Uncommon Happiness

Author : Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Publisher : Rangjung Yeshe Publications
ISBN 13 : 9627341630
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncommon Happiness written by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche and published by Rangjung Yeshe Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beginning with an overview of the entire path of Buddhism, Kongtrul Rinpoche goes on to examine different aspects of Shantideva’s text, always relating the teachings to individual experience. He explores in depth the training of the four immeasurables--equanimity, loving kindness, compassion, and sympathetic joy--and discusses the importance of wholehearted engagement in the process. His advice for setting up and maintaining a spiritual practice is both practical and inspiring."--Publisher description.

Author : Carrie D. Shanafelt
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813946883
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncommon Sense written by Carrie D. Shanafelt and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infamous for authoring two concepts since favored by government powers seeking license for ruthlessness—the utilitarian notion of privileging the greatest happiness for the most people and the panopticon—Jeremy Bentham is not commonly associated with political emancipation. But perhaps he should be. In his private manuscripts, Bentham agonized over the injustice of laws prohibiting sexual nonconformity, questioning state policy that would put someone to death merely for enjoying an uncommon pleasure. He identified sources of hatred for sexual nonconformists in philosophy, law, religion, and literature, arguing that his goal of "the greatest happiness" would be impossible as long as authorities dictate whose pleasures can be tolerated and whose must be forbidden. Ultimately, Bentham came to believe that authorities worked to maximize the suffering of women, colonized and enslaved persons, and sexual nonconformists in order to demoralize disenfranchised people and prevent any challenge to power. In Uncommon Sense, Carrie Shanafelt reads Bentham’s sexual nonconformity papers as an argument for the toleration of aesthetic difference as the foundation for egalitarian liberty, shedding new light on eighteenth-century aesthetics and politics. At odds with the common image of Bentham as a dehumanizing calculator or an eccentric projector, this innovative study shows Bentham at his most intimate, outraged by injustice and desperate for the end of sanctioned, discriminatory violence.

Author : Hannah Pakula
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684842165
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Uncommon Woman written by Hannah Pakula and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-11-13 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Prussian Crown Princess Vicky, Queen Victoria's eldest daughter who married Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia and who gave birth to Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Author : Helen Russell
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 0762467886
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Atlas of Happiness written by Helen Russell and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun, illustrated guide that takes us around the world, discovering the secrets to happiness. Author Helen Russell (The Year of Living Danishly) uncovers the fascinating ways that different nations search for happiness in their lives, and what they can teach us about our own quest for meaning. This charming and diverse assortment of advice, history, and philosophies includes: Sobremesa from Spain Turangawaewae from New Zealand Azart from Russia Tarab from Syria joie de vivre from Canada and many more.

Author : Lawrence R. Samuel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538115778
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Happiness in America written by Lawrence R. Samuel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happiness in America: A Cultural History is a cultural history of happiness in the United States. The book charts the role of happiness in everyday life over the past century and concludes that Americans have never been a particularly happy people. Samuel suggests readers abandon their pursuit of happiness and instead seek out greater joy in life.

Author : Kristi Ann Hunter
Publisher : Bethany House
ISBN 13 : 1441230890
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Uncommon Courtship (Hawthorne House Book #3) written by Kristi Ann Hunter and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Engaging Regency romance to sweep you away."--USA Today Happy Ever After Blog Life for Lady Adelaide Bell was easier if she hid in her older sister's shadow--which worked until her sister got married. Even with thepressure of her socially ambitious mother, the last thing she expected was a marriage of convenience to save her previously spotless reputation. Lord Trent Hawthorne couldn't be happier that he is not the duke in the family. He's free to manage his small estate and take his time discovering the life he wants to lead, which includes grand plans of wooing and falling in love with the woman of his choice. When he finds himself honor bound to marry a woman he doesn't know, his dream of a marriage like his parents' seems lost forever. Already starting their marriage on shaky ground, can Adelaide and Trent's relationship survive the pressures of London society?

Author : Neale Donald Walsch
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612831168
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with God for Teens written by Neale Donald Walsch and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suppose you could ask God any question and get an answer. What would it be? Young people all over the world have been asking those questions. So Neale Donald Walsch, author of the internationally bestselling Conversations with God series had another conversation. Conversations with God for Teens is a simple, clear, straight-to-the-point dialogue that answers teens questions about God, money, sex, love, and more. Conversations with God for Teens reads like a rap session at a church youth group, where teenagers discuss everything they ever wanted to know about life but were too afraid to ask God. Walsch acts as the verbal conduit, showing teenagers how easy it is to converse with the divine. When Claudia, age 16, from Perth, Australia, asks, "Why can't I just have sex with everybody? What's the big deal?", the answer God offers her is: "Nothing you do will ever be okay with everybody. 'Everybody' is a large word. The real question is can you have sex and have it be okay with you?" There's no doubt that the casual question-and-answer format will help make God feel welcoming and accessible to teens. Conversations with God for Teens is the perfect gift purchase for parents, grandparents, and anyone else who wants to provide accessible spiritual content for the teen(s) in their lives.

Author : Mrs. H. W. Beecher
Publisher : J.R. Robertson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Around the House, Or, How to Make Homes Happy written by Mrs. H. W. Beecher and published by J.R. Robertson. This book was released on 1881 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Raj Raghunathan
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1785040413
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If You're So Smart Why Aren't You Happy written by Raj Raghunathan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the true determinants of a happy and fulfilling life? Widely admired psychological researcher Rag Raghunathan sets out to find the answer, undertaking extensive research into the happiness of students, business people, stay-at-home-parents, lawyers, and artists, among others. From his research he reveals a crucial discovery: many of the psychological traits that lead to success ironically get in the way of happiness. Forging a new way forward, Raghunathan shows how we can transform these key traits of success, namely the need to be loved, the need for importance and the need for control, and replace them with other behaviours, goals and values to improve our life-long levels of happiness.

Author : Onaolapo Gabriel Olusola
Publisher : Partridge Africa
ISBN 13 : 1482824663
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motherhood written by Onaolapo Gabriel Olusola and published by Partridge Africa. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The value of motherhood is being eroded and is being threatened today by so many factors that urgent steps need to be taken to preserve the dignity of our mothers before the moths of corruption eat the remaining fabric of motherhood and make the situation hopeless. If our society will be good, we need good mothers. If our society will be kind, we need kind mothers. If our society will be morally upright, we need morally upright mothers. If our society will retain its values, we need mothers of value. If our society will be prosperous, we need prosperous mothers. If our society will experience the reign of righteousness, we need righteous mothers. If our society will be great, we need great-minded mothers.