Reflections and Remembrances
Author: Leonor A. Kobler
Publisher:
Published: 1983-12-01
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9780805929003
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Leonor A. Kobler
Publisher:
Published: 1983-12-01
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9780805929003
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stanislaw Lem
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2020-02-18
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 0262538466
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A playful, witty, reflective memoir of childhood by the science fiction master Stanisław Lem. With Highcastle, Stanisław Lem offers a memoir of his childhood and youth in prewar Lvov. Reflective, artful, witty, playful—“I was a monster,” he observes ruefully—this lively and charming book describes a youth spent reading voraciously (he was especially interested in medical texts and French novels), smashing toys, eating pastries, and being terrorized by insects. Often lonely, the young Lem believed that he could communicate with household objects—perhaps anticipating the sentient machines in the adult Lem's novels. Lem reveals his younger self to be a dreamer, driven by an unbridled imagination and boundless curiosity. In the course of his reminiscing, Lem also ponders the nature of memory, innocence, and the imagination. Highcastle (the title refers to a nearby ruin) offers the portrait of a writer in his formative years.
Author: Janet Gyatso
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780791410776
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book studies the diverse array of species of memory in Buddhism. Contributors focus on a particular school, group of texts, terms, or practices and identify a considerable range of types of mnemonic faculties in Buddhism. Included are discussions of Buddhist teaching, meditation, visualization, prayer, commemoration of the Buddha, dha?rani practice, the use of mnemonic lists to condense lengthy scriptures, and the purported recollection of infinite previous lives that immediately preceded Sakyamuni's attainment of Buddhahood. Even enlightened awareness itself is said by some Buddhist schools to consist in a "mnemic engagement" with reality as such. The authors explore Buddhist views on mundane acts of memory such as recognizing, reminding, memorizing, and storing data as well as special types of memory that are cultivated in religious practice.One of the most striking discoveries is that perception is intimately related to certain types of memory. Several essays investigate if, and if so, how, meditative mindfulness and recollection of the past--both of which can be designated by the term smrti--are connected within the Buddhist tradition. The question of whether recollection of the past can be explained without violating the foundational Buddhist notions of radical impermanence and no-self is addressed by several of the contributing scholars. Among the primary sources for the studies in this volume are the northern and southern Abhidharma literature, the Ma?tka?s, Pa?li and Maha?ya?na su?tras, works of the Buddhist logicians, Yoga?ca?ra materials, the Tibetan Great Perfection (Rdzogschen) tradition, and Indian and Tibetan commentarial works. Affinities of Buddhist views on memory with those found in Western phenomenology, semiology, psychology, and history of religions are considered as well.
Author: Carl G. Jung
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-01-26
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0307772713
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern age, drawing from his lectures, conversations, and own writings. "An important, firsthand document for readers who wish to understand this seminal writer and thinker." —Booklist In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, Carl Gustav Jung undertook the telling of his life story. Memories, Dreams, Reflections is that book, composed of conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, as well as chapters written in his own hand, and other materials. Jung continued to work on the final stages of the manuscript until shortly before his death on June 6, 1961, making this a uniquely comprehensive reflection on a remarkable life. Fully corrected, this edition also includes Jung's VII Sermones ad Mortuos.
Author: Monica Leak
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2018-11-20
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 1984518593
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →You’ve seen the headlines. You’ve heard the names. You’ve followed the hashtags, which trend for a moment but are soon quickly forgotten. This collection is one of reflection and remembrance of those persons whose voices have been silenced in death, have gone unheard, and for whom justice is yet being demanded.
Author: Emilio Iodice
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2014-09-11
Total Pages: 684
ISBN-13: 9781500432706
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Emilio Iodice's latest book resembles an elaborate painting, utilizing a broad spectrum of colors, tones, and styles that will lead you to those places you aspire to reach but rarely ever see. It is the product of collecting his shorter works, including articles, essays, stories, and lectures into one cohesive piece. Each section is designed for reading aloud, so the impact leaps from the page to inform, inspire, and enrich listeners' hearts and minds. The narrative thrust is a biographical story of two families' harrowing journey of immigration that uplifts the spirit and probes into the soul. This multi-generational saga conveys the power of blood ties, shared sorrow, and unquenchable strength. Full of images, from archival photographs to iconic works of art, Iodice guides the reader seamlessly from stories of family love to essays on singer Mario Lanza to inspirational quotes that chase away the darkness with light. Upon opening this great work, you will fully comprehend the art of reflection and take the first steps toward discovering a clear direction through the currents, rocks, shoals, and storms of existence, to arrive at the place of which you've dreamt but could not see.
Author: John Kuenster
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781566638005
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On a terrible day in December 1958, one of the deadliest fires in American history took the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago. On the fiftieth anniversary of the fire, Kuenster talks with children, parents, firemen, reports, clergy, nurses, policemen, school officials, and others who were in some way connected with the disaster.
Author: Paul M. Ryan
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Published: 2020-06-09
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1647020123
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reflections, Memories, Thoughts and Observations By: Paul M. Ryan Reflections, Memories, Thoughts and Observations has multiple themes and ranges from light humor to complex philosophy, from simple entertainment to thought-provoking subjects. It is a history of the evolution of thinking and insights over Paul Ryan’s lifetime. Read Reflections, Memories, Thoughts and Observations and you will be able to think deeply about life issues and enjoy how ideas are presented in the various forms.