[PDF] The Freedom To Wonder eBook

Author : Snow White Bui
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Page : pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 2020-08-04
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ISBN : 9781952672002

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Weeks before her twenty-eighth birthday, Snow White Bui quit her job and left everything she had built in Los Angeles, California to recalibrate the direction of her life. She realized she had strayed from the person she'd once been-a young woman in pursuit of knowledge and wisdom-in favor of career success and being cool. Spurred by news of the shooting of black parishioners at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, she decided to embark on an improvised, solitary journey to learn more about the history and people of the US. With her passion project, LESSONS FOR LIFE PROJECT, as a driving intention, Snow White engaged with Americans across twenty-five states, asking them to share their biggest life lessons. Not only did she learn from Americans' diverse lived experiences, she also discovered the richness of life that comes from embracing the humanity in ourselves and in each other. THE FREEDOM TO WONDER is an inspiring story about an Asian American woman's journey to connect with the heart of America.

Author : Snow White Bui
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,13 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
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ISBN : 9781952672026

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Before her twenty-eighth birthday, Snow White Bui quit her job and left everything she had built in Los Angeles, California, to recalibrate the direction of her life. She realized she had strayed from the person she had once been-a young woman in pursuit of knowledge and wisdom-in favor of career success and social belonging. Months later, spurred by news of the shooting of Black parishioners at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, Snow White decided to embark on an improvised, solitary journey to learn more about the history and people of the United States. With her passion project, Lessons for Life Project, as a driving intention, she engaged with Americans across twenty-five states, asking them to share their biggest life lessons. Not only did she learn from Americans' diverse lived experiences, she also discovered the richness of life that comes from embracing the humanity in ourselves and in each other. The Freedom to Wonder is an inspiring story about an Asian American woman's journey to connect with the heart of America.

Author : Ravi Zacharias
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 2005-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1418570362

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Break free from the weariness and cynicism of life to enjoy God's amazing promise of childlike joy! It's time to reclaim that awesome sense of wonder--to experience God's amazing promise of childlike joy.

Author : Kenneth Schmitz
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,26 MB
Release : 2005-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0773572627

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While acknowledging the significant gains modernity and post-modernity offer Western civilization in the areas of liberty and knowledge, Schmitz sees in their arguments a superficiality that does not bite to the bone. In The Recovery of Wonder he proposes we approach the world as a gift in order to regain the sense of wonder Shakespeare so eloquently recognized.

Author : Kirli Saunders
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2022
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ISBN : 9781760275235

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She was small when she heard about them ... the incredible freedom machines. A poetic and visual feast from multi-award-winning creators Kirli Saunders and Matt Ottley.

Author : Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1350076090

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In an unconventionally written book that challenges the literary imagination of its readers, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer explores how wonder is central to Martha C. Nussbaum's normative project. Nussbaum's work is opposed to the emotional and political conditions of 'narcissism' – the tendency to seek to control the wills of others in order to defend oneself against perceived vulnerabilities. Our capacity for wondering is important for growing beyond narcissism. Bendik-Keymer elaborates a politics of wonder that is consistent with understanding this idea. Taking issue with understandings of wonder viewing it as an emotion of surprise or delight, he develops an alternate tradition finding wonder in concert with the freedom of imagination found by degrees within much of human understanding. The result is a constructive rereading of Nussbaum's oeuvre, surprising for how it disencumbers her work of some falsehoods surrounding anxiety and anger and for the ways it implies an egalitarian politics of relational autonomy more socialist than liberal. Misty Morrison's visual inquiry accompanies the book creating space for the reader to wonder. Morrison paints and prints how families involve wonder, starting with moments in her child's life when she wonders what they might see. Nussbaum's Politics of Wonder is an important contribution to the philosophy of wonder and is crucial for understanding the work of a leading philosopher.

Author : Christine Aroney-Sine
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830871586

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Can you imagine a God who dances with shouts of joy, laughs when you laugh, loves to play, and invites us to join the fun? In this book Christine Sine invites us to pay attention to childlike characteristics that have the power to reshape us, with fresh spiritual practices that engage all our senses and help us embrace the wonder and joy that God intends for us.

Author : Louise Economides
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 31,16 MB
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137477504

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This book traces the aesthetic of wonder from the romantic period through contemporary philosophy and literature, arguing for its relevance to ecological consciousness. Most ecocritical scholarship tends to overshadow discussions of wonder with the sublime, failing to treat these two aesthetic categories as distinct. As a result, contemporary scholarship has conflated wonder and the sublime and ultimately lost the nuances that these two concepts conjure for readers and thinkers. Economides illuminates important differences between these aesthetics, particularly their negotiation of issues relevant to gender-based and environmental politics. In turn, readers can utilize the concept of wonder as an open-ended, non-violent framework in contrast to the ethos of domination that often surrounds the sublime.