Author: Judith Wright
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702234415
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
An intimate portrait of poet Judith Wright and philosopher Jack McKinney, which vividly recreates their intertwined lives. Wright's daughter Meredith and Patricia Clark have edited the letters, interspersing them with poems, a selection of family album photos, and fascimiles of some of the handwritten and transcript letters.
The Equal Heart and Mind
Author: Judith Wright
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702234415
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
An intimate portrait of poet Judith Wright and philosopher Jack McKinney, which vividly recreates their intertwined lives. Wright's daughter Meredith and Patricia Clark have edited the letters, interspersing them with poems, a selection of family album photos, and fascimiles of some of the handwritten and transcript letters.
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702234415
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
An intimate portrait of poet Judith Wright and philosopher Jack McKinney, which vividly recreates their intertwined lives. Wright's daughter Meredith and Patricia Clark have edited the letters, interspersing them with poems, a selection of family album photos, and fascimiles of some of the handwritten and transcript letters.
The Essential Rumi
Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140195798
Category : Persian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Rumi the Persian poet is widely acknowledged as being the greatest Sufi mystic of his age. He was the founder of the brotherhood of the Whirling Dervishes. This is a collection of his poetry.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140195798
Category : Persian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Rumi the Persian poet is widely acknowledged as being the greatest Sufi mystic of his age. He was the founder of the brotherhood of the Whirling Dervishes. This is a collection of his poetry.
Into the Magic Shop
Author: James R. Doty, MD
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698404025
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires. Her final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart. Doty would go on to put Ruth’s practices to work with extraordinary results—power and wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old, riding his orange Sting-Ray bike. But he neglects Ruth’s most important lesson, to keep his heart open, with disastrous results—until he has the opportunity to make a spectacular charitable contribution that will virtually ruin him. Part memoir, part science, part inspiration, and part practical instruction, Into the Magic Shop shows us how we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our brains and our hearts.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698404025
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead he met Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering and manifest his greatest desires. Her final mandate was that he keep his heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart. Doty would go on to put Ruth’s practices to work with extraordinary results—power and wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old, riding his orange Sting-Ray bike. But he neglects Ruth’s most important lesson, to keep his heart open, with disastrous results—until he has the opportunity to make a spectacular charitable contribution that will virtually ruin him. Part memoir, part science, part inspiration, and part practical instruction, Into the Magic Shop shows us how we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our brains and our hearts.
A Brave and Startling Truth
Author: Maya Angelou
Publisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
First read by Maya Angelou at the 50th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, this wise and moving poem will inspire readers with its memorable message of hope for humanity.
Publisher: Random House (NY)
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
First read by Maya Angelou at the 50th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, this wise and moving poem will inspire readers with its memorable message of hope for humanity.
Touch
Author: David J. Linden
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0143128442
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Compass of Pleasure" examines how our sense of touch is interconnected with our emotions Dual-function receptors in our skin make mint feel cool and chili peppers hot.
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 0143128442
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Compass of Pleasure" examines how our sense of touch is interconnected with our emotions Dual-function receptors in our skin make mint feel cool and chili peppers hot.
The Beginnings of Philosophy in China
Author: Richard Gotshalk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Philosophy was born in China in the 6th century, in the person of Confucius. But to properly understand this beginning and its development, we need to recall the beginning of the Zhou dynasty in the 11th century BC. Animated by a vision of the Mandate of Heaven for their rule, the Zhou rulers initiated and maintained a dynasty in north China aimed at achieving a civilized life for all human beings on earth. After a brief sketch of this background, Richard Gotshalk attempts an exposition of the six major figures who gave shape to the early Chinese tradition of philosophy: Confucius, Mo-zi, Lao-zi, Mencius, Zhuang-zi, and Xun-zi. Presenting the thought of each separately, Gotshalk concludes the work by drawing together some of the basic themes and emphases which mark the early Chinese realization of philosophical thought and that distinguishes philosophy in its beginnings in China from philosophy in its beginnings in India and Greece.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Philosophy was born in China in the 6th century, in the person of Confucius. But to properly understand this beginning and its development, we need to recall the beginning of the Zhou dynasty in the 11th century BC. Animated by a vision of the Mandate of Heaven for their rule, the Zhou rulers initiated and maintained a dynasty in north China aimed at achieving a civilized life for all human beings on earth. After a brief sketch of this background, Richard Gotshalk attempts an exposition of the six major figures who gave shape to the early Chinese tradition of philosophy: Confucius, Mo-zi, Lao-zi, Mencius, Zhuang-zi, and Xun-zi. Presenting the thought of each separately, Gotshalk concludes the work by drawing together some of the basic themes and emphases which mark the early Chinese realization of philosophical thought and that distinguishes philosophy in its beginnings in China from philosophy in its beginnings in India and Greece.
The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East
Author: Charles Francis Horne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Akkadian language
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
A New and Improved Standard French and English and English and French Dictionary ...
Author: Alexander G. Collot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1334
Book Description
The Pulpit
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Nine Gates
Author: Jane Hirshfield
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060929480
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays. Nine Gates begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in "the mind of concentration" and concludes by exploring the writer's role in creating a sense of community that is open, inclusive and able to bind the individual and the whole in a way that allows each full self-expression. in between, Nine Gates illumines the nature of originality, translation, the various strategies by which meaning unfolds itself in language, poetry's roots in oral memory and the importance of the shadow to good art. A person who enters completely into the experience of a poem is initiated into a deeper intimacy with life. Delving into the nature of poetry, Jane Hirshfield also writes on the nature of the human mind, perception and experience. Nine Gates is about the underpinnings of poetic craft, but it is also about a way of being alive in the world -- alertly, musically, intelligently, passionately, permeably. In part a primer for the general reader, Nine Gates is also a manual for the working writer, with each "gate" exploring particular strategies of language and thought that allow a poem to convey meaning and emotion with clarity and force. Above all, Nine Gates is an insightful guide to the way the mind of poetry awakens our fundamental consciousness of what can be known when a person is most fully alive.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060929480
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays. Nine Gates begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in "the mind of concentration" and concludes by exploring the writer's role in creating a sense of community that is open, inclusive and able to bind the individual and the whole in a way that allows each full self-expression. in between, Nine Gates illumines the nature of originality, translation, the various strategies by which meaning unfolds itself in language, poetry's roots in oral memory and the importance of the shadow to good art. A person who enters completely into the experience of a poem is initiated into a deeper intimacy with life. Delving into the nature of poetry, Jane Hirshfield also writes on the nature of the human mind, perception and experience. Nine Gates is about the underpinnings of poetic craft, but it is also about a way of being alive in the world -- alertly, musically, intelligently, passionately, permeably. In part a primer for the general reader, Nine Gates is also a manual for the working writer, with each "gate" exploring particular strategies of language and thought that allow a poem to convey meaning and emotion with clarity and force. Above all, Nine Gates is an insightful guide to the way the mind of poetry awakens our fundamental consciousness of what can be known when a person is most fully alive.