[PDF] A World Waiting To Be Born eBook

Author : M. Scott Peck
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2009-07-22
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0307425827

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Just as The Road Less Traveled provided hope and guidance for individuals seeking growth, this major new work by M. Scott Peck, M.D., offers a needed prescription for our deeply ailing society. Our illness is Incivility--morally destructive patterns of self-absorption, callousness, manipulativeness, and materialism so ingrained in our routine behavior that we do not even recognize them. There is a deepening awareness that something is seriously wrong with our personal and organizational lives. Using examples from his own life, case histories, and dramatic scenarios of businesses that made a conscious decision to bring civility to their organizations , Dr. Peck demonstrates how change can be effected and how we and our organizations can be restored to health. This wise, practical, and radical book is a blueprint for achieving personal and societal well-being.

Author : Gillian Shields
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Board books
ISBN : 1547606061

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Illustrations and simple rhyming text tell the story of a family of bunnies anticipating the birth of a new baby.

Author : Margaret Silf
Publisher : Augsburg Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1506467288

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Sometimes, it can feel as though we are living in the worst of times--a world of chaos, uncertainty, and breakdown. But could this also be the best of times--a crucible of change in which a wiser and more spiritually mature future is being forged? The stars are most clearly visible in the deepest darkness. The butterfly emerges out of the worst meltdown of the chrysalis. In Born to Fly, Margaret Silf helps us to explore what it would mean for each of us to be such an emerging butterfly--to be an agent of spiritual transformation in our own lives and in the world around us. What kind of future do we desire for ourselves, for those who follow after us, and for the whole of creation? And, if the choices we make today are shaping that future, how might we learn to make those choices more wisely? The second part of the book takes us on a gentle journey in five stages through the process of transformation mapped out for us by the caterpillar as it changes from a pesky garden grub, taking what it wants without regard for the rest of creation, to a butterfly, giving life wherever it lands. Born to Fly is designed to be read for personal reflection and inspiration, or alongside fellow readers, with suggestions for further discussion. It is a companion book to Margaret Silf's Hidden Wings.

Author : Bruce Catton
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Historians
ISBN : 9780814318850

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The celebrated writer reminisces about his boyhood in Michigan at the turn of the century.

Author : David Benatar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 23,3 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0199549265

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Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. David Benatar presents a startling challenge to these assumptions. He argues that people systematically overestimate the quality of their life, and suffer quite serious harms by coming into existence.

Author : Tara Grove
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1620970910

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Inspiring commencement speeches from Wynton Marsalis, Toni Morrison, Gloria Steinem, and others: “The perfect gift for grads-to-be” (O, The Oprah Magazine). “The voices of conformity speak so loudly. Don’t listen to them,” acclaimed author and award-winning journalist Anna Quindlen cautioned graduates of Grinnell College. Jazz virtuoso and educator Wynton Marsalis advised new Connecticut College alums not to worry about being on time, but rather to be in time—because “time is actually your friend. He don’t come back because he never goes away.” And renowned physician and humanitarian Paul Farmer revealed at the University of Delaware his remarkable discovery—the new disease Empathy Deficit Disorder—and assured the commencers it could be cured. The prescient, fiery feminism of Gloria Steinem sits parallel to that of celebrated writer Ursula K. Le Guin, who asks, “What if I talked like a woman right here in public?” Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison sagaciously ponders how people centuries from now will perceive our current times, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Barbara Kingsolver asks those born into the Age of Irony to “imagine getting caught with your Optimism hanging out” and implores us always to act and speak the truth. With eighteen rousing graduation speeches, The World Is Waiting for You speaks to anyone who might take to heart the advice of Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards—“life as an activist, troublemaker, or agitator is a tremendous option and one I highly recommend”—and is the perfect gift for all who are ready to move their tassels to the left.

Author : Paul-Gordon Chandler
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0898690692

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This is a short book of spiritual meditations for the Advent season on the four "Middle Eastern" songs sung around the birth of Jesus: canticles that play an important role in the liturgical worship of the church over the centuries. The devotions emphasize the Middle Eastern cultural elements of these songs.

Author : Elizabeth Carman
Publisher : Sunstar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Pre-existence
ISBN : 9781887472715

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Cosmic Cradle is filled with wisdom gathered from interviews with gifted individuals as well as classical and traditional sources - philosophy, cultural anthropology, history, biographies, religion, poetry, and mythology. This knowledge has never been synthesized and compiled before into a single volume.

Author : Christopher McDougall
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 33,97 MB
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 184765228X

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A New York Times bestseller 'A sensation ... a rollicking tale well told' - The Times At the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993, one of them, aged 57, came first in a prestigious 100-mile race wearing a toga and sandals. A small group of the world's top ultra-runners (and the awe-inspiring author) make the treacherous journey into the canyons to try to learn the tribe's secrets and then take them on over a course 50 miles long. With incredible energy and smart observation, McDougall tells this story while asking what the secrets are to being an incredible runner. Travelling to labs at Harvard, Nike, and elsewhere, he comes across an incredible cast of characters, including the woman who recently broke the world record for 100 miles and for her encore ran a 2:50 marathon in a bikini, pausing to down a beer at the 20 mile mark.