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The Impersonal Life is one of the key books written on the topic of self-discovery and leading a spiritual life. Author Joseph Benner penned this book in the early 20th century, and it has been a popular title among millions of readers since. One of the most notable fans of The Impersonal Life was Elvis Presley who often throughout his life publicly credit this work with his success after discovering this work and applying its teachings to his own life. The Impersonal Life is highly recommended for those who are interested in learning how to lead a spiritual life and are in the process of self-discovery..
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From the time of its first publication in 1970, Tearoom Trade engendered controversy. It was also accorded an unusual amount of praise for a first book on a marginal, intentionally self-effacing population by a previously unknown sociologist. The book was quickly recognized as an important, imaginative, and useful contribution to our understanding of "deviant" sexual activity. Describing impersonal, anonymous sexual encounters in public restrooms - "tearooms" in the argot - the book explored the behavior of men whose closet homosexuality was kept from their families and neighbors. By combining participant observation with structured as well as informal interviews, Tearoom Trade still furnishes a controversial example of recent social science methods.

This enlarged edition of Tearoom Trade includes the original text, together with a retrospect. The material added includes a perspective on the social scientist at work and the ethical problems to which that work may give rise, along with debate by the book's initial critics and proponents..
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Denise Riley is renowned as a feminist theorist and a poet and for her remarkable refiguring of familiar but intransigent problems of identity, expression, language, and politics In Impersonal Passion, she turns to everyday complex emotional and philosophical problems of speaking and listening. Her provocative meditations suggest that while the emotional power of language is impersonal, this impersonality paradoxically constitutes the personal.

In nine linked essays, Riley deftly unravels the rhetoric of life’s absurdities and urgencies, its comforts and embarrassments, to insist on the forcible affect of language itself. She teases out the emotional complexities of such quotidian matters as what she ironically terms the right to be lonely in the face of the imperative to be social or the guilt associated with feeling as if you’re lying when you aren’t. Impersonal Passion reinvents questions from linguistics, the philosophy of language, and cultural theory in an illuminating new idiom: the compelling emotion of the language of the everyday..
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For babies to develop normally, they must be touched Adults, too, thrive when touch is a normal part of their each day: a reassuring handshake, a sympathetic hug, a healing massage But how often do we permit ourselves or others these simple forms of contact: physical touch, our emotional presence, spiritual communion? We need to get more in touch--closer to who we really are as a species, and in ways that support our highest human potential. Touching can be communication, friendship, kindness, service, or love for God. Topics include: * The highest human need * The roots of violence and abuse. * Acquisitions: a substitute for touch * Healing through touch. * A healthy model of sexuality. * Touch as a context for our lives. Foreword by Ashley Montagu. .
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1914. A book containing instructions for the self training and disciplining of the mind for the eventual and full application of the Impersonal Teachings. Its aim is to help the earnest seeker attain the Christ Consciousness. It invites the soul to do the learning, while allowing the intellect to rest. A calming and spiritual text to give one a greater knowledge of the self..
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This book illuminates the totality and depth of the path to liberation Explaining that most of us are only aware of half of life, the world of action, Andrew guides us to sink below the surface of our experience to discover the world of inaction, of stillness, the very essence of who we are. Opening up a vast space inside us, this realization ultimately reveals the way for us to return once again to the world of action as an undivided, fully human being. To return to the world as we know it without losing touch with the depth that we have realized as the challenge of enlightenment..
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"To you who read, I speak. To you, who, through long years and much running to and fro, have been eagerly seeking, in books and teachings, in philosophy and religion, for you know not what-Truth, Happiness, Freedom, God. To you whose Soul is weary and discouraged and almost destitute of hope."-So begins this short inspirational work. "Impersonal Life" is a classic of Christian literature, which aims to bring the reader closer to God..
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