[PDF] The Worlds Wisdom eBook

Author : Philip Novak
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 29,24 MB
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0062010840

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A world Bible for our time from Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, Taoist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and primal religion sources! In this perfect companion to Huston Smith's bestselling The World's Wisdom, Philip Novak distills the most powerful and elegant expressions of the wisdom of humankind. Authentic, poetic translations of key texts are coupled with insightful introductions and "grace notes."

Author : Philip Novak
Publisher : Booksales
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 14,68 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :

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A world Bible for our time from Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, Taoist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and primal religion sources. In this perfect companion to Huston Smith's bestselling The World's Wisdom, Philip Novak distills the most powerful and elegant expressions of the wisdom of humankind. Authentic, poetic translations of key texts are coupled with insightful introductions and "grace notes."

Author : Roger Walsh
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438449593

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What is wisdom and how is it cultivated? These are among the most important questions we can ask, but questions that have been routinely ignored in modern times. In the twentieth century, the search for wisdom was replaced by a search for knowledge as science and technology promised answers to life's ills. However, along with scientific achievements came disasters, particularly the devastation of the planet through the accelerating use of modern technology. In an era drenched in data, a desire for wisdom has been reborn. Where can we go to learn about wisdom? The answer is clear: to the world's great religions and their accompanying philosophies and psychologies. The World's Great Wisdom makes these treasuries available. Practitioners from each of the great religions—as well as from Western philosophy and contemporary research—provide summaries of their traditions' understandings of wisdom, the means for cultivating it, and its implications for the modern world. This book offers distillations of the world's accumulated wisdom—ancient and modern, religious and scientific, philosophical and psychological. It is a unique resource that for the first time in history brings together our collective understanding of wisdom and the ways to develop it.

Author : James Chapman
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1524874493

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A brightly illustrated comic guide to sayings and expressions from around the world, comparing the ways different cultures interpret the same ideas. You might say that an annoying person is called “a bad apple,” but Venezuelans would call them “a pineapple under the arm.” On a wet day, you might think “it’s raining cats and dogs,” but the rest of the world has some different ideas on what’s falling from the sky. This book looks at the unique ways different languages express common ideas like “too many cooks spoil the broth” and getting stuck “between a rock and a hard place,” as well as unique sayings about cats, beards, dancing, and much, much more. With over 330 illustrated phrases from Vietnam to Venezuela, A World of Wisdom is a fun and funny guide to all the phrases you might ever need!

Author : Jerry Friedman
Publisher : Easton Studio Press LLC
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 12,72 MB
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1935212559

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In the creation of Earth's Elders, Jerry Friedman met, interviewed and photographed some of the world's oldest elders – 110 years old or older (supercentenarians, as researchers call them). Jerry Friedman, photographer, author and founder of Earth's Elders, spent four years on a landmark project to introduce the world to the sixty oldest people on earth. Using his lens to capture a community that has never before been documented, the award-winning photographer has shed new light on the "invisible" world of people 110 years and older. With each visit on his globetrotting journey to capture the lives of these "super centenarians," Friedman gained a deeper understanding of what the elderly in every culture have to offer. Inspired by the opportunity to improve the quality of life of the elderly, to teach children to recognize the wisdom and value of the elderly as essential parts of our society, and to improve the health of our communities through intergenerational tolerance and communication, Friedman created Earth’s Elders.

Author : Aldous Huxley
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0061893315

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An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the "divine reality" common to all faiths, collected by Aldous Huxley "The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions." With great wit and stunning intellect—drawing on a diverse array of faiths, including Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christian mysticism, and Islam—Huxley examines the spiritual beliefs of various religious traditions and explains how they are united by a common human yearning to experience the divine. The Perennial Philosophy includes selections from Meister Eckhart, Rumi, and Lao Tzu, as well as the Bhagavad Gita, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Diamond Sutra, and Upanishads, among many others.

Author : Fred Rogers
Publisher : Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781593599140

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Excerpted from his bestselling book, this gift volume features quotes and anecdotes by Mister Rogers about courage, love, inner discipline, and--of course--being good neighbors as citizens of the world. There is true wisdom in this book. 96 Pages. Ribbon bookmark.

Author : John Marks Templeton
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 18,45 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1932031170

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Every religion acknowledges certain spiritual principles and records them in its sacred literature and traditions. This book curates these ancient teachings and shows how they apply to modern life with the help of parables, quotations, and commentaries. By reading Wisdom from World Religions, people from all walks of life will be inspired to pursue their own spiritual growth and to contemplate questions central to our existence, such as how, through love and creativity, can we be agents of divinity on earth? Uplifting and instructional, this is a book to be treasured, studied, and practiced.

Author : Philip Novak
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :

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Author : Bede Griffiths
Publisher :
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 13,28 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Religion and culture
ISBN : 9780006276791

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This compilation reflects the increasing desire amongst practitioners of the great world religions to find the universal wisdom that underlies their diverse philosophies and beliefs. It consists of extracts from the sacred scriptures of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam and Christianity.