5/21/2023 0 Comments I am maharaj![]() ![]() The Knower of that goes beyond consciousness. The union of That state with the state after the appearance of consciousness is a great Yoga. “Prior to having a body, you had no consciousness. Whatever the principal or the state was before this linking, before the existence of the bridge, was the perfect state.” You must find out what your state was prior to the bridge. “What is yoga? Yoga is uniting, two things joining together- that is yoga… Yoga means the bridge, the link, or the connection… Yoga was not required prior to the appearance of the bridge. – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj The Yoga of Nisargadatta Maharaj The Simple, Easy, Natural Yoga Quotes on Nisarga Yoga and the Teaching of the Great Advaita (Non-Duality) Master “Just live your life as it comes, but alertly, watchfully, allowing everything to happen as it happens, doing the natural things the natural way, suffering, rejoicing - as life brings.” I just tell them to be what they are, in their natural, spontaneous state. “I don’t ask anybody to follow any particular path. It is the very essence of Yoga – ever raising the level of consciousness… In that sense the entire universe becomes a school of Yoga…” ![]() This is the world’s sole meaning and purpose. “All that lives, works for protecting, perpetuating and expanding consciousness. All other knowledge is of no use in this connection.” “For eternal peace you must dwell in yourself, know how this touch of “I am” has appeared. ![]() “…you feel separate from your true Self, and you are trying to become reunited that is yoga.” ![]()
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5/21/2023 0 Comments Jennie melamed![]() ![]() ![]() At seventeen years old, Janey is so unwilling to become a woman, she is slowly starving herself to death. And it is at the end of one summer that little Caitlin Jacob sees something so horrifying, so contradictory to the laws of the island, that she must share it with the others.īorn leader Janey Solomon steps up to seek the truth. With the adults indoors and the pubescent in Fruition, the children live wildly-they fight over food and shelter, free of their fathers' hands and their mothers' despair. But in the summer, the younger children reign supreme. They have children, who have children, and when they are no longer useful, they take their final draught and die. At the first sign of puberty, they face their Summer of Fruition, a ritualistic season that drags them from adolescence to matrimony. ![]() The daughters of these men are wives-in-training. Only the Wanderers-chosen male descendants of the original ten-are allowed to cross to the wastelands, where they scavenge for detritus among the still-smoldering fires. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. NEVER LET ME GO meets THE GIVER in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems.Ī New York Magazine best book of the month ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. This is a wonderful gift and keepsake for Shel Silverstein fans, old and new.įrom the outrageously funny to the quietly affecting-and touching on everything in between-here are poems and drawings that illuminate the remarkable world of the well-known folksinger, humorist, and creator of The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, and many other classics that continue to resonate. Shel Silverstein's most popular book, Where the Sidewalk Ends, is now available in a special edition containing the classic hardcover book and a CD of highlights from his Grammy Award-winning album. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Evola introduction to magic![]() In its pages you'll discover that the magic of the UR Group has nothing to do with sorcery or superstition. ![]() ![]() Volume III, more than the others, bears the personal stamp of Julius Evola. This volume, the third in the series, complements the first two, yet they are not strictly sequential, and their contents can be read in any order. * Reveals the ultimate magical goal of the Absolute Individual, the immortal and divine potential that requires rare gifts and extraordinary efforts for its realization * Explores esoteric practices for individual development, handed down from a primordial tradition and discernable in alchemy, Hermetism, religious doctrines, Tantra, Taoism, Buddhism, Vedanta, and the pagan mysteries of the West ![]() Authentic initiatic practices, rituals, and wisdom collected by the UR Group ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments A month in the country carr![]() ![]() ![]() OL8336369W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 82.84 Pages 138 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0312546807 Urn:lcp:monthincountry00carr:epub:c8619965-dae4-47b7-be8c-8817413c5bc6 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier monthincountry00carr Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0dv23d9v Isbn 0897331249ĩ780897331241 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Two 6-month-old littermate Russian Blue cross kittens presented for megaesophagus, intermittent vomiting and regurgitation. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:25:03 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA105723 Camera Canon 5D City Chicago Donor ![]() ![]() ![]() Justine (original French title: Les infortunes de la vertu) was an early work by the Marquis de Sade, written in two weeks in 1787 while imprisoned in the Bastille. ![]() She explains the series of misfortunes that led to her present situation. Her story is recounted to Madame de Lorsagne while defending herself for her crimes, en route to punishment and death. Justine is set just before the French Revolution in France and tells the story of a young girl who goes under the name of Thérèse. Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue (French: Justine, ou Les Malheurs de la Vertu) is a 1791 novel by Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, better known as the Marquis de Sade. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Captain blood book![]() ![]() ![]() Hiding with a troupe of itinerant actors, he gleefully plays the traditional Commedia Dell Arte role of Scaramouche, the trouble making trickster who, like Shakespeare’s fools and jesters, speaks painful truths disguised as harmless comedy. As France plummets into revolution at the end of the eighteenth century, Moreau’s journey toward revenge takes him through several careers, from lawyer to fugitive to actor and playwright and eventually to member of the French National Assembly. ![]() All he knows is that he wants vengeance against the vicious, arrogant aristocrat who brutally murdered his best friend. Raised by a supposed ‘godfather,’ Andre’ Louis Moreau knows nothing about his background or his real parents not even his real name. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications some include illustrations of historical interest. ![]() Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s when your mind doesn’t get distracted but stays true to this one vision of achieving a goal. Why? Because that’s when you’re willing to give it time, to dedicate all your energy. The definite desire Napoleon Hill is talking about goes beyond what we understand before we’ve clearly identified our deepest wishes.Ī simple law of life is that you only get the things you want bad enough. Hill studied the lives of some of the greatest, smartest and richest people from history over the course of 20 years to be able to describe the exact process in which our mind changes our reality and how combining intention and action is one of the strongest powers on this planet.īehind all that, however, lies desire – the next step to getting closer to success. ![]() It’s all about the abilities we possess and how we can unleash them, about the power of repetition of thoughts and a focused mind, and that whoever you are, wherever you come from, you can achieve anything as long as you have a strong desire and a definite plan and combine that with persistence. ![]() One of the greatest books on success is Napoleon Hill’s masterpiece ‘Think and Grow Rich’. Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Pachinko by Min Jin Lee![]() And as I read the Book of Genesis, I started to see why the Bible has been the ur-text for so many Western writers of classics: It’s such a rich text, one that could spawn thousands if not hundreds of thousands of novels, poems, and plays. Before each writing session, I started to read the Bible like a writer, thinking about language, character, and themes. Then I read somewhere that Willa Cather read a chapter of the Bible every day before she started work. Min Jin Lee: After I quit being a lawyer in ’95, I was having a lot of trouble writing. She lives in New York City and spoke to me by phone. Free Food for Millionaires, her first novel, was published in 2007. Lee spent years living in Tokyo, interviewing Korean immigrants as she researched and wrote the book. Pachinko was a National Book Award finalist this year, and has been named one of The New York Times’ 10 best books of 2017. Named for a Japanese pinball game that combines both skill and luck, Pachinko shows how momentous acts of kindness and cruelty shape lives through subsequent generations. As a series of unfortunate events leads Sunja, the only daughter of a widowed innkeeper, from Korea to a new life in Japan, the hard circumstances of each character-physical deformity, a case of tuberculosis, an unplanned pregnancy-become opportunities for transformation. Pachinko dramatizes this idea starting in a Korean fishing town, early in the 20th century, with a cast of characters rendered with startling humanity. ![]() ![]() ![]() What Writers Can Learn From Goodnight Moon Joe Fassler ![]() ![]() ![]() In other words, unlike most anthropological studies, it was not abstract. This account, like few others, existentially impressed me with the difference between my fundamental assumptions and those apparently held by members of this jungle culture of hunter-gatherers. Years later, now a young man, he returned, curious and almost by accident, to civilization where, eventually, he recounted his life with the Huni Kui to co-author Lamb. While a boy, Manuel Córdova-Rios became lost in the Amazon jungle and was rescued, adopted and raised by the Huni Kui. Wizard of the Upper Amazon, however, gives an account which may bridge the usual gap. Even with years of immersion, the trained anthropologist may be suspected of lacking much of the fundamental mindset of those studied. ![]() One of the major problems of cultural anthropology, other than our rapid extermination of indigenous peoples, is that of perspective. ![]() |