But like all secretsthey come out. Not only is her mother, Aviela, alive but she wont stop until she tears down everything Liam and Melody have spent the past year building.
With a new target on their back and the media now focused on their family as the Presidential election approaches, Liam and Melody must fight on two battlefronts.
Melody is torn between being in love with Liam and wanting to kill him for lying to her. May 23, Mona rated it it was ok. The book is organized by the topic, but those topics are random. Personally, I found it lacking some depth. It didn't leave me thinking and I forgot about it the moment I finished reading.
Not a good sign for this type of books. I have read few books about Buddhism and Tao, but this was one of the least compelling ones. Perhaps, the tuning was wrong for me. Not sure. Dec 13, Anima rated it it was amazing Shelves: on-hold. Aug 05, akemi rated it did not like it Shelves: the-gape-of-god , pure-ideology. Feb 01, Kiwi rated it liked it Shelves: I did enjoy setting time aside to read this book; sometimes I kept up with it day to day and sometimes I caught up.
Some pages did occasionally make me roll my eyes for the spiritual personification and writing didn't match my scientific grasp of things, not in a way that I think means I need to transcend science, but that the metaphors needed to be adjusted or reconsidered. I suppose th I did enjoy setting time aside to read this book; sometimes I kept up with it day to day and sometimes I caught up.
I suppose that with pages some were bound to not fit quite right. I did tag the pages that really fit with me, though, so I'm excited to keep this book nearby and take a look at those pages again through the years. Calming yet challenging blurbs of zen wisdom.
Combines short poetry, familiar maxims, and common sense into bite-size chill pills; goes perfectly with morning coffee. I've read this 3x now. It was just as helpful and refreshing each time around. Oct 17, Nina Foster rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites , read-more-than-once , owned-books , philosophy.
This book is filled with unique quotes and interesting philosophy for every human dilemma, days of the year. I found it a great book to have on hand when feeling confused or overwhelmed about any aspect of life, or life in general.
I give it an A plus for it's perspective. Apr 23, Rachel Bayles rated it it was amazing Shelves: leadership. One of the best sources of guidance made accessible to an English speaking audience. May 13, Eric Lawless rated it it was amazing. A book I will theoretically never be finished with.
View 2 comments. May 08, Maher Razouk rated it it was amazing. Fire cools. Water seeks its own level. No matter how extreme a situation is, it will change. It cannot continue forever. Thus, a great forest fire is always destined to burn itself out; a turbulent sea will become calmer.
Natural events balance themselves out by seeking their opposites, and this process of balance is at the heart of all healing. This process takes time. If an event is not great, the balancing required is slight. If it is momentous, then it may take days, years, even lifetimes for t Fire cools.
If it is momentous, then it may take days, years, even lifetimes for things to return to an even keel. Actually, without these slight imbalances, there could be no movement in life. It is being off balance that keeps life changing. Total centering, total balance would only be stasis. All life is continual destruction and healing, over and over again.
That is why, even in the midst of an extreme situation, the wise are patient. Whether the situation is illness, calamity, or their own anger, they know that healing will follow upheaval. Aug 13, Chad rated it really liked it Shelves: philosophy. As expected, some of the entries in this book contain clear hints of personal bias. Every writing on the subject of the Tao must, inescapably, be the result of passing the apprehension of Tao through a personal filter.
In some cases e. Cleary's Tao Te Ching , this yields something so heavily slanted as to allow almost all value in the work to slide right off of it; in others e. Stephenson's Tao Te Ching , the result is very subtle and yields one of the better Taoist works I've read. Some of them I found actually contradictory with my own perception of the Tao, but they were exceedingly rare.
Overall, I found it contemplative, inspiring, and interesting. I would recommend it with the same caveat that must apply to any other philosophical, contemplative work: it was written by a human. Mar 02, Susan rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites.
My day starts with this book, year after year, as my daily meditation and starting point for a journal entry. There are entries, one for each day of the year. Each entry contains a short poem and then two or three short paragraphs explaining the word for the day. Each best political philosophy books is available for download on collegelearners. Best political philosophy books. Books are also the key to learning. Make every move count. Unless we are conscious of the way in which we came to this point in time as a people, then we shall never fully be able to plan the present and the future.
We need to know what roots are still alive. We need to know how things came to be so that we can project from here. We also need to know the failures of the past so that we can avoid repeating them. Here are some guidelines for young people: Remember that you are always your own person. Do not surrender your mind, heart, or body to any person. Never compromise your dignity for any reason. Maintain your health with sound diet, hygiene, exercise, and clean living.
Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood. If you were lazy for the day, then you have lost. Therefore meditation should be integrated with the flow of life. It should not dominate above all else. There are limits to everything—even the cold, and the darkness, and the wind, and the dying. These will only attract the hostility of others.
The wise accomplish all that they want without arousing the envy or scorn of others.
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