Beaucoup de gens pensent que le zen est difficile. C’est une méprise : le caractère «zen» signifie «simplicité». Avec cet ouvrage, Maître Harada en fait la démonstration et utilise des mots et des images compréhensibles par les Occidentaux pour leur expliquer les concepts du bouddhisme et les principes du zen. Ce livre s’adresse à tous ceux qui sont à la recherche du dharma (le principe naturel des choses) et désirent connaître leur vrai Soi, quels que soient leur âge, leurs expériences, l...

Are you thinking about owning your own business, but wondering if this is the right path for you? Whether you are considering joining an existing firm as a principal owner, taking over a family business, starting up your own business, or buying an existing business, this book provides questions to contemplate as it walks you through what it takes from a personal aspect including:TraitsStrategic ThinkingPassionRelationships

Meet students where they are.With Small Group Strategies, you can effectively guide students in your small group toward the most important relationship they will ever have—a lifelong relationship with Christ. Respected authors Laurie Polich and Charley Scandlyn offer 30-plus years of collective youth ministry experience to these proven ideas, which offer:•a strategic approach to small group ministry•hundreds of ideas to reach students at every level•practical applications that foster spiri...

So you're leading a small group? Your small group can accomplish big things in the lives of your teenagers. And in Help! I'm a Small-Group Leader! you'll find methods and approaches you can use. Foibles and minefields to avoid. Solutions and tips that will help you nurture your small group into a growing community, whatever you goals. Inside you'll discover -- How to put small groups together - How NOT to lead a small group - How to start a discussion -- and KEEP IT GOING - How to ASK QUES...

The Pull of the Earth is Laurie Thorp's dirt-under-the-fingernails ethnography of four years in an elementary school garden and the ways in which this garden catalyzed cultural transformation and inspired hope, growth, and community. Filled with photographs, sketches, poetry, and journal entries, Thorp's engaging book describes the educational benefits of learning through the environment: lessons on nutrition, the rhythms and cycles found in nature, and the stability found in entering a re...

Just what small group leaders need to get their youth started in a meaningful discussion. This flexible and adaptable resource for youth workers contains 600 questions including 50 complete Bible studies specifically designed to help groups get acquainted, get deep, get spiritual, get into topics, and get into the Word. Leader’s hints, exercise options, and fun, helpful tips are included.Features include: * 600 ready-to-go small group questions for equipping small group leaders* Perfect fo...

An alternative to conventional, varietyless main-course cooking, Cindy's small plate recipes deliver the inspiration and reliability that make this new way of eating—and entertaining—practical at home.In Big Small Plates, Cindy brings home the biggest trend in eating out, with generously scaled recipes that promise less fuss and more flavors than traditional appetizers. The wide-ranging collection of universally appealing recipes spans soups, finger foods,...

Laurie Marks’ Elemental Logic series introduced readers to the realm of Shaftal, an intricately imagined land whose people operate within the boundaries of their basic natures—here defined as logics—which sometimes bequeath them with access to magical, elemental powers and sometimes embroil them in unsolvable internal conflicts.Fire Logic centers around the strong female character Zanja Na’Tarwein, a fighter and last survivor of her people in an occupied c...

We all have stories to tell—of love and sorrow—of laughter and pain. Every road has a first step and a last one.Life is winding down for ninety-four year old Ellie MacIvor. She's begun to feel like a ghost in the small prairie town where she lives. Over the past months she's been reminiscing and writing about her life experiences, from growing up during the Depression era and losing a brother in World War II, to falling in love and living in the cabin on the farm. ...

Welcome to Willow Bay, the perfect place to stick a chair in the sand, your toes in the water, and get lost in the ebb and flow of life and love.Danger follows her.Tired of overbearing men who think they know best, self-sufficient attorney Aimi Larson moves to the coast hoping to leave that all behind. She can take care of herself. But when her past follows her, she must enlist the aid of Willow Bay’s sexy sheriff to find a man bent on deadly revenge.

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When small-town loyalty collides with big dreams, only love can tip the balance.Torn between love and obligation… and the future of a town.Reserved but determined, Mayor Josh Morgan has been captivated by fiery gift-shop owner Dana Ricci since the day she set foot in Willow Bay. She’s everything he wants—vibrant, passionate, impossible to ignore. He’s finally ready to lay his heart on the line… until a charming outsider arrives with plans for a mega-resort ...