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Awakening Genius

What's Your Story with Mark Matousek

We invent ourselves at every moment. We make ourselves up as we go along and pretend that our make-believe selves are authentic. A lot of people spend their lives convinced of the fiction they compose through the years. But when we begin to question our story, as memoirist, seekers, or analysands, realize it is mostly a fiction and that who we are is a mystery.

Whose story, exactly, are we living? Who is this character we’ve invented? Those are the questions Mark Matousek forces us to ask ourselves.  We’re determined in the time we have left to edit out the dishonest plots, tired characters, obsolete themes, and destructive story lines, the creaky set pieces that block us from feeling real. We want to know ourselves in the end and not be deceived by bad fiction. We know that we are more than that. We are artists in waiting.

Session 1: Who Am I? Meeting Yourself

Mindful Living Every Day, recorded on location in Plum Village, France, gives an overview of the concrete practices that help bring awareness to our breath, body, and mind in each moment. Members of the monastic and lay community of Thich Nhat Hanh demonstrate and talk about their experience with essential mindfulness practices such as: Sitting and Walking Meditation, Beginning Anew, Deep Listening, Loving Speech, and many others.  The full program is available for download at BetterListen.com at https://www.betterlisten.com/collections/parallax-press/products/mindful-living-every-day-practicing-in-the-tradition-of-thich-nhat-hanh

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Mindful Living Every Day, recorded on location in Plum Village, France, gives an overview of the concrete practices that help bring awareness to our breath, body, and mind in each moment. Members of the monastic and lay community of Thich Nhat Hanh demonstrate and talk about their experience with essential mindfulness practices such as: Sitting and Walking Meditation, Beginning Anew, Deep Listening, Loving Speech, and many others. The full program is available for download at BetterListen.com at www.betterlisten.com/collections/pa…hich-nhat-hanh

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Planting Seeds, Practicing Mindfulness with Children featuring Thich Nhat Hanh and the Plum Village Community
Any adult wishing to plant seeds of peace, relaxation, and awareness in children will find this CD helpful. It is full of wisdom on how to simply be with children and nourish their compassion for themselves and others. The CD has inspiring recordings of all the songs in the book, Planting Seeds, as well as a guided pebble meditation, total relaxation, and children's touching the earth. The full download is available through BetterListen.com at www.betterlisten.com/collections/pa…lage-community

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Session 2: The Secret Life, Finding Your Inner Refuge

What's Your Story with Mark Matousek

We invent ourselves at every moment. We make ourselves up as we go along and pretend that our make-believe selves are authentic. A lot of people spend their lives convinced of the fiction they compose through the years. But when we begin to question our story, as memoirist, seekers, or analysands, realize it is mostly a fiction and that who we are is a mystery.

Whose story, exactly, are we living? Who is this character we’ve invented? Those are the questions Mark Matousek forces us to ask ourselves.  We’re determined in the time we have left to edit out the dishonest plots, tired characters, obsolete themes, and destructive story lines, the creaky set pieces that block us from feeling real. We want to know ourselves in the end and not be deceived by bad fiction. We know that we are more than that. We are artists in waiting

Session 3: Fear and Desire, Liberating Your Passions

Session 4: The Quest for Meaning, What Truly Matters

Session 5: The Mystery of Love, Deepening Intimate Relationships

Session 6: Intention and Power, Creating form the Source Beyond You

Session 7: Awakening Genius, Discovering Your Natural Gifts

Questioning Christianity with Brother David Steindl-Rast
What did jesus really teach? What is the core of his teachings and what do they mean? How can one live that life practically? Brother David Steindl-Rast brings these questions to the table for discussion.  The full download is available through BetterListen.com https://www.betterlisten.com/products/questioning-christianity-with-brother-david-steindl-rast

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In the heart, at the core of the human person, intellect, will, and emotions still form an integral whole. Yet, once the response of the heart expresses itself in thinking, willing, or feeling, the original wholeness of the response is refracted, or broken. That is why we are never fully satisfied with the expression of those deepest insights, in word or image. Nor is our willing commitment to justice and peace, our yes to belonging, as wholehearted on the practical level as it is in moments of mystical communion. And our feelings often fail to celebrate the beauty that we glimpsed unveiled for a moment, the beauty that continues to shine through the veil of daily reality. Thus, doctrine, ethics, and ritual bear the mark of our shortcomings, even in these earliest buds of religion. Yet, they fulfill a most important function: they keep us connected, no matter how imperfectly, with the truth, goodness, and beauty that once overwhelmed us. That is the glory of every religion. The full download is available at BetterListen.com https://www.betterlisten.com/products/world-religions-and-quest-for-heart-with-brother-david-steindl-rast

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What is our time, what characterizes the spiritual challenge of our time and how do we go about this? How do we meet these challenges? Brother David Steindl-Rast discusses and answers questions about spiritual challenges of our time.  The full download is available through BetterListen.com https://www.betterlisten.com/products/the-spiritual-challenge-of-our-time-with-brother-david-steindl-rast

Spiritual Challenge Of Our Time with Brother David Steindl-Rast

Russell Brand wants YOU to join the revolution.

We all know the system isn't working. Our governments are corrupt and the opposing parties pointlessly similar. Our culture is filled with vacuity and pap, and we are told there's nothing we can do - "it's just the way things are".

In this book, Russell Brand hilariously lacerates the straw men and paper tigers of our conformist times and presents, with the help of experts as diverse as Thomas Piketty and George Orwell, a vision for a fairer, sexier society that's fun and inclusive.

You have been lied to, told there's no alternative, no choice and that you don't deserve any better. Brand destroys this illusory facade as amusingly and deftly as he annihilates Morning Joe anchors, Fox News fascists and BBC stalwarts.

This book makes revolution not only possible, but inevitable and fun.

Narrated by Russell himself.

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Bad Karma in the Big Easy by D. J. Donaldson on Audible:
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Summary:

Andy Broussard, the plump and proud New Orleans medical examiner, obviously loves food. Less apparent to the casual observer is his hatred of murderers. Together with his gorgeous sidekick, psychologist Kit Franklyn, the two make a powerful, although improbable, mystery-solving duo. Among the dead collected in the Big Easy floodwaters after Hurricane Katrina are three nude female bodies, all caught in the same brush tangle, none with water in their lungs. Broussard knows in his ample gut that this was not an act of God, and not the work of Katrina. But Broussard has perhaps the biggest challenge of his colorful career.

The city and all its records are destroyed, practically the entire population is scattered, the police force has no offices, and many of the rank and file (who haven't defected) are homeless. Soon, Broussard and his sidekick are on a dangerous journey through the obscenely damaged city, leading them to a kind of evil that neither of them could imagine. 

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When It's Love by Lucy Kevin on Audible:
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Summary:

Once upon a time, Rachel Walker longed for—and sought out—adventure. But after her boyfriend found out she was pregnant and left her to raise her daughter Charlotte alone six years ago, she put her wild child days behind her. For good. So when Rachel's sister needs her to step in to help film a TV show with professional surfer Nicholas Quinn on Walker Island, she isn't the least bit worried about losing her heart to him. Not until the first time she sees him smile and realizes that her heart isn't completely closed off to promises of breathless excitement after all...

Nicholas has spent his entire life chasing adventure, one wave at a time, becoming a major surfing star along the way. But for all the incredible challenges he's faced around the world, he's never faced one as exciting—or as important—as winning Rachel's heart. One stolen kiss is all it takes for him to be absolutely certain that his next adventure should be taken with Rachel and her daughter Charlotte beside him. First, though, he'll have to break through every one of Rachel's walls to convince her to trust in both her dreams and his never-ending love.

When It’s Love is the third fun, sweet, and emotional contemporary romance in the Walker Island series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Lucy Kevin. 

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