epub |eng | 2011-06-09 | Author:Shodo Harada

Kasa wa omoshi goten no yuki My bamboo hat is weighed down with Wu mountain snow This line, from Hakuin’s Kaian Kokugo, is a couplet with “My shoes are scented ...

epub |eng | | Author:Taigen Dan Leighton

Guanyin in royal-ease pose, China, 12th century In another manifestation, Guanyin Holding a Willow Branch vows to cure illness. Interestingly, modern pharmacologists have discovered an aspirin-like compound in willow bark. ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-18 | Author:Virginia Pitts Rembert [Rembert, Virginia Pitts]

Temptation by the desires of the flesh The enemy saw, however, that he was powerless in the face of Anthony’s determination and that it was rather he who was being ...

epub |eng | 2010-08-25 | Author:Anthony Trollope [Trollope, Anthony]

The same post which brought Hamel's long letter to Lucy brought also a short but very angry scrawl from Sir Thomas to his wife. No eyes but those of Lady ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Pier Paolo Pasolini

57. Rome. Exterior. (Day.) Some ‘Epicureans and Stoics’ are seated at tables at Caffè Rosati on the Via Veneto. (Rome is, by analogy, Athens.) They argue among themselves ironically and ...

epub |eng | | Author:Schuon, Frithjof

In Christianity the sacred emanates from the sacrament, which confers upon the collective sense of the sacred its characteristic quality, notably the taste for solemnity, without forgetting the splendor of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-11 | Author:Judy

epub |eng | 2016-01-07 | Author:Roger Rosewell

A woman who is cured at the shrine of St William after swallowing a frog, stained glass, c. 1414, York Minster. Fifteenth-century wall painting of St George trampling the dragon, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Rodney Alan Greenblat

THE BEEF BUDDHA Once, a very long time ago in a very distant land, the Buddha was born in the form of a cow. He lived his life as a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-13 | Author:Devdutt Pattanaik

Stone sculpture from Chhattisgarh showing Ravana sacrificing his heads to Shiva South Indian painting of Ravana and Shiva While Brahma has five heads, one of which was wrenched off by ...

epub |eng | 2011-02-01 | Author:Andrew Graham-Dixon

The Deluge is flanked by two other paintings representing scenes from the biblical story of Noah. The first of these, which can be identified as The Sacrifice of Noah, appears ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:The Fresco [Fresco, The]

From Chiddy's journal Dearest Benita, Vess and I have just learned that we must leave Earth for a short time. An emergency has arisen on Pistach-home, and all athyci are ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1987-06-19 | Author:Eugene H. Peterson

Fierce you are, and fearsome! Who can stand up to your rising anger? From heaven you thunder judgment; earth falls to her knees and holds her breath. God stands tall ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-14 | Author:Saara Taina

Encountering God through Dance anyone even praying for them! I lost track of time, but after about 20 minutes, one of our team members asked who had been healed and ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2005-10-25 | Author:Jonathan Harr

20 IT WAS MAY IN ENGLAND, THE DAYS WARMER AND SUNNY, THE tulips in riotous bloom in Hyde Park. Francesca received a reply, formal and brief, from her letter to ...