Mountains Of True Peace

Author : Kellee Parr
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
ISBN 13 : 9780997849219
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mountains of True Peace written by Kellee Parr and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2021-12-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The True Story of a Young Man's Journey in Guatemala "About twenty miles from the border, we noticed cars being pulled over to the side of the road. There were several armed men in military camouflage clothing out in the road, stopping traffic. We were terrified especially after the accusation and warning at the customs office." KelLee Parr tells his story as he accompanied four other young college graduates on their three-year volunteer service with Mennonite Central Committee. The five drove two pickup trucks from Pennsylvania to Guatemala to start their work with the indigenous people. They observed first hand one of the most trying times during the civil war in Guatemala. This book, a part of a series, covers the first nine months of the lifechanging experiences from the fall of 1979 until the summer of 1982. The story reveals the intimate dealings with culture shock, new awareness of others less fortunate, and introspective understanding of who are true Christian servants.

Author : Thich Nhat Hanh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743245202
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating True Peace written by Thich Nhat Hanh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National bestselling author, Thich Nhat Hanh is the world's foremost Zen Buddhist teacher and one of the world's three great spiritual leaders.

Author : Thich Nhat Hanh
Publisher : Parallax Press
ISBN 13 : 1946764469
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book True Peace Work written by Thich Nhat Hanh and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thich Nhat Hanh, His Holiness The Dalai Lama, bell hooks, Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder, Maha Ghosananda, Charles Johnson, Bhikkhu Bodhi, Matthieu Ricard, and many others are featured alongside each other in this foundational trove of Buddhist essays, poems, and teachings. Now a modern classic, True Peace Work is the premier collection of writings on the practice of Engaged Buddhism, a term that Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh coined in the 1960s as part of his peace work in Vietnam that has grown to become a worldwide movement. The topics covered here are especially relevant in today's world: from creating nonviolent social change, to raising climate awareness, to simply learning how to walk (and enjoy it). This is not purely an activist's manual, however. True Peace Work is a spiritual bedrock that is as timeless as it is timely, one that insists on the connection between peace in oneself and peace in the world. Originally published in 1996 as Engaged Buddhist Reader, this revised edition has been expanded for our current time with a new introduction and additional contributors.

Author : Various Quietist Authors
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781490433912
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to True Peace written by Various Quietist Authors and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical manual and guide to the prayer of inward silence and stillness.

Author : Greg Alder
Publisher : Greg Alder
ISBN 13 : 0988682206
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mountain School written by Greg Alder and published by Greg Alder. This book was released on 2013 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kingdom of Lesotho is a mountainous enclave in southern Africa, and like mountain zones throughout the world it is isolated, steeped in tradition, and home to few outsiders. The people, known as Basotho, are respected in the area as the only tribe never to be defeated by European colonizers. Greg Alder arrives in Tsoeneng in 2003 as the village's first foreign resident since 1966. Back then, the Canadian priest who had been living there was robbed and murdered in his quarters. Set up as a Peace Corps teacher at the village's secondary school, Alder finds himself incompetent in so many unexpected ways. How do you keep warm in this place where it snows but there is no electricity? How do you feed yourself where there are no grocery stores let alone restaurants? Tsoeneng is a world apart from his home in America, but Alder persists in adapting. He learns to grow food, he learns to speak the strange local language, and he makes enough friends such that he is eventually invited to participate in initiation rites. Yet even as he seems accepted into the Tsoeneng fold, he sees how much of an outsider he will always remain-and perhaps want to remain. The Mountain School is insightful and candid, at times accepting and at times rebellious. It is the ultimate tale of the transplant.

Author : Misty M. Beller
Publisher : Misty M. Beller Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peace in the Mountain Haven written by Misty M. Beller and published by Misty M. Beller Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This epic journey is her best chance to find the family she and her daughter long for. Watkuese is desperate to return across the Rocky Mountains before winter sets in. Time is running out for her to get her adopted daughter back to the familiar surroundings of the Shoshone village before the grief of her parents’ death causes irreparable damage. Hugh Charpentier has spent his life watching over his siblings, which meant also ensuring his brother’s widow and babe are settled well into their new life. Now he’s asked to help shepherd a woman and child he barely knows across the mountains. As hard as it is to keep up with a six-year-old in the treacherous Rockies, it’s not nearly as dangerous as risking his heart to a woman and child who may not ever be his. From a USA Today bestselling author comes another epic journey through breathless landscapes and adventure so intense, lives will never be the same.

Author : Brent K. S. Woodfill
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806164220
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War in the Land of True Peace written by Brent K. S. Woodfill and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the ancient and modern Maya, the landscape is ruled by powerful entities in the form of geographic features like caves, mountains, springs, and abandoned cities—spirits who must be entreated, through visits and rituals, for permission to plant, harvest, build, or travel their territories. Consequently, such places have served as points of domination and resistance over the millennia—and nowhere is this truer than in Guatemala’s Northern Transversal Strip, the subject of Brent K. S. Woodfill’s War in the Land of True Peace. This strategic region with its wealth of resources—fertile soil, petroleum, and the only noncoastal salt in the Maya lowlands—is the site of some of the most sacred Maya places, and thus also the focus of some of the signal struggles for power in Maya history. In War in the Land of True Peace Woodfill delves into archaeology, epigraphy, ethnohistory, and ethnography to write the biographies of several of these places, covering their histories from the rise of the Preclassic Maya through the spread of transnational corporations in our time. Again and again the region, known since Spanish conquest as Vera Paz, or True Peace, has seen incursion by a foreign group—including the great Maya cities of Tikal and Calakmul, the Hapsburg Empire, Guatemalan military dictatorships, and contemporary corporations—seeking to expand its power. Each outsider, intentionally or not, used the Maya need for access to these places to ensure loyalty. And each time, local Maya pushed back to reclaim the sacred places for their own. From early struggles to remove foreign influence to present-day battles over land tenure and indigenous-run ecotourism parks, this book documents a continuity in Maya culture over several thousand years—and illuminates the world view, with its sense of personhood and religion so different from the West’s, that informs this enduring culture.

Author : Don Nori
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0768409233
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Mountain written by Don Nori and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where is The Forgotten Mountain? It is the place where God dwells and shines forth His glory. How do you get there? Its not visiting a building, implementing a program, or following religious systems. Its not about going to a temple made by human hands; its about your human heart awakening to its identity as Gods dwelling place on Earth. This is The Forgotten Mountain! Author and prophet Don Nori, Sr. takes you on an unforgettable journey to find Heavens solution for the world. It all starts with learning how to live your life as one who is yielded to the King! We thought we were looking for a city made without hands, whose builder and maker is God. We soon discovered that that city is us, and within are the streets of Godwhere there is no darkness, where the King dwells in plain sight to all who can truly see. Now we know that He alone is the questthe prize whose ultimate union results in purpose and destiny now, in this life. Don Nori Sr. When you discover your identity as Gods dwelling place on Earth, you will fulfill your destiny as His ambassador of transformation!

Author : Sandra L. Thibault
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465384057
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting Through written by Sandra L. Thibault and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting Through is a heartfelt collection of poetry that has something everyone can connect with. For anyone who has faced adversity, this book is sure to touch ones heart. Its about getting through the loss of a loved one or pet, loss of a job or finances, loss of self-worth and confidence. Its about the loss of ones self. This book is about losing love and finding it again. Its about finding faith and hope again, and learning to enjoy the little things in life and appreciate the blessings were given. Its about finding ones self while getting through.

Author : Robert Bruce
Publisher : Banner of Truth
ISBN 13 : 9781848717497
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Way to True Peace and Rest written by Robert Bruce and published by Banner of Truth. This book was released on 2017 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was said of Robert Bruce that 'no man in his time spake with such evidence and power of the Spirit'. One is certainly left with that impression after reading The Way to True Peace and Rest, his six sermons on Isaiah 38, a chapter that records the illness that afflicted King Hezekiah of Judah and his reaction to it. Although various sicknesses are common to all humanity, yet people react in very different ways when such trials are visited upon them. With a wonderful blend of faithful exposition, keen insight, and practical application, Bruce urges his hearers to 'take heed to the various aspects of this account, that we may learn how to conduct ourselves in the event of our suffering some serious disease; thus, learning from King Hezekiah's behaviour, we may come to obtain the same comfort he experienced.' Translated and edited by David C. Searle.