Kirjahaku

Are you in need of forgiveness for yourself? Do you need to forgive someone else? Using poignant passages from the Bible and Ellen G. White to illustrate, David Guy presents a compelling and heartwarming account of what it means to forgive, why we should, and how to do so. Understanding the difficulties we go through as humans, Guy urges us to look to the greater purpose of forgiveness and fully experience what it can do in our lives. When we let go and let God handle our pain and heartache, He will do miraculous things in our lives. Above all else, the author wants you to know: It is possible to forgive someone, regardless of how severely they have hurt you. Jesus is a close, trusted friend to those who are broken.

Is sex an enemy that must be subdued before spiritual practice can happen, or is it a powerful creative force and a vehicle of enlightenment? There may be no completely satisfying answer--though the question has engendered discussion for centuries. David Guy's contribution takes the form of a personal exploration of the place of sex in his own life and meditation practice, as well as in the lives and work of figures he has come to regard as pioneers on the boundaries of sex and spirituality: Walt Whitman, D. H. Lawrence, Alan Watts, and the erotic writer Marco Vassi among them. It also includes accounts of his pilgrimages to contemporary theorists, activists, and sex workers. From poets to prostitutes, everyone has something to say, even though the reconciliation of sex and spirituality may always remain something of a paradox--as expressed in the Zen koan from which the title is taken: "Why is it that the most clear-eyed monk cannot sever the red thread of passion between his legs?" David Guy's answer is this honest and compelling exploration of the nature of desire.

A lighthearted comedy about the way a spiritual teacher tries to empower his followers, but they invest him with all the power."...brilliant, wise, moving, and funny. Like, really funny. ... Spiritual writing like this is rare. " Shozen Jack Haubner, author of Zen Confidential Henry "Hank" Wilder, a divorced loner, is unsuccessfully trying to establish a new Zen center when he accidentally cures an ex-girlfriend's recurring cancer with his touch and discovers--at least this is what people keep telling him--that he has healing powers.Suddenly the empty zendo is overcrowded with Zen students who also want to be touched and healed by Hank. At first he resists, but when he cures a local Mexican boy of a bad limp, his reputation takes off. A TV story on Hank's healings goes viral. The Latino community shows up, bearing food and icons of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Hank befriends a Catholic priest and falls in love again. When his life gets totally out of hand, he escapes to Mexico on a spiritual odyssey and finds out who he really is.

...An old immigrant writer dies in New York. Three suitcases from his archive remain. By force of circumstances, the archive ends up in the possession of a grandson, a Harvard graduate who speaks and reads Russian fluently. By sorting through papers and photographs, the grandson seems to be trying on his grandfather's life. A bright human destiny appears before him - with troubles, discoveries, losses, suffering, love, betrayals, sorrows, losses, gains. You have to unravel secrets, mysteries, look into the innermost corners of the soul, answer yourself a question that your grandfather will no longer answer: is what he strived for higher than what he fought against?The war in Ukraine fits organically into the narrative narrative told on behalf of the grandson: he is involved in the events caused by Russian aggression, and participates in the rescue of a Kiev woman, the granddaughter of his grandfather's close friend. And an unexpected ending... All this gives the novel acute relevance....В Нью-Йорке умирает старый писатель-иммигрант. Остаются три чемодана его архива. Волей обстоятельств архив попадает к внуку, выпускнику Гарварда, свободно говорящему и читающему по-русски. Разбирая бумаги и фотографии, внук как бы примеряет на себя жизнь деда. Перед ним предстаёт яркая человеческая судьба - с закавыками, находками, потерями, страданиями, любовью, изменами, горестями, утратами, обретениями. Предстоит разгадать секреты, тайны, заглянуть в сокровенные уголки души, ответить самому себе на вопрос, на который дед уже не ответит выше ли то, к чему он стремился, чем то, с чем боролся?Органичным образом в канву повествования, ведущегося от имени внука, вписывается война в Украине он вовлечён в события, вызванные агрессией России, участвует в спасении киевлянки - внучки близкой подруги деда. И неожиданная развязка... Всё это придаёт роману острую актуальность.

It's happened that he found himself in captivity, like millions of Soviet soldiers and officers in the first year and a half of the war with the Nazis. He inevitably had to die, being a Bukharian Jew, but he was saved by taking on the guise of a Tajik. And then-concentration camps, escape, joining the partisans of Italy, Albania, Yugoslavia, participation in combat operations of the Resistance. Life and death were separated by a thin, shaky line. Further determined by Lady Luck...

The documentary "The Tenth Circle" tells the story of life, struggle and death in the Minsk ghetto - one of the largest in the Soviet Union and Europe during the Second World War.This book is more than relevant today, as anti-Semitism walks freely on the planet. It includes the voices of those who were privileged to experience the ghetto during the last war. Literally and figuratively. The author managed to meet most of these people of very old age and recorded their stories.The uniqueness of this book is also in the fact that it tells in detail how the Minsk ghetto was fought, how the underground operated, how hundreds of prisoners went to the Belarusian forests and joined partisan units.Time has no power over memory. In this story, the memory of the ghetto is divided into many dozens of human testimonies - direct, ingenuous and terrible. In the ghettos, as in the concentration camps, the Nazis sought to reduce people to such a state that they could hardly distinguish between right and wrong. According to their plan, man would turn into an animal, his soul would almost lose the ability to show normal feelings. But even in such a situation, many remained human, proving the greatness of the human spirit.Remembrance-sorrow, remembrance-hope, remembrance-warning - this is what the story is filled with, which, according to the author, will be perceived by the reader's heart.Документальная повесть Десятый круг рассказывает о жизни, борьбе и гибели Минского гетто - одного из крупнейших на территории Советского Союза и Европы в годы Второй мировой войны. Эта книга более чем актуальна и сегодня, когда антисемитизм свободно гуляет по планете. Она вобрала в себя голоса тех, кому выпала доля в минувшую войну пережить гетто. Пережить в прямом и переносном смысле. С большинством этих людей весьма преклонного возраста автору удалось встретиться и записать их рассказы. Уникальность этой книги ещё и в том, что в ней подробно рассказывается о том, как Минское гетто боролось, как действовало подполье, как сотни узников уходили в белорусские леса и пополняли партизанские отряды. Время не властно над памятью. В этой повести память о гетто расщепилась на многие десятки человеческих свидетельств - прямых, бесхитростных и страшных. В гетто, как и в концлагерях, нацисты стремились довести людей до такого состояния, чтобы они едва могли различать добро и зло. Человек, по их замыслу, превращался в животное, душа его должна была почти утратить способность проявлять нормальные чувства. Но и в такой ситуации многие оставались людьми, доказывая величие человеческого духа.Память-скорбь, память-надежда, память-предостережение - вот чем наполнена повесть, которая, автор верит, будет воспринята читательским сердцем.

Do Not Disturb The Dragon! is a simple, humorous, but cautionary, tale about a dragon who just wanted to sleep. Alongside the dragon lurks a subtle message about the environment.