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Meditation: The Buddhist Way of Tranquillity and Insight
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Peaceful Gardens: Transform Your Garden into a Haven of Calm and Tranquillity
Make your garden a restful retreat-a place to restore the spirit. Just being outdoors can refresh tired eyes and perk up a tired mind. Imagine spending time in a garden that is relaxing just to look at with simple design, soothing plant colors, scents and textures, and the calming sounds of water, birdsong and the rustle of leaves. Peaceful Gardens shows you how to achieve a tranquil outdoor space with a touch of natural magic. Experienced gardener and author Stephanie Donaldson promotes the virtues of simplicity in garden design, creating symmetry, and balance. Within the structure of the garden design, she suggests spaces for contemplation, incorporating art and sculpture, and the creation of scenic spots. In the final section, she suggests adding sensory touches such fragrant plants and herbs-for cooking and for aroma-and calming sounds for peace of mind. With stunning photographs of inspirational peaceful gardens, lists of suggested plants and plenty of ideas for tempting wi.
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Sea of Tranquillity
Paul Russell's delicately layered, richly textured novels have won him widespread acclaim as one of the finest contemporary American novelists Sea of Tranquillity, possibly his most ambitious and rewarding novel, traces a disintegrating nuclear family across two tumultuous decades of American life - from the early '60s to the '80s - and is told in a quartet of voices: astronaut Allen Cloud, his wife, their gay son, Jonathan, and his friend/lover. Ranging in time and emotion from the optimism of the first moon shot to the dark landscape of the age of AIDS, Sea of Tranquillity is an extraordinary and compelling novel. .
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Atoms, Pneuma, and Tranquillity: Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought
This volume examines the influence that Epicureanism and Stoicism, two philosophies of nature and human nature articulated during classical times, exerted on the development of European thought to the Enlightenment. Although the influence of these philosophies has often been noted in certain areas, such as the influence of Stoicism on the development of Christian thought and the influence of Epicureanism on modern materialism, the chapters in this volume forward a new awareness of the degree to which these philosophies and their continued interaction informed European intellectual life well into early modern times. The influence of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophies in the areas of literature, philosophy, theology, and science are considered. Many thinkers continue to perceive these philosophies as significant alternatives for understanding the human and natural worlds. Having become incorporated into the canon of philosophical alternatives, Epicureanism and Stoicism continued to exert identifiable influences on scientific and philosphical thought at least until the middle of the eighteenth century..
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Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers
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