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1) How to see
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Parallax Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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How can we clear the fog of illusion and see things as they really are? Nhất Hạnh show us how mindfulness practices can help us see our real selves. He brings his signature clarity, compassion and humour in these pithy meditations that will lead readers to achieve an awakened, more relaxed state of self-awareness.
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How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle's incisive essay collection illuminates the work of many of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Engaging with a wide range of Salle's friends and contemporaries-from painters to conceptual artists such as Jeff Koons, John Baldessari, Roy Lichtenstein, and Alex Katz, among others- 'How to See' explores not only the multilayered...
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"In How to See the World, visual culture expert Nicholas Mirzoeff offers a sweeping look at history's most famous images--from Vel©Łzquez's Las Meninas to the iconic ¿́¿Blue Marble¿́¿--to contextualize and make sense of today's visual world. Drawing on art history, sociology, semiotics, and everyday experience, he teaches us how to close read everything from astronaut selfies to Impressionist self-portraits, from Hitchcock films to videos...
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With a title taken from the 1940 Batsford book, this is nature writing for the modern reader. Evans weaves historical, cultural and literary references into his writing, ranging from TS Eliot to Bridget Riley, from Hieronymus Bosch to Napoleon.
It is a book both for those that live in the country and those that don't, but experience nature every day through brownfield edge lands, transport corridors, urban greenspace, industrialised agriculture and...
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The original college-dropout backpacker that started it all-this traveler's classic is reissued here for the first time, and follows the adventures of Lee Meriwether in 1886 as he boards a steamer in Brooklyn and heads for Italy-to travel Europe on two quarters a day. Escaping a jail sentence in Italy for trying to sleep for free in the grounds of Pompeii and climbing into a volcano at midnight are just a few of the cheap adventures that Merriwether...
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A fascinating guidebook from 1852 shows the reader how they could take in all the world-famous British Museum has to offer in only 4 visits. The museum has, unsurprisingly, changed since the original publication of this book, but many of the exhibits described are still in the same places today, although seeing them all in just 4 visits may prove a bigger challenge.
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HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA REVEALS THE KEY TO ACHIEVING HAPPINESS AND A MEANINGFUL LIFE. In How to See Yourself as You Really Are, the world's foremost Buddhist leader teaches listeners how to recognize and dispel misguided notions of self and embrace the world from a more realistic -- and loving -- perspective. Step-by-step exercises help listeners shatter their false assumptions and ideas and see the world as it actually exists. His Holiness sets...
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Are God, angels, and demons really invisible? Or can the spirits be seen with human eyes, through the lens of Church Ethics? The gift of discerning of spirits is indispensible to the study of church ethics.
Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), wrote two sets of Rules for Discerning of Spirits in his Spiritual Exercises in the early 1500s. He taught how the church can receive from God the gift to see otherwise invisible angels,...
10) How to See
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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Reach true clarity and insight by looking deeply, minimizing misperceptions, and having the courage to see things as they really are.
The seventh book in the bestselling Mindfulness Essentials series, a back-to-basics collection from world-renowned Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh that introduces everyone to the essentials of mindfulness practice.
Profound and always approachable, Thich Nhat Hanh teaches us the art of looking deeply—in
...12) How to see
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Mindfulness essentials volume 7
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Thich Nhat Hanh teases apart the act of seeing, both inside and outside of ourselves, and points the way to developing true clarity.
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"This book has evolved from my many years of practicing Systemic Psychotherapy and Homeopathy to help people create a wider lens through which they view their lives. I believe the integration of these two powerful disciplines, plus years of teaching, provides a large enough sample for a scientific qualitative study, the results of which inform this book. Each commentary in A Wider Lens is followed by suggestions to help you see and experience your...
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"Auras: How to See, Feel & Know," is like three books in one!
1. It's an information packed, full color, complete training manual with 17 time tested exercises and 47 photos and illustrations to help you quickly be able to see auras in vibrant color! It is the only full color book on auras available.
2. An entertaining read as Embrosewyn recalls his early childhood and high school experiences seeing auras, and the often humorous reactions by everyone...
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A 'Veiled Gazelle', as the great mystic Ibn Arabi explains in his Interpreter of Desires, is a subtlety, an organ of higher perception. Sufi experientialists refer to the activation of these centres of awareness as the awakening of real knowledge of Truth beyond form.
A Veiled Gazelle considers the symbolic and instrumental employment of its literature in Sufi studies. Seldom didactic, and never meant only as entertainment, such works are regarded...
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If you are... a follower of Jesus who knows the Bible says you are supposed to be prosperous but feel stuck at just enough, just in time, survival provision (or less) which is causing stress, worry, and strained relationships in your life...Then this book is for you.Many believers don't know how to prosper financially in the Kingdom of God. They give, but rarely, if ever, see increase. They see where Jesus said give and it will be given back to you....
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For everyone who realizes they are destined for something greater - 20/20 Vision is your key to open new doors of opportunity! The question becomes 'How do I see clearly, when life becomes blurry?' Dr. Eddie Connor provides pragmatic principles to see beyond what you see. If you expect provision, you must harness the power of vision. 20/20 Vision reveals how to manifest your purpose, forsake the familiar, walk by faith into your destiny, and transform...
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Chris Moen is a Norwegian, and even though his home country is thriving on oil money – it does not make him rich. Through a lot of travel, research and curiosity, he set out to find out the most pragmatic travel tips out there. During that time, he developed ninja-like skills in the art of traveling: how you can save on travel – but still live the good life. Travel Ninja is a book that functions as a workbook, it's filled with practical and actionable...