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The Confessions of St. Augustine is the collection of St. Augustine's thirteen autobiographical books, each singly known as Confessions. In these books he details his sinful youth, his conversion to Christianity, and the regrets he thereafter lives with of his previous convictions and action. It is an incredibly important work, both as the theological study of his thought processes and development and also as a minute historical account
...10) The Kingdom of God Is Within You: Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion but as a New Theory of Life
Initially banned in his home country The Kingdom of God Is Within You is Leo Tolstoy's great non-fictional work. The zenith of Tolstoy's thirty years of Christian thinking, it sets out a plan for a new society guided by a literal Christian interpretation. Christ conceived of a society based on love, compassion and tolerance, and Tolstoy believed this was incompatible with violence. Tolstoy's response is the principle of nonresistance in
...Many lay Buddhists struggle to carry the benefits of their studies and meditation practice into their twenty-first-century lives. How might our daily experience of both life and the Buddha's teachings shift if there were no separation between them? In A Whole-Life Path, Gregory Kramer invites us to see the noise, complexity, and challenges of today's world as doorways to fully embodied Dhamma wisdom. Drawing on decades of meditation, study, and
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Todo el mundo sabe cómo ser feliz en las cumbres de sus vida.
Cuando todas sus esperanzas y sueños se hacen realidad, y su corazón casi estalle de felicidad, es fácil sentirse lleno de gozo. Pero ¿y los valles? Cuando nada parece ir en su camino? Cuando todo se cae en pedazos? Cuando Dios guarda silencio, y se siente solo?
¿Dónde está la alegría en esos momentos?
...18) Dile si a Dios
«¿Estás listo para ser transformado? ¿Está Dios llamándote a que hagas algo, pero no sabes exactamente qué es? Kay Warren, en su libro transformador, Dile sí a Dios, te inspirará y te motivará a buscar primero el reino de Dios diariamente y descubrir lo que Dios ti ene guardado para ti». GRAIG GROESCHEL, pastor principal de LifeChurch.tv, y autor de El cristiano
...The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali discuss the philosophy on which yogic practice is based. It is an ancient and enormously influential piece of work, still relevant today. The Sanskrit word "yoga" describes the suspension of thoughts and feelings experienced during practice, and "sutra" is a thread on which beads - or in this case aphorisms - are strung. The work is sometimes referred to in English as The Yoga Aphorisms.