The Pearls of Life are used by thousands of people today as a contemporary aid to prayer. This book, featuring full-colour photos, describes the meaning of the pearls and how to use them.
An oyster can’t produce pearls without first suffering with a grain of sand. Each of the chapters in Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to Lead Your Best Life Now gives guidance to readers on how to turn their own grains of sand into pearls. With four New York Times bestselling authors, including Chicken Soup for the Soul’s Jack Canfield, Chris and Janet Attwood, and Marci Shimoff plus 25 of the best up and coming self-help authors, each chapter contains a fresh idea for a positive life change. With each chapter as diverse as the cast of authors who have come together to create this unique book, there is certain to be an idea to help transform anyone’s life. Pearls of Wisdom contains the greatest ideas of today’s top self-help authors, combining traditional and new techniques, affirmations, theories, meditations and practices to lead readers from the struggles they deal with in their current situations to a higher, enlightened life; not merely an existence. For anyone who has thought, “am I really living the best possible life I could be?”, Pearls of Wisdom grants the answers for any of life’s questions, straight from the words of the masters of self-help themselves.
For artists and painters who wish to create not only projects of beauty, but ones that also reflect inner spirituality,Making Pearlsis the ultimate primer for expanding creativity and spirituality in every area of art and life. Filled with dozens of lush, reflective paintings,Making Pearlstakes the reader, step by step, through the seven stages of the creative cycle: Waiting, Opening, Closing, Holding, Releasing, Emptying, and Sitting. Within each chapter are several evocative essays and inspirational exercises that demonstrate how each of these creative stages affects the mind, body, and spirit. Chapters also include meditative exercises, as well as an evolving painting project for the readers that serves as a microcosm of the full creative process. This reflective, inspirational guide demonstrates the essential process and purpose of creativity: to make pearls of meaning and beauty of our selves and our lives. For the new-age artist on the path to spiritual awareness,Making Pearlsis the ultimate resource for living a totally creative life, body and soul.
Do you wake overwhelmed by your 'to do' list or by life in general? I used to wake with that uneasy feeling until I discovered the power of inspirational messages in transforming my attitude. '365 Daily Pearls of Wisdom' is filled with messages of power, positivity and purpose, one for every day of the year. It will inspire you to get out there and lead your best possible life!
Throughout your life, you’ve had numerous everyday conversations and other experiences in which a small observation---perhaps a single sentence someone spoke to you---resonated so strongly that you still remember it years later. The “pearls of wisdom” that arose from such small encounters helped shape your values, how you think about yourself, and how you interact with others. "Pearls from Sand" will appeal to people who seek out life lessons, look for ways to apply the lessons to their thoughts and actions, and enjoy sharing these powerful lessons with others.
Pragmatic, practical and immediately useful, "Pearls of Leadership Wisdom" provides leaders at all stages of their development with a fresh perspective on ways they could potentially lead better. The book's quick-to-read 30 pearls are based on lessons learned from leaders of all types over the past three decades. Sandra Davis' real-life examples are easy to relate to and her personal touches make this a fun read.
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In this "sage, valuable volume" (Publishers Weekly), First Lady Barbara Bush shares the best of her adviceto family, staff, and close friends. First Lady Barbara Bush was famous for handing out advice. From friends and family to heads of state and Supreme Court justices, and certainly to her staff, her advice ranged from what to wear, what to say or not say, and how to live your life. She especially loved visiting with students of all ages, from kindergartners to college graduates. When she turned 80, she owned up to all her advice-giving and explained it this way: After all, in 80 years of living, I have survived 6 children, 17 grandchildren, 6 wars, a book by Kitty Kelly, two presidents, two governors, big Election Day wins and big Election Day losses, and 61 years of marriage to a husband who keeps jumping out of perfectly good airplanes. So, it's just possible that along the way I've learned a thing or two. At the end of the day, she taught all of us some valuable lessons. As First Lady, she made a point of cuddling a baby with AIDS and hugging a young man who was HIV positive and whose family had rejected him, showing us by example the importance of compassion and the myth of fear. As a mother, she made sure we all knew that your children must come first, and one of the most important things you can do is to read to them. As a friend and mentor, she showed that you had to be true to yourself, and even at the end of her life, she taught us how to die with grace. Full of Barbara Bush's trademark wit and thoughtfulness, Pearls of Wisdom is a poignant reflection on life, love, family, and the world by one of America's most iconic -- and beloved -- public figures.
Pearls of Wisdom unites over 400 years of practice experience. Phenomenal doctors who are workingwomen, mothers, daughters, sisters and mentors to many share with frank openness emotional and motivational stories on maintaining focus while moving forward and experiencing life events. Dr. Liz ties their stories together to share vignettes on working through pain, birth, death, practice, and all of life's little surprises. A poignant, authentic, no holds barred book to which any woman can relate. Not only do you come to appreciate the dynamics of being a woman, but gather a sense of love for the chiropractic profession. This book is a brilliant display of professional leaders with one booming 'revelation' after another, and spectacularly pieced together. It provokes you to ask yourself questions for growth and guides you through pivotal life experiences. At a minimum, you will gain a renewed passion to serve in any endeavor you choose. A must read, to implement approaches from their collective wisdom. "Pearls of Wisdom is filled with incredible gifts of insight from many talented and wise people. No matter what type of wisdom you are seeking - health, life or other, you will find many inspiring pearls in this book and you will refer to it throughout your lifetime." ~ Dr. Eric Plasker, CEO The Family Practice, Inc., Best Selling Author, The 100 Year Lifestyle "Knowing Dr. Liz and many of the contributing authors of this book, I knew this book would be filled with the wisdom of those who have reached within themselves and touched the source of infinite possibilities - which is indeed the source of all. As I started reviewing the various contributions, I was inspired by the clarity and certainty each of these pure and powerful woman expresses in describing their journey towards living an innately guided life. The wisdom within these pages, when applied, will transform lives. Those who read this book and apply its wisdom will touch and release the innate giant within and discover the life of their dreams that has been within them since they were loved into existence. This book offers to all who integrate its wisdom into their being, the pure and powerful life that living innately provides." ~ Dr. Peter Amlinger, International Speaker, coach and 2007 Canadian Chiropractor of the Year
Pearl's Secret is a remarkable autobiography and family story that combines elements of history, investigative reporting, and personal narrative in a riveting, true-to-life mystery. In it, Neil Henry—a black professor of journalism and former award-winning correspondent for the Washington Post—sets out to piece together the murky details of his family's past. His search for the white branch of his family becomes a deeply personal odyssey, one in which Henry deploys all of his journalistic skills to uncover the paper trail that leads to blood relations who have lived for more than a century on the opposite side of the color line. At the same time Henry gives a powerful and vivid account of his black family's rise to success over the twentieth century. Throughout the course of this gripping story the author reflects on the part that racism and racial ignorance have played in his daily life—from his boyhood in largely white Seattle to his current role as a parent and educator in California. The contemporary debate over the significance of Thomas Jefferson's longtime romantic relationship with his slave, Sally Hemings, and recent DNA evidence that points to his role as the father of black descendants, have revealed the importance and volatility of the issue of dual-race legacies in American society. As Henry uncovers the dramatic history of his great-great-grandfather—a white English immigrant who fought as a Confederate officer in the Civil War, found success during Reconstruction as a Louisiana plantation owner, and enjoyed a long love affair with Henry's great-great-grandmother, a freed black slave—he grapples with an unsettling ambivalence about what he is trying to do. His straightforward, honest voice conveys both the pain and the exhilaration that his revelations bring him about himself, his family, and our society. In the book's stunning climax, the author finally meets his white kin, hears their own remarkable story of survival in America, and discovers a great deal about both the sting of racial prejudice as it is woven into the fabric of the nation, and his own proud identity as a teacher, father, and black American.