Wisdom Meditation

The Urban Monk, a New York Times best seller, reveals the secrets to finding an open heart, sharp mind, and grounded sense of well-being, even in the most demanding circumstances. Shojai's no-nonsense life mastery program brings together clear tools and exercises that can elevate your existence.

Lessons from Marcus Aurelius: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life What can a Roman Emperor from 2,000 years ago teach us about resilience, discipline, and inner peace? Marcus Aurelius, one of the greatest Stoic philosophers, left behind Meditations, a collection of profound insights on how to navigate life's struggles with wisdom and strength. In Strength in the Storm, we explore his most powerful teachings and how they apply to modern challenges—stress, success, adversity, and personal growth. This book distills 25 key Stoic lessons, revealing how to cultivate mental clarity, emotional ...

In Tree Wisdom, Vincent teaches us what a year of healing among the trees can look like. Each lesson mirrors the wondrous way our tall timber friends have learned to thrive through the seasons. Each lesson is simple in nature, a push of the pause button, a chance to re-centre on what matters.

This audiobook is a collection of Stoic sayings organized to allow daily reference and inspiration. The Stoic advice covered in this volume runs the gambit from personal problems, to interpersonal relationships, to advice on work and productivity, to dealing with the hand of fate.

Do you understand what Jesus meant through his parables? Are you seeking deeper spiritual understanding? Jesus' Parables Interpreted is an informative and reflective book. It contains the most important parables Jesus gave us and offers analysis and background information to help better understand them. The book aims to be instructive but also to bridge the distance between Jesus and ourselves, encouraging us to meditate on his words and his message and helping us strive to be better and happier human beings. Join others who have found guidance and inspiration from these beautifully written...

Body Wisdom through Somatic Therapy: Simple Steps to Manage Stress, Rebuild Resilience, Cultivate Inner Peace, Rise Above Trauma, and Enhance the Mind-Body Connection.

Discover a unique guide that draws from the eternal wisdom of ancient Egypt to help you transform your life. This book takes you on an inner journey through 50 powerful quotes, each developed to provide practical and inspiring keys, accompanied by magnificent illustrations that evoke the fascinating world of ancient Egypt. This book was previously published under the title "Words of a Shaman, Book 2 : The Awakening." The content remains unchanged, only the title has been updated to better reflect its essence. With Wisdom of the Pharaohs, you will learn to: Unlock your potential by ...

Whenever you’re ready to take five - on your commute, between appointments, or after dinner - 5-Minute Daily Meditations offers quick and easy guidance for instant wisdom, clarity, and calm. These short and accessible daily meditations allow you to practice mindfulness any day, anytime, and anywhere. With 365 daily meditations on everything from emotions and fears to forgiveness and love, 5-Minute Daily Meditations is a go-to guide for mindful living when life gets busy.

The heart, a term used all over the Bible, is a complex reality that captures the totality of a person's inner nature. This book explores the three capacities of the heart (knowing, loving, and choosing), explaining how each is redeemed through the threefold office of Christ (prophet, priest, and king). As listeners comprehend the heart as the source of all their thoughts, fears, words, and actions, they will discover principles and practices for orienting their hearts to truly love and obey God with all that they are.

For the sake of time, I won't go into more detail and bore you. Instead, I will tell you that practicing stoicism is like sharpening a blade, and you have to make sure it never gets dull. Learning the basic guidelines for a person practicing stoicism can help make redirecting their emotions easier. However, there are no original stoic texts for us to follow; instead, you will be learning through interpretations from philosophers.

"You have been carrying this weight for too long. Isn’t it time to let go?" What if you already have the answers you're looking for, just waiting to be discovered? What if you never had to carry the weight you do—your regrets, your anxieties, your desire for something more—in the first place? In the Silence of Letting Go: Zen Tales of Awakening is a compilation of timeless and thought-provoking tales, all of which are designed to assist you in letting go of the things that are holding you back and entering a life of calm, clarity, and effortless flow. These tales, which draw ...

In Chinese, the character 心 is both heart and mind ~ a source of thoughts, intelligence and feelings. This book is a meditation and contemplation on 心-heart and mind. There are 20 Chinese words or characters inside, all coming from the root-word 心. Each one presented in Chinese calligraphy on batik. As you read this book, you are invited to pause at each page to reflect or meditate on both the paintings and the words. Engage both your heart and your mind. Be still. And listen to your own heart song. And as a bonus gift, you will also learn a new Chinese word on each page. Website: ...

The Orisha religion is a world religion just like Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Christianity. Archeologists have determined it has been practiced in West Africa since at least 500 BCE but is probably much older. During the transatlantic slave trade the Orisha religion spread to the Western Hemisphere. It was most heavily practiced in the Caribbean and Brazil. It is referred to as Isese (the tradition), Cuban Ifa, Lucumi, Santeria, Regla de Ocha, Brazilian candomblé, Umbanda or simply the Orisha religion. I have been studying comparative religion for over twenty years and the only ...

Many teachers stress the importance of living in the present moment. Few give the actual practices to make it attainable. This book teaches you how to return to the incredible navigational system of the body and more fully inhabit each moment. The practices of Full Body Presence help you find a deeper awareness in the moment, even in the midst of chaos, family and work demands, or the pressure to perform. This deeper awareness also brings a fuller sense of trust and confidence in yourself and in the world.

The Wisdom of Kabbalah is engraved in the deepest part of every human being. But when we arrive in this physical world, what we call the intelligence of the body makes us forget that wisdom. Studying Kabbalah is about reclaiming the profound knowledge that your soul safeguards latently. This is the process within every human being toward freedom, as allegorically taught in the biblical story of the Exodus. In this book, you will learn about: The Tree of Life. Names of GOD. Sefirot. Meditation with Hebrew letters. The Tetragrammaton and its relationship with the Four Worlds (Emanation, ...

Discover the timeless wisdom of Marcus Aurelius in this definitive edition of Meditations — where Stoic philosophy and ancient wisdom meet modern life. Written by Rome’s philosopher-emperor, this new annotated translation bridges 2,000 years of history, offering practical tools for resilience, self-mastery, and ethical living in today’s world. ✨ KEY FEATURES: ✅ New Translation from the Original Greek – A clear, modern rendering that preserves Marcus’ profound yet accessible voice. ✅ Deep Dive into Ancient Wisdom – Annotations decode Stoic principles, historical context, ...

Full of personal anecdotes and intimate accounts of the Dalai Lama's experiences as a life-long student, thinker, political leader, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Becoming Enlightened is a remarkable and empowering work that can be enjoyed by seekers of all faiths, at every stage of spiritual development.

This is a bundle of Volumes 1 to 5 in The Wisdom of the Ages series. It's the complete question and answer section of this series. In 2009, while posting in a spiritual forum, I managed to upset some people with what I channeled about the topic at hand. As a result, the forum owner suggested I start my own thread and let people ask me spiritual questions to which I could channel answers. The thread was called, “The Wisdom of the Ages is available for the price of asking a question”. In calling it this, I was emphasizing that we need to ask, and that asking costs nothing. The thread ...

Are you ready for a month that could change your prayer life forever? In Living Waters, Daniel B. Lancaster invites you to dive deep into the Lord’s Prayer—seven days that will renew your spirit, lift your heart, and bring you closer to God than ever before. Each day, you’ll explore one line of the prayer with fresh eyes, discovering how these familiar words hold life-giving truths for every moment. With Lancaster’s warm and engaging style, it’s like sitting down with a friend who knows both your struggles and your hopes. You’ll find crisp, to-the-point reflections, real-life ...

This book shows how we can move beyond secular mindfulness and compassion techniques to the cultivation of insight - seeing into and thereby becoming free of the repetitive thinking that keeps us trapped in cycles of suffering. Most books in the secular mindfulness tradition stop with mindfulness and self-compassion but do little to uncover the root causes of our suffering. Drawing on both Buddhist analyses of mind and current findings in psychology and neuroscience, the book explains how our thinking becomes fixed through our engaging with unconscious preferences and reactions.