The Way of Effortless Mindfulness
The Way of Effortless Mindfulness

Author: Loch Kelly, M.Div., LCSW

Publisher: Sounds True

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9781683642329

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"Effortless mindfulness" is a new way to immediately enter an optimal flow state available to us in the midst of our busy lives. In The Way of Effortless Mindfulness, Loch Kelly teaches that when you "unhook" awareness from chattering thoughts, you can access a peaceful mind and a naturally embodied wakefulness. From this heartful space, students report they find that right action comes easily and a loving tenderness for all of life is freely available. This follow-up to Kelly’s award-winning Shift into Freedom outlines practical and supportive material from neuroscience, psychology, and the wisdom of various spiritual traditions. Here you will find a reader-friendly guide to understanding exactly what effortless mindfulness is, practices for engaging with it, and how to avoid the pitfalls to the full embodiment of this timeless awareness. The Way of Effortless Mindfulness offers a compelling introduction to the next stage in the ongoing mindfulness revolution.

Practical Glimpse
Practical Glimpse

Author: Phillip Whitt

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2020-12-19

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 9781484263266

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Learn how to edit images and create compelling digital art with Glimpse, the newest open source alternative to Adobe Photoshop and GIMP. This book explores Glimpse's broad selection of tools and features that can create beautiful (raster) digital art; painting, drawings, and art created from photos by applying one of the many filters to create artistic effects. You will quickly become acquainted with this powerful program and understand how to use workspace tools and layers. You will learn step-by-step how to correct exposure, digitally retouch and repair damaged photos, and handle just about any photo editing task—even colorizing grayscale images. Practice files are provided with step-by-step instructions to jump into photo editing and art creation. Glimpse is a powerful program that is a viable alternative to Adobe Photoshop and other proprietary software. The possibilities of the art one can create are almost limitless—get started with it using this book today. What You'll Learn Navigate the Glimpse workspace Use layers, which are essential in any professional quality image editing program Work with the varied tools that Glimpse offers Enhance, retouch, and modify digital images Restore and repair damaged family photos, and create composites such as replacing backgrounds Create compelling digital artwork using the drawing tools and by applying artistic filters Who This Book Is For Anyone desiring to learn serious image editing with Glimpse. It can be used by both fledgling and professional photographers, freelance graphic designers, students, genealogists, and more. Because it’s free, it can be especially advantageous to teachers, students, and small business owners on a budget.

Tiny Branches that Hold Up the Moon
Tiny Branches that Hold Up the Moon

Author: Danielle Sainte-Marie

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-07-18

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1312361050

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This volume of poetry and essays is meant to help readers of all levels to better understand very complex sounding poems. This book also provides some really deep, Zen-like, philosophical insights into life.

Return to Elizabeth
Return to Elizabeth

Author: Danielle Sainte-Marie

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-09-14

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1329523849

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Return to Elizabeth takes the reader from the current time and transports them slowly back through poetry styles until they reach the Elizabethan era, with the majesty of Queen Elizabeth, the later king James I, and more! After reaching the Elizabethan era, new sonnets are exposed, as well as a terrific new Elizabethan play that also fuses with the modern times! The play, titled, Through the Mullioned Door, is fantastic and one of which even William Shakespeare himself would have been proud! It tells the story of two star-crossed lovers, and a king and queen who are finding their situations strange and intolerable...the suspect for who is making their lives so chaotic is a poet! Is it true? Is some mad poet really out there writing these people into being? Read the book to find out and be delighted! Contains an Elizabethan era lexicon for help in understanding the complex and witty work! Gather ye books while ye may and Return to Elizabeth!

She Muses
She Muses

Author: Danielle Sainte-Marie

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-10-24

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 1105992535

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She Muses is a fearless and fascinating look from Danielle Sainte-Marie--as is her style--at the world we are on, and the cosmos around us. She explores a wide range of topics, from killing god to falling in love--with even a recipe or two thrown in for good measure! This book is a joyous read, but also a difficult one for the weak minded. So, if you are weak-minded, BUY IT and grow! If you are strong and open-minded, buy it and enjoy the deep, philosophical thoughts presented.

A New Glimpse of Day One
A New Glimpse of Day One

Author: Samuel D. Giere

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 311022433X

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With Day One, Genesis 1.1-5, as a focus and informed by the understanding that all texts are intertexts, S.D. Giere shapes and employs a method that harnesses the idea of intertextuality for the purpose of exploring the history of interpretation of a biblical text. With a unique compilation of intertexts of Gen 1.1-5, the work explores the intertexual reach of Day One in Hebrew and Greek texts up to c. 200 CE. What emerges is a glimpse of the intertextuality of Day One that provides insight into the complexity of the intertextuality of a biblical text and the relationship of intertextuality and interpretation.

Glimpse
Glimpse

Author: Jonathan Maberry

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2018-03-27

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1250136326

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"A waking dream, at once powerful and subtly sinister." —Clive Barker, New York Times bestselling author A chilling thriller that explores what happens when reality and nightmares converge, and how far one will go to protect the innocent when their own brain is a threat. From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry comes a novel that puts a bold new spin on the supernatural thriller. Rain Thomas is a mess. Seven years an addict and three difficult years clean. Racked by guilt for the baby she gave up for adoption when she was sixteen. Still grieving for the boy’s father who died in Iraq. Alone, discarded by her family, with only the damaged members of her narcotics anonymous meetings as friends. Them, and the voices in her head. One morning, on the way to a much-needed job interview, she borrows reading glasses to review her resume. There is a small crack in one lens and through that damaged slice of glass she sees a young boy go running down the aisle of the subway train. Is he screaming with laughter or just screaming? When she tries to find the boy, he’s gone and no one has seen him. The day spins out of control. Rain loses whole chunks of time. She has no idea where her days went. The voices she hears are telling her horrible things. And even stranger things are happening. Unsure whether she is going insane, Rain sets out to find answers to long buried questions about an earlier life she has avoided for years—in what may be the most dangerous collision of all, that between reality and nightmare. How far will one person go to save someone they love? Read on at your own peril...

Parmenides
Parmenides

Author: Martin Heidegger

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1998-07-22

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780253212146

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Parmenides, a lecture course delivered by Martin Heidegger at the University of Freiburg in 1942-1943, presents a highly original interpretation of ancient Greek philosophy. A major contribution to Heidegger's provocative dialogue with the pre-Socratics, the book attacks some of the most firmly established conceptions of Greek thinking and of the Greek world. The central theme is the question of truth and the primordial understanding of truth to be found in Parmenides' "didactic poem." Heidegger highlights the contrast between Greek and Roman thought and the reflection of that contrast in language. He analyzes the decline in the primordial understanding of truth—and, just as importantly, of untruth—that began in later Greek philosophy and that continues, by virtue of the Latinization of the West, down to the present day. Beyond an interpretation of Greek philosophy, Parmenides (volume 54 of Heidegger's Collected Works) offers a strident critique of the contemporary world, delivered during a time that Heidegger described as "out of joint."

Pride (I Am Self-Identified!)
Pride (I Am Self-Identified!)

Author: Danielle Sainte-Marie

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-04

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 0557575729

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This is a labor of love; it is my love letter to the world. Its message of positive perspective, how to love yourself and increase self-esteem is primarily intended for the LGBTQI, BIID, and Polyamory communities, but it is also quite useful for absolutely anyone who wishes to have a more realized sense of self-identity. I hold two Bachelors Degrees, one in Psychology and the other in Business Management; I am an affectional orientated lesbian as well. After having been through religious oppression, extreme abuse and even homelessness, I have managed to thrive and I offer this book as my definitive statement on how and why we need to accept all peoples in this vast, diverse world if we truly wish to learn to love ourselves. Most books on these types of subjects don't address the philosophical and psychological mind-set needed to self-identify with authenticity. I also wanted to show the reader how to feel great about her or himself even in the worst of situations. This book fills that need.