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1) Compassion
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Early readers are introduced to a foundation of daily mindfulness practices in the My Mindful Day series. Compassion explores the importance of dealing with pain and being kind to others. This engaging early approach to mindfulness helps readers develop word recognition and reading skills.
2) Compassion
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She was sitting curled up in the dining room. She had woken up in her bed in the morning, but could not remember how she got there. The one who solved the mystery was her father when he went down for breakfast. He tried to calm down by taking deep breaths.
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xxii, 243 pages ; 23 cm
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Weininger explains the concepts of compassion and self-compassion, and shows how applying compassion to yourself naturally extends to all the other people in your life. Using stories from her own life and those of others, she shows us how to deepen our capacity to respond skillfully to our own suffering and thus to that of others and our world.
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Cinq ans plus tard…
Au terme de son projet d'initiation bouddhiste, le pazin en Birmanie, San va-t-il tenir sa promesse et revenir vivre auprès de sa dulcinée, Emma ?
De l'univers de la belle musicienne à celui de la fougueuse artisane, l'amour n'est jamais loin de la haine. Et la compassion, elle ?
C'est donc au tour de Christiane, meilleure amie et aussi belle-sœur d'Emma, de vivre son lot de tribulations. Les rapports filiaux, amoureux...
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"How do people who love animals translate that devotion into helping creatures who are not our pets? How do we express our care for animals when that means different things to omnivores and vegetarians-or, say, to hunters and non-hunters? Barbara J. King, a widely read expert on animal cognition and emotion, here guides readers through the difficult choices and deep rewards of turning empathy into action on behalf of animals. King discusses our relationship...
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Compassion is more than a sympathetic feeling-it's the bond of human connection. Most religions lift up compassion, yet few people actually teach how to practice it. Through rich and moving stories of people from various faiths, Frank Rogers shows ways to incorporate compassion in our daily lives. His interfaith perspective on mercy, kindness, and caring for one another trains us to Pay attention, Understand empathically, Love with connection, Sense...
12) Compass(ion)
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Death, threats, and worry. Was it better to revolt? Was it even possible? Shipwrecked and barely alive, Weston washes ashore on the wrong side of a tropical island. Here, food is a privilege and death a looming certainty - but a flourishing village lies across the ridge. The land is fertile and the sea full of fresh fish. Why won't the starving men Weston meets take any steps to save their own lives?In this tale of greed, hope, and desperation, Weston's...
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ONCE IS HAPPENSTANCE. TWICE IS COINCIDENCE. THREE TIMES IS WORTH INVESTIGATING.
When Mother Dorothy's godmother dies of a heart attack and leaves all her money to the convent, Sister Joan is uneasy.
While on visiting duty at the hospital, she makes some tacit enquiries. Things don't seem quite right.
The nursing staff are always away from their posts at crucial times.
The surly young doctor seems very out of sorts.
Then a little girl goes missing.
Sister...
16) Self-Compassion
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Are you super-critical of yourself? Do you place high ethics for yourself to meet? Do you struggle with stress or negativity? Do you believe you should punish yourself for your shortcomings rather than treat yourself kindly? If you are like this, how can you change your thinking? A good place to start is to offer yourself self-compassion. The 15-Day Self-Compassion Challenge book is an easy-to-use book that will help you start to be more self-compassionate...
17) Cruel Compassion
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When disloyalty is punishable by death, and the government is always watching…
…They can force you to marry, but they can't force you to love.
Being promised to a stranger would be better than this, given away like an endorsement to the man that brought her nothing but heartbreak and betrayal. Especially when Dimitri is inconveniently even more attractive than she remembered.
With a citizen score of 1, and her father the Head of The New Russian...
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"At the heart of this offering is an invitation to be still. Such stillness, however, is not a barren field, devoid of substance. It is a silence replete with beauty. It is what Buddhism refers to as sunyata, the boundlessness that characterizes the truth of existence." -Mirabai Starr, from the foreword In Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation, Richard Rohr focuses on finding God in the depths of silence. Divine silence is more than the...
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Using real-life stories, scientific concepts, and awareness tools, The Book of Calm challenges the constraints of inevitable change and turbulent events with a dynamic stance of clarity, compassion, and choice. Transitions expert Nancy G. Shapiro moves gracefully and deliberately through subjects as diverse as welcoming paradox, fierce self-care, power and conversation, and the difficult task of connecting with others when faced with our thousand-fold...
20) Fierce self-compassion: how women can harness kindness to speak up, claim their power, and thrive
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374 pages ; 24 cm
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Drawing on research, her personal life story and empirically supported practices, the author of Self-Compassion shows women how to reclaim balance within themselves and use fierce and tender self-compassion to ensure their own wholeness and well-being.
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