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My Father's Guru by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
epub |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson [Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff]

Chapter Six A Spiritual Boy in a Swiss Village In 1955, when I was fifteen and my sister Linda was twelve, my parents decided we should go to school in ...
( Category: Religious October 8,2019 )
The Mysteries of John the Baptist by Tobias Churton
mobi |eng | 2012-10-24 | Author:Tobias Churton

FROM JOHN’S EXECUTION TO JESUS’S CRUCIFIXION The years 36 to 37 were tumultuous and confused for the eastern Roman Empire. Newly made Consul Lucius Vitellius, a rising star, had been ...
( Category: Dead Sea Scrolls October 7,2019 )
Saint Benedict by Pope Saint Gregory the Great
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-15 | Author:Pope Saint Gregory the Great

Chapter XVII How he prophesied the destruction of his Monastery. A certain nobleman, named Theoprobus, was by the admonition of Father Benedict converted, and for the merit of his life ...
( Category: Saints October 7,2019 )
The First Muslim by Lesley Hazleton
epub |eng | 2015-09-14 | Author:Lesley Hazleton

Fourteen The Battle of Badr was fought on March 17, 624, and if it was not quite what Muhammad had sought, it would turn out to be exactly what he ...
( Category: Religious October 7,2019 )
Miracle on Second Avenue: Hare Krishna Arrives in New York, San Francisco, and London 1966-1969 by Goswami Mukunda
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Goswami, Mukunda [Goswami, Mukunda]

His remark was more an instruction than a casual comment. I realized the vast difference between him and the young Bauls who we had met the previous week. The Bengalis ...
( Category: Religious October 4,2019 )
Johnny Cash by Greg Laurie
mobi, epub |eng | 2019-08-20 | Author:Greg Laurie

24 * * * LET’S TALK ABOUT JESUS “That’s one thing that people like me have to learn to do, that after you’ve straightened up and stopped all that, and ...
( Category: Religious September 21,2019 )
One Soul at a Time by Grant Wacker
epub |eng | | Author:Grant Wacker

SCENE 35 Man for All Seasons In 2006, A. Larry Ross, Graham’s long-term media consultant, told this story in New York. “So Moses turns for advice to his public-relations man ...
( Category: Political September 20,2019 )
Path of Compassion by Thich Nhat Hanh
epub |eng | | Author:Thich Nhat Hanh

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Cover the Land in Gold Three days after the rainy season ended, a young man named Sudatta paid a visit to the Buddha to ask if he would ...
( Category: Religious September 17,2019 )
Learning to Speak God from Scratch by Jonathan Merritt & Shauna Niequist
epub |eng | 2018-08-13 | Author:Jonathan Merritt & Shauna Niequist

Disillusionment occurs when God shatters our fantasies, tears down our idols, dismantles our cardboard cutouts. Which is to say, this Gospel story is not about donkeys and palm branches at ...
( Category: Self Help September 14,2019 )
Sculpting the Buddha Within by Shuri Kido
epub |eng | | Author:Shuri Kido

Neither Tomoji nor Tensei ever forgot that day. Nor did they ever forget Chibun, even though his stay was brief. Tomoji was a young mother of only twenty-four. To suddenly ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice September 11,2019 )
The Essential Sri Anandamayi Ma by Anandamayi Ma
epub |eng | | Author:Anandamayi Ma

With Ānandamayī Mā’s stress on finding the One as the cure-all, what is the role of renunciation? Is total renunciation required of those who are earnest about their sādhanā? Actually ...
( Category: Religious September 9,2019 )
Something beautiful for God; Mother Teresa of Calcutta by Muggeridge Malcolm 1903-
epub |eng | 1971-09-05 | Author:Muggeridge, Malcolm, 1903-

Whatsoever You Do When I was hungry, you gave me to eat, When I was thirsty, you gave me to drink, Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, ...
( Category: Religious September 6,2019 )
Trust by Riley Edwards
epub |eng | 2018-10-18 | Author:Riley Edwards [Edwards, Riley]

I walked into Nonna Maria’s and much like the first time my stomach knotted. Nico and his man were sitting in the same place in the back of the empty ...
( Category: Religious September 6,2019 )
The Rule of Benedict by Benedict of Nursia
epub |eng | 2015-11-29 | Author:Benedict of Nursia

33 The question of private ownership It is vitally important to eradicate this bad practice from the monastery: no one should presume to give or receive anything without the abbot’s ...
( Category: Monasticism & Asceticism September 5,2019 )
The Life of Jamgon Kongtrul the Great by Alexander Gardner
epub |eng | 2019-07-29 | Author:Alexander Gardner

Rare is the individual who received criticism from Jamgon Kongtrul, even as veiled as this. Ngawang Rinchen had been sent from Chokgyur Lingpa, an auspicious initial circumstance. He served as ...
( Category: Religious September 4,2019 )

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