Описание: Avram Alpert combines personal experience and readings of modern novels to offer another way to understand modern Buddhism. He argues that it represents a rich resource not for attaining perfection but rather for finding meaning and purpose in a chaotic world.
How many times have you caught yourself striving for other people's dreams because you think this would give you a certain status, acknowledgment or the feeling of being rewarded?
In this book, you will learn:
- What stoicism is and where it comes from
- The principles and beliefs of stoicism
- How stoicism is applied to health and wellness
- How to effectively control your emotions
- How to begin implementing stoicism into your life
- How to improve any situation with stoicism
- How neuroplasticity applies to stoicism
This book is the perfect introduction to stoicism for beginners like you While reading it, you'll learn the main practical takeaways of stoicism without getting bogged down in theoretical arguments.
The cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project and pioneer behind the compassionate care movement shares an inspiring exploration of the lessons dying has to offer about living a fulfilling life.
Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight, helping us to discover what matters most.
Life and death are a package deal. They cannot be pulled apart and we cannot truly live unless we are aware of death. The Five Invitations is an exhilarating meditation on the meaning of life and how maintaining an ever-present consciousness of death can bring us closer to our truest selves. As a renowned teacher of compassionate caregiving and the cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, Frank Ostaseski has sat on the precipice of death with more than a thousand people. In The Five Invitations, he distills the lessons gleaned over the course of his career, offering an evocative and stirring guide that points to a radical path to transformation.
The Five Invitations: -Don't Wait -Welcome Everything, Push Away Nothing -Bring Your Whole Self to the Experience -Find a Place of Rest in the Middle of Things -Cultivate Don't Know Mind
These Five Invitations show us how to wake up fully to our lives. They can be understood as best practices for anyone coping with loss or navigating any sort of transition or crisis; they guide us toward appreciating life's preciousness. Awareness of death can be a valuable companion on the road to living well, forging a rich and meaningful life, and letting go of regret. The Five Invitations is a powerful and inspiring exploration of the essential wisdom dying has to impart to all of us.
In 2015, shortly after his 50th birthday, Doug deGrood, an otherwise-healthy advertising executive and avid golfer was diagnosed with stage I bladder cancer which quickly progressed to stage IV. The Right Side of the Fairway chronicles his compelling journey while applying well-known principles of golf to living a better, healthier life. From "loosening your grip pressure" to "focusing on your short game," the approachable, metaphorical lessons deGrood shares are sure to appeal to golfers, but have meaning for non-golfers as well.
Описание: Avram Alpert combines personal experience and readings of modern novels to offer another way to understand modern Buddhism. He argues that it represents a rich resource not for attaining perfection but rather for finding meaning and purpose in a chaotic world.
Though ancient rabbinic texts are fundamental to analyzing the history of Judaism, they are also daunting for the novice to read. Rabbinic literature presumes tremendous prior knowledge, and its fascinating twists and turns in logic can be disorienting. Rabbinic Drinking helps learners at every level navigate this brilliant but mystifying terrain by focusing on rabbinic conversations about beverages, such as beer and wine, water, and even breast milk. By studying the contents of a drinking vessel--including the contexts and practices in which they are imbibed--Rabbinic Drinking surveys key themes in rabbinic literature to introduce readers to the main contours of this extensive body of historical documents.
Features and Benefits:
Contains a broad array of rabbinic passages, accompanied by didactic and rich explanations and contextual discussions, both literary and historical
Thematic chapters are organized into sections that include significant and original translations of rabbinic texts
Each chapter includes in-text references and concludes with a list of both referenced works and suggested additional readings
Though ancient rabbinic texts are fundamental to analyzing the history of Judaism, they are also daunting for the novice to read. Rabbinic literature presumes tremendous prior knowledge, and its fascinating twists and turns in logic can be disorienting. Rabbinic Drinking helps learners at every level navigate this brilliant but mystifying terrain by focusing on rabbinic conversations about beverages, such as beer and wine, water, and even breast milk. By studying the contents of a drinking vessel--including the contexts and practices in which they are imbibed--Rabbinic Drinking surveys key themes in rabbinic literature to introduce readers to the main contours of this extensive body of historical documents.
Features and Benefits:
Contains a broad array of rabbinic passages, accompanied by didactic and rich explanations and contextual discussions, both literary and historical
Thematic chapters are organized into sections that include significant and original translations of rabbinic texts
Each chapter includes in-text references and concludes with a list of both referenced works and suggested additional readings
"Eve was made to be in submission to Adam." "Men are stronger than women and natural leaders." "Eve's weakness brought sin into the world." "Women shouldn't speak in church."
While some in the Christian community are stuck on questions like those above, traditional ideas about gender are being debated and changed. Would you like to know what the timeless wisdom of the Bible offers in rebuttal to all the noise around us? Whether we are Christ followers or not, the Bible has much to teach us about how to be male and female at home, in the community and in religious gatherings.
This book begins in the first three chapters of Genesis. Usually seen as a history of (or metaphor about) human origin, Genesis is really about purpose and relationships. In three short chapters Genesis builds a foundation for understanding why we exist, how we are meant to live and how a historically bad attempt at rebellion threw all human relationships into turmoil.
But the story doesn't end with conflict. Instead of walking away from the rebels, God put a plan into motion to guide them - and us - onto a path toward interpersonal and spiritual healing. That path becomes clear as the book transitions from Genesis into a study of the words and deeds of Jesus and his apostles.
Some readers will find their closely held beliefs challenged. Others will see their beliefs confirmed. But no one will read this book without discovering principles that have the power to improve their relationships with their Creator and with the people around them, be it at home, work, church, in the community or even on social media.
After decades of study, prayer and meditation, Gary Williams crafts a conversation about gender roles and relationships that helps readers make up their own minds about relevant -- but often difficult to understand -- passages found in the Bible. "In the beginning" is where Williams begins his look at ideal male-female partnerships. Trust in a good God accompanies his study from start to finish.
Описание: Life and its meaning is a mystery almost impossible to solve, but what can the leading theories teach us about the search for purpose? For most of us, the major questions of life continue to perplex: Who am I? Why am I here? How should I live? In the late nineteenth century, a class of thinkers emerged who made solving these problems central to their work. They understood that human questions demand human answers and that without understanding what it means to be human, there are no answers. Through the biographies and theories of luminaries ranging from Sigmund Freud to Erich Fromm, Frank Tallis show us how to think about companionship and parenting, identity and aging, and much more. Accessible yet erudite, The Act of Living is essential reading for anyone seeking answers to life's biggest questions.
An ecologically sustainable society cannot be achieved without citizens who possess the virtues and values that will foster it, and who believe that individual actions can indeed make a difference. "Eco-Republic" draws on ancient Greek thought--and Plato's "Republic" in particular--to put forward a new vision of citizenship that can make such a society a reality. Melissa Lane develops a model of a society whose health and sustainability depend on all its citizens recognizing a shared standard of value and shaping their personal goals and habits accordingly. Bringing together the moral and political ideas of the ancients with the latest social and psychological theory, Lane illuminates the individual's vital role in social change, and articulates new ways of understanding what is harmful and what is valuable, what is a benefit and what is a cost, and what the relationship between public and private well-being ought to be.
"Eco-Republic" reveals why we must rethink our political imagination if we are to meet the challenges of climate change and other urgent environmental concerns. Offering a unique reflection on the ethics and politics of sustainability, the book goes beyond standard approaches to virtue ethics in philosophy and current debates about happiness in economics and psychology. "Eco-Republic" explains why health is a better standard than happiness for capturing the important links between individual action and social good, and diagnoses the reasons why the ancient concept of virtue has been sorely neglected yet is more relevant today than ever.
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