The Worlds Great Wisdom

Author : Roger Walsh
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438449577
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World's Great Wisdom written by Roger Walsh and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying spiritual and philosophical traditions, this volume revives the search for wisdom for modern times. What is wisdom and how is it cultivated? These are among the most important questions we can ask, but questions that have been routinely ignored in modern times. In the twentieth century, the search for wisdom was replaced by a search for knowledge as science and technology promised answers to life’s ills. However, along with scientific achievements came disasters, particularly the devastation of the planet through the accelerating use of modern technology. In an era drenched in data, a desire for wisdom has been reborn. Where can we go to learn about wisdom? The answer is clear: to the world’s great religions and their accompanying philosophies and psychologies. The World’s Great Wisdom makes these treasuries available. Practitioners from each of the great religions—as well as from Western philosophy and contemporary research—provide summaries of their traditions’ understandings of wisdom, the means for cultivating it, and its implications for the modern world. This book offers distillations of the world’s accumulated wisdom—ancient and modern, religious and scientific, philosophical and psychological. It is a unique resource that for the first time in history brings together our collective understanding of wisdom and the ways to develop it.

Author : Roger Walsh
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438449585
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World's Great Wisdom written by Roger Walsh and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying spiritual and philosophical traditions, this volume revives the search for wisdom for modern times. What is wisdom and how is it cultivated? These are among the most important questions we can ask, but questions that have been routinely ignored in modern times. In the twentieth century, the search for wisdom was replaced by a search for knowledge as science and technology promised answers to life’s ills. However, along with scientific achievements came disasters, particularly the devastation of the planet through the accelerating use of modern technology. In an era drenched in data, a desire for wisdom has been reborn. Where can we go to learn about wisdom? The answer is clear: to the world’s great religions and their accompanying philosophies and psychologies. The World’s Great Wisdom makes these treasuries available. Practitioners from each of the great religions—as well as from Western philosophy and contemporary research—provide summaries of their traditions’ understandings of wisdom, the means for cultivating it, and its implications for the modern world. This book offers distillations of the world’s accumulated wisdom—ancient and modern, religious and scientific, philosophical and psychological. It is a unique resource that for the first time in history brings together our collective understanding of wisdom and the ways to develop it.

Author : Philip Novak
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062010840
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World's Wisdom written by Philip Novak and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world Bible for our time from Buddhist, Hindu, Confucian, Taoist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and primal religion sources! In this perfect companion to Huston Smith's bestselling The World's Wisdom, Philip Novak distills the most powerful and elegant expressions of the wisdom of humankind. Authentic, poetic translations of key texts are coupled with insightful introductions and "grace notes."

Author : Fred Rogers
Publisher : Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781593599140
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers written by Fred Rogers and published by Peter Pauper Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpted from his bestselling book, this gift volume features quotes and anecdotes by Mister Rogers about courage, love, inner discipline, and--of course--being good neighbors as citizens of the world. There is true wisdom in this book. 96 Pages. Ribbon bookmark.

Author : Wes "Scoop" Nisker
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
ISBN 13 : 1933330694
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crazy Wisdom Saves the World Again! written by Wes "Scoop" Nisker and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Upgrade your metaphysics" with funny yet profound insights into science, religion, and meaning.

Author : John Marks Templeton
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 1932031170
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wisdom From World Religions written by John Marks Templeton and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every religion acknowledges certain spiritual principles and records them in its sacred literature and traditions. This book curates these ancient teachings and shows how they apply to modern life with the help of parables, quotations, and commentaries. By reading Wisdom from World Religions, people from all walks of life will be inspired to pursue their own spiritual growth and to contemplate questions central to our existence, such as how, through love and creativity, can we be agents of divinity on earth? Uplifting and instructional, this is a book to be treasured, studied, and practiced.

Author : Joan Chittister
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802828949
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Welcome to the Wisdom of the World and Its Meaning for You written by Joan Chittister and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-24 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chittister, a Benedictine abbess, popular lecturer, and prolific spirituality writer, returns with a helpful guide to life's most pressing questions. Spurred by letters from fans who often pour out their hearts and seek advice from her, each chapter tackles a separate existential question such as "Where is God?" or "What does it mean to be a spiritual person?" (Social Issues)

Author : Mark Chimsky-Lustig
Publisher : Earths Elders Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9780976910800
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earth's Elders written by Mark Chimsky-Lustig and published by Earths Elders Foundation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bede Griffiths
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780006276791
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Universal Wisdom written by Bede Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation reflects the increasing desire amongst practitioners of the great world religions to find the universal wisdom that underlies their diverse philosophies and beliefs. It consists of extracts from the sacred scriptures of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam and Christianity.

Author : Dean Chavooshian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478743729
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Wisdom written by Dean Chavooshian and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many, I have given the origin and meaning of life a great deal of thought in an effort to live it fully-with grace and intelligence. In the process, I discovered that theological/philosophical discussions on reality are empty without the consideration of scientific inquiry as they inform each other on the nature of human existence. We can benefit immensely from the great minds chronicled in this book that have dramatically changed the world and helped man imagine himself in it-leading to one's own self-discovery. DISCOVER: In Theology Is the soul immortal? Is reincarnation possible? Islam's holiest shrine in Mecca was built by the founding father of the Jewish nation. How one man uprooted 1500 years of Roman Catholic domination with a simple document. In Philosophy Is the world pre-determined with orderly harmony or governed by man's free will? Is knowledge gained solely from experience and reasoning-or is it innate? How the self-awareness of existentialism allows one to live an authentic life. How 9th century Muslim scholars contributed to the foundation of modern civilization. In Science What makes all physical matter stable? How does matter reproduce itself? Isaac Newton described gravity's effect, but it was Einstein who showed how it originated. Did man evolve or was he created? The search for a unifying theoretical basis of all the sciences.