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These essays invite the reader to join the author’s quest for meaning and wonder in the natural world. After the journey out of evangelical fundamentalism recorded in Unified Field Theology, the journey continues. Through years with more darkness than anticipated, the light shines through. And darkness turns out to be the best place for discerning faint and distant lights. The natural forces studied in the search for the unified theory reveal that the creative sustaining power of the universe is real and observable through science. Humility and wonder are found responding to the size of the cosmos. The strangeness of the quanta invites us to mystery and things beyond rational comprehension accompanied by the assurance that our most basic level is as eternal as the universe. Significance appears in caring for each other, a trait which is now found in both the animal and plant world as well. Returning to traditional sources of faith, the Bible remains an amazing library of voices revealing one people’s evolution of understanding of the ultimate. Like practices of other cultures, it invites us to be still and know. Life is indeed good. We are here, together, choosing how we respond to a very real God.
These essays invite the reader to join the author's quest for meaning and wonder in the natural world. After the journey out of evangelical fundamentalism recorded in Unified Field Theology, the journey continues. Through years with more darkness than anticipated, the light shines through. And darkness turns out to be the best place for discerning faint and distant lights. The natural forces studied in the search for the unified theory reveal that the creative sustaining power of the universe is real and observable through science. Humility and wonder are found responding to the size of the cosmos. The strangeness of the quanta invites us to mystery and things beyond rational comprehension accompanied by the assurance that our most basic level is as eternal as the universe. Significance appears in caring for each other, a trait which is now found in both the animal and plant world as well. Returning to traditional sources of faith, the Bible remains an amazing library of voices revealing one people's evolution of understanding of the ultimate. Like practices of other cultures, it invites us to be still and know. Life is indeed good. We are here, together, choosing how we respond to a very real God.
Om Sri Sai Ram. With love, reverence, and gratitude, Sri Sathya Sai International Organization (SSSIO) offers the July 2024 Guru Poornima issue of Sathya Sai – The Eternal Companion at the divine lotus feet of our Guru, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. This issue features: A divine discourse delivered in Kenya on July 4, 1968, in which Swami expounds on divine love for the redemption of humanity. He urges everyone to share prema, the royal road to the one and only God, adored by different faiths. An inspiring letter written by Bhagawan on July 16, 1969, to the devotees in London, beautifully outlining the qualities of divine love and urging them to practice love for love’s sake. An editorial, ‘God is the only true Guru,’ as explained by Swami, who urges everyone to practice His teachings faithfully to reach the ultimate goal of life, liberation, or Self-realization. Personal heart-warming experiences of three devotees. One devotee shares how Swami, the Eternal Companion, protected their family in India from the 1950s and guided them along the spiritual path. The article is replete with rare, beautiful, and historic photographs of Swami with the author’s family from the early years. Another devotee from the USA shares his miraculous and mind-boggling experiences with the divine father and mother, designed to help him on the spiritual path. Another spiritual aspirant writes about the significance of Swami’s teachings on nature, and how God can be experienced through nature by following His teachings and His advice. A touching account of a large medical camp in Africa recently held by SSSIO healthcare professionals and volunteers, bringing love, hope, and an opportunity for better health to more than 5,500 needy people of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. An uplifting story about a Sathya Sai School in Argentina, established and nurtured through Swami's blessings and personal guidance. Over the past two decades, the school has served thousands of students, bringing them values-based integral education. An illustrated pictorial on the divine legacy of the growth of the SSSIO in many countries since the 1960s, under the direction of Bhagawan Himself. The publication features snippets on selfless service rendered by the SSSIO in Australia, Mexico, Sri Lanka, and the USA. It also includes articles on the inspiring programs and activities of Sai Young Adults and beautiful compositions by children in the Sathya Sai Education program.
Argues that one can retain their faith, even when distancing oneself from the traditional methods of worship through the organized church, and helps readers identify six life-tested passages that lead through changes in faith towards authentic renewal.
Discusses the elements of a sign, and looks at pictograms, alphabets, calligraphy, monograms, text type, numerical signs, symbols, and trademarks.
Many of us have questions about the Bible: Can we believe the Bible? What was Jesus’ mission? What is sin? Does hell exist? Is anyone beyond God’s forgiveness? In A Jesuit Off-Brodway, James Martin, SJ, answers these questions about the Bible, and other big questions about life, as he serves as a theological advisor to the cast of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. Grab a front-row seat to Fr. Martin's six months with the LAByrinth Theater Company and see first-hand what it's like to share the faith with a largely secular group of people . . . and discover, along with Martin, that the sacred and the secular aren't always that far apart.
The Life of Repentance and Purity provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the practice of repentance and purity, essential aspects of Christian life. Pope Shenouda III draws on Scripture, the Church Fathers, his own experience of desert monasticism, and his experience as a shepherd to millions of Christians to provide a practical understanding of how to live a life of continually turning to God.
"The book is like a dream you want to last forever" (Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review), now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt’s "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich. W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants (New Directions, 1996) was hailed by Susan Sontag as an "astonishing masterpiece perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read." It was "one of the great books of the last few years," noted Michael Ondaatje, who now acclaims The Rings of Saturn "an even more inventive work than its predecessor, The Emigrants."
TRACES THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY AND LOOKS AT THE WORK OF IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPHERS WHO HAVE EXPANDED THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE ART.