Noah Benshea

Sometimes life’s waves knock you down; other times, life might seem to sweep you along powerless. But the choice is always yours to swim back up to the light. Legendary world champion surfer Shaun Tomson and international bestselling poet-philosopher Noah benShea join forces to offer you insight on a path of purpose, hope, and faith. This timely guidebook alternates between Tomson’s inspiring experiential essays and benShea’s spiritual commentary that lift the soul, all accented with stunning full-color surfing photographs. After losing his son, Tomson walked the bitter road of loss and crossed from darkness into the light. The Surfer and the Sage addresses the eighteen relentless, breaking waves of life, from loss and aging to relationships and depression, and guides you to transformation. It is not a list of rules to follow that guarantee success, health, or wealth, but rather a collection of advice from two guides who have traveled far and wide and suffered deeply, but still look forward to tomorrow with faith and hope.

There is no more inspiring a guide for coping in a complicated world than Jacob the Baker. His plainspoken wisdom and commonsense approach--delivered with compassion, humor, and understanding--provide nourishment for the soul. In his parables, Jacob ponders universal questions both profound and simple, and he offers hope, comfort, and direction in the midst of life's daunting but sometimes wondrous challenges.Confronting head-on the issues of love, grief, faith, and acceptance, Jacob speaks with us, not at us, about making peace with the past; about the importance of integrity, kindness, and honesty; about doing right rather than being right; and most of all, about finding inner peace. A lifetime in the writing, this book should be shared with loved ones and strangers like the invaluable gift it is. Keep it close in your life, as a gift to you.

The truth is, we are all in recovery; we're all recovering from who we are to who we might yet become. In Great Recovery Quotes and Stories for Healing you will find quotes and stories of wisdom, compassion and strengthening. Both addiction AND recovery are part of the human experience across time. And wherever you are at this moment in your life, take these three truths to heart: 1) You are not alone 2) There is no shame in being ill 3) There is courage in healing. There is no magic to recovery from addiction. It is hard work. But in this brief life we repeatedly discover that success is often buried in hard work. Hopefully you love--or will learn to love--yourself enough to make your work a labor of love. Noah benShea is one of North America's most respected and beloved poet-philosophers. He is an international best-selling author of twenty-five books translated into eighteen languages. He has spoken at the Library of Congress, been nominated for the Pulitzer Prizem and was the subject of a National Public Television special. He is the Executive Director of the Justice Project and is the National Philosopher for Foundations Recovery Network

A Compass for the Classroom provides guidance, support, and inspiration. The book presents a new model of reflection using the metaphor of a compass, with directional points of humility, honesty, love, and faith. It is a guide to finding one's way in life by always considering the four points in our decisions and views. The book provides teachers with something to feed the spirit to succeed in the somewhat selfless struggle that educators take on to help students learn and thrive. It includes examples of the compass points in action in classrooms, as well as assessment checklists for teachers and students.

A Compass for the Classroom provides guidance, support, and inspiration. The book presents a new model of reflection using the metaphor of a compass, with directional points of humility, honesty, love, and faith. It is a guide to finding one's way in life by always considering the four points in our decisions and views. The book provides teachers with something to feed the spirit to succeed in the somewhat selfless struggle that educators take on to help students learn and thrive. It includes examples of the compass points in action in classrooms, as well as assessment checklists for teachers and students.

This book provides ideas, stories, one-liners, point makers, and points of reflection designed to spur and serve your thinking, lend you inspiration, offer you perhaps a compass on a path of thinking less commonly traveled.

This book provides ideas, stories, one-liners, point makers, and points of reflection designed to spur and serve your thinking, lend you inspiration, offer you perhaps a compass on a path of thinking less commonly traveled.

Just as teachers strive to inspire their students, author Noah benShea aims to replenish the well of inspiration within teachers in his book, Great Quotes to Inspire Great Teachers. Educators are constantly challenged, not only to meet the needs of their students, but also to spark their enthusiasm for knowledge. The ideas in this book are culled from the centuries. They are timely and timeless, as great teachers are never out of date. In its own way, this book is designed to be a wise and gentle friend; not unlike a great teacher.

Just as teachers strive to inspire their students, author Noah benShea aims to replenish the well of inspiration within teachers in his book, Great Quotes to Inspire Great Teachers. Educators are constantly challenged, not only to meet the needs of their students, but also to spark their enthusiasm for knowledge. The ideas in this book are culled from the centuries. They are timely and timeless, as great teachers are never out of date. In its own way, this book is designed to be a wise and gentle friend; not unlike a great teacher.

`Very insightful and timely…. Enhances presentations. Supports leadership thoughts, initiatives, and policies'- Gerald N Tirozzi, Executive Director, National Association of Secondary School Principals From time to time all of us are asked to give a speech or make a few remarks. This collection of aphorisms, and quotations of inspiration, joy, humour, and wisdom, offers educators not only inspiration, but quotable quotes to be used in speeches, presentations, letters, etc. This is more than a book of quotes, however; these are thoughts that are selected and framed so that the administrator can see old problems in a new light, paint a different picture for others, and not paint himself into a corner.

`Very insightful and timely…. Enhances presentations. Supports leadership thoughts, initiatives, and policies'- Gerald N Tirozzi, Executive Director, National Association of Secondary School Principals From time to time all of us are asked to give a speech or make a few remarks. This collection of aphorisms, and quotations of inspiration, joy, humour, and wisdom, offers educators not only inspiration, but quotable quotes to be used in speeches, presentations, letters, etc. This is more than a book of quotes, however; these are thoughts that are selected and framed so that the administrator can see old problems in a new light, paint a different picture for others, and not paint himself into a corner.