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The Natural State, In the Words of U.G. Krishnamurti

By: U.G. Krishnamurti, Edited by Peter Maverick

... from a family of people pretty much into spiritual reading and surrounded by scriptures from all the religions of the world, I had no dearth of read... ... of seeking, you who are weary of the road. This compilation of quotes by U.G. Krishnamurti can alter your life. Someone once said to his daughte... ... you have the guts to allow your whole way of seeing things to be changed, by all means read this book: life's own energy, freed from thought, is her... ...I was brought up in a very religious atmosphere. My grandfather was a very cultured man. He knew Blavatsky [the founder of the Theosophical Society] ... ...hey all visited our house. He was a great lawyer, a very rich man, a very cultured man and, very strangely, a very orthodox man. He was a sort of mi... ... Society has put before you the ideal of a perfect man. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural doctrines and traditions handed... ...piritual knowledge, sensual knowledge—what is the difference? We give the names to them. Fantasies about God are acceptable but fantasies about sex ... ... need for it. This absence of the movement of thought which recognizes and names things is the state of moksha. You imagine that it's something he go...

...A compilation of quotes by U.G. Krishnamurti that can alter your life. Someone once said to his daughter who had met U.G., "Damned be the day you met this man; your life will never be the same." Whether we feel cursed or blessed, our coming upon the...

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Desert Dreams

By: Gracie C. Mckeever

...Fantasy/Romance By Gracie C. McKeever Desert Dreams Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 2 Fictionwise www.Fictionwise.com Copyright ©2001 by ... ...others. This eBook is displayed using 100% recycled electrons. Distributed by Fictionwise.com Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 3 PROLOGUE Bedouin ... ...had trapped him. "You realize your mistake too late, Kane." Desert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 4 She uttered the words with such smooth elegance, hi... ...dated one of the largest and most singular treasury of Islamic history and culture around—costumes and traditional Saudi Arabian garb on display, alon... ...t his experiences in Kuwait and her interests in Muslim belief and Islamic culture. Jury had shared his hopes and dreams—for him, for his single, work... ...n school, at work, months and years living and breathing Islam and Arabian culture. Being so near this genie-man turned her memory to mush. "I am sorr... ... to know what it is." He hesitated. "So that's it. You're calling me dirty names to my face?" "Not at all." He quirked his lips as if in amusement, th... ...ks. Well they alluded to my libido being deviant, using some unmentionable names that challenged my masculinity and were rather unflatt..." Therese pu... ...sert Dreams by Gracie C. McKeever 113 "It is not necessary for you to know names." Therese folded her arms across her breasts. "Look Kane—" He impatie...

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Words to Wright By

By: Robin Bayne

... Words to Write By Words to Write By Compiled by Robin Bayne Cover design Copyright © 2008 Lee Emory Edite... ...ht © 2008 Lee Emory Edited by Lee Emory Printed and published in the U.S.A. by MountainView Publishing A division of Treble Heart Books Sierra Vista,... ... part of this book or any other copyrighted materials contained herein, used by permission, may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means,... ...ongue, call the editor (in the privacy of your own home and head, of course) names, then put the letter aside for awhile. Then, after emotion’s pass, ... ...sionaries go through extensive training, including learning the language and cultures of the countries they’re traveling to. Writers need to learn eve... ...yone in the business. I reasoned that since we developed the content and our names were on the work, we were 88 most important. And God forbid that a... ...e thirty seven years ago and the mother’s ring from my children with all our names and birth stones. These pieces have much more meaning than is noted...

...he writing life: basic motivation, rejection, publishing and succeeding. Spend some time with the writers you love and discover what words they write by. www.robinbayne.com...

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Corpus of a Siam Mosquito

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... was more than a customer but a member of the more affluent class and this by Thai, although not Buddhist standards, was well revered. How swift one'... ...'s encroaching aloneness was purged and thwarted in the retreat engineered by the batons and water cannons of one's linguistic moans. The whore, whose... ...of one's linguistic moans. The whore, whose self-image had been disparaged by the unconventional positive endorsement of her activities by the wife, w... ... their every movement enslaved and dictated by the pronouncement of street names called out from the back seat. "Do young people like you have money t... ...Bangkok that he had learnt in past visits and perhaps link them to various names that only sleep could recall. Throughout it all was the buzz of the ... ... "Love," said the cartoon of the mosquito, "makes up the vernacular of pop culture. It is innate as a quest. It lances life's old festers granting a... ...ore and returned to his friends. The "friends"--he did not know their names--seemed content with their circumstances. They, like he, were cuddled... ...he did not understand. What did she know beyond the kinetic rhythms of pop culture? It was in her blank stare. The word had not penetrated. He want... ...tity of these self-professed "Chosen people," and for having the dominant culture of individual freedoms that went contrary to their Islamic tyranny....

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The Curse of Kali

By: Audrey Blankenhagen

... THE CURSE OF KALI Historical Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ... ...y fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental. © 2002 by Audrey Blankenhagen. All rights reserved. No... ...reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,... ...URSE OF KALI 15 ‘The Trust is administered by a legal firm in India, who refuses to divulge the names of Chandra Lal’s heirs. However, whatever the... ...for the guests to wash and dry their fingers. Gavin guided Helen through the menu and the exotic names of the delicious dishes. Helen was glad that... ...ubjects. ‘We must not forget that Maria had Indian blood, Rosita, and eroticism is part of their culture. You must recall those engravings we saw in... ... too much time to dwell on her husband and his first wife: India kept intruding by its own varied culture. It was the festival of Bakr-Id which remi... ...egated in our homes, our clubs and our cantonments, as if we are afraid to be corrupted by their culture and we may give them the impression of arr... ...ore, the bungalows dotted about the Audrey Blankenhagen 278 hills belonging to the British had names like “Rose Cottage”, “Beech Croft”, and “The...

...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mu...

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In the Outback with Jasmine Banks

By: Ronit Baras

... with with Jasmine Banks Jasmine Banks Jasmine Banks Jasmine Banks By Ronit Baras A word from the author Monday, 3 April 2006 This e-book... ...Banks ck with Jasmine Banks ck with Jasmine Banks ck with Jasmine Banks by Ronit Baras by Ronit Baras by Ronit Baras by Ronit Baras 2 © 2006 Be... ...id Katharine Johnson on Oprah. Mark Hayden, the chief editor of the “Day by Day” magazine, looked carefully at the package sent to him from Mrs. Jo... ...nised. She remembered everybody’s background – all their family members’ names and ages and what their parents and partners did for a living. She ... ...o home, where there are people like me, who speak my language, back to my culture and my In the outba In the outba In the outba In the outback with...

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Secret of the Sands

By: Aren, Rai and E., Tavius

... BY Published by RFS Publications This book is a work of fiction. Na... ...ly coincidental. ISBN: 1-4196-7552-4 First printing, August 2007 Copyright © 2007 by Angela Blacker and Minh Dong All rights reserved. C... ...© 2007 by Angela Blacker and Minh Dong All rights reserved. Cover and interior design by Jeremy Robinson: www.jeremyrobinsononline.com No part... ...own as Egypt and the river it is blessed with is called the Nile, but in this time, those names were not yet known. The desert sands that now blow i... ...of a lion, seated with a long thick mane. The lion was revered and worshipped in Kierani culture. To them, it symbolized strength, grace, and prote... ...uld be both a larger-than-life representation of the mythical lion Amsara, as well as its namesake. This tour had been put together by the man headi... ... thick shocks of black hair, the same as their parents. “Your Majesties, have you chosen names for them?” Senarra asked the elated new parents. Tr... ... see what it’s telling us about these people. Funerary rituals are an important part of a culture, saying many things about a peo- ple’s beliefs and ... ...tries, linens, chests, sculptures, vases. “This was obviously a sophisticated and wealthy culture,” Alex remarked. Mitch had started walking around ...

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The Suffering of Being Kafka

By: Sam Vaknin

...oks.html Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited http://samvak.tripod.com/ Created by: Lidija Rangelovska, Skopje REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA ... ... The Suffering of Being Kafka Short Fiction A Beheaded Cart by Sam Vaknin Read the Hebrew original. (In Heb... ...pavement, he reached a concrete, round, post. There he rested, sheltered from the humid sun by peeling posters for lachrymose Turkish films. He push... ... the kind of early hours that casinos fear, I tell you" – and he goes on to rattle off the names of acquaintances turned millionaires. The next day ... ...umbling, cornered appliance. The following morning, at six o'clock, the warden bawled our names, marking those present. Ensconced in dreary blazers... ... them beat you. Once, a stranger lifted me on his shoulders and asked me to read aloud the names on the mailboxes. We went through many buildings, ... .../CEENMI, Prague and Skopje, 2000 Winner of numerous awards, among them Israel's Council of Culture and Art Prize for Maiden Prose (1997), The Rotar...

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Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore. Vol. 5

By: Abraham Fornander

...an Folk-lore, with the exception of a few transpositions, as mentioned in the preceding volume, the order of the author has been observed in the main by grouping together, first, the more important legends and traditions of the race, of universal acceptance through- out the whole group, followed by the briefer folk-tales of more local character. A few of similar names occ...

...His Birth and Early Life—Change to Oahu and Fame Attained There -- 2 -- Size of Kauahoa—Is Killed by Kawelo—Kawelo Vanquishes Aikanaka -- 56 -- Kalonaikahailaau—Kawelo Equips Himself to Fight Aikanaka—Arrival at Kauai -- 20 -- Division of Kauai Lands—Aikanaka Becomes a Tiller of Ground -- 60 -- Commencement of Battle Betw...

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Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Antiquities and Folk-Lore. Vol. 6

By: Abraham Fornander

...e Hawaiian scholarship is seen in uncompleted translations and notes found in the collection. The “Hani ka Lani” prophecy which was brought to light by Judge Andrews in the sixties arid published in part has recently been found to be entitled to three more cantos. This chant is now beílieved to be complete, and appears here for the first time in translated form. Besides...

...rcery Priesthood—Divisions and Ordinances—Sacrifice Services of the Student—Divination— Praying to Death—Divination Relating to Houses—Divining Omens by the Clouds—Foreítelling the Weather—The Healing Priests— Canoe Dreams—Adverse Signs—the Rainbow and the Rain—The Excrements—Bananas— The Mud-Hen—Auguries in Relation to Kings —The Massage Priest—the Hoounauna Priest —The H...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... Tokyo To Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America By Steven Sills Book One: Sang Huin "It is p... ...epublic) Chapter One At Toksugum Palace in Chongno of Seoul Sang Huin (known by his friends in the states as Shawn) felt an empathy as deep as the god... ...itous and jaunty stroll as if other things had gained his attention and only by accident was he moving there. Yang Lin told Sang Huin that he longed f... ...u nun manhi irum ul cajigo isumnita. I sarem i wanhamnita." He threw in both names that the little guy went by and the telephone clicked off. He calle... ...nt to make a seedy experience into something transformational by exchanging names and telephone numbers, and making subsequent calls although that wa... ...gh he taught there and she gave him money and he did not know her children's names even though he taught them. They were just his "little tongmuls" (... ...reans or did they yearn for bigger and better things seduced by the American culture that came to them through the cinema and the music and through hi... ...sion toward the rock-a-by song by telling herself that it was the collective culture in the earliest of all primitive American, if not western minds, ... ... reasons for the specific elements of a myth (the cryptic reason why a given culture might have chosen a serpent god or the son of god over the sun go...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and le...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...... ...round the world. Our mission is to serve the public, aid students and educators by providing public access to the world's most complete collection o... ...d technologists unite to expand reading with eBooks. Support online literacy by becoming a member of the World Public Library, http://www.WorldLi... ...e was also required to maintain a rigorous teaching schedule in American Indian Culture and Artifacts. In addition, he had contracted to finish a fi... ... a living memory. The visitors to the museum were usually enthusiasts ofIndian culture, curious, or just plain lost. It was near closing time when ... ...iver Song knows that 1 have a strong attraction to Na­ tive American history and culture." Alana shifted her legs and revealed the other tanned thigh... ...there was a dark side to Pierce that scared Frank. But Frank had the goods, the names, dates and numbers which were his life insurance policy agains... ...ed through a maze of corridors that were painted a putrid green, he checked the names on the office doors until he reached the one that read: Dr. Al...

...riguing artifact he believes has spiritual significance. He takes his disovery to the one person he knows who might identify it: a beautiful shamness names River Song, who once headed the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and shared a past with Hawk. River Song is less than excited to see him again, but reluctantly agrees to take a look at his artifact. She believes it is a partia...

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Against the War : A Novel of the Vietnam War Era

By: Roland Menge

... 39. Combat trainee Morris follows the national debate on the war 40. Morris warms to a fervent description of Air Force ideals 41. Morris, coached by Tom Pitt, overcomes a crisis of self-doubt 42. Steward charges into community work with an ideal of service 43. Steward tries to help Sammy Lane and ends up resented 44. Steward and Doug Thomasek visit a ghost town in T...

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The Unfettered Life of Kenyon of New Orleans

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...The Unfettered Life of Kenyon of New Orleans By Steven David Justin Sills "My work is not a piece of writing designed to... ... most diminutive being, though it was hardly the incarceration experienced by Ang San Suu Kyi or other famous political martyrs in its salience or it... ...y visible and in the superficial sheen of the nigrescent mire illuminated by the still ebullience of stretched refractions of the infrequent light of... ...drops on her tongue, the way she, a belated American Indian severed of the culture, horselessness notwithstanding, had galloped her bicycle on rainy ... ...f business. Can’t you see that? The whole economy would suffer. If the cultured people were all to forego pleasures for your sakes there would be ... ...ternal aberration, repudiation of death was needed, even if the same last names of deceased relatives, grooves engraved in stone traced with the move... ...by the rich. Innocence needs to be denuded and deflowered by the filthy. Culture and progress have to be made on the backs of laborers. Handsome po... ...ward them. On the flat chunks of rock were inscribed, among so many other names, the names of her American Indian family of Degenerative Scoliosis, h...

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Aus Com

By: Christine Jones

...A U S C O M C h r is t in e J o n e s 1 Copyright © 2007 by Christine Jones. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprod... ...ved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording,... ...ny means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in wri... ...permission in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the auth... ...belled Defects. Since the early twentieth century they went under various names. In addition, those considered aggressors, naturalists, intellectual... ...was in his best interest to remain silent until he further understood the culture. "Feel better after a scrub?" Roxanne forced a smile, attempting t... ...ever stayed long in a Clan preferring to wander in solitude. Listing off names of known Masters, he then gave over the one who in his opinion was t...

...Obsession with genetic engineering segregated humanity into the perfected and defective. Dictated by science and technology, the search for immortality near destroyed the human race. What remains of mankind, struggles to survive in barbaric clans suppressed by Masters and false doctrine. Known as Project Noah, an undergro...

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An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...An Apostate: Nawin of Thais By Steven Sills 1 He assumed that in being exhausted from sporadic fits of ... ...: motherhood as the continuation of playing with dolls, manhood epitomized by competition and money, and old age the enjoyment of spending time relivi... ...esent, which would be less painful than recalling happy times that fleeted by and had no chance of being resumed once again. This moving world that he... ...g who the guarantor was, so he sunk himself into the Buddhist myths of his culture. Ubiquitous superstition, the guardian against creepy crawling memo... ...s, in part or entirely--a being that existed regardless of changing years, names, and social-economic status. He could not recall anything much of tho... ...ed at what she could converse about with her retired spouse apart from the names of the bimbos he was copulating with. He slid down the bathroom wall ... ...awin's jaw lowered with his mouth slightly agape. In disapprobation of his culture he sat stiffly for a moment in tacit and obdurate silence, but with... ...obile telephone or "moh-toh" as Thais (though not him, the inwardly surly, cultured man that he was and an American Thai at that) called such devices.... ...ere the norm. It was as if that smile were saying that profane and abusive names were merely a mode of expression, like bantering, that gave visibilit...

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Bozo and the Storyteller

By: Matt Jones

... reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, w... ...sh Library ISBN 978-0-9560192-0-2 Paperback Printed, bound and distributed by Lightning Source Tom Glaister Tom Glaister Firecrest Publishing Acknow... ... the other side of the planet. Only one of the Bloons, a tubby youngster by the name of Bozo, ever sought out the company of the Storyteller during... ...ountries on Earth are just part of some fairy tale? That our history, our culture, our society are all made up by some old man sat on a rock somewhe... ...ling anyone about it these days. Usually, I have to choose another set of names so that it makes sense to them. But if you thought it was a tough cr... ... philosophers of centuries past lived their f nest hours. What were their names? Nobody remembers. What did they do? Nobody knows. What is left of t... ...these I was meant for better things – see? So I chose to guard a place of culture and learning. A library. But I don’t suppose a brat like you even ... ...directly, of course, but he managed to get the message across using other names. ‘But, as we know too well, the inf uence of the Enemy reaches every-...

...itself has gotten out of control. The Hoomans appear set on a course of self-destruction and the Storyteller's health is failing as a result. A Bloon by the name of Bozo volunteers to enter the Story and the Storyteller writes in a boy called Theo to accompany him. Traveling the planet in search of a Cure, they seek the counsel of the Awakened Ones and are pursued by a ter...

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When Serpents Die

By: Gerrie Ferris

... THE LAURA KATE PLANTATION SERIES Book One When Serpents Die By: Gerrie Ferris ... ...e C Newhall, CA 91321 http://www.DesertBreezePublishing.com Copyright © 2009 by Gerrie Ferris ISBN 10: 1-936000-13-X ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-1... ...or-In-Chief: Gail R. Delaney Cover Artist: Jenifer Ranieri Cover Art Copyright by Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc © 2009 All rights reserved. ... ...y information retrieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, characters and incidents depicted in this book are product... ...coursed in his veins when he reached for the calligraphic pen and began substituting names. Finished with that, he rose and walked to the elm screen... ...Jack’s last statement. “You always work so late, Jack?” So now we’re back to first names. “Yes, if my work habits are any of your business. I work... ...ject. “Look, she is still Bobby’s wife, no matter what. And it’s customary in our culture to help when tragedy happens and we’re called upon to do...

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