The Record of a Silent Life
Author : Anna Preston
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Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,26 MB
Release : 1912
Category : American fiction
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Author : Anna Preston
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Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,26 MB
Release : 1912
Category : American fiction
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Author : ANNA. PRESTON
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,8 MB
Release : 2018
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ISBN : 9781033988978
Author : Anna Preston
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Page : pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 1913
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Author : Kate M. Farlow
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Page : 236 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 1883
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Author : Robert A. Herrera
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802824950
"Beginning with a historical essay on the phenomenon of mysticism, Silent Music chronicles St. John's life story - from his humble birth in 1542, through his career as a professional religious, to his death in 1591 - placing the man and his spirituality squarely in their historical-cultural context. Herrera probes the saint's rigorous life of contemplation and his classic writings on such subjects as union with God and the "dark night of the soul," clarifying St. John's understanding of the mystical experience and paying particular attention to the notion of detachment and the recurring motifs of darkness, flame, and ascent in St. John's writings. His careful analysis of St. John's thought is enriched with examples from philosophy, psychology, literature, spirituality, and art - material not usually found in such a study.".
Author : Alan Munton
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,1 MB
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1443886688
The ever-growing interest in the analysis of materiality has found its expression in many studies of objects and objecthood, of things and “thingness”. Combining cultural, phenomenological, semiotic, and philosophical approaches, this collection of eleven essays proposes a journey into “the silent life of things”, into those aspects of materiality that are not immediately visible and require both increased attention and a sense of intuition. It focuses on the subtle changes that materiality operates upon our subjectivity and upon our status as producers, users, possessors, negotiators and manipulators of objects, and analyses the ways in which materiality is constantly redefined by consumerism and the strategies it adopts in order to resist commodification. In the process, the collection explores different ways of deciphering what materiality, in its reliable concreteness or its “magical materialism”, tries to tell us: all the silent stories that “things” accumulate while circulating among people, societies and cultures; the narratives they weave when amassed, collected, archived or transformed into cultural commodities; the secrets they reveal when witnessing the gradual commodification of their owners – of their bodies, lives and souls. The Silent Life of Things: Representing and Reading Commodified Objecthood establishes a new paradigm for reading and interpreting commodified materiality, and its participation in the establishment of a new aesthetics of consumerism.
Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 32,70 MB
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1429945230
Thomas Merton wrote The Silent Life a decade after he took orders. In his Prologue, Merton describes the book as "a meditation on the monastic life by one who, without any merit of his own, is privileged to know that life on the inside . . . who seeks only to speak as the mouthpiece of a tradition centuries old." It is a remarkable work-one that combines a lucid and informative description of the nature and forms of monasticism, communal and solitary, with a passionate defense of the contemplative's quest for God. The intense beauty of Merton's meditation, radiating from beneath its surface calm, makes The Silent Life a classic of its kind.
Author : Chaman Nahal
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 32,65 MB
Release : 2005-10-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9351940667
From the small town of Sialkot in pre-Partition Punjab, through the bustling streets of Delhi, to the scholarly environs of Cambridge and the bistros of Turin - Chaman Nahal walks us gently through his life. A life rich in literary scholarship and discipline, but equally in humour and a cynical eye capable of looking as critically at himself as at the follies and foibles of other human beings. If his 'Rules' for subjects as varied as writing a full-length book while coping with a fulltime job, fighting depression or even addiction to drink, bring a smile to one's lips, his achievements as writer, teacher and litterateur, often in the face of great odds, can only induce respect. Nahal's delightfully candid accounts of his encounters with Nirad Chaudhuri, the great Sir Vidia, Manohar Malgonkar and others; his diatribes against the tardiness and indiscipline that marks so much of 21st century India; and his frank appraisal of the trials and tribulations he has faced as an Indian writer in English, both at home and abroad, make this a memoir significant in today's literary context, as well as an absorbing cameo of an earlier time and place.
Author : Johnson Public Library (Hackensack, N.J.)
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 35,74 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : Inayat Khan
Publisher : Suluk Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 1998-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780930872380
Teachings on sound presenting a vision of the harmony which underlies and infuses every aspect of life. Science of breath, law of rhythm, the creative process, healing power and psychological influence of music.