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Author: Allen Ratta
Publisher: IVP Books
Published: 2013-12-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780830844050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe often think of "spiritual growth" as a matter of behavior, but in reality spiritual growth is a matter of the heart. In Making Spiritual Progress Allen Ratta introduces a revolutionary system for monitoring your motivations—faith, hope and love, the virtues out of which spiritual growth grows.
Author: Gordon Bruce Waldie
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2023-04-30
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 1669875598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the cumulative inspirations that have been received in the author's 30 years of marriage. Their desire is that all of those who have been searching for spiritual answers find them within these pages. The book details to those who are awakening spiritually exactly what they may experience and discover along the path of awakening. The intent is to share guidance that allows them to create the life they desire. All words within these pages have been given to aid all who read them – to help them to awaken to who they truly are.
Author: William Stainton Moses
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Published: 1883
Total Pages: 322
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Swami Akhandananda Saraswati
Publisher: Srikanth s
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Total Pages: 247
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe efforts for spiritual Progress and the experience of Brahman. Look no further, the greatest spiritual book on Earth.
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 772
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lane Adams
Publisher: Xulon Press
Published: 2003-10
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1594671052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tezenlo Thong
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-23
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1317075307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe term ’progress’ is a modern Western notion that life is always improving and advancing toward an ideal state. It is a vital modern concept which underlies geographic explorations and scientific and technological inventions as well as the desire to harness nature in order to increase human beings’ ease and comfort. With the advent of Western colonization and to the great detriment of the colonized, the notion of progress began to perniciously and pervasively permeate across cultures. This book details the impact of the notion of progress on the Nagas and their culture. The interaction between the Nagas and the West, beginning with British military conquest and followed by American missionary intrusion, has resulted in the gradual demise of Naga culture. It is almost a cliché to assert that since the colonial contact, the long evolved Naga traditional values are being replaced by Western values. Consequences are still being felt in the lack of sense of direction and confusion among the Nagas today. Just like other Indigenous Peoples, whose history is characterized by traumatic cultural turmoil because of colonial interference, the Nagas have long been engaged in self-shame, self-negation and self-sabotage.
Author: Alfred Percy Sinnett
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 410
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David A. Michelson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-09-15
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 0192573284
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemplative reading is a spiritual practice developed by Christian monks in sixth- and seventh-century Mesopotamia. Mystics belonging to the Church of the East pursued a form of contemplation which moved from reading, to meditation, to prayer, to the ecstasy of divine vision. The Library of Paradise tells the story of this Syriac tradition in three phases: its establishment as an ascetic practice, the articulation of its theology, and its maturation and spread. The sixth-century monastic reform of Abraham of Kashkar codified the essential place of reading in East Syrian ascetic life. Once established, the practice of contemplative reading received extensive theological commentary. Abraham's successor Babai the Great drew upon the ascetic system of Evagrius of Pontus to explain the relationship of reading to the monk's pursuit of God. Syriac monastic handbooks of the seventh century built on this Evagrian framework. 'Enanisho' of Adiabene composed an anthology called Paradise that would stand for centuries as essential reading matter for Syriac monks. Dadisho' of Qatar wrote a widely copied commentary on the Paradise. Together, these works circulated as a one-volume library which offered readers a door to "Paradise" through contemplation. The Library of Paradise is the first book-length study of East Syrian contemplative reading. It adapts methodological insights from prior scholarship on reading, including studies on Latin lectio divina. By tracing the origins of East Syrian contemplative reading, this study opens the possibility for future investigation into its legacies, including the tradition's long reception history in Sogdian, Arabic, and Ethiopic monastic libraries.
Author: Robert P. Vande Kappelle
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2020-02-17
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1725263904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContrary to popular culture, the goal of life is not happiness, but meaning. Those who seek happiness by trying to avoid or finesse conflict, suffering, doubt, and change will find life increasingly superficial. Feeling good is a flawed measure of life, but living meaningfully is transformative, for then one is living a developmental rather than a regressive agenda. The ego does whatever it can to make itself comfortable, whereas spirituality is about wholeness. Adventures in Spirituality represents the culmination of Dr. Vande Kappelle's forty-year teaching career, incorporating in one volume his views on topics as varied as theology, Christology, biblical interpretation, spirituality, ethics, world religions, religion and science, faith and reason, and church history. Reared in Costa Rica, the son of missionary parents, Dr. Vande Kappelle describes his journey from belief to faith as a transition from precritical to postcritical understanding, from evangelical Christianity to what he calls "alternative orthodoxy." Narrating the shift from first- to second-half-of-life experience, he introduces readers to core principles that shaped his values, thinking, and way of life. Useful for individual or group study, Adventures in Spirituality encourages readers to take risks with their lives and faith, affirming that this is how one grows spiritually.
