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In the face of tragedy and torn between the pressure of his father and the temptations of a mysterious woman, Caleb Uriel is unanchored and lost. Caleb is a budding young lawyer and observant Jew in the 1980s in New York City who struggles with his faith and direction in life. The sudden death of his mother awakens an inner earthquake and reveals the fragile nature of his beliefs. A chance meeting with a street sweeper and hidden mystic named Elijah in Times Square, though, proves to be the spark to set him on a path for personal discovery and renewal.

There is a voice within you. Listening to that voice is the difference be­tween happiness and misery, wonderful memories and heartrending regrets. The Rock­ing Chair Prophet is a transformational story about reclaiming that voice and the unmiti­gated joy that comes from following it.

Während der Lektüre eines Buchs über das Leben des Buddha fällt der Erzähler in einen unruhigen Traum, in dem er sich im geheimnisvollen Labyrinth des Prager Ghettos wieder findet. In dieser gespenstischen Atmosphäre voller Liebe und Leidenschaft, Intrige, Hass und Verbrechen, Angst und Grauen begegnet er dem Golem, einem von einem weisen Rabbiner aus einem Lehmklumpen geschaffenen künstlichen Menschen. Dieser grandiose Roman entführt den Hörer in eine verwirrend surreale Welt, in der die Grenzen zwischen Traum und Wachen, Wahn und Wirklichkeit auf unheimliche Weise verschwinden.

Eden Martin had the perfect life in New York City: amazing job as a professor, successful fiance, great apartment on the Upper West Side. But in one night her whole world comes crashing down. So, she does what any sensible woman would do; she abandons her life and moves to a tiny village in England, leaving everyone and everything behind. Lost and confused, a new life emerges as she follows her dream to write a book. 

Everybody loves a good ghost story, yet poor dead Vee feels anything but “good” being stuck upstage in the heavens of her own afterlife. She can peek in on Val, who’s “downstage” with the living but haunted by ghosts. Then there’s Julie, stubbornly stage left but longing to be downstage with Val. And finally, poor Peter remains solitary in his stage-rightness with the sneaking suspicion he might be dead wrong. Trapped at center stage lurks the demon Iago, willing to bridge heaven and hell to exit this cursed performance once and for all.

We've been at war with them for our entire existence, yet completely blind to their machinations. Etheric parasites are secretly infecting the world's population, feeding off the cosmic light of our spirit forms that connect us to higher dimensions. Our ancestors warned us about these dark, manipulative beings, known as Nagas and Archons. An inter-dimensional porthole incident in ancient Ur saw Earth sprinkled with deposits of a black liquid crystal goo, which is Archon consciousness made manifest. T

In this enchanted family saga, Kate is a neuroscientist who reveres logic and order, unless she’s sleeping with her married lab director and then logic goes out the window. So does Kate’s orderly life in Manhattan after she takes the fall for their affair and Kate’s mother presses her to accept responsibility for her nephew, Teague, an orchid child who hears voices and talks to trees but rarely people. To salvage her career, Kate agrees to conduct a study in West Ireland.

Matt’s journey to survive in a world filled with heroes and demons continues! Matt now has to guide his growing nation through competing nations and kingdoms and demonic incursions, while trying to amass more power, train his forces, make more equipment, amass allies and friends, and navigate sensitive relationships with heroes and former heroes!

Hailed as a masterpiece on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise, he is brought face to face with his own mortality.

A Masserie di Cristo, lungo le pendici del Monte Capraro, nel cuore di un Sud viscerale, fantasmagorico e magico, i vivi e i morti s'incontrano, talvolta senza riconoscersi. E non sono né vivi né morti. In questo luogo inesistente e remoto, la giovane Assuntina è scomparsa, e tutto il villaggio non si dà pace. Tebaldo costringe la piccola figlia Italia a ucciderlo, e la madre la punisce rinchiudendola in una cantina.

Dalai Lama îi atribuie simpaticei sale feline de companie sarcina de a cerceta Arta de a Toarce. Fie că e vorba de perspectiva comică obţinută în urma vizitei unui profesor de psihologie de la grupul universitar Ivy League, de cercetările extraordinare ale unui biolog de renume mondial sau de revelaţiile importante ale unui yoghin mistic, Pisica Sfinţiei Sale descoperă o mare de înţelepciune în ceea ce priveşte tema fericirii.

Pisica lui Dalai Lama se confruntă acum cu un adevăr neplăcut: începe să îmbătrânească. O vizită de rutină la medicul veterinar confirmă aceasta. Dar un viitor al decrepitudinii, cu hrană pentru feline senioare, este neapărat un motiv de deznădejde? Ea va descoperi curând că o reamintire surprinzătoare a efemerităţii noastre este exact de ce avem nevoie ca să retrezim recunoştinţa faţă de viaţă, să ne destindem, să ne acceptăm pe noi înșine şi să apreciem ceea ce contează cu adevărat.

Atunci când apropiaţilor lui Dalai Lama li se dă sarcina de a-i pune la dispoziţie Sfinţiei Sale o carte pe care să o poată oferi în dar vizitatorilor săi, un voluntar neaşteptat îşi întinde lăbuţele. Cartea ar trebui să sintetizeze cele patru elemente-cheie ale budismului tibetan şi, foarte important, să transmită cât de profund liniștitor este să te afli în prezenţa Sfinţiei Sale. Şi cine ar putea face asta mai bine dacă nu felina sa preaiubită?

În acest episod al seriei Pisica lui Dalai Lama, Pisica Sfinţiei Sale („PSS”) are o misiune: să gândească mai puţin, să experimenteze mai mult, să trăiască momentul prezent. În scurt timp, află care este sintagma potrivită pentru toate acestea‒a fi mindful (pe deplin conştient de clipa prezentă) sau un concept mai bine cunoscut de ea ca puterea lui miau. Ceea ce urmează este o călătorie de descoperire a adevăratei sale naturi, de înţelegere profundă a propriei minţi şi de experimentare a celei mai mari bucurii existenţiale‒trăirea AICI şi ACUM.

Iubitoare, sarcastică şi înţeleaptă, această pisică cu nenumărate nume deschide o fereastră spre sanctuarul interior al vieţii din Dharamsala. Ca un mic spion care observă fluxul constant de întâlniri private dintre Sfinţia Sa şi diverse persoane, de la celebrităţi hollywoodiene la filantropi şi autori motivaţionali, pisica lui Dalai Lama ne oferă o perspectivă asupra modului în care putem găsi fericire şi sens într-o lume ocupată şi materialistă. Povestea ei va aduce un zâmbet pe chipul oricui a fost binecuvântat cu torsul mărinimos şi lăbuţele fremătătoare ale unei pisici.

Have you ever wondered where we came from before we were born? Why we are here? Why supposed bad things happen to good people? The Land of Perception and Time is a fictional tale that provides clues to answer some of these questions. It is a journey of one’s imagination, understanding, and healing. Kenny is a good person who is unexpectedly diagnosed with a terminal illness. But that isn’t the biggest surprise he is about to experience.

Some wishes are like thorns; they hurt when they come true. Mark has just lost his job. With the help of the Do Over Stone, he sets out to punish those responsible. He quickly learns the Do Over Stone can help him beyond his wildest imaginations. Too late, he discovers there is a price to pay.

Nyriaana and Juaan are no longer protected by the might of the Hunting Bear Clan. Alone and on the run, they need to choose their allies and enemies wisely if they are to evade the vengeful clutches of their former chief, Eldrax. But with nowhere to hide, can they truly run forever? Tormented by visions of the fabled Last Kamaali, Nyriaana must now decide if she is ready to sacrifice everything in order to fulfil her ultimate destiny. In doing so, she may not only lose those she loves most, but unwittingly awaken ancient powers that will jeopardise the very existence of humanity.

When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise—one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the ground floor of a block of flats—she thinks it will be like any other shift work. She cleans toilets, sweeps popcorn, avoids the belligerent old owner, Iris, and is ignored by her aloof but tight-knit colleagues who seem as much a part of the building as its fraying carpets and endless dirt. Dreadful, lonely weeks pass while she longs for their approval, a silent voyeur.

Zwölf Jahre lang hat der Prophet Almustafa auf das Schiff gewartet, das ihn in seine Heimat zurückbringen soll. Die Bewohner der Stadt Orphalese bitten ihn, ihnen zum Abschied seine Einsichten über die Grundfragen des menschlichen Lebens zu darzulegen - was er in 26 kurzen Reden auch tut. Seit seinem Erscheinen im Jahr 1923 ist "Der Prophet" millionenfach verkauft worden - ein Klassiker der spirituellen Literatur.