The Islamic Crescent and the five-pointed star are arguably the most important symbols that humankind has ever created. Yet ironically, they are understood today from a very different perspective. ... More > What happened? What did it originally mean? And why is it so important to you? Find out the facts. Find out the truth!< Less
A collection of poems throughout the years written by a victim of rape. Kristy started writing poetry shortly after the abuse. Influenced to write because her sister did, it grew more into a way of... More > letting out her anger and strife.< Less
Alone In the Middle is a truly engaging book about the ups and downs of being a teenager. The main character, Lisa Jenkins is a teen who has to deal with two perfect older sisters, and annoying... More > younger brothers.
Laugh out loud when Lisa and her two best friends scheme their ways into the inner circle, let your heart pound when Lisa meets the right guy, and exclaim to your friends over one of the most interesting books you will ever read.< Less
Alone In the Middle is a truly engaging book about the ups and downs of being a teenager. The main character, Lisa Jenkins is a teen who has to deal with two perfect older sisters, and annoying... More > younger brothers.
Laugh out loud when Lisa and her two best friends scheme their ways into the inner circle, let your heart pound when Lisa meets the right guy, and exclaim to your friends over one of the most interesting books you will ever read.< Less
Doting on the future when the present needs attention is the easiest way to feel regret. There has to be a middle ground, a peaceful equilibrium. This anthology is a document of my growth in a time... More > of great change. In the past couple of years, I witnessed life-changing events in the aftermath of which I experienced the molting of youth into the skin of adulthood. There is a moment of revelation in everyone’s lives where one realizes that his or her innocence is gone. Sometimes it’s subtle, other times harsh. But when it arrives, you’ll know. You may re-evaluate the past and question the future, scrutinizing time and fate, yearning for clarity. Through all the doubt and paranoia, one must not lose touch with the present self whose friends and family are there to keep the fire burning. That’s the middle ground--the balance beam of little things against the grander scheme. The future, present and the past. The flow of time immersed inside the steady stream of consciousness.< Less
Doting on the future when the present needs attention is the easiest way to feel regret. There has to be a middle ground, a peaceful equilibrium. This anthology is a document of my growth in a time... More > of great change. In the past couple of years, I witnessed life-changing events in the aftermath of which I experienced the molting of youth into the skin of adulthood. There is a moment of revelation in everyone’s lives where one realizes that his or her innocence is gone. Sometimes it’s subtle, other times harsh. But when it arrives, you’ll know. You may re-evaluate the past and question the future, scrutinizing time and fate, yearning for clarity. Through all the doubt and paranoia, one must not lose touch with the present self whose friends and family are there to keep the fire burning. That’s the middle ground--the balance beam of little things against the grander scheme. The future, present and the past. The flow of time immersed inside the steady stream of consciousness.< Less
Initially inspired by the Buddha's Middle Way,
but working in Western Philosophy and related
disciplines, Robert M. Ellis first developed
Middle Way Philosophy in a Ph.D. thesis in
2001. This new... More > detailed account is the product
of a further ten years of refinement of his
approach, and concentrates on the
philosophical core. It will be followed by further
volumes focusing more on the psychological
and practical implications of the philosophy.
Middle Way Philosophy aims to clear the
ground for practical progress. It challenges
many entrenched assumptions, including
those of analytic philosophy. It also offers a
new account of objectivity, as an incremental
quality that helps us to engage with all
conditions in our experience. It insists on a
consistent approach to both facts and values
that avoids both absolute claims and
relativism.
"An important, original work, that should get the widest possible hearing."
Iain McGilchrist, author of 'The Master and his Emissary'< Less
We are not single selves, but constantly meet conflicts of desire both within and beyond ourselves. We meet conflict at different levels, from everyday distraction, to the suffering of the addict,... More > through even to world war. The integration of desire is the process of bringing opposing desires to work together, whether at the psychological or the political level. Robert M Ellis here brings together approaches that have previously been separated, drawing on ethics, psychology, philosophy, history, politics, and Buddhism to suggest a common pattern in the resolution of conflict at all levels.
This is the second volume of a planned 5-volume series on Middle Way Philosophy, and follows the first volume, which set out an overall philosophical approach to applying the Buddha's Middle Way in the modern Western context. The Jungian concept of integration is here combined with the philosophical approach of the Middle Way to offer a practical way forward beyond absolutism and relativism< Less
We are not single selves, but constantly meet conflicts of desire both within and beyond ourselves. We meet conflict at different levels, from everyday distraction, to the suffering of the addict,... More > through even to world war. The integration of desire is the process of bringing opposing desires to work together, whether at the psychological or the political level. Robert M Ellis here brings together approaches that have previously been separated, drawing on ethics, psychology, philosophy, history, politics, and Buddhism to suggest a common pattern in the resolution of conflict at all levels.
This is the second volume of a planned 5-volume series on Middle Way Philosophy, and follows the first volume, which set out an overall philosophical approach to applying the Buddha's Middle Way in the modern Western context. The Jungian concept of integration is here combined with the philosophical approach of the Middle Way to offer a practical way forward beyond absolutism and relativism.< Less
