Author: Samuel Wells
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1786223694
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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All churches have had to learn to do things differently during closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. None has been more imaginative or inventive than London’s St Martin in the Fields. Through its HeartEdge programmes, it has continued many aspects of its ministry, and developed significant new initiatives and is now a virtual college with an impressively varied programme for practitioners. Here the St Martin’s team reflects theologically and share its newly found pastoral and practical wisdom in many areas: • Finding God in Lockdown • Meeting God and One Another Online • Rediscovering Contemplative Prayer • Facing Grief amidst Separation • Preaching at Such a Time as This • Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Time • Hearing Scripture Together in Difficult Times • Praying through Crisis • Creating a Community of Practitioners • Finding Faith at Home • Conclusion: A Strategy for Transformation The Contributors are all on the staff at St Martin’s and key figures in HeartEdge: Sam Wells, Richard Carter, Sally Hitchiner, Fiona MacMillan, Jonathan Evens and Andrew Earis.
Author: Sendhil Mullainathan
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805092641
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 303
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A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture
Author: Jeremy J. Schmidt
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479853828
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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An intellectual history of America's water management philosophy Humans take more than their geological share of water, but they do not benefit from it equally. This imbalance has created an era of intense water scarcity that affects the security of individuals, states, and the global economy. For many, this brazen water grab and the social inequalities it produces reflect the lack of a coherent philosophy connecting people to the planet. Challenging this view, Jeremy Schmidt shows how water was made a “resource” that linked geology, politics, and culture to American institutions. Understanding the global spread and evolution of this philosophy is now key to addressing inequalities that exist on a geological scale. Water: Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the Age of Humanity details the remarkable intellectual history of America’s water management philosophy. It shows how this philosophy shaped early twentieth-century conservation in the United States, influenced American international development programs, and ultimately shaped programs of global governance that today connect water resources to the Earth system. Schmidt demonstrates how the ways we think about water reflect specific public and societal values, and illuminates the process by which the American approach to water management came to dominate the global conversation about water. Debates over how human impacts on the planet are connected to a new geological epoch—the Anthropocene—tend to focus on either the social causes of environmental crises or scientific assessments of the Earth system. Schmidt shows how, when it comes to water, the two are one and the same. The very way we think about managing water resources validates putting ever more water to use for some human purposes at the expense of others.
Author: Victoria Castle
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1605094315
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Do you ever tell yourself that you're not enough? Not smart enough, not rich enough, not good enough, not fill-in-the-blanks enough? Or do you worry that there is not enough: not enough time, not enough money, not enough opportunity, not enough…whatever? Consciously and unconsciously, dozens of times a day, we tell ourselves that we are lacking, that our lives are lacking, that the universe is lacking. We lull ourselves into what Victoria Castle calls the “Trance of Scarcity”—a numbed state in which we're crippled by the pervasive assumption that lack, struggle, and separation are our unavoidable fate. But what if it is the very story we tell ourselves—both as individuals and as a society—that keeps us trapped in this limited state? Here Castle shows you how to embody a new story—one that is about abundance, inspiration, and your own innate ability to create your reality. Once you break free from the Trance of Scarcity, you'll be able to live a more meaningful and fulfilling life.
Author: Chogyam Trungpa
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 0834800284
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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“One of the great spiritual leaders of all times” offers mindfulness meditations and guidance on how to bring awareness into everyday life with “an illuminating wisdom that dances through every page” (Tara Brach, PhD, author of Radical Acceptance) The rewards of mindfulness practice are well proven: reduced stress, improved concentration, and an overall sense of well-being. But those benefits are just the beginning. Mindfulness in action—mindfulness applied throughout life—can help us work more effectively with life’s challenges, expanding our appreciation and potential for creative engagement. This guide to mindful awareness through meditation provides all the basics to get you started, but also goes deeper to address the questions that naturally arise as your practice matures and further insight arises. A distillation of teachings on the subject by one of the great meditation masters of our time, this book serves as an introduction to the practice as well as a guide to the ongoing mindful journey. “Mindfulness is the direct path to insight—and no one has ever illuminated that wonderful path more skillfully than Chögyam Trungpa.” —Pema Chödrön
Author: Juliana Park
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401948200
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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An experienced financial advisor integrates money, psychology, and spirituality to offer a gratitude- and awareness-based approach for maximizing your net worth—and your self-worth. Understanding money is crucial in today’s financially driven world. However, attaining wealth has more to do with internal motivations and experiences than with external circumstances. The Abundance Loop reveals what blocks you from achieving the prosperity that is your natural birthright. By breaking free from a fear-based mind-set, you will learn to cultivate gratitude and awareness—and take conscious action to create the life you want. Juliana Park, a Certified Financial Planner and financial advisor for over 13 years with major Wall Street firms, offers a step-by-step approach for you to shift from scarcity to abundance. Here, she walks you through 30 practical exercises and shows you how to: • Reframe your life through the lens of the Abundance Loop—and radically change your relationship with money, with others, and with yourself • Align your choices with your core values and authentic purpose • Find financial security and spiritual serenity This groundbreaking book will challenge your beliefs about what is possible and lead you on a clear path to enrich both your net worth and your self-worth.
Author: Cullen Roche
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1137279311
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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An insightful and original look at why understanding macroeconomics is essential for all investors
Author: Kenwyn K. Smith
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 1977211089
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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This book is for young adults and their parents striving to navigate the turbulent waters of this transformational epoch. We are partway through a period of change that probably began when a young Albert Einstein penned on a scrappy piece of paper e=mc2. In time this will most likely be characterized as among the most significant in history, perhaps even more impactful than the Renaissance. One feature of this reformation is sure to be the development of a deep appreciation for the place of abundance in both nature and our lives. Today most people, organizations and communities describe their existence as a struggle to survive. Rarely does anyone report on how much they are thriving. That is strange because never before has humanity as a whole been so wealthy, so bathed in abundance. One reason is that most of contemporary life is governed by economic systems predicated on scarcity. Because it is not possible to make money unless there are natural or artificially-induced shortages, we are prone to reason about tradeoffs using a scarcity logic. As with every reformation, this era is both exciting and taxing. Once this transformation has taken root we will come to recognize that all of life is predicated on abundance. And with that realization we will begin to make major shifts in our thinking and our prioritizing. Of special import will be the addressing of an ancient folly that still haunts us. In his famous economic text Adam Smith signaled this dilemma by rhetorically asking why we assign zero monetary value to water, which is essential for all lives, but pay a small fortune for diamonds whose utility is purely symbolic? Economists have mostly ignored this issue, although the British fiscal maestro, Maynard Keynes did gratituously dub it the water-diamond paradox. Given the current socio-political complexities, the global world cannot possibly be sustained by an economic system based solely on scarcity. It needs to be augmented by a new financial infrastructure centered on abundance. As a precursor to this anticipated economic shift we face a large task, to develop a coherent and collective sense of abundance. This will take time. Since we already know a great deal about scarcity it seems wise to prepare for this evolutionary inevitability by learning to describe every-day events using the principles of abundance. Abundance is a way of seeing, a method of thinking, a form of emoting and a manner of intuiting. So is scarcity. Diamandis and Kotler, in their book Abundance, present a compelling and optimistic case that the future is better than we think. In the past people have treated shortages as evidence of scarcity and have spoken about abundance in terms of excesses. Such notions are now being re-conceptualized. Abundance involves balancing consumption and replenishment, decay and regeneration, expired pasts and future dreams. It also depends on the restrictions and regulatory actions of Yin-Yang-like rheostats. As with a pregnancy approaching full-term, when the confining function of scarcity subsides, the landscape of what-is-to-be emerges. In an artful way this book shows how everyday events can be experienced as either awash with abundance or burdened by scarcity. If we so chose, we can all be guided by a self-created and communally-sustained sense of abundance. Learning how to see the best and the worst of times with an abundance rather than a scarcity lens is the special gift of this book.
Author: Julie Ann Cairns
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401948669
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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Are you frustrated in your efforts to succeed and create abundance in your life? Are you exasperated even though you may have set financial goals for yourself, gained knowledge, and worked hard? Are you wondering what is standing in your way, preventing you from accessing the life of freedom you’ve been dreaming about? Well, The Abundance Code is here to provide the answer you’ve been searching for . . . There is a hidden yet crucial element to success and abundance that most people are unaware of – because that essential element is buried in their unconscious minds. The Abundance Code is about how you can (and must!) rewrite your subconscious programming so that you can effortlessly achieve the rich life of abundance you deserve. Julie Ann Cairns takes you through the "7 Money Myths" – an extremely common set of subconscious barriers put up between you and your attainment of abundant wealth and freedom – and helps you banish them, so that your subconscious "code" can come into alignment with your conscious goals for financial freedom. If your underlying programming does not support your goals – and it probably doesn’t – then Julie will show you how to get out of your own way and finally access the life you have always wanted. You can be successful, you can be wealthy, and you can make money without expending physical effort or sacrificing too much of your precious time. You can become financially free with the luxury of choice. If you have tried and tried to attain financial freedom but are still struggling, then this book will provide the breakthrough you’ve been waiting for.
Author: Guli Francis-Dehqani
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1786223856
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 41
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Guli Francis-Dehqani was born in Isfahan, Iran, to a family who were part of the tiny Anglican Church established by 19th century missionaries. Her father, a Muslim convert, became the first indigenous Persian bishop. As the Islamic Revolution of 1979 swept across the country, church properties were raided, confiscated or closed down. Guli’s father was briefly imprisoned before surviving an attack on his life, which injured his wife. Soon after, whilst he was out of the country for meetings, Guli’s 24 year-old brother, Bahram, a university teacher in Tehran, was murdered. No one was ever brought to justice and the family were advised to leave Iran. Guli was 14. They eventually settled in England with refugee status. Drawing on the riches of Persian culture and her own dramatic experience of loss of a homeland, Guli offers memorable and perceptive reflections on Jesus’ seven final sayings from the cross, opening up for Western readers fresh and arresting insights from a Middle Eastern perspective.
