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It Is Well with My Soul: The Extraordinary Life of a 106-Year-Old Woman An African American centenarian shares wisdom from a life well lived An inspirational, dynamic, and one-of-a-kind woman, Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson’s ordinary life has been nothing less than extraordinary throughout the course of her 105 years. The oldest living black graduate of Case Western Reserve University, Ella Mae is the child of former slaves who has experienced the best and worst of the past century, including the 2009 presidential inauguration, which she memorably attended last January. Through it all, she has endured-and thrived-by believing that[Read More]

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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Edward FitzGerald and interpreted by Paramahansa Yogananda brings to light the deeper truth behind its veil of metaphor.The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as translated by Edward FitzGerald has long been one of the most beloved, and least understood, poems in the English language. In an illuminating new interpretation, Paramahansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi, reveals the mystical essence of this enigmatic masterpiece, bringing to light the deeper truth and beauty behind its veil of metaphor. Commonly thought to be a celebration of wine and other worldly pleasures, these lyrical Persian quatrains find[Read More]

One of my favourites poems from Omar Khayyam is the one below. There is a fatalistic acceptance to it and it connects us to all living things, as we are all, without favour, subject to the inevitability of present actions and events being permanently written in the past.

The moving finger writes and having writ moves on

Nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line

Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it

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Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and EpistemologyGregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson, this classic anthology of his major work will continue to delight and inform generations of readers. “This collection amounts to a retrospective exhibition of a working life. . . . Bateson has come to this position during a career that carried him not only into anthropology, for which he was first trained, but into[Read More]

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The World According to Michael: An Old Soul’s Guide to the Universe (A Michael Book) Understanding reincarnation and why people behave in such different ways. Invaluable insights for travellers will help you gain perspective on other cultures.Unique in the marketIf you are a person required to travel and communicate with people from other cultures, this book will help you to gain a perspective on how they view the World. It is not enough to simply know they have different beliefs if you want to communicate effectively, you also need to understand that their beliefs influence their decisions. This book will[Read More]

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