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Mystical tradition or approach to God is present in all religions, especially Judeo-Christian-Islamic religions. The Jewish kabbalists, Christian Gnostics, and Muslim Sufis are well known to the people. Sufis, especially, encompass the idea that God can only be known through love. Indeed, approaching Him, knowing Him, and the act of immersion and immanence all involve love according to Sufi doctrine. A typical Sufi disciple practices these stages...
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Think back on your life and remember all the times you were wandering aimlessly without any goals or direction. Were there times you felt like a huge failure? Were there other moments when you could not figure out what to do? If so, you are not alone. Many people are living in their own private misery, unsure of where to go or who to turn to.
What these individuals would benefit from are some good life coaching sessions. A life coach is someone who...
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Judy O'Brien is a well-respected and highly sought-after Australian Medium, who has continued to build her reputation and clientele over the past fifteen years.
This new book provides a fresh and honest account of the challenges she has faced managing her day-to-day life not only as a medium but also as a mother and wife. This is a highly personal account that takes readers through her spiritual growth, life experiences and valued learnings throughout...
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Frank Deford is one of the most beloved sports journalists in America. A contributing writer to Sports Illustrated for more than fifty years, and a longtime correspondent on Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, these days, Deford is perhaps best known for his weekly commentaries on NPR's "Morning Edition." Since 1980, Deford has recorded 1,600 of them, and in I'd Know That Voice Anywhere he brings together the very best, creating a charming, insightful,...
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Denny Abbott first encountered the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children at Mt. Meigs as a twenty-one-year-old probation officer for the Montgomery County Family Court. He would became so concerned about conditions for black juvenile offenders there -- including hard labor, beatings, and rape -- that he took the State of Alabama to court to win reforms. With the help of the U.S. Justice Department, Abbott won a resounding victory that brought...
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Marcella Sembrich's collection of favourite folk songs from all around the globe. Features folk songs from America, England, Russia, Italy, Turkey, China, France and many many more. Classic Folk Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of folk music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world over.
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La voix de mon père / My Father`s Voice est le livre en français et en anglais. La version anglaise commence après la version française. Cet oeuvre raconte l'histoire de Ti'Loup qui, au seuil de l'adolescence, se sent invisible au sein de sa famille. Malgré tout, elle recherche l'affection et les mots chaleureux de son père ombrageux.
Ti'Loup veut comprendre le monde des adolescents, mais elle souffre de n'avoir ni...
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This is the first biography, fully illustrated, of Ray Howard-Jones (1903-1996), the renowned Welsh woman war artist, sea painter, mosaicist, community theatre pioneer, poet and Christian mystic.
Her outstanding achievements were made despite life-threatening illness and innumerable accidents.
David Moore has worked extensively in Welsh museums and galleries and writes about Welsh modern art and public art collections. He met Ray while working for...
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A young teenager enlisted into the Polish Army in 1938. Deported to the Soviet Union and
imprisoned in a Siberian prison camp, this audacious soldier became reunited with his compatriots in Scotland where he trained as a paratrooper and took part in the fated WW2 Operation Market Garden, Arnhem in 1944.
Fifty years later, then a patient in hospital, the soldier recounted his life's experience to my father in the next bed, who had the forethought...
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This guide explores the causes of anxious perfectionism, crippling fear, and anxiety in regards to the impossible expectations society forces upon women. It explains how listeners can find their own voice and teaches them how to ask for help in a society that teaches us to "suffer in silence." By unraveling that journey for listeners, Fierce Joy reveals how to embrace imperfection and overcome expectations so that listeners can live a life that is...
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"My Dearest Heart" is a song composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1876. Sullivan was an English composer best known for his comic musical opera collaborations with the librettist W. S. Gilbert. His works also include 23 operas, 13 major orchestral works, eight choral works and oratorios, two ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous hymns and church pieces. Classic Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known...
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Beloved for his thunderous, commanding voice and affable personality, Phil Georgeff, known as "The Voice of Chicago Racing," holds the world record for calling the most horse races, an astounding 96,131. During his fifty years in the sport, Georgeff brushed shoulders with every great jockey and saw just about every great horse, from 1948 Triple Crown winner Citation to 1973's Secretariat. Part memoir, part historical analysis, and part nostalgic remembrance,...
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My Friend Rabbit volume 11
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Hazel has a sore throat and has lost her voice. She wants to ask her friends to gather some vital things for her, but how? First, she uses simple gestures. Then, she graduates to more sophisticated charades. And finally, when she's all tuckered out from waving and miming, Rabbit finds her a 'talking stick,' a hollow piece of wood she can blow into to creates different sounds that almost sound like words. / Thunder has found the perfect rock for his...
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This is a book for those in need of a new path to feeling God's kindness and grace. Come, receive courage-not beyond your fear, but within it.
Trauma-informed therapist and author K.J. Ramsey offers reflections on one of the darkest valleys of her life and asks: How can you become courageous when you feel crushed? How can you feel loved by God when you're afraid he's forgotten you? How can you experience God's kindness right in the middle of your...
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There are many things in life that can make you feel that you belong somewhere else.
Whereas others have to go out and find a place where they have a feeling that they belong! It is a matter of just visiting that place and deciding if that place works out for you, as you can feel that you are tied down without actually being tied when you are in the wrong place. "'Come into my parlor,' said the spider to the fly" (Mary Howitt, "The Spide and the...
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Gilbert Tuhabonye is a survivor. More than ten years ago, he lay buried under a pile of burning bodies. The centuries-old battle between Hutu and Tutsi tribes had come to Gilbert's school. Fueled by hatred, the Hutus forced more than a hundred Tutsi children and teachers into a small room and used machetes to beat most of them to death. The unfortunate ones who survived the beating were doused with gasoline and set on fire. After hiding under burning...
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GET OUT! GET OUT! Those were the last words running through my head. It was midnight in the middle of a blizzard, the snow was piled high, blowing in all directions. I was afraid that I wouldn't make it, but I pushed those thoughts out of my head. With no phone, and no home to go to. I walked to a friend's house. Hoping that she'd still be awake to let me in. I walked to her window, but the lights were off. I made my way to the front door, and as...