The Heart of Light


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The Heart of Light: A Holistic Primer for a Life and Career in Lighting Design and Production is a fresh look into the ever-evolving fields of lighting design and technology for arts and entertainment. Full of practical information, historic perspectives, engaging projects, and opportunities for deep inquiry, practice, and reflection, this book offers a well-rounded foundation in the art, technology, and industries of light. It explores a wide range of topics, including: how to observe, communicate about, and use light effectively how quietive practices can deepen the creative process current lighting equipment used across the various arts and entertainment industries and strategies for keeping up with its rapid innovation how to choose a career path that keeps you inspired, as well as ways to search for work with dos and don’ts of effective career building how to cope with and celebrate the unknown and related challenges of implementing a design under pressure considerations for using self-reflection to be successful and impact positive change From her perspective of lighting designer, educator, and contemplative practitioner, the author explores lighting not just as subject, but as an invitation to a fulfilling lifelong adventure. Written for students of Theatrical Lighting courses and emerging lighting professionals, The Heart of Light is a must-read for anyone intrigued by the power of light.




Heart of Lightness


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Edie and Victor Turner were among the most influential researchers in the 20th century. Together they raised the idea of participant observation to heights most anthropologists never achieve. These memoirs are a testimony to a remarkable partnership and to Edie Turner's own achievements after Victor's death.




The Book of Light


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The Book of Light is a series of five small books that bring the reader back into the light. Are you curious about bringing your heart and mind into oneness? Do you want to tap into the innate wisdom of the heart and God? Learn about: - The Foolish Storyteller and how to let it work for you and stop using you. - The Queen of Wisdom (Heart) will guide you and instruct you using the mind and allowing inspiration to be your guide. - Be the disciple (Student) and listen to the wisdom that is you. - Discover the heart and learn how to play, and be still - Personalize your relationship with God through your heart. David Matthew Brown is an author, teacher and internationally sought after speaker on Universal Principle, Sound, Energy, and Shamanic Work. ,




Light of My Heart (Silver Hills Trilogy Book #1)


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Dr. Letitia Morgan comes to Hartville, Colorado, in the late 1800s to follow her God-given calling to heal. Soon she becomes Hartville's ministering angel, reaching out to the children of the town drunk, and skillfully touching all who need her. But not everyone warms to the lovely new physician and Letty ruffles plenty of feathers when she takes on Hartville's thriving brothels. As she rescues first one then another young girl forced into the sordid trade, Letty becomes the target of some of the town's most powerful people. Eric Wagner, Hartville's newspaper editor, finds he got much more than he bargained for when he brought this female doctor to town. As Letty stirs more controversy with each passing day, he wonders if he can save the noble-minded doctor from herself. This is heart-warming and engaging fiction at its best, straight from the pen of a skilled storyteller.




The Light Within a Human Heart


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This practical guide from Denmark's leading spiritual teacher will show you how to access your inner light and power, as well as reveal a roadmap for you to attain your own Divine Identity. The Light within a Human Heart follows Lars Muhl on an inner and outer journey to the cave where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, using a metaphorical text – the Book of Asaph – as a symbol for his search for spiritual enlightenment. This book offers a practical guide to invoking your magnificent inner light – the secret ingredient of Creation. It provides a mirror for all who read it, enabling you to unfold the magnitude of your entire being and be the divine co-creator you were meant to be. In this book, you will find answers that no scientist can provide. What can't be seen and heard by your ears and eyes can be accessed by your inner senses. Inside us all is an inner world containing multidimensional realities and endless magic, waiting for you to open the door. The Light Within a Human Heart is for those who wish to attain their highest possible potential. Turn its message into daily practice to enter heaven on earth and remain beautifully present, whatever difficulties you face in your life. When you move, breathe and live in your inner light, you have returned home.




A Flickering Light


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Returning to her Midwest roots, award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick draws a page from her grandmother's photo album to capture the interplay between shadow and light, temptation and faith that marks a woman's pursuit of her dreams. She took exquisite photographs, but her heart was the true image exposed. Fifteen-year-old Jessie Ann Gaebele loves nothing more than capturing a gorgeous Minnesota landscape when the sunlight casts its most mesmerizing shadows. So when F.J. Bauer hires her in 1907 to assist in his studio and darkroom, her dreams for a career in photography appear to find root in reality. With the infamous hazards of the explosive powder used for lighting and the toxic darkroom chemicals, photography is considered a man' s profession. Yet Jessie shows remarkable talent in both the artistry and business of running a studio. She proves less skillful, however, at managing her growing attraction to the very married Mr. Bauer. This luminous coming-of-age tale deftly exposes the intricate shadows that play across every dream worth pursuing–and the irresistible light that beckons the dreamer on.




The Light in the Heart


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It's important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts: kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.




The Heart of Light


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Solomon Star, one time personal bodyguard of the Galactic Empress, journeys through the primordial jungle of a distant planet. He is guided by a mysterious native woman whom he knows only as "the Savage" to find a man who holds the fate of a planet in his hands - his father. Moving toward an encounter with the Heart of Light, Solomon journeys backwards into the darkness of his past, a killing dark that follows him even now in the form of a twice-living madman: Lazarus - the puppet instrument of Janis IV, ruler of the galaxy, who could neither govern nor love the one man closest to her heart.




Journey to the Heart of the Abyss


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The sequel to London Shah's thrilling futuristic mystery The Light at the Bottom of the World, perfect for fans of Illuminae and These Broken Stars Leyla McQueen has finally reunited with her father after breaking him out of Broadmoor, the illegal government prison—but his freedom comes at a terrible cost. As Leyla celebrates his return, she must grapple with the pain of losing Ari. Now separated from the boy who has her heart and labeled the nation’s number one enemy, Leyla must risk illegal travel through unchartered waters in her quest for the truth behind her father's arrest. Across Britain, the fallout from Leyla's actions has escalated tensions between Anthropoid and non-Anthropoid communities, bringing them to an all-time high. And, as Leyla and her friends fight to uncover the startling truths about their world, she discovers her own shocking past—and the horrifying secrets behind her father’s abduction and arrest. But as these long-buried truths finally begin to surface, so, too, do the authorities’ terrible future plans. And if the ever-pervasive fear prevents the people from taking a stand now, the abyss could stay in the dark forever.




Death and Nightingales


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NOW A MAJOR BBC TV DRAMA SERIES WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY COLM TOIBIN ‘Poetic and compelling, with a heart-stopping plot twist, Death and Nightingales seems to me a perfect novel’ Hilary Mantel 'A miracle of a novel which combines prose of bleak, unadorned beauty with a plot that keeps you up all night wondering how it will end... a masterpiece' Colm Tóibín It is 1883 and against the fearsome, unforgiving beauty of the Fermanagh landscape, the fate of Beth Winters unfolds. Beth is determined to decide her own destiny but charmed by the roguish Liam Ward she seems doomed to repeat the tragic mistakes of her family’s past. Through the events of her twenty-fifth birthday, decades of pain and betrayal build to a devastating, deadly climax.