wyszukanych pozycji: 31
The Unstruck Drum: Mystical Poetry Of Kabir In A New Setting
ISBN: 9781438218250 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Continuing in the grand tradition of Rumi and Kahlil Gibran, Kabir invites us to explore the light within our own sensuality. This incomparable 15th century poet, weaver, mystic and musician of Benares helps us to find the eternal goodness of pure sensation, without allegiance to any creed or cause. "Open the window to the west, / In the sky of love, now be lost; / Drink the sweeter honey that steeps / And imbues with heat, the petals / Of the lotus of the heart's lips. / Receive the waves in your body: / What splendor is in the warm sea / Hearken to the sounds of conches / And bells, rising...
Continuing in the grand tradition of Rumi and Kahlil Gibran, Kabir invites us to explore the light within our own sensuality. This incomparable 15th c...
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The Song Of The Showing Of Love: A Poetic Interpretation Of The Revelations Of Julian Of Norwich
ISBN: 9781438221373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 602 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A flower of mystical insight from 14c. England, this book records the visions and prescient theological world-view of Julian, an anchoress at Norwich. Her unique and visceral retelling of both the birthing and the dying of Christ, the first book to be written in English by a woman, has never been excelled in the clarity and eloquence of its language. Here, preserving the humility of the original in a modern idiom, is a metered poetic version of her revelations: ...she who's Mother of our Savior Is mother of all who shall be saved; And our Savior our very Mother, In whom we are endlessly born...
A flower of mystical insight from 14c. England, this book records the visions and prescient theological world-view of Julian, an anchoress at Norwich....
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106,90 zł |
Wisdom: A Poetic Interpretation of The Kitab Al-Hikam of Ibn Atallah
ISBN: 9781442125308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is a book of aphorisms written by Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (d. 1309), here called Ibn Atallah, the third sheikh of the Shadhili Sufi order. He was born and grew up in Alexandria, then lived and died in Cairo. Ibn Atallah is well known for compressing large thoughts into a small space. The shape of the thought is smooth, small, dense, and hard. He chose the form of aphorisms to express himself because he wanted above all to spread the word of what he believed in, and indeed, many of these statements could be likened to a pebble that one might carry in one's pocket.
This is a book of aphorisms written by Ahmad ibn Muhammad Ibn Ata Allah al-Iskandari (d. 1309), here called Ibn Atallah, the third sheikh of the Shadh...
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Painkillers: Adventures In Dystopia: Poems About Sadness And Lassitude
ISBN: 9781438229744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The theory behind writing these poems is that if you are feeling miserable, and you write about how you are feeling, with as much precision and thoroughness as you can muster, you will induce in yourself a kind of satisfaction that you are able to make something worthwhile emerge from the misery. " "The theory behind publishing these poems is that if someone else with similar feelings to your own comes along and reads about these painful states of mind, that person may also come to feel a little better, either from a better understanding or from a general sense of companionship."
"The theory behind writing these poems is that if you are feeling miserable, and you write about how you are feeling, with as much precision and thoro...
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The Song Of John: A Poetic Gospel
ISBN: 9781438226408 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. To promote a stronger general sense of community, THE SONG OF JOHN retells the gospel story as a poem arranged in stanzas of four lines with lines of four beats and three beats alternating, a ballad form called common meter. The poem retains the meaning of conventional versions of the Johannine story of Jesus, while offering suitable texts for musical settings of the entire gospel or any passage of particular interest. The text does not include any of the false and sinful condemnations of Jews which have historically contributed to the practice of eliminationist anti-semitism. The crucifixion...
To promote a stronger general sense of community, THE SONG OF JOHN retells the gospel story as a poem arranged in stanzas of four lines with lines of ...
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The Tawasin Of Mansur Al-Hallaj, In Verse: A Mystical Treatise On Knowing God, & Invitation To The Dance
ISBN: 9781438224930 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here a medieval Muslim mystic records his living meditation on becoming one with God, where he likens himself to a moth leaping into flame: In that bright instant, wings aflame, Reduced to fragments of his name, The moth-ash shows his body's form Where no mark will distinguish him. Rumi wrote three centuries later on Al-Hallaj's words, 'I am God, ': "People imagine that it is a presumptive claim, whereas I find it is really a presumptive claim to say 'I am the slave of God'; for, 'I am God' is an expression of great humility. The man who says 'I am the slave of God' affirms two existences,...
Here a medieval Muslim mystic records his living meditation on becoming one with God, where he likens himself to a moth leaping into flame: In that br...
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All Is Beautiful: The Navajo Creation Story In Verse
ISBN: 9781438206332 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Traditional indigenous cultures in many parts of the world have displayed a profound appreciation of the relationship between human and ecosystem health, something global culture is trying to rediscover under the label of sustainability. Since the beginning of time, human beings have told the story of their own beginning, and of the origins of the four directions, the heavens, the God-People, the earth, and all its creatures. The Navajo People tell a story of great psychological power and depth. First recorded by 19th century ethnographers, the Navajo Creation story is here interpreted as an...
Traditional indigenous cultures in many parts of the world have displayed a profound appreciation of the relationship between human and ecosystem heal...
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The Song Of The Cloud Of Unknowing: A Manual In Verse For Teaching The Contemplative Life, And A Help For Guided Meditation
ISBN: 9781438219905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This anonymous work was originally written as a manual for teaching meditation and the contemplative life to medieval monks and nuns. Recent interest in meditation practice and centering prayer have led to a re-appraisal, discovering the possibility of psychotherapeutic benefits from studying the medieval text, by helping readers to understand pride as a distortion of truth and an impediment to wholistic living, and "meekness" as a path to health. Now for the first time this influential text has been rewritten in rhymed, measured poetry for use in guided meditation and other forms of self-...
This anonymous work was originally written as a manual for teaching meditation and the contemplative life to medieval monks and nuns. Recent interest ...
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73,49 zł |
Common Sense In Verse: A Poetic Interpretation Of The Inflammatory Broadside Of Mr. Thomas Paine
ISBN: 9781440435539 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Thomas Paine claims the title The Father of the American Revolution because of Common Sense, the pro-independence monograph pamphlet he anonymously published on January 10, 1776; the work quickly spread among the literate, and, in three months, sold 120,000 copies throughout the American colonies (with only two million free inhabitants), making it a best-selling work in eighteenth-century America. It is here given a concise metered form suitable for theatrical adaptation and public performance.
Thomas Paine claims the title The Father of the American Revolution because of Common Sense, the pro-independence monograph pamphlet he anonymously pu...
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Trust Me On This One: Three Stories About Betrayal
ISBN: 9781438227115 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The late sixties and early seventies in America spawned all manner of idealistic dreams through which young people thought they could re-invent the notion of the modern. These three stories investigate the ways that established institutions at first allured, and then later deluded, the reluctantly willing protagonist Jack Lindsay. We see the virtuous earnestness of the young teacher waylaid by the shrewd encroachments of his own desire; the continued bending of his sexual morality to pursue the attractions of opulent living and haute couture; and, finally, the drowning of a young couple's...
The late sixties and early seventies in America spawned all manner of idealistic dreams through which young people thought they could re-invent the no...
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He Kumulipo: The Creation Story Of The Hawaiian People
ISBN: 9781438225555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A spiritual resource for sustainable living, this poem records the creation story of the Hawaiian people. It was translated into English by Queen Lili'uokalani of Hawaii in 1897, while she was under house arrest at Iolani Palace, for her refusal to cooperate with overseers from the U. S. mainland. The poem tells the origin of the stars in the heavens, the plants and animals useful to life on earth, all things named within the chain of birth, and all their representatives in the spirit world: how all of this was born from darkness: The slime, the source of ever deeper darkness, Out of the...
A spiritual resource for sustainable living, this poem records the creation story of the Hawaiian people. It was translated into English by Queen Lili...
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Four Liturgical Plays: Christian Allegorical Festival Plays With Animal Characters
ISBN: 9781438223315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Song Of Confucius: A Poetic Interpretation Of The Book Of Change And Related Analects
ISBN: 9781438218359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Long before the birth of Jesus, Confucius tried to characterize human ethics and responsibilities in both personal and social spheres. The Book of Change is here arrayed with aphorisms of this thoughtful Chinese philosopher and related commentary. The ancient sayings are interpreted as a book length poem: Good people find ways to be strong, / And they do not cease from trying. / One of my pupils said to me, / "Question yourself three times a day: / Have you lost good faith with your friends? / Have you aimed true deeds at false ends? / Do you preach what you do not do?"
Long before the birth of Jesus, Confucius tried to characterize human ethics and responsibilities in both personal and social spheres. The Book of Cha...
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The Song Of The Fire Of Love: A Poetic Interpretation Of The Incendium Amoris Of Richard Rolle
ISBN: 9781438221694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Richard Rolle of Hampole, the first of the four great 14th century English contemplative authors, is often called, with justice, "the father of English mysticism." For him the life of contemplation was essentially a musical state, and song, rightly understood, embraced every aspect of the soul's communion with reality. Sudden outbursts of lyrical speech and direct appeals to musical imagery abound in his writings, as in those of no other mystic; and this constitutes their outstanding literary characteristic, as he declares himself at the very dawning of his mystical vision: "Looking to heaven...
Richard Rolle of Hampole, the first of the four great 14th century English contemplative authors, is often called, with justice, "the father of Englis...
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Real Corkers: Stories For Children
ISBN: 9781438229591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Reminiscent of Carl Sandburg's beloved children's poetry, these stories were ad-libbed by the author for his children and then written in a notebook for later refinement, which never came to pass; so that they retain the atmosphere of spontaneity and lame humor often encountered in the last half hour before bedtime, as in this example: I would say the highlight of the whole evening came during the Amateur Hour when three of the most common backyard vegetables from our own neighborhood sang a lovely trio of their own devising, which means they wrote the words and music, taught the song to the...
Reminiscent of Carl Sandburg's beloved children's poetry, these stories were ad-libbed by the author for his children and then written in a notebook f...
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The Song Of Matthew: A Poetic Gospel
ISBN: 9781438225982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. To promote a stronger general sense of community, THE SONG OF MATTHEW retells the gospel story as a poem arranged in blank verse iambic pentameter, the form used by Milton and Shakespeare. It retains the meaning of conventional versions of the story of Jesus, while offering suitable texts for musical settings of the entire gospel or any passage of particular interest. The text does not include any of the false and sinful condemnations of Jews which have historically contributed to the practice of eliminationist anti-semitism. The crucifixion of Jesus is shown as the assertion of Roman power,...
To promote a stronger general sense of community, THE SONG OF MATTHEW retells the gospel story as a poem arranged in blank verse iambic pentameter, th...
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All One Family Sing: Secular Psalmbook To Celebrate The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights
ISBN: 9781438224558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Limited resources, increasing populations, and unyielding political and religious systems have engendered conflicts around the world. As a consequence, commercial interests, established institutions, and government powers have threatened fundamental aspects of human rights. In an effort to protect our rights, this book treats each article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the source for a poem, in the form of a "secular psalm." The psalms are pointed and arranged with Anglican Chant tunes for use in religious ceremonies or special events related to human rights issues (such as...
Limited resources, increasing populations, and unyielding political and religious systems have engendered conflicts around the world. As a consequence...
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The Alchemy Of Happiness: Sufi Handbook For Right Living In Modern English Verse
ISBN: 9781438217918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Medieval Muslim philosophy of religion and ethical living by the polymath Al-Ghazzali, here interpreted in modern English verse by poet Jabez L. Van Cleef. This book will impart an appreciation for the unity of all human spirit in its quest for knowledge and understanding of the divine.
Medieval Muslim philosophy of religion and ethical living by the polymath Al-Ghazzali, here interpreted in modern English verse by poet Jabez L. Van C...
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The Song Of The Captives: A Verse Adaptation Of Testimony Taken From Detainees At Abu Ghraib Prison
ISBN: 9781438221083 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Limited resources, increasing populations, and unyielding political and religious systems have engendered conflicts around the world. As a consequence, commercial interests, established institutions, and government powers have threatened fundamental aspects of human rights. The poetry in this book interprets, in a metered format, sworn statements obtained at Baghdad Correctional Facility, Abu Ghraib, Iraq, January 16-21, 2004, and obtained by the Washington Post. It finds a dark music in the plain speech of men detained and manipulated by strangers: He said, If I give you some torture, What...
Limited resources, increasing populations, and unyielding political and religious systems have engendered conflicts around the world. As a consequence...
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The Palimpsest Of Human Rights: Writings Of Thoreau, Gandhi, & King Arranged As A Choral Text-Weaving
ISBN: 9781438222585 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Writings of Martin Luther King, Mohandas Gandhi, and Henry David Thoreau are here brought into a common format by paraphrasing the text into metered lines (iambic pentameter); the lines are arranged to create three-line stanzas in a single unified master document. The result is a long poem in which the successive lines are bound rhythmically but not always by meaning. In each stanza the first line is from Thoreau, the second line from Gandhi, and the third line from King, as shown here: I hold this saying close beside my heart: I am not a visionary person; You cannot deny we face a crisis...
Writings of Martin Luther King, Mohandas Gandhi, and Henry David Thoreau are here brought into a common format by paraphrasing the text into metered l...
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64,59 zł |