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- Duración: 2 h y 33 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,401
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,187
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,178
The Seven Storey Mountain is the extraordinary spiritual testament of Thomas Merton (1915-1968), a man who experienced life to its fullest in the world before entering a Trappist monastery. By the end of his life, he had become one of the 20th century's best-known and beloved Christian voices. This autobiography deals...not with what happens to a man, but what happens inside his soul.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Letter to Audible
- De Victoria A. McCargar en 08-06-17
De: Thomas Merton
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Tales of Wonder
- De: Huston Smith
- Narrado por: Michael McConnohie
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 54
Huston Smith, the man who brought the world's religions to the West, was born almost a century ago to missionary parents in China during the perilous rise of the Communist Party. Smith's lifelong spiritual journey brought him face-to-face with many of the people who shaped the 20th century. His extraordinary travels around the globe have taken him to the world's holiest places, where he has practiced religion with many of the great spiritual leaders of our time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Takes of wonder for sure, by a wonderful man.
- De Dr. D. Brian Austin en 04-03-19
De: Huston Smith
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My Life With the Saints
- De: James Martin SJ
- Narrado por: James Martin SJ
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 437
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 360
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 361
Be inspired by saints like never before in My Life with the Saints by James Martin, SJ. This best-selling memoir of spiritual self-discovery is an homage to the saints who have accompanied Fr. Martin throughout his life. From a lukewarm childhood Catholicism, to the Wharton School of Business, to the executive fast track at General Electric, to the Jesuits, to a media career in Manhattan, Martin has relied on the saints to intervene in and guide his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The title describes the book
- De Richard K. en 12-09-10
De: James Martin SJ
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Already Here
- A Doctor Discovers the Truth About Heaven
- De: Leo Galland M.D.
- Narrado por: Leo Galland M.D.
- Duración: 4 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 154
Already Here tells of the death of Leo Galland's son, Christopher, at age 22; the direct visual evidence Christopher showed Leo that our souls do go on; and the communications from Christopher's spirit that changed Leo's understanding of life and its meaning. In life, Christopher was a brain-damaged special-needs child who challenged everyone he knew with unpredictable behavior and uncanny insights. After his death, he revealed to Leo the real purpose of his life, as a spiritual guide who taught others by confounding their assumptions and expectations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I needed this book. thanks Doctor.
- De Anonymous User en 08-08-18
De: Leo Galland M.D.
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Jaguar in the Body, Butterfly in the Heart
- De: Ya'Acov Darling Khan
- Narrado por: Ya'Acov Darling Khan
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 88
Shaman, meaning "intermediary between spirit and the natural world", has become a much overused word in the West. It's not a job title one can give oneself, and in indigenous societies a shaman is usually born to this role. Ya'Acov Darling Khan is one of the few Westerners who have been acknowledged as shamans by indigenous elders or teachers. After being hit by lightning, Ya'Acov took a 30-year journey into the heart of shamanism to seek his own healing and to learn how he could serve others with the wisdom he acquired through his experiences.
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2 out of 5 stars
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AHHHH not so good
- De Michelle Moore en 07-06-19
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The Art of Travel
- De: Alain de Botton
- Narrado por: Nicholas Bell
- Duración: 5 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 155
Aside from love, few actvities seem to promise us as much happiness as going traveling: taking off for somewhere else, somewhere far from home, a place with more interesting weather, customs, and landscapes. But although we are inundated with advice on where to travel, few people seem to talk about why we should go and how we can become more fulfilled by doing so.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Dull, suggestions for better alternatives
- De J. Natael en 08-07-13
De: Alain de Botton
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The Adventures of Henry Thoreau
- A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
- De: Michael Sims
- Narrado por: David Rapkin
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
Henry David Thoreau has long been an intellectual icon and folk hero. In this strikingly original profile, Michael Sims reveals how the bookish, quirky young man evolved into the patron saint of environmentalism and nonviolent activism. Working from 19th-century letters and diaries, Sims charts Henry’s course from his time at Harvard through the years he spent living in a cabin beside Walden Pond. Sims uncovers a previously hidden Thoreau - the rowdy boy reminiscent of Tom Sawyer, the sarcastic college iconoclast, the devoted son who kept imitating his beloved older brother’s choices in life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pleasant surprise
- De Norman Wendth en 10-21-14
De: Michael Sims
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Walking in Wonder
- Eternal Wisdom for a Modern World
- De: John O'Donohue, Krista Tippett - foreword
- Narrado por: Pat O'Donohue
- Duración: 4 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 293
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 255
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 251
In this unabridged audiobook of Walking in Wonder, John O’Donohue’s friend and frequent collaborator John Quinn collects a series of talks and essays from the poet-philosopher on humanity’s relationship with the land, the ache of absence, our place in an often mysterious universe, and the great adventure of death itself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gentle wise companion
- De papa k en 03-24-19
De: John O'Donohue, y otros
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Cave in the Snow
- Tenzin Palmo's Quest for Enlightenment
- De: Vicki Mackenzie
- Narrado por: Georgina Sutton, Vicki Mackenzie, Tenzin Palmo
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 199
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 175
This is the story of Tenzin Palmo, the daughter of a fishmonger from London's East End who became a Tibetan nun. After meditating for 12 years in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas, she became a world-renowned spiritual leader and champion of the right of women to achieve spiritual enlightenment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audio version is best format for this book
- De Mark en 06-11-17
De: Vicki Mackenzie
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The Great Work of Your Life
- A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling
- De: Stephen Cope
- Narrado por: Kevin M. Connolly
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 484
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 408
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 405
To know your true calling - your dharma, as the yogis say - is perhaps the greatest desire within each of us. And yet, few can say we know our purpose with absolute certainty. Fortunately, there is a time-tested guide - an ancient map - for discovering and fulfilling your unique calling. In The Great Work of Your Life, Stephen Cope walks you through each step of the journey.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Jungian Zen Psychoanalytical Retired Meditation Teacher
- De Glenn Guillory, SFO en 06-13-20
De: Stephen Cope
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On Elizabeth Bishop
- De: Colm Tóibín
- Narrado por: John Keating
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
In this book novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences - the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tóibín creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and exile resonate with his own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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ELIZABETH BISHOP
- De chetyarbrough.blog en 05-19-16
De: Colm Tóibín
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He Held Radical Light
- The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
- De: Christian Wiman
- Narrado por: John Lescault
- Duración: 3 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Christian Wiman explores the relationships between art and faith, death and fame, heaven and oblivion. Above all, He Held Radical Light is a love letter to poetry, filled with moving, surprising, and sometimes funny encounters with the poets Wiman has known.
De: Christian Wiman
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The Three Marriages
- Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship
- De: David Whyte
- Narrado por: David Whyte
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 405
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 277
According to Whyte, we humans are involved not just with one marriage with a significant other. We also have made secret vows to our work and unspoken vows to an inner, constantly developing self. Whyte's thesis is that to separate these marriages in order to balance them is to destroy the fabric of happiness itself; that in each of these marriages, will, effort, and hard work are overused, overrated, and in many ways self-defeating.
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5 out of 5 stars
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RARE SELF-HELP BOOK THAT ACTUALLY HELPS
- De Elizabeth en 03-05-09
De: David Whyte
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Poemcrazy
- Freeing Your Life with Words
- De: Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
- Narrado por: Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
- Duración: 5 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to write a poem but was afraid to try. Writing workshop leader Susan Wooldridge shows how to think, use one's senses, and practice exercises that will make poems more likely to happen.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Her Words, Her Voice...
- De S. Schultz en 11-21-14
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David Lynch
- The Man from Another Place (Icons)
- De: Dennis Lim
- Narrado por: Jeff Cummings
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
At once a pop culture icon, cult figure, and film industry outsider, master filmmaker David Lynch and his work defy easy definition. Dredged from his subconscious mind, Lynch's work is primed to act on our own subconscious, combining heightened, contradictory emotions into something familiar but inscrutable. No less than his art, Lynch's life also evades simple categorization, encompassing pursuits as a musician, painter, photographer, carpenter, entrepreneur, and vocal proponent of Transcendental Meditation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential listening for Lunch fans
- De Michael P. Mesaros en 08-14-18
De: Dennis Lim
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Gift of the Red Bird
- The Story of a Divine Encounter
- De: Paula D'Arcy
- Narrado por: Paula D'Arcy
- Duración: 3 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
When Paula D'Arcy lost her husband and baby in a car crash, she began an inner search for a faith that was stronger than fear. In Gift of the Red Bird she shares her remarkable spiritual adventure. Grief, she shows us, is an ongoing, never-completed process, one that becomes woven into the fabric of the grieving person's spiritual life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Relatable story
- De Maryjane Hadaway en 07-15-19
De: Paula D'Arcy
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today—not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence of temples, of the images woven through literature, of the lunar Japan that still lives on behind the rising sun of geopolitical power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative, Poetic, Engaging
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The Half Known Life
- In Search of Paradise
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- Narrado por: Pico Iyer
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Traveling from Iran to North Korea, from the Dalai Lama’s Himalayas to the ghostly temples of Japan, Pico Iyer brings together a lifetime of explorations to upend our ideas of utopia and ask how we might find peace in the midst of difficulty and suffering. Does religion lead us back to Eden or only into constant contention? Why do so many seeming paradises turn into warzones? And does paradise exist only in the afterworld – or can it be found in the here and now?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Would enjoy Meeting Pico and having a deep Conversation while having some good tea.
- De M. en 02-13-23
De: Pico Iyer
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The Art of Stillness
- Adventures in Going Nowhere
- De: Pico Iyer
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In this age of constant movement and connectedness, perhaps staying in one place is a more exciting prospect, and a greater necessity than ever before. The Art of Stillness paints a picture of why so many have found richness in stillness and what - from Marcel Proust to Blaise Pascal to Phillipe Starck - they’ve gained there.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Monk in the World
- Cultivating a Spiritual Life
- De: Wayne Teasdale, Ken Wilber - foreword
- Narrado por: James Anderson Foster
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The Mystic Heart chronicled Brother Wayne Teasdale's journey into a multifaceted spirituality blending his traditional Catholic training and the Eastern way of sannyasa (Indian monkhood). A Monk in the World tells what the journey has meant for him - living as a monk outside the monastery, integrating teachings from the world's religions with his own Catholic training, combining his vigorous spiritual practice with the necessities of making a living, and pursuing a course of social justice in a major American city.
De: Wayne Teasdale, y otros
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The Snow Leopard
- De: Peter Matthiessen, Pico Iyer - introduction
- Narrado por: Peter Matthiessen
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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In 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and possibly glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard. Matthiessen, a student of Z en Buddhism, was also on a spiritual quest to find the Lama of Shey at the ancient shrine on Crystal Mountain. As the climb proceeds, Matthiessen charts his inner path as well as his outer one.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth the wait
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This is Merton at his best, applying ancient wisdom to the longings of our age through thoughtful commentary on Scripture and writers of the Western spiritual tradition. This book distills Merton's own reading and long experience with contemplation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another beauty by one of my favorite authors
- De L. Wilson en 08-10-12
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When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today—not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence of temples, of the images woven through literature, of the lunar Japan that still lives on behind the rising sun of geopolitical power.
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In this age of constant movement and connectedness, perhaps staying in one place is a more exciting prospect, and a greater necessity than ever before. The Art of Stillness paints a picture of why so many have found richness in stillness and what - from Marcel Proust to Blaise Pascal to Phillipe Starck - they’ve gained there.
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2 out of 5 stars
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