Stairway of Surprise: Six Steps to a Creative Life
by Michael Lipson
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This book will open your life to the surprising depth of the simple and ordinary. For most of us, life is often a humdrum course of the same-old and the nothing-new. We may dream about running away to exotic lands or retreating to distant monasteries, but the whirligig of life won't let us out of its clutches. Stairway of Surprise has become a new classic of anthroposophic spiritual practice. Dr. Michael Lipson re-visions Rudolf Steiner's six basic exercises to make them relevant to our show more lives today. With examples drawn from world literature and from his psychotherapy practice, Lipson shows how these exercises stretch from common events in daily life to the depths of spiritual experience. The path of meditation offered here is experiential from start to finish: not something to think only, but something to live. By practicing these exercises for a few minutes each day, we can discover the surprise in the universe, which is usually hidden from us by our stale, habitual attitudes. CONTENTS: Introduction I. Thinking II. Doing III. Feeling IV. Loving V. Opening VI. Thanking show lessTags
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How can we learn to think more deeply, turn our feeling towards the world in its richness, learn a depth of gratitude that makes life and love intensely real...?
This little book proposes 6 ways to exercise our faculties for us to strengthen our capacity for attention and our continual presence of mind.
This little book proposes 6 ways to exercise our faculties for us to strengthen our capacity for attention and our continual presence of mind.
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- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy
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- 299.935 — Religion Other religions Shintoism/Taoism/Other Mythologies Religions of other origin Religions of eclectic and syncretistic origin Anthroposophy
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- BP595 .L56 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc. Islam. Bahai Faith. Theosophy, etc. Anthroposophy
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