The Reflections Of A Lonely Man

Author : A. C. M.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : American essays
ISBN : UCAL:$B273021

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Author : A. C. M
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 136347751X

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Author : Abraham R. Besdin
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : 088125312X

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Reflections of the Rav: Man of faith in the modern world by Abraham R. Besdin Pdf

Rabbi Besdin's second collection dealing with such perennial themes as repentance, faith, reasons for mitzvot, transmitting the Mesorah, and more. There are also a number of chapters dealing with Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Sukkot.

Author : Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Publisher : Image
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307568649

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The Lonely Man of Faith by Joseph B. Soloveitchik Pdf

Joseph B. Soloveitchik, the rabbi known as “The Rav” by his followers worldwide, was a leading authority on the meaning of Jewish law and prominent force in building bridges between traditional Orthodox Judaism and the modern world. In THE LONELY MAN OF FAITH, a soaring, eloquent essay first published in Tradition magazine in 1965, Soloveitchik investigates the essential loneliness of the person of faith in our narcissistic, materially oriented, utilitarian society. In this modern classic, Soloveitchik uses the story of Adam and Eve as a springboard, interweaving insights from such important Western philosophers as Kierkegaard and Kant with innovative readings of Genesis to provide guidance for the faithful in today’s world. He explains prayer as “the harbinger of moral reformation,” and discusses with empathy and understanding the despair and exasperation of individuals who seek personal redemption through direct knowledge of a God who seems remote and unapproachable. He shows that while the faithful may become members of a religious community, their true home is “the abode of loneliness.” In a moving personal testimony, Soloveitchik demonstrates a deep-seated commitment, intellectual courage, and integrity that people of all religions will respond to.

Author : Fausto R. F. Prestes
Publisher : AC EDITORACAO & TECNOLOGIA
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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365 Stoic Reflections by Fausto R. F. Prestes Pdf

"In '365 Stoic Reflections' you will find a transformative journey to the heart of Stoic philosophy. Each page of this book is an invitation to wisdom and self-discovery, presenting a new reflection every day of the year. Immerse yourself in the profound lessons of the Stoics, such as Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Seneca, while learning to cultivate virtue, self-control and serenity. These daily reflections are not just words of wisdom; They are keys to facing the challenges of modern life with equanimity. Over the course of a year, you will find yourself growing, finding inner strength, and living with greater clarity and purpose. '365 Stoic Reflections' is the guide to a more virtuous, peaceful and meaningful life, and the promise of new insight with each dawn."

Author : Chris Power
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374719074

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A Lonely Man by Chris Power Pdf

"Elegant . . . A superb suspense novel, imbued with moral and narrative complexity and an omnipresent low cloud cover of dread.” —Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post Two British men meet by chance in Berlin. Robert is trying and failing to finish his next book while balancing his responsibilities as a husband and father. Patrick, a recent arrival in the city, is secretive about his past, but eventually reveals that he has been ghostwriting the autobiography of a Russian oligarch. The oligarch has turned up dead, and Patrick claims to be a hunted man himself. Although Robert doubts the truth of Patrick’s story, it fascinates him, and he thinks it might hold the key to his own foundering novel. Working to gain the other man’s trust, Robert draws out the details of Patrick’s past while ensnaring himself ever more tightly in what might be either a fantasist’s creation or a lethal international plot. Through an elegant existential game of cat and mouse, Chris Power’s A Lonely Man depicts an attempt to create art at the cost of empathy. Robert must decide what is his for the taking—and whether some stories are too dangerous to tell.

Author : Helen Brown
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503506138

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Reflections by Helen Brown Pdf

My parents grew up in a time that most of us only read about in history books. They saw history made many times. Their generation created the advantages that we take for granted today. Like us they, too, had to rely on the Lord Jesus for strength, courage, and pure grit to get through the dangers they faced each day. They still managed to raise five healthy children, all of whom are capable productive members of society. There was a great variety of experiences throughout their lives and through these have been able to learn and grow as part of the Australian community. These lessons have been passed on to not only their children but to the many people that they have come into contact with throughout their days in ministry, farming, and community service as well. They unselfishly offered me this project. I am pleased to be able to share some of their lessons with the whole wide world through this book. As I presented each article, I was made aware that there was an extra blessing that I could claim. I have added these at the end of each contribution. We, their children, have been very blessed to have had such wonderful parents as our role models in life. My prayer is that this book may bring some insight into what life was like in times past. May it also help us all to be grateful for the determination that their generation had to give us the advantages we have today!

Author : Arthur PRIDHAM (Author of “Notes and Reflections on the Psalms.”.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017123075

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Notes and reflections on the Psalms by Arthur PRIDHAM (Author of “Notes and Reflections on the Psalms.”.) Pdf

Author : Thomas Mann
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781681375328

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Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man by Thomas Mann Pdf

A classic, controversial book exploring German culture and identity by the author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, now back in print. When the Great War broke out in August 1914, Thomas Mann, like so many people on both sides of the conflict, was exhilarated. Finally, the era of decadence that he had anatomized in Death in Venice had come to an end; finally, there was a cause worth fighting and even dying for, or, at least when it came to Mann himself, writing about. Mann immediately picked up his pen to compose a paean to the German cause. Soon after, his elder brother and lifelong rival, the novelist Heinrich Mann, responded with a no less determined denunciation. Thomas took it as an unforgivable stab in the back. The bitter dispute between the brothers would swell into the strange, tortured, brilliant, sometimes perverse literary performance that is Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man, a book that Mann worked on and added to throughout the war and that bears an intimate relation to his postwar masterpiece The Magic Mountain. Wild and ungainly though Mann’s reflections can be, they nonetheless constitute, as Mark Lilla demonstrates in a new introduction, a key meditation on the freedom of the artist and the distance between literature and politics. The NYRB Classics edition includes two additional essays by Mann: “Thoughts in Wartime” (1914), translated by Mark Lilla and Cosima Mattner; and “On the German Republic” (1922), translated by Lawrence Rainey.

Author : Daniel Schreiber
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789147650

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Alone by Daniel Schreiber Pdf

A book for our times: a moving meditation on the tension between loneliness and freedom, individualism and love. At no time before have so many people lived alone, and never has loneliness been so widely or keenly felt. Why, in a society of individualists, is living alone perceived as a shameful failure? And can we ever be happy on our own? Drawing on personal experience, as well as philosophy and sociology, Daniel Schreiber explores the tension between the desire for solitude and freedom, and the desire for companionship, intimacy, and love. Along the way he illuminates the role that friendships play in our lives—can they be a response to the loss of meaning in a world in crisis? A profoundly enlightening book on how we want to live, Alone spent almost a year on Germany’s bestseller list.

Author : John Paul Thomas
Publisher : My Catholic Life!
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Daily Reflections on Divine Mercy by John Paul Thomas Pdf

"Daily Reflections on Divine Mercy" was written to provide an awakening to the abundant Mercy of God. It offers daily reflections and prayers to help deepen the day-to-day faith life of every Catholic so that you can understand the abundance of Mercy poured forth from the Heart of our Savior as it is revealed in the writings of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska. "Divine Mercy in My Soul: Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska" is soon to become a classic spiritual book that everyone is encouraged to read in their lifetime. However, many find this invitation intimidating, not just because of the width of her book, but because of the depth of its message on The Divine Mercy in each of Saint Faustina’s notebook entries. This book, "Daily Reflections on Divine Mercy," was written with the hope of guiding you through Saint Faustina’s Diary and her six notebooks of reflections. It can be used on its own to help you pause and reflect on the beauty of Jesus’ messages to her, or as a companion book, as you simultaneously read Saint Faustina’s Diary. "Daily Reflections on Divine Mercy" offers 365 daily teachings, reflections and prayers based upon the pages of Saint Faustina’s Diary. The structured way to use this daily reflection book is to do just that…reflect upon one page each day. However, some may feel called to skip around a bit, read a few reflections at a time, or return to a particular reflection through which God spoke to you. Therefore, though this book was written with the intent of providing one reflection for each day of the year, the best way to use it is any way you feel called and the way that benefits your relationship with God the most. The first paragraph for each day offers this author’s insights to the words and teachings of Saint Faustina. The section of her Diary used for the day’s teaching is marked so that the reader can also read her Diary first hand so as to see the primary source that the author of this book took inspiration from for that day’s reflection. Though the primary text of the Diary is never quoted, nor are the reflections of this book exact representations of the Diary, they do provide the foundational basis for the spiritual message shared in each reflection. The second paragraph for each day offers a short reflection put more as a question to the reader. It offers the same insight in a different format so as to enter more deeply into the message of the day. Finally, each daily reflection ends with a prayer focused upon the message and reflection for that day. The reader is encouraged to pray this prayer several times. Ideally, it is prayed first thing in the morning, again during the day, and again at night as an examination on how well the daily message was received. As you seek to survive the world we live in, allow these pages to be a font of Mercy for you from God. Allow God’s Divine Mercy to penetrate your heart so that you will know the abundance of His love and be more prepared to share that love with others.

Author : Heshey Zelcer,Mark Zelcer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000368734

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The Philosophy of Joseph B. Soloveitchik by Heshey Zelcer,Mark Zelcer Pdf

Providing a concise but comprehensive overview of Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s larger philosophical program, this book studies one of the most important modern Orthodox Jewish thinkers. It incorporates much relevant biographical, philosophical, religious, legal, and historical background so that the content and difficult philosophical concepts are easily accessible. The volume describes his view of Jewish law (Halakhah) and how he takes the view to answer the fundamental question of Jewish philosophy, the question of the "reasons" for the commandments. It shows how numerous of his disparate books, essays, and lectures on law, specific commandments, and Jewish religious phenomenology, can be woven together to form an elegant philosophical program. It also provides an analysis and summary of Soloveitchik’s views on Zionism and on interreligious dialogue and the contexts for Soloveitchik’s respective stances on two issues that were pressing in his role as a leader of a major branch of post-war Orthodox Judaism. The book provides a synoptic overview of the philosophical works of Joseph B. Soloveitchik. It will be of interest to historians and scholars studying neo-Kantian philosophy, Jewish thought and philosophy of religion.

Author : Chelston W.D. Brathwaite
Publisher : IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Reflections on agriculture in Jamaica by Chelston W.D. Brathwaite Pdf

Author : Doris Nickles
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781449079239

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Spiritual Reflections by Doris Nickles Pdf

My book consists of a number of short writings, based on the ability to communicate with spirit, and how it has helped me to understand my journey through life and all it's events. I write of understanding natural law and the balance of nature; personal responsibility and retributions in all doings. I write of examples of how this understanding has helped me, what I have discovered in being a positive person and living a positive life. I also draw attention to healing energies, and assisting self to heal the heart, mind, and soul. Helping to direct a positive outlook on life and its events. I feel anyone who reads my book will find they can identify in some way with the experiences I share, and the messages derived from these writings.

Author : Mr. Amari Soul
Publisher : Black Castle Media Group
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780986164729

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Reflections of a Man by Mr. Amari Soul Pdf