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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious life & practice
Pastor and New York Times bestselling author Joel Osteen offers 90 days
of inspirational devotions to help you become the best that you can be
in every area of your life.
In Become a Better You, Joel Osteen provided 7 key principles designed
to improve and enrich your life. He explained how each insight will
positively impact your goals, your confidence, your relationships, and
your spiritual life. These principles are:
-Keep pressing forward
-Be positive toward yourself
-Develop better relationships
-Form better habits
-Embrace the place where you are
-Develop your inner life
-Stay passionate about life
With this devotional, Joel offers 90 days of thought-provoking
messages, words of encouragement, and valuable scripture that emphasize
the message of Become a Better You. This specially selected collection
of biblical passages illuminates different points of Joel's messages
and is designed to inspire you toward becoming all that God created you
to be. He draws upon personal anecdotes to illustrate the passages and
shows us how he and others have used the 7 principles to better
themselves and deepen their relationship with God. As you incorporate
Joel's easy-to-grasp concepts into your life, you will be pleasantly
surprised at how much more God has in store for you and how quickly you
become a better you!
In what ways do Buddhists recognize, define, and sort waste from
non-waste? What happens to Buddhist-related waste? How do new
practices of Buddhist consumption result in new forms of waste and
consequently new ways of dealing with waste? This book explores
these questions in a close examination of a religion that is often
portrayed as anti-materialist and non-economic. It provides insight
into the complexity of Buddhist consumption, conceptions of waste,
and waste care. Examples include scripture that has been torn and
cannot be read, or an amulet that has disintegrated, as well as
garbage left behind on a pilgrimage, or the offerings of food and
prayer scarves that create ecological contamination. Chapters cover
mass-production and over-consumption, the wastefulness of
consumerism, the by-products of Buddhist practices like rituals and
festivals, and the impact of increased Buddhist consumption on
religious practices and social relations. The book also looks at
waste in terms of what is discarded, exploring issues of when and
why particular objects and practices are sorted and handled as
sacred and disposable. Contributors address how sacred materiality
is destined to wear and decay, as well as ideas about
redistribution, regeneration or recycling, and the idea of waste as
afterlife.
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