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"When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes-war, famine, pandemic-we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its...
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Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy when beholding beauty. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death-bitter and sweet-are forever paired. A song in a minor key, an elegiac poem, or even a touching television commercial all can bring us to this sublime, even holy, state of mind-and, ultimately, to greater kinship with our fellow humans....
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FaithWords
Pub. Date
[2017]
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vi, 352 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
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All of us will go through dark times that we don't understand: a difficulty with a friend, an unfair situation at work, a financial setback, an unexpected illness, a divorce, or the loss of a loved one. Those types of experiences are part of the human journey. But when we find ourselves in such a place, it's important that we keep a positive perspective. Joel Osteen writes that if we stay in faith and keep a good attitude when we go through challenges,...
6) Joy
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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"A lively kitten is full of joy until she takes a tumble. Can a little comfort from someone special help her feel happy again?"--Provided by publisher.
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Harper Audio
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cp2008. c1997
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10 CDs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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"When Parsifal, a handsome and charming magician, dies suddenly, his widow Sabine-- who was also his faithful assistant for twenty years-- learns that the family he claimed to have lost in a tragic accident is very much alive and well. Sabine is left to unravel his secrets, and the adventure she embarks upon, from sunny Los Angeles to the bitter windswept plains of Nebraska, will work its own magic on her. Sabine's extraordinary tale captures the...
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2013
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"In this book Lamott explores how we find meaning and peace in these loud and frantic times; where we start again after personal and public devastation; how we recapture wholeness after loss; and how we locate our true identities in this frazzled age. We begin, Lamott says, by collecting the ripped shreds of our emotional and spiritual fabric and sewing them back together, one stitch at a time."--Description from publisher.
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Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
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284 pages
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El popular experto en crianza de hijos y autor superventas del New York Times equipa a los padres con herramientas para ayudar a los chicos a enfrentar los graves desafíos y ansiedades que enfrentan en la actualidad. Como padres, tenemos el fuerte impulso de proteger a nuestros hijos, pero esa protección puede terminar perjudicándolos de por vida. En vez de intentar salvarlos de las dificultades, debemos enseñarles a enfrentar y superar sus problemas....
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Shambhala
Pub. Date
[2016]
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xii, 170 pages ; 18 cm
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-- The Buddha Walks into a Bar... Buddhism has a lot to say about suffering—and there are likely few times we suffer more intensely than when we break up with a romantic partner. It feels like you may never recover sometimes. But Lodro Rinzler has wonderfully good news for those suffering heartbreak: the 2,500-year-old teachings of the Buddha are the ultimate antidote for emotional pain. And you don't need to be a Buddhist for them to apply...
14) Mouseboat
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Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
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A young girl feels lost after the death of her mother, but when she and her father visit their lake house, she takes out the small boat she and her mom built together and somehow, in the wind and rain, reconnects with her mother's love.
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Many Rivers Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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245 pages ; 19 cm
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With the imagery of a poet and the reflection of a philosopher, David Whyte turns his attention to 52 ordinary words, each its own particular doorway into the underlying currents of human life. Beginning with Alone and closing with Work, each chapter is a meditation on meaning and context, an invitation to shift and broaden our perspectives on the inevitable vicissitudes of life: pain and joy, honesty and anger, confession and vulnerability, the...
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