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The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Alan Watts · Pantheon
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback |
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We live in an age of unprecedented anxiety. Spending all our time trying to anticipate and plan for the future and to lamenting the past, we forget to embrace the here and now. We are so concerned with tomorrow that we forget to enjoy today. Drawing from Eastern philosophy and religion,... |
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Universal Aspects of the Kabbalah and Judaism
Leo Schaya · World Wisdom, Inc.,
Pages: 197
Format: Print book |
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Leo Schaya (1916-1986) was a brilliant author and editor whose only book to appear in English was the much-acclaimed The Universal Meaning of the Kabbalah, which is often cited in books on Jewish mysticism. This new book, Universal Aspects of the Kabbalah and Judaism, is a collection of writings... |
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The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal
Hubert Wolf · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover |
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A true, never-before-told story - discovered in a secret Vatican archive - of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent.In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant... |
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God and the Afterlife
Jeffrey Long · Harperone
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover |
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Based on the largest near-death experience study in history, involving 3,000 people from diverse backgrounds and religious traditions, including nonbelievers, God and the Afterlife presents startling evidence that a Supreme Being exists - and there is amazing consistency about what he is like.In... |
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The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Volume 1
Erwin Fahlbusch · Brill
Pages: 5
Format: Book |
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This multifaceted and up-to-date encyclopedia is sure to be of interest to pastors and church workers of all confessions, equally so to students, scholars, and researchers around the world who are interested in any aspect of Christianity or religion in general. The first volume contains... |
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Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better: Wise Advice for Leaning into the Unknown
Pema Chödrön · Sounds True
Pages: 125
Format: Hardcover |
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When her granddaughter was accepted to Naropa University, the celebrated author Pema Chodron promised that she'd speak at the commencement ceremony. Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better contains the wisdom shared on that day. "What do we do when life doesn't go the way we hoped?"... |
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Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
Krista Tippett · Penguin Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book |
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"I'm a person who listens for a living. I listen for wisdom, and beauty, and for voices not shouting to be heard. This book chronicles some of what I've learned in what has become a conversation across time and generations, across disciplines and denominations." Peabody Award-winning... |
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