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Author: David R. Dow
Publisher: Twelve
ISBN: 1455575232
Size: 13.72 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2014-01-07
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Things I Ve Learned From Dying eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone." In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row. But when Dow's father-in-law receives his own death sentence in the form of terminal cancer, and his gentle dog Winona suffers acute liver failure, the author is forced to reconcile with death in a far more personal way, both as a son and as a father. Told through the disparate lenses of the legal battles he's spent a career fighting, and the intimate confrontations with death each family faces at home, THINGS I'VE LEARNED FROM DYING offers a poignant and lyrical account of how illness and loss can ravage a family. Full of grace and intelligence, Dow offers readers hope without cliché and reaffirms our basic human needs for acceptance and love by giving voice to the anguish we all face--as parents, as children, as partners, as friends--when our loved ones die tragically, and far too soon.

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Author: Bronnie Ware
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401956017
Size: 44.69 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2019-08-13
Category: Self-Help
Language: en
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Download PDF Top Five Regrets Of The Dying eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.

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Author: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476775532
Size: 20.94 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2014-08-12
Category: Family & Relationships
Language: en
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Download PDF Life Lessons eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A guide to living life in the moment uses lessons learned from the dying to help the living find the most enjoyment and happiness.

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Author: Dana Shields
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452183880
Size: 74.43 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2020-08-25
Category: Self-Help
Language: en
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Download PDF Things I Ve Learned About Loss eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Things I've Learned About Loss offers a comforting shoulder to anyone looking for advice on how to process loss and grief. Author Dana Shields, who lost her brother in a plane crash, shares her insight and offers comfort and companionship to readers in mourning. This heartfelt book of wisdom is a beacon of hope to help readers aching to find a new normal. • Loosely guided by the stages of grief • Helps those experiencing grief feel less alone • A beautiful, simple, and sincere book on bereavement When people experience a loss, it's hard to know what to do or say. Things I've Learned About Loss helps reinforce the message that those grieving are not alone or wrong in their grief, even if it sometimes feels that way. • Features earnest content and reassurance that grief is normal • A good pick for those grieving and struggling to cope with the loss of a loved one, or for anyone who is looking for something to help and soothe their grief • You'll love this book if you love books like It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand by Megan Devine; There Is No Good Card for This: What to Say and Do When Life Is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to People You Love by Dr. Kelsey Crowe and Emily McDowell; and The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief by Nora McInerny.

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Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400077702
Size: 15.59 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2004-01-20
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF A Lesson Before Dying eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting. A “majestic, moving novel ... an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives" (Chicago Tribune), from the critically acclaimed author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.

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Author: Anita Moorjani
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401937527
Size: 56.98 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2022-03-08
Category: Self-Help
Language: en
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Download PDF Dying To Be Me eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "I had the choice to come back ... or not. I chose to return when I realized that 'heaven' is a state, not a place" In this truly inspirational memoir, Anita Moorjani relates how, after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body began shutting down—overwhelmed by the malignant cells spreading throughout her system. As her organs failed, she entered into an extraordinary near-death experience where she realized her inherent worth . . . and the actual cause of her disease. Upon regaining consciousness, Anita found that her condition had improved so rapidly that she was released from the hospital within weeks—without a trace of cancer in her body! Within this enhanced e-book, Anita recounts—in words and on video—stories of her childhood in Hong Kong, her challenge to establish her career and find true love, as well as how she eventually ended up in that hospital bed where she defied all medical knowledge. In "Dying to Be Me," Anita Freely shares all she has learned about illness, healing, fear, "being love," and the true magnificence of each and every human being!

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Book Detail:
Author: Jeanette A. Auger
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
ISBN: 1773631470
Size: 68.12 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2020-07-25T00:00:00Z
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Social Perspectives On Death And Dying eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Death is inevitable, but our perspectives about death and dying are socially constructed. This updated third edition takes us through the maze of issues, both social and personal, which surround death and dying in Canada. Topics include euthanasia and medically assisted death, palliative care and hospices, the high incidence of opioid deaths, the impact of cyber bullying in suicide deaths, the sociology of hiv/aids, funeral and burial practices, the high rates of suicide in Canada and dealing with grief and bereavement, among others. Additionally, Auger explores alternative methods for helping dying persons and their loved ones deal with death in a holistic, patient-centred way. Each chapter includes suggested readings, discussion questions and in-class assignments.

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Book Detail:
Author: Mitch Albom
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307414094
Size: 44.43 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2007-06-29
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Tuesdays With Morrie eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A special 25th anniversary edition of the beloved book that changed millions of lives—with a new afterword by the author “A wonderful book, a story of the heart told by a writer with soul.”—Los Angeles Times Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder. Wouldn’t you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger? Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man’s life. Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final “class”: lessons in how to live. Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie’s lasting gift with the world.

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Book Detail:
Author: Anna Lyons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472966805
Size: 64.47 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2021-03-18
Category: Family & Relationships
Language: en
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Download PDF We All Know How This Ends eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 'Wonderful, thoughtful, practical' - Cariad Lloyd, Griefcast 'Encouraging and inspiring' - Dr Kathryn Mannix, author of Amazon bestseller With the End in Mind End-of-life doula Anna Lyons and funeral director Louise Winter have joined forces to share a collection of the heartbreaking, surprising and uplifting stories of the ordinary and extraordinary lives they encounter every single day. From working with the living, the dying, the dead and the grieving, Anna and Louise reveal the lessons they've learned about life, death, love and loss. Together they've created a profound but practical guide to rethinking the one thing that's guaranteed to happen to us all. We are all going to die, and that's ok. Let's talk about it. This is a book about life and living, as much as it's a book about death and dying. It's a reflection on the beauties, blessings and tragedies of life, the exquisite agony and ecstasy of being alive, and the fragility of everything we hold dear. It's as simple and as complicated as that.

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Book Detail:
Author: Lynda Bellingham
Publisher: Coronet
ISBN: 1473608554
Size: 29.78 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2014-10-09
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF There S Something I Ve Been Dying To Tell You eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. By turns, it is riotous, deeply serious, practical and sad. Reading it is like being at her kitchen table with a glass of wine to hand. (Daily Telegraph) Lynda Bellingham was a tremendously gifted storyteller with a rich collection of tales of love, loss and laughter and this memoir brings her kind heart, courage and emotion to the page in vivid detail. There's Something I've Been Dying To Tell You is a brave memoir about Lynda's battle with cancer, facing death she found joy and shared it with millions. Her story is an affecting and at times heart-breaking one but it is so often laugh-out-loud too and ultimately the way Lynda told her life story serves as a great inspiration to us all. Woven into this very moving and brave story are extraordinary, colourful tales of her acting and family life that will enlighten and entertain as well as the journey that Lynda has taken to find the family of her birth father having already suffered heartache in her search for her birth mother. In the search for her father's family, Lynda finds a family with a history in entertainment showing that acting was always in the blood. This book was written in Lynda's final months and revealed for the first time, and in great detail, her fight with cancer and how her life was transformed since her diagnosis. This edition includes a brand new chapter written by Lynda's husband Michael about his love for her, her love of life and her glorious final send-off.

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Book Detail:
Author: Maggie Callanan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451677294
Size: 57.61 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2012-02-14
Category: Self-Help
Language: en
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Download PDF Final Gifts eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this moving and compassionate classic—now updated with new material from the authors—hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years’ experience tending the terminally ill. Through their stories we come to appreciate the near-miraculous ways in which the dying communicate their needs, reveal their feelings, and even choreograph their own final moments; we also discover the gifts—of wisdom, faith, and love—that the dying leave for the living to share. Filled with practical advice on responding to the requests of the dying and helping them prepare emotionally and spiritually for death, Final Gifts shows how we can help the dying person live fully to the very end.

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Book Detail:
Author: Randy Pausch
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401395511
Size: 66.93 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2008-04-08
Category: Self-Help
Language: en
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Download PDF The Last Lecture eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."---Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because "time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think"). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living. In this book, Randy Pausch has combined the humor, inspiration and intelligence that made his lecture such a phenomenon and given it an indelible form. It is a book that will be shared for generations to come.

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Book Detail:
Author: David Kuhl
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 0786725834
Size: 23.12 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2003-07-10
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF What Dying People Want eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Facing death results in more fear and anxiety than any other human experience. Though much has been done to address the physical pain suffered by those with a terminal illness, Western medicine has been slow to understand and alleviate the psychological and spiritual distress that comes with the knowledge of death. In What Dying People Want, Dr. David Kuhl begins to bridge that gap by addressing end-of-life realities--practical and emotional--through his own experiences as a doctor and through the words and experiences of people who knew that they were dying. Dr. Kuhl presents ways of finding new life in the process of dying, understanding the inner reality of living with a terminal illness, and addressing the fear of pain, as well as pain itself. He also offers concrete guidance on how to enhance doctor/patient relationships and hold family meetings, and provides an introduction to the process of life review. It is possible to find meaning and peace in the face of death. What Dying People Want "helps us learn to view the knowledge of death as a gift, not a curse." (New Times)

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Book Detail:
Author: Cory Taylor
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1941040713
Size: 47.50 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2017-08-01
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Dying A Memoir eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Bracing and beautiful . . . Every human should read it." —The New York Times A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice At the age of sixty, Cory Taylor is dying of melanoma-related brain cancer. Her illness is no longer treatable: she now weighs less than her neighbor’s retriever. As her body weakens, she describes the experience—the vulnerability and strength, the courage and humility, the anger and acceptance—of knowing she will soon die. Written in the space of a few weeks, in a tremendous creative surge, this powerful and beautiful memoir is a clear-eyed account of what dying teaches: Taylor describes the tangle of her feelings, remembers the lives and deaths of her parents, and examines why she would like to be able to choose the circumstances of her death. Taylor’s last words offer a vocabulary for readers to speak about the most difficult thing any of us will face. And while Dying: A Memoir is a deeply affecting meditation on death, it is also a funny and wise tribute to life.

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Book Detail:
Author: Danae Jacobson
Publisher: Multnomah
ISBN: 0307565130
Size: 43.45 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2010-05-19
Category: Young Adult Nonfiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Things I Ve Learned Lately eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Teenager Danae Jacobson, an exciting new voice in young adult publishing, offers insights and asks questions gleaned from a perceptive and refreshingly simple view of the world around her. In a debut book, Things I've Learned Lately, her short essays on the life lessons she's experienced discuss everything from love and relationships to the meaning of seasons and of death. Chapters include "Midnight Laughing Cleanses You," "There Is a Time for Everything," and "The Stars Shine Brighter When There Is No Moon." Danae explores simple truths such as, "Forgiving someone is proof of your love," and, "Coincidences are really 'God-things,'" offering an honest, hopeful approach to young people who, like herself, are striving to match the challenges of life with a firm faith.

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Author: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476715289
Size: 17.97 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2012-10-16
Category: Psychology
Language: en
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Download PDF The Wheel Of Life eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. On Life and Living Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., is the woman who has transformed the way the world thinks about death and dying. Beginning with the groundbreaking publication of the classic psychological study On Death and Dying and continuing through her many books and her years working with terminally ill children, AIDS patients, and the elderly, Kübler-Ross has brought comfort and understanding to millions coping with their own deaths or the deaths of loved ones. Now, at age seventy-one facing her own death, this world-renowned healer tells the story of her extraordinary life. Having taught the world how to die well, she now offers a lesson on how to live well. Her story is an adventure of the heart -- powerful, controversial, inspirational -- a fitting legacy of a powerful life.

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Book Detail:
Author: Heather B. Armstrong
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501197061
Size: 55.35 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2019-04-23
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF The Valedictorian Of Being Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. From New York Times bestselling author and blogger Heather B. Armstrong comes an honest and irreverent memoir—reminiscent of the New York Times bestseller Brain on Fire—about her experience as the third person ever to participate in an experimental treatment for depression involving ten rounds of a chemically induced coma approximating brain death. For years, Heather B. Armstrong has alluded to her struggle with depression on her website, dooce. It’s scattered throughout her archive, where it weaves its way through posts about pop culture, music, and motherhood. In 2016, Heather found herself in the depths of a depression she just couldn’t shake, an episode darker and longer than anything she had previously experienced. She had never felt so discouraged by the thought of waking up in the morning, and it threatened to destroy her life. For the sake of herself and her family, Heather decided to risk it all by participating in an experimental clinical trial. Now, for the first time, Heather recalls the torturous eighteen months of suicidal depression she endured and the month-long experimental study in which doctors used propofol anesthesia to quiet all brain activity for a full fifteen minutes before bringing her back from a flatline. Ten times. The experience wasn’t easy. Not for Heather or her family. But a switch was flipped, and Heather hasn’t experienced a single moment of suicidal depression since. “Breathtakingly honest” (Lisa Genova, New York Times bestselling author), self-deprecating, and scientifically fascinating, The Valedictorian of Being Dead brings to light a groundbreaking new treatment for depression. The Valedictorian of Being Dead was previously published with the subtitle “The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live.”

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Book Detail:
Author: Jesse Andrews
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 161312306X
Size: 51.81 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2012-03-15
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Me And Earl And The Dying Girl eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The New York Times bestseller that inspired the Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film. The funniest book you’ll ever read about death. It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he’s figured it out. The answer to the basic existential question: How is it possible to exist in a place that sucks so bad? His strategy: remain at the periphery at all times. Keep an insanely low profile. Make mediocre films with the one person who is even sort of his friend, Earl. This plan works for exactly eight hours. Then Greg’s mom forces him to become friends with a girl who has cancer. This brings about the destruction of Greg’s entire life. “Mr. Andrews’ often hilarious teen dialogue is utterly convincing, and his characters are compelling. Greg’s random sense of humor, terrible self-esteem and general lack of self-awareness all ring true. Like many YA authors, Mr. Andrews blends humor and pathos with true skill, but he steers clear of tricky resolutions and overt life lessons, favoring incremental understanding and growth.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “One need only look at the chapter titles (‘Let’s Just Get This Embarrassing Chapter Out of the Way’) to know that this is one funny book.” —Booklist (starred review) “Though this novel begs inevitable thematic comparisons to John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, it stands on its own in inventiveness, humor and heart.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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Book Detail:
Author: Harold S. Kushner
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0385354096
Size: 19.77 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2015
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Nine Essential Things I Ve Learned About Life eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "A profoundly inspiring yet practical guide to well-being from one of modern Judaism's most beloved sages.As a congregational rabbi for half a century and the bestselling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People and twelve other books on faith, ethics, and how to translate the timeless wisdom of religious thought into dealing with everyday challenges, Harold Kushner knows a thing or two about living a good life. In this compassionate new work, Kushner distills nine essential lessons from the sum of his teaching, study and experience, offering a lifetime's worth of spiritual food for thought, pragmatic advice, inspiration for better living, and strength for trying times. With vital, original insights into everything from belief ("there is no commandment in Judaism to believe in God"), to conscience (the Garden of Eden story as you've never heard it), to mercy ("forgiveness is a favor you do yourself, not a favor to the person who offended you"), grounded in Kushner's brilliant readings of Scripture, history and popular culture, Nine Essential Things I've Learned About Life is a capstone addition to Kushner's oeuvre"--

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Book Detail:
Author: William E. Hablitzel
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN: 0977218589
Size: 15.76 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2006-07-02
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Dying Was The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Physicians are entrusted within the lives of their patients; lives woven from the threads of spirituality; touched by the mysteries of the universe, and filled with stories to tell. These stories can teach the secrets of a life filled with meaning, of wisdom, and of extraordinary journeys. They are sacred lessons. They are lessons that teach of a miraculous place and shine their light on the path that will take us there. "This book has all of the wisdom one could seek, told in a heart warming way that touched me deeply," writes bestselling author Bernie Siegel, M.D. "When a book leads me to tears and joy, as this book has, I know it contains the essence of life. Read it and reap the benefits of wisdom from the experience of others, rather than your own rude awakening." Wayne Dyer, the #1 New York Times best-selling author affirms the work as "stories to heal your life, beautifully presented."

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