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Add joy and purpose to your daily life by reading these inspiring, thought--provoking meditations, written by Madrikha Barbara Kopitz. Quoting Jewish sources from biblical to modern times, these daily meditations help us take actions that are filled with personal dignity, beauty and grounded in compassion for others. This book of daily meditations affirms the power and responsibility you have to shape your own life. Start your day with a simple meditation...
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Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St. Alban(s), was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. He was extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution. Francis Bacon's Philosophy is displayed in the vast and varied writings he left, which might be divided in three...
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For most of us, life is way too hectic. We feel scattered and distracted. We're busy rushing from one required activity to the next, and when we have a few moments of downtime, we're often glued to our electronics. Is this what life is really all about? Learn to slow down and live more mindfully with this daily companion. In one brief entry for each day of the calendar year, counselor Dr. Alan Wolfelt offers small, day-at-a-time doses of wisdom and...
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The meditations in Magical Journey Meditations are a fun way to help your child focus, concentrate, or relax. The craft ideas will provide concrete visuals for home meditation which will allow your child to revisit his or her journey at any time. Meditation is a wonderful calming and centering tool, and once learned, it becomes a skill that every child can carry into adulthood. The meditations in this book are soothing, comforting, and unique. Life...
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A pocket-sized compendium of passages from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grasspaired with the relevant words of a variety of historical and contemporary thinkers, such as Margaret Fuller, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jane Goodall, Mark Twain, Marc Chagall, Helen Keller, Buddha, Dante, and Bhagavad Gita
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Traversing the Divine Scriptures: Spring Meditations places the wisdom from the scriptures of the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religions into daily meditations for the months of April, May and June. It inspires some searching questions and ends with heartfelt poems. Subtle LORD, guide us to Your private path, be it beside the thundering waves of our inner ocean or the quiet of a flowering internal meadow. Our inner world seeks you through space...
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In this compact book, 60 selections from 30 years of Emersons writings reveal the essence of his spiritual vision. Like his friends John Muir and Henry David Thoreau, Emerson saw images of the divine in the natural world, and rather than seeking to conquer wilderness, sought inspiration from it. Complementing each passage is an inspirational quote from historical and contemporary luminaries including Margaret Fuller, the Dalai Lama, and Jack Kerouac,...
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This inspirational book is intended for readers of any age, but particularly suited to older people. It is written to encourage those who have reached the later years of life, whether rich or poor, to live life, and live fully. Each of us have a need to clarify what a full life means. To some the goal may seem to be restless activity - rush, rush, rush from one exciting (or perhaps boring) activity to another. This may be due to a desire to seem as...
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Five minutes is all it takes to make mindfulness a part of your everyday routine with 5-Minute Daily Meditations.
Whenever you're ready to take five-on your commute, between appointments, or after dinner-5-Minute Daily Meditations offers quick and easy guidance for instant wisdom, clarity, and calm.
These short and accessible daily meditations allow you to practice mindfulness any day, anytime, and anywhere. With 365 daily meditations on everything...
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Find wisdom with these weekly meditations from the bible and other great Western literature.
This book stops time and takes you on a journey of self-reflection. It's a collection of lessons extracted from literature and The Bible. Divided into fifty-two chapters, with each chapter being a few minutes' read, it's intended to be your companion for fifty-two weeks, a whole year of self-discovery, after which you're bound to be a wiser, better, happier...
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The Collected Meditations of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart (2021) compiles the speeches and writings of Maria W. Stewart. This groundbreaking collection includes some of the best works from across Stewart's career as the first African American public lecturer, including Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria Stewart, her 1832 speech delivered at the Franklin Hall, her address delivered before the African American Female Intelligence Society, and her lecture...
12) Tao meditations
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Taoist meditation is an essential aspect of spiritual practice in the Taoist tradition. Focused on harmony with nature and the Universe, it offers a path to inner peace and deep understanding of oneself and the world around us. Unlike other forms of meditation, it emphasizes flow and transformation, mimicking the natural movement of the Tao, the universal force. In Taoist literature, such as Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching", these principles are explored...
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In Cross-Shattered Christ, theologian Stanley Hauerwas offers a moving reflection on Jesus's final words from the cross. This small and powerful volume is theologically poignant and steeped in humility. Hauerwas's pithy discussion opens our ears to the language of Scripture while opening our hearts to a truer vision of God. Touching in original and surprising ways on subjects such as praying the Psalms and our need to be remembered by Jesus, Hauerwas...
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"Meditations with Masters of the Axial Age" offers the reader a glimpse into the inner world of their souls. The soul has to be trained in the ways of the soul, to understand its nature, otherwise the ego will take over. Our world is experiencing a major moral, ethical, and spiritual crisis. As a consequence, anxiety and stress levels are on the rise; depression is reaching epidemic proportions; the suicide rate continues to climb; and we have become...
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In this elegantly written and illustrated book, bestselling author Susan Chernak McElroy has gathered the voices of the wind, weather, animals, and elements and transcribed the he truths they have to share. Badgers and bison, magpies and moose, eagles and elk, all have wisdom teachings that shed light on our common journey through life.
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How many of us have learned how to recite the Lord's Prayer as children? Perhaps we did this about the same time as we learned how to sing the National Anthem. It was something to be memorized, but probably not thought about, or even understood at that age. The question is, how many of us have thought about the Lord's Prayer, or understood it since?
Jesus taught his disciples the Lord's Prayer in response to the request, teach us to pray. We should...
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As a prominent woman juggling many roles, Maria Shriver knows just how surprising, unpredictable, and stressful everyday life can be. Here she shares inspiring quotes, prayers, and reflections designed to get readers thinking, get them feeling, get them laughing, and help them in their journey to what she calls The Open Field -- a place of acceptance, purpose, passion, and joy. Whether you feel like you've got it all together or like it's all falling...
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Powerful, image-filled reflections on listening to and responding to the Holy within and around us.
Personal devotional reading: words for the wordless.
Have you ever worked up the courage to pray and opened your mouth to discover you didn't know what to say? Perhaps you were worried you might sound foolish or like a toddler or worse yet, you might say something you didn't really mean. Or have you ever steadied yourself to pray, lit a candle, rang...
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Using the metaphor of pilgrimage, this book invites readers to reflect on living with illness. The heart of the book is a collection of thirty meditations, followed by a reflection, a short prayer, and a suggested spiritual practice. The meditations voice the difficulties and the challenges of living with illness, and call the reader toward a deepening understanding, compassion and generosity. While the meditations intend to offer comfort, they are...
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