My pulse quickened and my breathing came fast. For a long second, everything and everyone around me ceased to exist, it was just me and Kristos. As far as I knew it was the first time I’d ever seen a vampire up close and personal, and he was much better looking than I had anticipated.įor some unknown reason, I was instantly attracted to him, and the moment I had that insight he moved, turning his head to focus on me. His shoulders were broad and his suit followed the trim muscle of his physique. I studied his features, noting the hooked nose and square jaw. His absolute stillness made him stand out in sharp relief, timeless as ancient statue. In a room full of noise and movement, he was motionless. Nine o’clock,” said one of the guards to the others. I struggled not to trip as my dress twined around my legs and under my heels. Aside from curious stares and speculative gawking, no one seemed to be looking for me specifically.īy then the security detail had sped up again, herding me through the restaurant like an errant lamb. Everyone appeared to be matched with a partner. The restaurant was full of couples and double dates. I wanted to give myself some time to prepare mentally. Hoping to spot Kristos before he saw me, I scanned the dining room as we passed through the entry way and into the large dining room.
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And what “getting in touch with your feelings” ultimately means is not being so oblivious to them that you get pushed around by them. So what “not making judgments” ultimately means is not letting your feelings make judgments for you. Still, you do this not in order to abandon your rational faculties but rather to engage them: you can now subject your feelings to a kind of reasoned analysis that will let you judiciously decide which ones are good guiding lights. So you can stay close to them yet not be lost in them you can pay attention to what they actually feel like. And the reason this is possible is that you are, in a sense, not making judgments-that is, you are not mindlessly labeling your feelings as bad or good, not fleeing from them or rushing to embrace them. It can let you experience your feelings-anger, love, sorrow, joy-with new sensitivity, seeing their texture, even feeling their texture, as never before. It is said to be about “getting in touch with your feelings” and “not making judgments.” And, yes, it does involve those things. Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being. Why Buddhism is True Quotes Showing 1-30 of 157. “Mindfulness meditation is often thought of as warm and fuzzy and, in a way, anti-rational. Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright. Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson, read by Billy Hartman, Naxos, 2hr 38min, 2 CDs £10. It inspired John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley, which became, to my mind, the best travel audiobook yet. The result is a romantic, funny classic of travel literature that Billy Hartman’s soft Edinburgh accent suits very well. His 120-mile journey took him a dozen days, much of it spent cursing and goading the recalcitrant Modestine. Stevenson bought Modestine to carry his belongings for the journey. The narrative largely focuses on Stevenson’s humorous descriptions of his stubborn travel companion, Modestine the donkey. To carry it he acquired Modestine, a “she-ass not much bigger than a dog, the colour of a mouse, with a kindly eye and a determined under-jaw a faint resemblance to a lady of my acquaintance”. Travels with a Donkey describes Stevenson’s hiking trip in the Cevennes, in South-Central France. Like all novice travellers, he took too much with him, stuffed into a sheepskin-lined sleeping bag of his own design. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go,” he says in his opening chapter. So in that year he set off for his next foray - touring the mountainous Cévennes region in the Midi, sleeping under the stars and wandering at will. In 1878 Robert Louis Stevenson had published only one book, An Inland Voyage, the tale of a canoeing trip through France. Saturday March 10 2018, 12.01am, The Times After a week he received a reply reporting a strange incident. When you printed it first, you thought it was true, but now that you know it isn’t, you can’t print lies. Maharaji said, “Money and truth have nothing to do with each other. It would be a loss of $10,000 to reject the thirty thousand books. Explaining the situation to Baba, he said that the changes could only be incorporated into the next edition. He contacted Steve Durkee and found out that the next thirty thousand copies were, in fact, in print. He expected that about thirty thousand copies would have been printed. Ram Dass became anxious because a long time had elapsed, and the book might already have been published. Delete those passages from the book.” Ram Dass talks about the origin of Be Here Now on Here and Now Ep. Yet five months later he drew Ram Dass’ attention to some untruths in two passages of the book and said, “Lies should not be mentioned in this book. He gave instructions to the publisher to print the book and came to India with the first copy to present to Maharaji. With Maharaji’s permission, Ram Dass published the book Be Here Now in America in 1971. The origin of Ram Dass’s Be Here Now is explored in this excerpt from The Divine Reality of Sri Baba Neeb Karori Ji Maharaj. To make love slowly in the light of an autumn moon. To have the luxury of conversation, uninterrupted by the business of the day. A place in which to rise, to stretch, to bring a juicy apple back to bed, to share slice by slice, fingers brushing lips. And should your sleeping partner also wake then-and people who have slept together for a good many years know at once when each other wakes-you have a small, private place to share, deep in the night. You fall asleep from tiredness, soon after dark-but then wake again, rising toward the surface of your dreams like a trout coming up to feed. By and large, the human body isn’t adapted for more than seven or eight hours’ sleep-but what happens when the nights are longer than that? What happens is the second sleep. Lying in bed too long cramps the limbs, and dreams dreamt too long turn inward on themselves, grotesque as a Mandarin’s fingernails. “As the world turns toward winter and the nights grow long, people begin to wake in the dark. If your looking for some serious Science Fiction or Fantasy, for something dark or mentally challenging, than your in the wrong place. Which I believe is a great intro to this series. KILL ABILITY IF I SAY IT, AND YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, THAN IT'S A WORD In the introduction, we are told that this is to be considered funny and light hearted and not to be taken serious. The follow-up to the hilarious Off to Be the Wizard, Scott Meyer’s Spell or High Water proves that no matter what powers you have over time and space, you can’t control rotten luck. Of course, this is Martin Banks we’re talking about, so murder, mystery, and high intrigue all get in the way of a guy who just wants one more shot to get the girl. Thankfully, Martin and Philip are invited to a summit in Atlantis for all of the leaders of the time-traveler colonies, and now Martin thinks this will be a chance to try again with Gwen. Feeling distant and lost, Gwen has journeyed to Atlantis, a tolerant and benevolent kingdom governed by the Sorceresses, and a place known to be a safe haven to all female time-travelers. The adventures of an American hacker in Medieval England continue as Martin Banks takes his next step on the journey toward mastering his reality-altering powers and fulfilling his destiny.Ī month has passed since Martin helped to defeat the evil programmer Jimmy, and things couldn’t be going better. The illustrations by Chin are done in watercolor and gouache. Keeping the focus on the ways that children themselves experience the water cycle makes this book particularly accessible. At the end of the book children can learn more about evaporation, condensation and precipitation which are tied directly to the forms of water that they experienced in the bulk of the book and the story. Shown through seasonal changes and a very personal view, this water cycle book makes everything very tangible and real. Apples are picked and turned into cider that the children drink up. Winter arrives with ice and snow and then spring returns with more puddles and mud. Rain falls down as the school bus reaches school and then there are puddles to jump in at recess. Then autumn arrives with its foggy school mornings. Clouds come out in the evening, lit by the setting sun. Once home, they get a glass of water then water is boiled for a cup of cocoa out on the porch. Seen through the lives of two siblings, the book begins with pages where the children are down near the lake and then rain drives them back home. Water Is Water: A Book about the Water Cycle by Miranda Paul, illustrated by Jason Chin ( InfoSoup)Ī poetic look at the various stages of water in the water cycle, this book moves logically from one to the next as water evaporates, condenses and changes. – They will have dinner together every evening. – Last, and most importantly… Once she’s pregnant with his heir, they need never share a bed again.īut Emma is no pushover.– They will be husband and wife by night only.When Emma Gladstone, a vicar’s daughter turned seamstress, appears in his library wearing a wedding gown, he decides on the spot that she’ll do. He needs an heir-which means he needs a wife. Since his return from war, the Duke of Ashbury’s to-do list has been short and anything but sweet: brooding, glowering, menacing London ne’er-do-wells by night. When girl meets Duke, their marriage breaks all the rules… Hi friends! It’s Tuesday which means a bunch of new romances are available today! I’m super excited to share from The Duchess Deal – Tessa Dare was kind enough to provide an exclusive excerpt to ALBTALBS, and I hope you enjoy! Thank you, and congratulations on your newest release!! <3 But the controversy of his relationship on and off the track with Vettel, who went on to win multiple world titles, has never been far beneath the surface. He hit the front pages of newspapers around the world in December 2014 when he slammed into the barricades in the final round of the FIA World Endurance Championship in South America, and was lucky to escape with his life. Since retiring from Formula One Mark has concentrated on endurance racing, including the legendary Le Mans 24 Hour race. In 2010, while racing for Red Bull, he and his team mate Sebastian Vettel went head to head for the World Championship. Mark Webber was at the centre of one of the most captivating chapters in the history of Formula One. In his trademark straight-talking, no-nonsense style Mark Webber reveals his amazing life on and off the Formula One race track in Aussie Grit. It is also spoken in four villages in the Westerkwartier of the neighbouring province of Groningen. These branches are: West Frisian, which is by far the most spoken of the three and is an official language in the Dutch province of Friesland, where it is spoken on the mainland and on two of the West Frisian Islands: Terschelling and Schiermonnikoog. There are three different Frisian branches, which are usually called the Frisian languages, despite the fact that their so-called dialects are often not mutually intelligible even within these branches. However, modern English and Frisian are not mutually intelligible, nor are Frisian languages intelligible among themselves, owing to independent linguistic innovations and foreign influences. The Frisian languages are the closest living language group to the Anglic languages the two groups make up the Anglo-Frisian languages group and together with the Low German dialects these form the North Sea Germanic languages. The Frisian ( / ˈ f r iː ʒ ə n/, / ˈ f r ɪ z i ə n/ ) languages are a closely related group of West Germanic languages, spoken by about 500,000 Frisian people, who live on the southern fringes of the North Sea in the Netherlands and Germany. |