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Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism's Greatest Thinker by Pavan K Varma
epub, azw3 |eng | 2018-04-20 | Author:Pavan K Varma [Varma, Pavan K]

Shankara’s philosophical interpretation of the empirical world—that it may exist, but it is not what it appears to be—is now being definitively borne out by theories of relativity and quantum ...
( Category: Religious February 27,2020 )
Unveiling Grace by Wilder Lynn K
epub |eng | 2013-08-19 | Author:Wilder, Lynn K. [Wilder, Lynn K.]

Part Three STARTING OVER CHAPTER 15 THE EXTRICATION Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. — ALDOUS HUXLEY D escribing this moment as a sudden ...
( Category: Mormonism February 27,2020 )
A Middle East Mosaic by Bernard Lewis
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Bernard Lewis

Cutting Bureaucracy (Eighth Century) [An official] wrote to the caliph ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al-’Azz [717–720] asking for papyrus. ‘Umar replied, “Sharpen your pen and write less. It will be more ...
( Category: Religious February 27,2020 )
Wisdom of the Poor One of Assisi, The by Eloi Leclerc
mobi |eng | 2009-01-22 | Author:Eloi Leclerc

8 If We Know How to Adore Easter was celebrated with joy at the hermitage. Brother Rufino had once more found the way back to the community and they saw ...
( Category: Religious February 27,2020 )
From the Underground Church to Freedom by tomáš Halík
epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:tomáš Halík

❚ FOR US 1989 BEGAN WITH Jan Palach Week—mass demonstrations in Prague on the twentieth anniversary of Palach’s death, during which Václav Havel was arrested—and was followed by heightened political ...
( Category: Religious February 27,2020 )
Animal Sutras by Stephen Levine
epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:Stephen Levine

* * * Standing at the foot of a two-hundred-year-old ponderosa towering above us, I bow. Each successive bow takes me deeper, closer. At first I bow to the greatness ...
( Category: Mental & Spiritual Healing February 27,2020 )
A seer out of season; The life of Edgar Cayce by Harmon Bro
epub |eng | 1989-01-15 | Author:Harmon Bro [Bro, Harmon]

Becoming the Law What was the ultimate purpose of the whole, vast drama? An affirmation in the readings suggested the answer. The final goal of the soul, as seen in ...
( Category: United States February 27,2020 )
Common Sense 101 by Dale Ahlquist
epub |eng | 2009-06-15 | Author:Dale Ahlquist [Ahlquist, Dale]

14 The Art of Defending the Christian Faith In Matthew 10:16, when Jesus sends out his disciples to preach the Gospel, he tells them to be “as wise as serpents ...
( Category: Religious February 27,2020 )
The Yoga of the Yogi - The Legacy of T. Krishnamacharya by Kausthub Desikachar
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-05-27 | Author:Kausthub Desikachar [Desikachar, Kausthub]

Krishnamacharya demonstrating two of the many steps in the daily ritual to honor and thank the sun. In 1965, Jiddu Krishnamurti, the world-renowned philosopher and spiritual guide, requested an audience ...
( Category: Yoga February 27,2020 )
God's Hostage by Andrew Brunson
epub |eng | 2020-02-04 | Author:Andrew Brunson [Brunson, Andrew]

ON JUNE 5 Norine and I had our next open visit. It was her birthday, and we sat side by side on the bench. I’d brought a juice box and ...
( Category: Social Issues February 26,2020 )
The Dalai Lama by Alexander Norman
epub |eng | | Author:Alexander Norman

With schoolchildren, Mussoorie, late 1959 or early 1960. © Tibet Documentation/Tibetan Children’s Village School With a local family in Dharamsala, 1960. The Dalai Lama is wearing the “well-pressed” trousers that ...
( Category: Religious February 26,2020 )
Letters Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
epub |eng | 2011-05-10 | Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dear Dietrich, I want to use the chance of a messenger to say thanks to you once again for your letters…It was very reassuring to me to hear so quickly ...
( Category: Christian Theology February 26,2020 )
John Knox And The Reformation by Andrew Lang
epub |eng | 2013-02-02 | Author:Andrew Lang [Lang, Andrew]

The brethren replied to these “calumnies of Papists” (as Calderwood styles them), that they “proclaimed nothing that was not finally agreed upon, in word and promise, betwixt us and those ...
( Category: Religious February 26,2020 )
In Pursuit of Love by Rebecca Bender
epub |eng | 2019-12-06 | Author:Rebecca Bender

A week ago I’d returned home at dawn with what Kevin felt was “short” on my quota for a Friday night. “Get down and sit like the dog you are,” ...
( Category: Social Activists February 24,2020 )
When We Were on Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over by Zierman Addie
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Zierman, Addie [Zierman, Addie]

Andrew and I arrived in China through a series of murky connections: a college professor knew a guy who knew a guy who put us in touch with F. S. ...
( Category: Faith February 24,2020 )

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