The Practice of Not Thinking : A Guide to Mindful Living
3.690 kr.THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER offers a variety of Buddhist techniques to help us feel calmer every day . . .
Nothing has changed . . .
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I feel calmer and more centred’ Sunday TimesWhat if we could learn to look instead of see, listen instead of hear, feel instead of touch? Former monk Ryunosuke Koike shows how, by incorporating simple Zen practices into our daily lives, we can reconnect with our five senses and live in a more peaceful, positive way. When we focus on our senses and learn to re-train our brains and our bodies, we start to eliminate the distracting noise of our minds and the negative thoughts that create anxiety. By following Ryunosuke Koike’s practical steps on how to breathe, listen, speak, laugh, love and even sleep in a new way, we can improve our interactions with others, feel less stressed at work and make every day calmer.
Only by thinking less, can we appreciate more.
Unpacking My Library
2.490 kr.Every sort of passion verges on chaos, I know, but what the collecting passion verges on is a chaos of memories.’From intimate musings on his book collection, to a dream-like trip through the bustling streets of Marseille, each of these essays offers a compelling journey into the mind of one of the twentieth century’s most influential philosophers.
Why I am a Stoic
2.490 kr.Plagued by ill-health, violently sick at sea, irritated by renovation costs: Seneca is never less than sympathetically human. In these letters written 2000 years ago, the ancient philosopher speaks to the reader today with lucidity and warmth. Whether advising on how to live a good life, spend time alone or free oneself from fears of death, Seneca is the wise and compassionate friend we all need now.
Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
4.390 kr.During the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, one of our foremost scholars of global literature, found her mind ineluctably drawn to the profound commentary on life and death in the wartime diaries of eminent philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951). Upon learning that these notebooks, which richly contextualise the early stages of his magnum opus, the Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus, had never before been published in English, the Viennese-born Perloff determinedly set about translating them. Beginning with the anxious summer of 1914, this historic, en-face edition presents the first-person recollections of a foot soldier in the Austrian Army, fresh from his days as a philosophy student at Cambridge, who must grapple with the hazing of his fellow soldiers, the stirrings of a forbidden sexuality, and the formation of an explosive analytical philosophy that seemed to draw meaning from his endless brushes with death.
Much like Tolstoy’s The Gospel in Brief, Private Notebooks takes us on a personal journey to discovery as it augments our knowledge of Wittgenstein himself.
Walden eða lífið í skóginum
5.790 kr.Meistaraverk eins merkasta höfundar og hugsuðar Norður-Ameríku. Þau málefni sem Thoreau voru hugleikin eiga ekki síður við nú á dögum, enda hefur Walden allt frá því verkið kom fyrst út árið 1854 veitt mönnum innblástur og verið uppspretta nýrra hugmynda. Nú í fyrsta sinn á íslensku, þegar 200 ár eru liðin frá fæðingu höfundarins.
