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People who enjoy Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now, A New Earth), Michael A. Singer (The Untethered Soul), or Adyashanti (Emptiness Dancing) will enjoy and benefit greatly from The Short Path to Enlightenment.
These accessible teachings distill the essence of Advaita Vedanta, Zen, Sufism, Dzogchen-Brunton calls them "Short Path" teachings. A simple recognition, a brief moment of grace, can make what seemed like a far-off spiritual goal actual here...
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"A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed. In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as...
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Tantor Media Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
12 CDs (870 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling historian James MacGregor Burns explores the most daring and transformational intellectual movement in history, the European and American Enlightenment In this engaging, provocative history, James MacGregor Burns brilliantly illuminates the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, when audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World, transforming thought, overturning...
5) El Topo
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Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
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1 DVD (ca. 124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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It was the landmark cult film that began the Midnight movie phenomena of the counterculture crazy 1970s. El Topo must defeat his four sharp-shooting rivals on a ever-increasingly bizarre path to allegorical self-enlightenment and surreal resurrection.
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Studio classic volume 30
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
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1 DVD (146 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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A rich young man spends his time between WWI & WWII searching for essential truth, eventually landing in India.
8) Stanleyville
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Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Prim and proper Maria Barbizan unceremoniously walks away from her boring job, her inept husband, and her obnoxious daughter. Moments later, she is swept up in a bizarre contest alongside a handful of idiosyncratic characters, all competing for the chance to win true enlightenment… and one slightly used habanero-orange compact sport utility vehicle.
10) The urban monk: Eastern wisdom and modern hacks to stop time and find success, happiness, and peace
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Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
©2016.
Physical Desc
xiii, 272 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm
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"[This work] reveals the secrets to finding an open heart, sharp mind, and grounded sense of well-being, even in the most demanding circumstances"--Front jacket flap.
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Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
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2 DVDs (ca. 282 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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During the final years of his life, Joseph Campbell embarked on a speaking tour in which he drew together all that he had learned about what he called the "one great story" of humanity. These remarkable talks were filmed and are presented here in the order and manner in which Campbell himself intended. Examines the core myths of the great Asian religions; the Buddha and enlightenment, East and West; Yoga and transcendence; Kundalini yoga and the seven...
12) Finding Emilie
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 427 p. ; 21 cm.
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Sharing a sisterly relationship with the court-minded daughter of her guardian, Lili of pre-Revolution France attends a convent school where independent thinking is punished and where she struggles with private ambitions to be more than a pious and dutiful wife.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2016
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xxvii, 653 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, portraits, genealogical table ; 25 cm
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A portrait of the contradictory ruler who helped elevate Prussia to a first-rate power in the eighteenth century explores such topics as his military accomplishments, his long relationship with Voltaire, and his embrace of Enlightenment philosophies.
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2009.
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x, 256 p. ; 22 cm.
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The renowned spiritual leader outlines an accessible approach to the pursuit of enlightenment that draws on traditional Buddhist meditative practices, in a guide that covers such topics as embracing a positive attitude and overcoming suffering.
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