Two Souls

Author : Mary Lou Kownacki
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0802828094

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Between Two Souls by Mary Lou Kownacki Pdf

bIt is voices such as these, souls whose direction is clear and sure, free of stubble and full of light, that help the rest of us find our way through all the distractions of life, all of its illusions, beyond its mirages, around its empty enchantments. . . . Good reading, good thinking, good living is what this book brings to the soul.b -- Joan D. Chittister from the introduction "Between Two Souls" presents a lovely, spiritually uplifting conversation in poetry between a gifted modern-day Roman Catholic nun and a nineteenth-century Zen monk. Offering an utterly unique entree into spiritual contemplation, this book pairs inspirational writing from two distinct but mutually enriching faith traditions, revealing the religious joy, wisdom, and all-embracing compassion that transcend temporal, cultural, and theological differences. Ryō kan (1758-1831) is one of Japanbs most-loved and most-renowned poets. After formal training at the Zen monastery of Entsū -ji, he refused offers to head his own temple and instead lived as a wandering monk in the snowy country around Mt. Kugami. Ryō kan wrote thousands of poems during his travels but never published a collection himself. For two years Mary Lou Kownacki, a Benedictine nun, used Ryō kanbs poetry for devotions. Each morning she would read one of his poems, meditate on it, and then respond with one of her own. "Between Two Souls" is the result of this poetic interplay. Over the course of these pages, Kownacki and Ryō kanbs separate voices blend and become one, ultimately drawing the reader into their soulful dialogue on the eternal. Like echoes across time, these beautiful poems bring new depth andinsight to truths that mark the meaning of the ages. Along the way they consider the smallest things in life, using them to gently warn us not to miss the bigger truths found in each moment, not to squander our souls. Complemented with an inspiring introduction by Joan D. Chittister and elegant calligraphy by Eri Takase, this volume provides a lifetime of devotional insights. Listening quietly to these two great souls is sure to enrich your own.

Author : Ellen Cooney
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781566896030

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One Night Two Souls Went Walking by Ellen Cooney Pdf

A young interfaith chaplain is joined on her hospital rounds one night by an unusual companion: a rough-and-tumble dog who may or may not be a ghost. As she tends to the souls of her patients—young and old, living last moments or navigating fundamentally altered lives—their stories provide unexpected healing for her own heartbreak. Balancing wonder and mystery with pragmatism and humor, Ellen Cooney (A Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances) returns to Coffee House Press with a generous, intelligent novel that grants the most challenging moments of the human experience a shimmer of light and magical possibility.

Author : Anand Kumar
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781646507344

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A tale of two Souls by Anand Kumar Pdf

I thought it was all over until I met her again. I was hurting myself to forget her, and yet I kept falling in love. I saw her, smiling and happy with him. As the tears in my eyes pleaded for freedom, I waited, for her, to give me that one smile... Sometimes life gives you a thousand reasons to fall in love, and just one reason to fall apart. I had stepped on it, and, I had to wait for three years to rediscover the soul within me. But, what happened to her in these three years? Does she love me still? This intense love story will make your heart fall in love over and over again.

Author : James S. Hirsch
Publisher : HMH
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547526904

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Two Souls Indivisible by James S. Hirsch Pdf

How two Vietnam POWs, one white and one black, formed an unexpected friendship that saved them both: “A moving story.” —John McCain Fred Cherry was one of the few black pilots taken prisoner by the Vietnamese, tortured and intimidated by captors who tried and failed to get him to sign antiwar statements. Porter Halyburton was a white southern navy flier who the Vietnamese threw into a cell with Cherry at the famous Hanoi Hilton, hoping that close quarters would inspire racial tensions to boil over. Instead, they fostered an intense connection that would help both men survive the war—and continue for the rest of their lives. An unforgettable story of courage and friendship, Two Souls Indivisible is a compelling reminder of what can be achieved, in the face of incredible odds, when we put our differences aside. “A riveting tale . . . Two Souls Indivisible joins the small list of essential tomes on the war, race, and to an even larger degree, books that describe the true meaning of heroism.” —The Seattle Times “A moving story of two men whose courage, sense of duty, and love proved greater than the depravity of their captors.” —Sen. John McCain

Author : Henry McDonald
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781785372599

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Two Souls by Henry McDonald Pdf

Robbie McManus is tortured. His psychopathic comrade ‘Padre Pio’ McCann is never far from wreaking havoc, his punk cousin ‘Rex Mundi’ has arrived from England and is getting in the way, his father is imploring him to finish his A-levels and get the hell out of Belfast – and then there’s Sabine, the mysterious loner in The Pound who shimmers, trancelike, on the dancefloor to the opening track of David Bowie’s Low. Her hair dyed jet black in a Cleopatra cut, she is a moving hieroglyphic that Robbie is desperate to decipher. From the summer of 1978 to a frenzied Irish Cup Final day nine months later, and, through a series of smuggled ‘prison comms’, to the paramilitary-stalked Belfast streets of the late ‘80s, all threads collide in a tense, thrilling denouement. At turns shocking and heart-breaking, Two Souls is a deeply affecting novel that crackles and enthrals, tragically exposing human nature’s futile efforts to make the right decisions and to choose a life worth living.

Author : Kisnaa Anita Birhman
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781684664580

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Divine Love of Two Souls by Kisnaa Anita Birhman Pdf

Chale jo do kadam saath woh, (As she ambles the aisle with me) To unke saath se Pyaar ho jaye, (May I be enmeshed in her companionship forever) Thaame jo Pyaar se mera haath woh, (As she seizes my hand with tender love) To apne hi haath se Pyaar ho jaye, (May I be ensnared by the charm of my own hand) Hota hai agar itna khoobsurat yeh Pyaar, (If love is so alluring and prepossessing) To aye Khuda unhe bhi mere Pyaar se Pyaar ho jaye! (Oh omniscient being! May she be enchanted by my love) It was 5 in the morning when I blinked open an eye to wake up. I was in deep sleep till some time ago, and it felt as if someone had lovingly caressed my hair. But when I opened my eyes, there was no one there. For a few precious moments, I felt the sensation of that loving touch that I had experienced since childhood. It seemed as if that sensation was all around me. Now that presence was close to me; my Radha in the form of Annu was in my life. Divine Love of Two Souls is a story of those emotions that this generation has perhaps lost along the way.

Author : Aaron Spencer Fogleman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781469608792

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Two Troubled Souls by Aaron Spencer Fogleman Pdf

Two Troubled Souls: An Eighteenth-Century Couple's Spiritual Journey in the Atlantic World

Author : Catherine Kairavi
Publisher : Crystal Clarity Publishers
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-16
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781565895195

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Two Souls: Four Lives by Catherine Kairavi Pdf

Is it possible that two of the greatest men of the Norman Conquest—William the Conqueror and his son, Henry I of England—have recently reincarnated as Paramhansa Yogananda (spiritual master and author of the classic Autobiography of a Yogi) and his close disciple, Swami Kriyananda-and if so, what are the subtle connections between the Norman Conquest and modern times? How will these past lives influence our future? In Two Souls: Four Lives, Catherine Kairavi describes a society much more primitive than our own in both knowledge and consciousness, she depicts the days of William and Henry as having been far more brutal than our own, despite the much greater capacity for destruction of modern weaponry. Historians will inevitably object that mankind was the same in William’s day as it is today. For they are intellectual scholars, and there is no aspect of human consciousness more disposed to argument than the intellect. It is kept vital and alive, after all, by argument. It will probably be other historians who grow up with this new and broader perspective on their subject. Catherine Kairavi devoted ten years carefully researching for this book. For the rest, maybe Paramhansa Yogananda’s statement that he himself was William could outweigh, for many readers, any doubts and challenges that may be presented to disprove certain statements in this book. It is a completely new take on present and future trends in modern society.

Author : Steve Gunn
Publisher : Publish America
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 142411506X

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When Two Souls Connect by Steve Gunn Pdf

Steve Gunn was born in England in 1956 and now lives in Florida, where he works full time as a psychic medium and author. Although gifted from an early age, experiencing a life-changing soul connection brought him to dedicate his work to the metaphysical arts and, particularly, to understanding soul connections. As he struggled to find his own answers, his clientele increasingly centered on those in soul mate situations, many of whom contributed their stories. In working on hundreds of cases, he realized that most didnat actually fit the traditional thinking and theories, leaving many people utterly confused about their connections. He recognized the need for a new work to really explain the truth behind the mechanisms of soul connections and set out to create a self-help guide with lots of practical advise for anyone experiencing the awesome power of the soul connection.

Author : Steven Raaymakers
Publisher : Aria of Steel
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1976829046

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A Canticle of Two Souls by Steven Raaymakers Pdf

Raziel seeks to reclaim his homeland from the Rhotian empire with the help of a speaking sword and a warchild named Alicia who hears emotions as music and has mind control powers.

Author : Jean-Paul G. POTET
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-18
Category : Tagalog (Philippine people)
ISBN : 9780244348731

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Ancient Beliefs and Customs of the Tagalogs by Jean-Paul G. POTET Pdf

This book is a provisional essay, followed by a vocabulary and an index, on the Tagalogs' world view in the Sixteenth Century. It is mainly based on the entries of the earliest dictionaries of the Tagalog language. These were written by Spanish lexicographers about half-a-century after the conquest of the Philippines (Cebu 1565, Manila 1571). Additional data are drawn from Spanish chronicles. Many of the recorded beliefs and customs were already obsolete at the turn of the Seventeenth Century. Some are extremely surprising, starting from the primeval myth according to which the world had no solid land at its beginning, but only two fluids, water and air.

Author : Richard Swinburne
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Human beings
ISBN : 9780198831495

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Are We Bodies Or Souls? by Richard Swinburne Pdf

What are humans? What makes us who we are? Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious. In Are We Bodies or Souls? Richard Swinburne comes to the defence of the soul and presents new philosophical arguments that are supported by modern neuroscience. When scientific advances enable neuroscientists to transplant a part of brain into a new body, he reasons, no matter how much we can find out about their brain activity or conscious experiences we will never know whether the resulting person is the same as before or somebody entirely new. Swinburne thus argues that we are immaterial souls sustained in existence by our brains. Sensations, thoughts, and intentions are conscious events in our souls that cause events in our brains. While scientists might discover some of the laws of nature that determine conscious events and brain events, each person's soul is an individual thing and this is what ultimately makes us who we are.

Author : Teaqua Henderson
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781467865425

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Two Souls Cry Tonight by Teaqua Henderson Pdf

Author : Hermann Hesse
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780875867847

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Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse Pdf

Thomas Wayne presents a fresh new translation of this classic that is a particular favorite of young adults confronting life's deepest questions and equally liberating for readers facing a mid-life crisis. Basil Creighton's 1929 version (revised in 1963 by Joseph Mileck) is the best-known version in English; it skips words, smoothes out long, involved passages, unnecessarily "improves" the text ndash; all things Thomas Wayne refuses to do. As with his already published translations of Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, Ecce Homo, and The Antichrist, he emphasizes a strict adherence and reverence for the literal ndash; a Hesse for the 21st century, meaningful and faithful to the original.

Author : Robert L. Winzeler
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759118645

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The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today by Robert L. Winzeler Pdf

The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today offers an anthropological treatment of the ethnography and ethnology of Southeast Asia, covering both the mainland and the insular regions. Based on the proposition that Southeast Asia is a true culture area, the book offers background information on geography, languages, prehistory and history, with a particular emphasis on the role of colonialism and the development of ethnic pluralism. It then turns to classic anthropological topics of interest including modes of adaptation, ways of life, and religion, all illustrated with relevant, current case studies. Students will find well-supported discussions of subjects ranging from the development of agriculture and language dispersals, to fantasy and reality in hunter-gatherer studies, to disputed interpretations of Thai Buddhism and Javanese Islam, to ongoing government efforts to manage religion, create proper citizens, resettle and assimilate indigenous populations, end shifting cultivation and promote modernization.