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Meditations with a Difference
In this intense meditative series on MEDITATIONS WITH A DIFFERENCE, John Bradshaw offers two very different meditations framed with enchanting soothing music. The first meditation entitled Small Gestures of Love offers you a healing experience that comes from one very small gesture of love and reminds you of the power you have to make a difference in the world by choosing to make small gestures of love. Through this meditation, John Bradshaw offers ways to connect with the soulful experience of joy and love. In the second meditation entitled A Path To Wholeness, John Bradshaw asks you to imagine a private banquet feast where you invite all the parts of you that you really like. However, unexpectedly, unwelcome guests arrive. These unwelcome guests are the parts of you that you hide from others and wish to disown. In this meditation, you find it takes a large amount of energy to disown parts of your self and hide it from your public life. This mediation suggests that you can become whole only by acknowledging and embracing your disowned parts.
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First published January 1, 2008
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John Bradshaw
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John Bradshaw has been called "America's leading personal growth expert." The author of five New York Times bestsellers, Bradshaw On: The Family, Healing the Shame That Binds You, Homecoming, Creating Love, and Family Secrets. He created and hosted four nationally broadcast PBS television series based on his best-selling books. John pioneered the concept of the "Inner Child" and brought the term "dysfunctional family" into the mainstream. He has touched and changed millions of lives through his books, television series, and his lectures and workshops around the country.
During the past twenty-five years he has worked as a counselor, theologian, management consultant, and public speaker, becoming one of the primary figures in the contemporary self-help movement.
John Bradshaw has been called "America's leading personal growth expert." The author of five New York Times bestsellers, Bradshaw On: The Family, Healing the Shame That Binds You, Homecoming, Creating Love, and Family Secrets. He created and hosted four nationally broadcast PBS television series based on his best-selling books. John pioneered the concept of the "Inner Child" and brought the term "dysfunctional family" into the mainstream. He has touched and changed millions of lives through his books, television series, and his lectures and workshops around the country.
During the past twenty-five years he has worked as a counselor, theologian, management consultant, and public speaker, becoming one of the primary figures in the contemporary self-help movement.
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September 21, 2023
Goodreads lists the wrong translator for this. The translator is Robin Hard.
There are many translations of this work, which is wonderful, but I have found the Oxford Classics to be the best. I have purchased and looked at the Penguin edition, the Modern Library edition, and the Everyman edition, and this one to me stands out for its readability and clarity. It is amazing to me that when a translator gets it wrong, he or she really gets it wrong, especially with word choice that really jars. Robin Hard, the translator of this work, has also translated Epictetus in the Oxford Classics. By the way, the Oxford World Classics translation of the Bodhicaryavatara is for me the best.
There are many translations of this work, which is wonderful, but I have found the Oxford Classics to be the best. I have purchased and looked at the Penguin edition, the Modern Library edition, and the Everyman edition, and this one to me stands out for its readability and clarity. It is amazing to me that when a translator gets it wrong, he or she really gets it wrong, especially with word choice that really jars. Robin Hard, the translator of this work, has also translated Epictetus in the Oxford Classics. By the way, the Oxford World Classics translation of the Bodhicaryavatara is for me the best.
December 28, 2023
A masterful prose of self-reflection and rumination, Meditations offers a deeply profound insight into the human yearning for a good life. Written over 1,800 years ago by an emperor whose power we could scarcely contemplate today, this work reveals how little people have changed over the millennia; our limitations, our hopes, and our ideals have remained the same.
What is uniquely remarkable about this book is that it was never intended for publishing, but was rather written by the author as his own personal journal. In its pages, Meditations juxtaposes the reflections of a remarkably calm mind, cognizant of its longings for perfection and yet content in its flaws. The emperor contentedly demonstrates the self-discipline he exercised to do his part as the leader of his polity, regardless of his own personal desires.
Although it is held up as a treatise of Stoicism, I have found in it a much richer reservoir of personal peace and contentment, and discovered, to my amusement, that even an emperor sometimes struggles to get out of bed.
What is uniquely remarkable about this book is that it was never intended for publishing, but was rather written by the author as his own personal journal. In its pages, Meditations juxtaposes the reflections of a remarkably calm mind, cognizant of its longings for perfection and yet content in its flaws. The emperor contentedly demonstrates the self-discipline he exercised to do his part as the leader of his polity, regardless of his own personal desires.
Although it is held up as a treatise of Stoicism, I have found in it a much richer reservoir of personal peace and contentment, and discovered, to my amusement, that even an emperor sometimes struggles to get out of bed.
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