Stairway of Surprise: Six Steps to a Creative Life

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SteinerBooks, 2002 - 128 pages
This book will open your life to the surprising depth of the simple and ordinary. For most of us, life is often a humdrum course of the same-old and the nothing-new. We may dream about running away to exotic lands or retreating to distant monasteries, but the whirligig of life won't let us out of its clutches.

Stairway of Surprise has become a new classic of anthroposophic spiritual practice. Dr. Michael Lipson re-visions Rudolf Steiner's six basic exercises to make them relevant to our lives today. With examples drawn from world literature and from his psychotherapy practice, Lipson shows how these exercises stretch from common events in daily life to the depths of spiritual experience. The path of meditation offered here is experiential from start to finish: not something to think only, but something to live.

By practicing these exercises for a few minutes each day, we can discover the surprise in the universe, which is usually hidden from us by our stale, habitual attitudes.

CONTENTS:

  • Introduction
  • I. Thinking
  • II. Doing
  • III. Feeling
  • IV. Loving
  • V. Opening
  • VI. Thanking
 

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Table des matières

Introduction
9
Feeling
57
Opening
89
Thanking
105
Notes
123
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Expressions et termes fréquents

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À propos de l'auteur (2002)

Michael Lipson, PhD, worked with children with HIV/AIDS for nine years in New York City's Harlem Hospital before moving with his wife and two children to the Berkshires in western Massachusetts. Dr. Lipson conducts a practice in Clinical Psychology and teaches meditation internationally. He has been a frequent host of the radio call-in show VOX POP on WAMC, an NPR affiliate station in Upstate New York. He is the author of several books and the translator of Rudolf Steiner's Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path: A Philosophy of Freedom and several books by Georg Kühlewind.

Informations bibliographiques

TitreStairway of Surprise: Six Steps to a Creative Life
Volume 13 de Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, ISSN 1092-5228
AuteurMichael Lipson
Éditionillustrée
ÉditeurSteinerBooks, 2002
ISBN0880105070, 9780880105071
Longueur128 pages
  
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