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Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000

Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000

by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything -- youth and beauty, boyfriends and a loving family, a fulfilling job. But something is missing in her life. So, one cold November morning, she takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up. But she does -- at a mental hospital where she is told that she has only days to live. Inspired by events in Coelho's own life, Veronika Decides to Die... (more)

The Precious Present

by Spencer Johnson M.D.

The author of The One-Minute Manager offers a profound tale designed to teach readers how to be happy with themselves and their lives.

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

by Stephen Mitchell, Byron Katie

Out of nowhere, like a fresh breeze in a marketplace crowded with advice on what to believe, comes Byron Katie and what she calls “The Work.” In the midst of a normal life, Katie became increasingly depressed, and over a ten-year period sank further into rage, despair, and thoughts of suicide. Then one morning, she woke up in a state of absolute joy, filled with the realization of how her own suffering had ended.... (more)

Choosing Simplicity: Real People Finding Peace and Fulfillment in a Complex World

Choosing Simplicity: Real People Finding Peace and Fulfillment in a Complex World

by Linda Breen Pierce

This ground breaking work goes beyond the books that tell you how to simplify your life. This book reveals what has happened in the lives of real people who have done it. Based on the author's three-year study of over 200 people from 40 states and eight countries, Choosing Simplicity is a delightful and rich blend of real-life profiles and guidelines on simplicity. Interwoven throughout the stories are the... (more)

The importance of living

by Yutang Lin

The Importance of Living is a wry, witty antidote to the dizzying pace of the modern world. Lin Yutang's prescription is the classic Chinese philosophy of life: Revere inaction as much as action, invoke humor to maintain a healthy attitude, and never forget that there will always be plenty of fools around who are willing-indeed, eager-to be busy, to make themselves useful, and to exercise power while you bask in... (more)

How to Lead a Household Life: Performance of One's Duty and Protection of the Rights of Others (Sri Hari)

How to Lead a Household Life: Performance of One's Duty and Protection of the Rights of Others (Sri Hari)

by Swami Ramsukhdas

Shree Hari Art of Living

by Swami Ramsukhdas

124 pages. Indian edition published bby Radha Press, Gandhi Nagar, Delhi. "Take a firm decision that from today onwards you will not commit sinful and unjust actions of attain God-Realization."

Tegen de onverschilligheid

by Joep Dohmen

Taming Your Gremlin (Revised Edition): A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way

Taming Your Gremlin (Revised Edition): A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way

by Richard David Carson

This is a completely updated edition of the 1983 classic that introduced a powerful method for gaining freedom from self-defeating behaviors and beliefs. Rick Carson, creator of the renowned Gremlin-Taming? Method, has revised the book to include fresh interactive activities, real-life vignettes we can all identify with, and new loathsome gremlins ripe for taming. Carson blends his laid-back style, Taoist wisdom,... (more)

One Minute for Yourself

by Spencer Johnson M.D.

In this book, through a vivid parable, Dr. Spencer Johnson demonstrates that caring for others begins with caring for ourselves. In just one minute, Dr. Johnson starts readers on the way to a sense of peace and balance, improved business and personal relationships, increased energy and joy, less stress at work and at home, a dramatic improvement in job performance and much more. Life is lived minute by minute.... (more)

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff in Love

by Richard, Ph.D. Carlson, Kristine Carlson, Kristine Carlson

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Susan Van Kirk, A. W. Wheen, Erich Maria Remarque, Erich M. Remarqu, A. W. Wheen

ONE OF TWELVE TITLES IN VINTAGE'S A FORMAT WAR PROMOTION The Greatest Novel about the First World War and an International Bestseller All Quiet on the Western Front is probably the most famous anti-war novel ever written. The story is told by a young 'unknown soldier' in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see all the realities of war; under fire, on patrol, waiting in the... (more)

Gandhi

by David Arnold

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi A new approach to the life and times of one of modern history's most instantly recognizable, respected and popular individuals. Gandhi was a figure of unique moral authority who stood for issues which are still very much alive - anti-colonialism, ethnic co-existence, and peaceful protest. This is not a... (more)

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy's immortal work. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently of tragic destiny than Hardy. With the innocent and powerless victim, Tess, he creates profound sympathy for human frailty, while passionately indicting the injustices of Victorian society. Scorned upon its publication... (more)

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind.... (more)

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Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000

by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Veronika Decides to Die

A Novel of Redemption

by Paulo Coelho

The Precious Present

by Spencer Johnson M.D.

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

by Stephen Mitchell, Byron Katie

Choosing Simplicity: Real People Finding Peace and Fulfillment in a Complex World

by Linda Breen Pierce

The importance of living

by Yutang Lin

How to Lead a Household Life: Performance of One's Duty and Protection of the Rights of Others (Sri Hari)

by Swami Ramsukhdas

Shree Hari Art of Living

by Swami Ramsukhdas

Tegen de onverschilligheid

by Joep Dohmen

Taming Your Gremlin (Revised Edition): A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way

by Richard David Carson

One Minute for Yourself

by Spencer Johnson M.D.

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff in Love

by Richard, Ph.D. Carlson, Kristine Carlson, Kristine Carlson

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Susan Van Kirk, A. W. Wheen, Erich Maria Remarque, Erich M. Remarqu, A. W. Wheen

Gandhi

by David Arnold

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Bang on the Door: A Collection of Talks

by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar