Modern Day Art

You are already living the Tao. You just do not know it yet. Right now, without any effort on your part, your heart beats in a rhythm you did not choose. Your breath rises and falls without your permission. Outside your window, the seasons turn, the tides move, the rivers find their way to the sea — all without a plan, without a schedule, without a single moment of forcing. This is the Tao: the quiet, inexhaustible intelligence that moves through all living things. You have never been separate from it. The only question is whether you are moving with it or against it. Most of us spend ...

Winner of the 2024 American Legacy Book Award in Christian Inspirational A critically acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller with more than one million copies in print and a major motion picture! Gritty with pain, betrayal, and brutality, this incredible true story also shines with an unexpected...

Read this for free with your Kindle Unlimited Membership Greece is a colorful country and has always been the target of many tourists looking to have a relaxing time. However, what many people do not seem to know is that Greece also packs a rich history – all lying beneath the beautiful landscapes and beaches. Its history starts thousands of years before the Christian calendar was used – and each moment represents a cultural artifact that enriched more than a single country. Greece went through many wars – big and small. Some were fought because certain conquerors had their eyes on ...

In time for Scorsese’s 80th birthday and the release of Killers of the Flower Moon, a new edition of the seminal oral history tracing Scorsese’s journey from young filmmaker to legend, featuring a foreword by Steven Spielberg Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin...

From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Gay Bar comes a rule-breaking, sweat-soaked, genre-busting story of outlaw love. NATIONAL BESTSELLER | The New Yorker Best Books of 2025 | Publishers Weekly Top 10 Books of the Year | Time Out 10 Best Books of the Year | NPR Books We...

You already carry more steadiness than you think. This book helps you find it, one page at a time. The Bhagavad Gita opens where many of us secretly live: a capable person, frozen, staring at a life that suddenly feels too heavy to move through. Arjuna, the greatest warrior of his age, sits down on the battlefield and cannot go on. What follows is one of the most quietly practical conversations ever written about how to act, how to release the outcome, and how to find calm in a life you did not entirely choose. Daily Wisdom: Bhagavad Gita distills that timeless conversation into a single, ...

Step right up and welcome to Behind the Curtain, an enthralling new eBook that delves deep into the world of theater and explores its profound impact on society throughout history. Journey through the fascinating annals of dramatic arts - from its earliest origins to the latest advancements and emerging trends today. This magnificent tome masterfully reveals the intricate tapestry of theater as it weaves powerful narratives, immortal characters, and timeless themes, shaping our culture and imagination with each passing act. Behind the Curtain will transport you into the alluring realm of ...

A Year Inside the Mind of a Roman Emperor. One Page a Day. Marcus Aurelius never meant for you to read this. The Meditations were private notes, written by lamplight in a campaign tent on the Danube, by a man who ruled an empire and still had to talk himself out of bed in the morning. There is no audience in them. No performance. Just the most powerful person in the world, reminding himself how to be a decent one. Daily Wisdom: Marcus Aurelius gives you a full year with that voice. Not a summary. Not a modern rewrite. One passage a day, in Marcus's own words, followed by a short reflection ...

Ryan Bingham’s job as a Career Transition Counselor–he fires people–has kept him airborne for years. Although he has come to despise his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls “Airworld,” finding contentment within pressurized cabins, anonymous hotel rooms, and...

Casper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and cohost of the popular Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast, explores how we can nourish our souls by transforming common, everyday practices—yoga, reading, walking the dog—into sacred rituals that can heal our crisis of social...

If you are wasting energy on things you cannot control, if you want to stop living with fear, anxiety, and anger then keep listening.... Are you fed up with comparing yourself to others? Do you find it difficult to deal with change? Do you waste energy worrying what other people think? The solution is Secrets of Stoicism this book will teach you how to decrease negative emotions and start to develop and maintain a balanced and happy life.

Transform daily overwhelm into grounded peace using practical Stoic philosophy for modern stress and anxiety relief. When a busy schedule leaves you feeling burnt out, stuck, or constantly irritated, ancient wisdom provides a highly compassionate lifeline. Discover how to build durable inner...

We all want to become immune to all the vicissitudes and negativities of life. However, most people try to get that by controlling external things. Stoicism teaches us that we can only find the solution inside ourselves. It gives us not only the mindset but also the tools necessary to find true happiness in our lives. How to Practice Stoicism contains many powerful and effective practices for a modern person to drastically improve the quality and outlook of life. If you want to have control over things that belong to your internal state, then this audiobook is for you.

**Read by Author Kirk Goldsberry** The bestselling author of Sprawlball, Kirk Goldsberry returns with a visual feast of a book—equal parts Book of Basketball and Shea Serrano—that uses sharp writing, his signature graphics, and cutting-edge statistical analyses to unpack how a handful of NBA...

A prestigious art show. A dead man from Miss Henry’s past. And one impossible question: how do you murder a man who was already supposed to be dead? Juliet Henry knows many things. She knows how to spot a lie, read a room, follow a trail, and survive situations most sensible people would avoid. She does not know much about modern art. Unfortunately, that does not stop her from being pulled into a prestigious art show when a sudden vacancy leaves the organizers desperate for someone to fill in. Surrounded by bold canvases, baffling installations, oversized egos, and strangers with ...

The fate of two strangers becomes part of the heartbreaking history of a celebrated painting in a novel of suspense and forbidden love by the bestselling author of The Lost Letters of Aisling. The historic art gallery Hatterfield House symbolizes hope for cancer survivor Hannah Caddell. Like the...

What if the secret to a fulfilling life lies not in extraordinary achievements, but in the quiet beauty of everyday moments? In The Subtle Art of Living, Swaminathan Murali invites you into a world where the ordinary transforms into the meaningful, and where life’s simplest experiences reveal profound insights. Part of the ARCANA OF MY DREAMS series, this collection of poems is a gentle exploration of daily living—of mornings that begin with mindful stillness, of thoughts that shape our inner world, and of the subtle choices that define how we experience life. Through a harmonious blend...

What if you were marooned amidst an endless ocean, forced to construct a world capable of protecting and sustaining you? In How to Build a World, Federico Campagna invites the reader to join him in a sustained thought experiment, reimagining the most fundamental questions of philosophy...

International businessman Peter Holmes � Court left the executive world and found himself living deep in rural France with only his seven-year-old twin girls for company. Peter was struggling as a single father in a foreign country - unsettled by the sudden move away from a traditional job...

This novel's six-day narrative, set in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the winter of 2012, expands into lifetimes, histories, as interconnecting stories are woven together: stories of abandonment and fractured families, rape and coercion, addiction, ambition, loss and grief, all told in moments...