Living the Paradox of Enlightenment


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This is one of the most beautiful and easy to understand books about enlightenment, personal peace and conscious creation. Thomas Razzeto's tremendous clarity brings many significant new insights while also dispelling some important commonly held false beliefs. This is all done in simple, clear English, with great fun, kindness and compassion.Even if you have read many of the books by the biggest names in this field, you will still find plenty of precious treasure in this work. Thomas Razzeto writes so passionately and clearly that you will easily develop a deeper wisdom. This can be life changing!The core of what he talks about is truly ancient and yet what he offers feels fresh in many ways with significant differences from most of what is now commonly found elsewhere. This is why he says that his teachings are unique. Perhaps this work will help you understand this ancient wisdom in the deepest way possible and inspire us all to respect one another, treat each other kindly, and work together for both personal and world peace.




Language and Society


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This book is a clear and reliable introduction to the field of sociolinguistics.




Embodied Enlightenment


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In Embodied Enlightenment, contemporary spiritual teacher Amoda Maa Jeevan dispels the outdated view of a transcendent enlightenment and instead presents a new, feminine expression of awakened consciousness for all—one that is felt and known through what our everyday lives are made of: our emotions, bodies, intimate relationships, work, and life’s purpose. This book is a direct invitation to awaken in a profound, embodied way, and to participate in a collective evolution that can create a new world. When many of us think of enlightenment, we may envision a life of seclusion and contemplation, transcending the body and worldly attachments, or the achievement of karmic perfection. But what if, rather than something reserved for the mountaintop meditator or sage, the call to awaken is meant for us all? And how can we consciously live that awakening in the midst of our complex, messy, modern lives? Speaking from her own awakened experience, Amoda Maa Jeevan offers a timeless wisdom, busting some of the common myths about enlightenment and addressing topics often excluded from more traditional spiritual conversations—from the connection between consciousness and the body to relationships to planetary health. In addition, she covers the unfamiliar territory of what happens after enlightenment, delving into awakened action, creative expression, and more. There’s an urgency today to evolve beyond humanity’s current ego-based paradigm, and along with it, a unique expression of enlightenment is emerging. With clarity, passion, and grace, Embodied Enlightenment invites you on an exploration of consciousness that embraces both the messiness of your earthly experience and the non-duality of pure awareness, offering guidance on how your daily life can bring you into alignment with a divine destiny of individual and collective awakening.




Living Nonduality


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Reproducing Enlightenment: Paradoxes in the Life of the Body Politic


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Written at the crossroads of aesthetics and politics, Reproducing Enlightenment: Paradoxes of the Body Politic interrogates the abstraction of the bearer of rights in Enlightenment thought by exploring contradictions between reproductive labor and political representation in the ideal of democratic citizenship. Drawing parallels between new definitions of biological form in Kant’s Critique of Judgment and his popular writings on Enlightenment, Reese’s study reveals connections between naturalist inquiry and the political category of self-evidence around the turn of the 19th century. Pursuing this connection into Weimar-Classical era aesthetics, Reese’s scholarship sets the backdrop against which she proposes to read the formal literary innovations of Mary Shelley and Heinrich von Kleist. The careful comparison of textual compositions by Shelley and Kleist shows how these two authors refuse organicist metaphor and excavate the paradoxes of Enlightenment attempts to theorize the equality of a disembodied subject. Reproducing Enlightenment traces two anti-classical poetics that arc beyond the concept of juridical and biological self-evidence to touch the dialectics and dilemmas of recognition at the foundation of social being.




Enlightened Living: A Book Of Being


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Have you ever wondered about how best to live your life? Religions claim to have answers, but they are couched in faith and constrained by rituals that make each religion different from the next. The inevitable result has been conflict and war. Enlightened Living is neither religious nor spiritual, offering instead a rational and practical path that is available to everyone. Enlightenment isn't found by austerity or following rituals but by the sustained practice of observing attachments and letting them go.




Endless Awakening


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Paradox as a Path of Spiritual Illumination Have you awakened spiritually yet still feel stuck? You are not alone. Many seekers feel dissatisfied despite years of practice. Endless Awakening reveals that the answer lies in the paradoxes of time. When you let go of the idea that you are on a journey, you arrive at your destination. When you accept that your journey never ends, you awaken fully and find the peace that eludes you. In this book, you will learn to: Heal emotionally by embracing the paradox that you are already whole and still healing Be true to yourself by embracing the paradox that you are beyond time and a story with a past, present, and future See life differently by embracing the paradox that the world is a mirror of your mind and a mystery you will never unravel When you open to paradox, a new relationship to spirituality awaits you. Patrick Paul Garlinger is an award-winning author and intuitive.







Irrationality


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"What every leader needs to know about dignity and how to create a culture in which everyone thrives. This landmark book from an expert in dignity studies explores the essential but under-recognized role of dignity as part of good leadership. Extending the reach of her award-winning book Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict, Donna Hicks now contributes a specific, practical guide to achieving a culture of dignity. Most people know very little about dignity, the author has found, and when leaders fail to respect the dignity of others, conflict and distrust ensue. She highlights three components of leading with dignity: what one must know in order to honor dignity and avoid violating it; what one must do to lead with dignity; and how one can create a culture of dignity in any organization, whether corporate, religious, governmental, healthcare, or beyond. Brimming with key research findings, real-life case studies, and workable recommendations, this book fills an important gap in our understanding of how best to be together in a conflict-ridden world."--




Althar Intense - Living the Paradox


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This text is a transcript of the messages Althar and Aouwa gave live during a ten-week online workshop in 2020 with attendees from across the world. In this 10-week program, Althar guided the participants deep into experiencing the wisdom of his messages. It was an intense ride, with many of the individual sessions being like a seminar in themselves. Still, the ten weeks built on each other and prepared the participants for the finale, the "Song of the Dragon." Each of the weekly sessions lasted about ninety minutes and started with about thirty minutes of Cultivating the Awareness - the fundamental starting point for anybody striving for enlightenment. Then Althar joined the group, gave a talk on a specific topic, and led an experiential journey to make his message as palpable as possible. The sessions were concluded with a typically brief Q&A. The focus of the first five weeks was on preparing the human consciousness and the physical body for truly opening up. The second five weeks were concentrated on the light body and on experiencing what it means to go into the surreal, i.e., beyond the core beliefs that shape the human experience. As always, Althar approached the individual topics from a highly pragmatical point of view. He provided practical tools to actually realize true wisdom and to live the paradox of being beyond separation while maintaining a conscious projection into separation. Thus, these ten sessions can be seen as a compact handbook for going into embodied ascension.