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A groundbreaking exploration of the neuroscience of spirituality and a bold new paradigm for health, healing, and resilience.
Whether it's meditation or a walk in nature, reading a sacred text or saying a prayer, there are many ways to tap into a heightened awareness of the world around us and our place in it. Lisa Miller draws on decades of clinical experience and award-winning research to show that humans are universally equipped with this capacity for spirituality, and that our brains become more resilient and robust as a result of it. Bringing scientific rigour to the most intangible aspect of our lives, Miller's counterintuitive findings reveal the measurable positive effects of spirituality: for better decision-making, a healthier brain and an inspired life.
Brimming with inspiration and compassion, this landmark book revolutionizes our understanding of spirituality, mental health and how to find meaning and purpose in life.
What keeps women from feeling and being their best? For years, Joyce has been helping women better identify emotional barriers and physical, mental, and spiritual obstacles in their lives. Now she provides another answer: Confidence.
Our society has an insecurity epidemic. Women in particular compensate by pretending to be secure--a common response--which only leads to feelings of shame. Lack of self-confidence causes great difficulty in relationships of all kinds, and can even lead to divorce.
In Confidently You, Joyce explores the characteristics of a woman with confidence, which include a woman who knows she is loved, who refuses to live in fear, and who does not live by comparisons. Joyce explains that confidence stems from being positive in your actions and living honestly, but most importantly from having faith in God and in ourselves.
Derived from material previously published in The Confident Woman.
The author of the international bestseller Shantaram takes us on a gripping personal journey of wonder and insight into science, belief, faith and devotion.
Drawing on sacred traditions, rigorous logic and the six-year instruction of his spiritual teacher, Roberts describes the step-by-step process he followed in search of spiritual connection - a process that anyone, of any belief or none, can benefit from in their own lives. This gripping personal account of the 'Leap Of Faith' is a compellingly fresh addition to such enduring, spiritually inspiring works as Zen and The Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance, The Road Less Travelled and The Celestine Prophecy.
As Roberts writes, 'The Spiritual Path is a book on spiritual matters that my younger self wanted desperately: one that offers more answers than questions, and helps to reset the spiritual compass.'
The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Think Like a Monk
offers a revelatory guide to every stage of romance, drawing on
ancient wisdom and new science. Nobody sits us down and teaches us
how to love. So we're often thrown into relationships with nothing
but romance movies and pop culture to help us muddle through. Until
now. Instead of presenting love as an ethereal concept or a
collection of cliches, Jay Shetty lays out specific, actionable
steps to help you develop the skills to practice and nurture love
better than ever before. He shares insights on how to win or lose
together, how to define love, and why you don't break in a
break-up. Inspired by Vedic wisdom and modern science, he tackles
the entire relationship cycle, from first dates to moving in
together to breaking up and starting over. And he shows us how to
avoid falling for false promises and unfulfilling partners. By
living Jay Shetty's eight rules, we can all love ourselves, our
partner, and the world better than we ever thought possible.
First published in 1937, Letters by a Modern Mystic is a
compilation of excerpts from letters Christian missionary Frank C.
Laubach wrote to his father. Within them, Laubach shares his
findings of the greatest experiment of his life: attempting to live
in moment-by-moment communication with God. Short, simple and
extraordinarily powerful, this little book offers a profoundly
challenging but life-changing way of living. Laubach's letters are
thoughtful and honest, documenting his failings and struggles with
this spiritual discipline - but also showing the joy, wonder and
transformation he experienced by connecting with God and living in
communion with him every minute of the day. Easy to read and full
of wisdom, Letters by a Modern Mystic is essential reading for
anyone seeking to deepen their connection with God or wanting to
make their spiritual formation part of their everyday life. With a
foreword by Pete Grieg show its continued relevance for today, it
will challenge you to see that it is possible to live in communion
with God in every moment and change the way you approach your
faith. Included at the back of this book is 'The Game with
Minutes', the practical guide Laubach developed to assist others in
applying the principles and spiritual practices in his letters. It
is a game that has transformed countless lives - and it is time for
a new generation to play.
Die kernboodskap is dat alle mense kinders van God is. Die hele titel draai om die begrip van liefde en die toepassing daarvan in ons lewe. Elke hoofstuk bevat 'n kort meditasie-oefening om Christene in te lei in hierdie persoonlike geesteservaring.
Waarom glo mense dat die sterre en planete se posisies jou toekoms
kan bepaal, of dat gesprekke met dooies moontlik is? Dis die soort
vrae wat George Claassen in hierdie boek stel. George Claassen is
dosent in wetenskapjoernalistiek aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch
en die skrywer van die By-rubriek "Kwakoskoop" waarin hy vreesloos
alle vorme van kwaksalwery onder die soeklig plaas. Hierdie teks
bestaan uit vyftig hoofstukke waarin ’n verskeidenheid onderwerpe
aangeroer word, van evolusie en die kartering van die menslike
genoom tot supersnaarteorie en sieninge oor die ontstaan van die
heelal.
From one of America's most brilliant writers, a New York Times
bestselling journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of
meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and
enduring happiness. At the heart of Buddhism is a simple claim: The
reason we suffer-and the reason we make other people suffer-is that
we don't see the world clearly. At the heart of Buddhist meditative
practice is a radical promise: We can learn to see the world,
including ourselves, more clearly and so gain a deep and morally
valid happiness. In this "sublime" (The New Yorker), pathbreaking
book, Robert Wright shows how taking this promise seriously can
change your life-how it can loosen the grip of anxiety, regret, and
hatred, and how it can deepen your appreciation of beauty and of
other people. He also shows why this transformation works, drawing
on the latest in neuroscience and psychology, and armed with an
acute understanding of human evolution. This book is the
culmination of a personal journey that began with Wright's landmark
book on evolutionary psychology, The Moral Animal, and deepened as
he immersed himself in meditative practice and conversed with some
of the world's most skilled meditators. The result is a story that
is "provocative, informative and...deeply rewarding" (The New York
Times Book Review), and as entertaining as it is illuminating.
Written with the wit, clarity, and grace for which Wright is
famous, Why Buddhism Is True lays the foundation for a spiritual
life in a secular age and shows how, in a time of technological
distraction and social division, we can save ourselves from
ourselves, both as individuals and as a species.
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