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David Adam


Born
Alnwick, Northumberland, England, The United Kingdom
Died
January 24, 2020

Genre
Religion & Spirituality


David Adam (b. 1936) was a British priest and author and one of the best-loved figures in Celtic Spirituality.


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Average rating: 4.13 · 701 ratings · 90 reviews · 172 distinct works • Similar authors
The Rhythm of Life: Celtic ...
4.26 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1996 — 10 editions
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Fire of the North: The Life...
4.21 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1993 — 9 editions
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Aidan, Bede, Cuthbert: Thre...
3.95 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2006 — 6 editions
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The Cry of the Deer
4.42 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1989 — 8 editions
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The Holy Island of Lindisfarne
4.05 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2000 — 15 editions
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The Eye of the Eagle: Medit...
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3.88 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions
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The Edge of Glory: Prayers ...
4.13 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1985 — 10 editions
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A Desert in the Ocean: The ...
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Tides and Seasons : Modern ...
4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions
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The Road of Life: Reflectio...
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“To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.”
― David Adam, The Man Who Couldn't Stop
tags: mental-health, mental-health-stigma, ocd, willpower
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“People who live with OCD drag a metal sea anchor around. Obsession is a break, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.”
― David Adam, The Man Who Couldn't Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought
tags: explanation, helpful, nonfiction, ocd, science, the-man-who-couldn-t-stop
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“Officially, it is no more possible to be a little bit OCD than it is to be a little bit pregnant or a little bit dead.”
― David Adam, The Man Who Couldn't Stop
tags: mental-health, mental-health-stigma, ocd, truth
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