Don Ray

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For the Orphaned Children of God (Reassurance, #3) (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

So, the Religion - Relationship - Political affiliation - Church - Family - Belief system - Spiritual practice - career - investments - orthodoxy - charismatic leader - fraternal organization - society - nation - civilization - and all those other foundations of life didn't quite fulfill your hopes and dreams after all. They rejected you, or you saw through them, or you drifted apart, or it all blew up in your face, leaving you feeling orphaned by the foundation you most relied on. Take heart. It just means you're learning and growing. For the individual (or society) starting over, this compendium of essays about daily life, society, beliefs, faith, meaning, and purpose.....in other words "life" (with a little pseudo-poetry occasionally sprinkled in) reminds of what really matters. Yes, something does still matter, even when it seems all that mattered is lost. This volume will seem like a hodge-podge mix of disparate topics, but the topics that daily life throws at us are also not politely organized. Our penchant for dissection of life into convenient categories underlies much of our inability to successfully grapple with any of them. In weaving enough random events, contradictory beliefs, and conflicting priorities together, perhaps this compendium will allow you to step back and recognize a pattern in the life that results from it all. When it's all done, you may not know much more about individual topics, but perhaps in your response to these unorthodox perspectives you will know a little more yourself. The reader of this book will be an exquisitely rare individual, not satisfied with blindly accepting institutional edicts, a soul open and eager for alternative perspectives. You will be different....which is why you have the potential to make a difference.

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Some degrees in physics, some time in research laboratories and thatched hut villages, some teaching in universities and management in international technology: all sound like credentials to lend credibility to the role of author. But such experiences provide only tools and terminology and opportunity, not wisdom and insight. You and I share the same foundation for whatever wisdom and insight we may glean out of life, the joys and grief, the celebrations and hunger that make up daily living. I hope through this book my knowledge of physics and funerals, science and spirit, quanta and cultures, can help you bridge the illusory gap between intellect and heart. If so, that will happen not through transfer of wisdom, but through an opening of windows to allow realization of your own wisdom. Questioning "what" and "how" led me to universities and degrees in physics. Questioning "why" led me to cathedral and temple and mosque. I have been blessed to learn from a winner of the Einstein Award and from village shamans. But such learning seems inconsequential in comparison to life's lessons: the grim look on the face when after the wreck you ask "will she be OK?"...the feel of the hospital sheets after the stroke...and every warm embrace and authentic smile and sincere welcome. I am grateful to professors and priests, research centers and jungle shrines. But they provide only the paint color to be applied to the structure built of the scope of real life, built of pets and people, love and loneliness, homes and hospitals. I pray my degrees and travel, survival and losses that led to my books can bring a little light to your very real life and reveal to you the brightness of your heart's wisdom and the Source awaiting our discovery.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Don Ray
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005734831
• Artikelnr.: 69812060