of—and fulfills—our deepest desires. It is only in the particular claims of the Christian faith, he argues, that our universal human aspirations can find fulfillment and our restless hearts will be at peace.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724269

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Why I Write by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Author : Dr David Schnarch
Publisher : Scribe Publications
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781921640322

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Intimacy and Desire by Dr David Schnarch Pdf

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. David Schnarch, one of the foremost experts on sexuality and relationships, explains why normal healthy couples in long-term relationships have sexual desire problems, regardless of how much they love each other or how well they communicate. In-depth examples of couples he has counselled reveal his unique understanding of common-but-difficult sexual desire problems that affect couples of all ages. Combining compassion and clinical wisdom, Dr. Schnarch explains how to use his revolutionary Four Points of Balance approach to resolve low desire, mismatched desire, sexual boredom, and the emotional gridlock that accompanies these problems. Intimacy and Desire provides a roadmap for how couples can transform common sexual desire problems into self-exploration and personal development that leads to psychological and spiritual growth, stronger relationships, and more powerful and meaningful desire for each other. It provides time-proven comprehensive solutions that help couples reconnect with each other sexually, and take their intimacy and passion to new, previously unexplored heights.