We long for moments we can slow down and be still. Our days are often filled with too much noise, anxiety, and confusion. What do you do when your life isn’t what you expected it to be? What can you do to slow it all down? Stilte encourages readers to focus on stillness and literal silence, creating space for moments of peace. Originally published in Dutch, Stilte reveals a grace-filled lifestyle. It shows practical ways for how to receive inner calmness and serenity. It brings you closer to the heart of yourself, other people, and God.
The autobiography of the actor, director, producer, and television star Leon Askin, traces his life from his youth in Vienna to his experiences as an actor and director. Following his forced exile as a Jewish refugee in 1938, incarceration in France, and U.S. military service, he was able to continue his theater career in the U.S. and also score great success as General Burkhalter in the popular TV series Hogan's Heroes. Featured are Askin's interpretations of major plays based on his most important stage roles and his acclaimed directorial achievements.
It is difficult to wave your goodbyes to someone you love. Not because you’re weak, but because you have an abundance of memories making it tough to let go. Love can change you, destroy you and recreate you. Riya had once fallen in love. It hadn’t given her anything except grief. She had finally decided to tie the loose ends of her life but everything changes when he makes a comeback into her life. Between a famous café and a bunch of chirpy friends, Riya had been happy but her charm was missing. Little did she know how love could change everything? Abheer Malhotra, always showing his back to obstacles had finally come back in town. With a broken family and a French passport, he tries to find happiness in little things and does not even try to take any burden of problems. However, what the question arises here is, will he ever discover the road of endearment he was yet to pursue?
In The Past Is Always Present, Tore Tvarnø Lind examines the musical revival of Greek Orthodox chant at the monastery of Vatopaidi within the monastic society of Mount Athos, Greece. In particular, Lind focuses on the musical activities at the monastery and the meaning of the past in the monks' efforts at improving their musical performance practice through an emphasis on tradition. Based on a decade of intense fieldwork and extensive interviews with members of Athos' monastic community, Lind covers a vast array of topics. From musical notation and the Greek oral tradition to CD covers and music production, the tension between tradition and modernity in the musical activity of the Athonite community raises a clear challenge to the quest to bring together Orthodox spirituality and quietude with musical production. The Past Is Always Present addresses all of these matters by focusing on the significance and meaning of the local chanting style. As Lind argues, Byzantine chant cannot be fully grasped in musicological terms alone, outside the context of prayer. Yet because chant is fundamentally a way of communicating with God, the sound generated must be exactly right, pushing issues of music notation, theory, and performance practice to the forefront. Byzantine chant, Lind ultimately argues, is a modern phenomenon as the monastic communities of Mount Athos negotiate with the realities of modern Orthodox identity in Greece. By reporting on the musical revival activities of this remarkable community through the topics of notation, musical theory, drone-singing, and spiritual silence, Lind looks at the ways in which Athonite heritage is shaped, touching upon the Byzantine chant's contemporary relationship with practice of pilgrimage and the phenomenon of religious tourism. Offering unique insights into the monastic culture at Mount Athos, The Past Is Always Present is for those especially interested in sacred music, past and present Greek culture, monastic life, religious tourism, and the fields of ethnomusicology and anthropology.
Between 1927 and 1950, Sri Aurobindo--one of the foremost Indian philosophersof the 20th century--perfected a new kind of spiritual practice he called the"Integral Yoga." This volume brings together a comprehensive selection of SriAurobindo's letters pertaining to the practice of this discipline.
