Marriage to the Wolf
Extraits
Rock
Back to the wall
Etre dos au mur, c'est faire un constat. C'est arriver à la fin d'un cycle, sans échappatoire possible, à moins d'escalader le mur et d'aller voir ce qui se trouve de l'autre côté. Etre dos au mur, c'est aussi un rappel . l'écho d'une époque où, à coups de masses et de volonté, une génération entière montrait au monde que la division ne dure qu'un temps - le temps d'un disque, vous dit Grand March.
03/2024
Anglais apprentissage
The Scarlet Letter
Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter " A " stands for " Adultery ". In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child bore outside marriage was a child of sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her tife. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What will happen to her child, growing up in the shadow of the scarlet letter? The future holds no joy for Hester Prynne. And what will happen to her sinful lover - the father of her child?
07/2009
Poésie
Untamed Wolf. Tome V : The Growing Fairy
Ayant pris conscience que je n'étais qu'une illusion tel mon handicap moteur n'était " que de la fumée ", puisqu'il ne détermine pas qui je suis ; je me suis prise au jeu de me refaire le chemin à l'envers. J'ai retrouvé les sentiers perdus de mes origines ; ainsi, je me suis réapproprier mon histoire en rénovant mes pensées. J'ai découvert que j'étais la seule à entretenir mes souffrances. Mon passé n'est plus. Tout ce qui le constituait peut reposer en paix. Mon rôle est de puiser au fond de mon âme tout ce qui me caractérise réellement. Toutes les scènes imaginaires que j'ai créée existe dans la matière, puisque je les ai érigée avec mes tripes. Ce livre est un hommage à moi même pour avoir évoluer sur le chemin de la Sérénité.
11/2020
Comics
Fables - The Wolf among us Tome 1
Sous la contrainte de l'Adversaire, les héros des contes et légendes ont quitté leurs royaumes pour intégrer notre quotidien. Soumis à des lois strictes et à la nécessité de passer inaperçus, les Fables ont désigné Bigby Wolf pour être leur shérif et faire régner l'ordre. Mais lorsqu'une jeune femme, autrefois princesse, se fait décapiter, Bigby est obligé de faire appel à la bête en son for intérieur pour mener l'enquête. Cependant, personne n'a oublié le passé du Grand Méchant Loup, et les habitants de Fableville ont encore bien du mal à lui faire confiance... FABLES est une série née de l'imaginaire prolifique de Bill WILLINGHAM et de son amour pour les contes de fées. Matthew STURGES (JACK OF FABLES) et Dave JUSTUS (EVERAFTER) s'emparent de l'adaptation en jeu vidéo faite par le studio Telltale Games pour en faire un récit policier haletant illustré par plusieurs artistes, dont Steve SADOWSKI (Avengers/Invaders), contribuant ainsi à enrichir l'univers foisonnant de FABLES.
07/2018
Non classé
Autobiography: Self Into Form
"The autobiographical impulse" dominated German-language literature of the 1970's, finding its expression in autobiographies of crisis, women's coming-to-consciousness, and disrupted childhoods. This study examines the historical, sociological, political and literary-historical context for this phenomenon, and in so doing engages the critical international discussion of autobiography as a changing genre. Detailed analyses of works by Ingeborg Bachmann, Elisabeth Plessen, Christa Wolf and Peter Handke suggest new critical approaches to autobiographical form. The author provides an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources, as well as a chronological table of autobiographical works of the decade.
12/1983
Religion
Conjugal Chastity in Pope Wojtyla
Conjugal Chastity in Pope Wojtyla explains how Karol Wojtyla, philosopher, theologian, and Pope, tried to show how the sexual act, within the context of marriage, is an expression of love. After explaining how love as goodwill is the foundation of conjugal love, the correct relationship between love and justice is clarified. The negative dimension of the personalistic norm of Wojtyla is then critically examined. Conjugal love is explained in terms of conjugal beneficience based on conjugal benevolence. This love leads to total self-giving in each conjugal act. The procreative meaning of the conjugal act seems to be its most formal element (the soul of the act, so to speak); the unitive element is described as an essential property of this act, something which necessarily flows from the conjugal act which is open to life. Chastity is the virtue that allows sexuality to be integrated into a love which is truly personal and reflects Trinitarian Love.
09/2010
Non classé
The Search for Lyonnesse
Although Mme de Lafayette is acknowledged as the founder of the modern novel, her precise legacy has been understood only in relation to male-authored texts. However, she wrote as a woman, addressing issues that concerned women of her day, particularly the problem of the apparent incompatibility of sexual fulfilment and the institution of marriage. This study seeks to identify how La Princesse de Clèves was interpreted by three of Mme de Lafayette's most talented women successors and to show how their more sombre and subversive view of society was mediated in works of fiction which have strong affinities with the contes de fées for which they are well known. The novels of Mlle Bernard, Mme d'Aulnoy and Mlle de La Force are significant, not simply for what they tell us about themselves as women writers but also for what they reveal about the origins of the eighteenth-century novel.
07/1999
Sociologie
The Fakir's Travels
Advising people to take this attitude or that are a waste of time. Those who see or/and are aware realise also that it is none of their business to goad and advise others. Our job at best can be to answer questions by the light of our knowledge but in no way can anyone be dogmatic about it. Let us all be first aware of - Do we know ? What do we know ? How do we know that we know ? To me it is the part where we first accept that there is room for change for the better in us. Then we observe ourselves. And finally we try to bring in the change in ourselves with our will with sincerity and objectivity.
04/2014
Policiers
Goebius' Strange Model
A company elaborates in great secrecy a project, vital to its very survival. As the project develops, it leads the protagonists far beyond the originally envisioned simple business strategy, and brings them close to the forefront of the physical laws governing the behavior of the universe. Two intrigues intertwine... will they meet ? Or do they form the single-sided face of a Möbius strip ? "This novel is as unexpected as a UFO, and refreshing..." Cédric Villani, Fields Medal 2010. "This book is fascinating, I read it all at once..." Etienne Ghys, Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences.
01/2020
Sociologie
Cahiers du LLL n° 12 bis – Telepresence teaching (and learning). From the immersive to the virtual classroom
Hybrid or fully online ? Synchronous or asynchronous ? Unimodal, bimodal, comodal or multimodal ? The all-out development of distance learning has led to the creation of appropriate digital systems, either by using what was already in place (such as video conferencing classrooms and web conferencing software supporting virtual classrooms) or introducing innovative environments (such as immersive telepresence classrooms). To use these versatile, multi-functional technologies, teachers need to take a step back to enable them to adapt their teaching methods and offer learners a suitable environment that overcomes physical and geographical distances. As for students, the need to "be there" and "be together" while learning remotely has to be taken into account to maintain their commitment and ensure they continue to contribute, despite the fact they are apart. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us the importance of the professional, collegial and friendship connections we have with those we usually meet face-to-face in a traditional classroom. Telepresence systems enable all these people to come together remotely (and synchronously) and make it possible to use active teaching methods, driven by the self-regulation of the learners. But what is telepresence ? Do teachers need any special training ? How do you attend lessons remotely ? How do participants learn in a telepresence setting ? What type of student assessment can be used in such an environment ? The result of international collaboration, this short guide looks at these questions from both a research and a practical perspective, inviting you to explore telepresence teaching and learning.
06/2022
Anglais apprentissage
THE CANTERBURY TALES. Avec cassette audio
'In April when the sweet showers fall... then people want to go on pilgrimages.'
A group of pilgrims travelling from London to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury decide that each traveller should tell a story. The Knight tells a tale of high romance. The Pardoner tells a story of death. And the Wife of Bath tells the story of her five husbands and her fight to control the men in her life. But The Tales end with the story of the perfect marriage and how, if we are generous to one another, we can find the perfect society.
A selection of stories from Chaucer's masterpiece depicting life in fourteenth century England is presented here in modern English. There is a wide range of activities and special informative sections on Chaucer and his times. The accompanying cassette contains the complete story and the extra listening activities.
06/1999
Littérature française
Handicapped
The mere fact of existing is already a battle of every moment, but that of being born a woman is seen as the most arduous of battles, in a society that considers women not only less than men, but below men. The simple attributes devolved to human being are sometimes denied to them, under the indifferent eye of the society. Who is to blame for this general contemptuous attitude vis-à-vis the woman ? The man ? Society ? Or the woman herself ? Woman parenthood, excision, rape, sexual harassment, the prison, early marriages and widowhood are core points tackled in the seven short stories of this book where the main characters ; Micheline, Amina, Jenaëlle, Ann-Lise, Lucie, Violet and Bernadette shall each take the reader through their stories using their own words. Based on true stories, these fictions are a personal move to throw more light on the stumbling blocks faced by the woman in her struggle for optimal fulfillment. Through the life stories clearly depicted in this book, most readers can picture their own lives, the lives of a mother, a sister, a friend or a daughter. Two objectives constitute the backbone of this book ; draw attention on the way the woman is perceived by the African society and Cameroon in particular and raise awareness in the woman so that she can come to understand that the key to her destiny lies within herself and nowhere else. Hence the need to portray womanhood as society sees it : a handicap.
10/2020
Droit
Activation Policies for the Unemployed, the Right to Work and the Duty to Work
Since the 1990s and the 2000s, Western social protection systems have experienced a turn towards activation. This turn consists of the multiplication of measures aimed at bringing those who are unemployed closer to participation in the labour market. These measures often induce a strengthening of the conditions that must be met in order to receive social benefits. It is in this well known context that the authors gathered in this book decided to take a closer look at the relationship between activation policies for the unemployed and the right and the duty to work. If activation measures are likely to increase transitions towards the labour market, we can also make the assumption that they may, particularly when they are marked with the seal of coercion, hinder or dramatically reduce the right to freely chosen work. In such circumstances, the realisation of the "right to work", which is often stated to be the aim of those who promote activation, tends in practice to be reduced to an increasing pressure being exerted on the unemployed. In this case, isn't it actually the duty to work that is particularly reinforced ? After an historical and philosophical perspective on the issue, this assumption is confronted with the developments observed in the United States and in France, and then with the guidelines laid down in international human rights instruments. What follows is a discussion of two alternatives to the dominant activation model : the basic income guarantee and the employment guarantee.
06/1987
Tourisme étranger
Moroccan tracks Volume 11. The sagho djebel
The Sagho djebel is the eastern extension of the Anti-Atlas, a volcanic mountain with granitic mamelons, basaltic organs, chaos of black shales, pink sandstones... at the gates of the Sahara. As far as the eye can see, large wild, arid spaces. A desolate land made for the lonely DPM. And for a thousand miles around, silence is the only companion. Absolute plenitude and the desire to take to the track. From flat expanses to rolling hills, from sharp relief to steep canyons : pure, original nature. The character is strong, rustic but the heart is soft. The colours are soft and gentle. Ochre, pink, brown, violet, the colour chart stretches in a gradation of shimmering pastels, sometimes accompanied by an overwhelming heat. Eldorado in the heart of the desert, rare are the oases ; modest green spots in the infinitely large, they are the reminders that we are on African soil. The wild charm of the Sagho is due to its exceptional geology : high cliffs and steep peaks, tabular escarpments and deep canyons in the middle of which caravans of camels and mules circulate. When you arrive on these immense plateaus, the lunar horizon is so vast that you want to go everywhere at once to see if it is really as beautiful elsewhere ! The Sagho also surprises by the richness of its lights : limpid like those of the nearby Sahara, or sometimes in half-tone, as in the neighbouring Dades valley. The Sagho is also the Morocco of the last Berber nomads, descendants of the ancient lords Aït Atta. In autumn, after leaving the snows of the High Atlas, they set up their dark wool tents on the slopes of the jebel until spring. They can neither read nor write, but they are sure of their way through the Atlas Mountains and the Moroccan desert. In the Sagho, they have built houses of unbaked stone, dug wells, planted almond trees, grown wheat, barley and various vegetables. Others built herds of goats and sheep, and caravans of camels. Most of them are now sedentary, semi-nomadic or nomadic...
08/2022
Critique littéraire
To catch the sun in the water
Marie was born around the end of World War II in a small village near Chaveniac-Lafayette where General Lafayette lived. It is the mountainous region of Auvergne known as the heart of France. Take Marie's hand and she will guide you through her humble childhood. Through her eyes you will see what it was like to live in the country in France. With Marie's many brothers end sisters you will participate in hay making, harvesting... At this time, they used traditional methods and tools. Her parents will demonstrate the making of bread, butter and cheese... It's here that you meet Mathias, a boy her age, who becomes her best friend. Later, their love story unfolds... Just after the war, it was a time when the French countryside was populated with farmers that still lived in economic self-sufficiency. In the story, the author makes these peasants from depths of France come alive. The feeling, the candor, and the authenticity of the book will remind you of the Little House on the Prairie
07/2001
Non classé
Cognitive Perspectives on Language
The papers collected in the present volume show that the terms cognitivism and cognitive, so common in present day linguistic discourse, do not refer to a single theoretical mode or approach to language. Firstly, the papers show that cognitivism is a lively research area accommodating a wide spectrum of approaches. Secondly, they address a number of issues ranging from grammaticalization, event structure, semantic representation, equivalence, image schematic representations and lexicography to poetry, metaphor, metonymy, and national mentality. Some of the contributions deal with the linguistic phenomena in one language, while others take up a cross-linguistic approach.
11/1999
Non classé
The Gay Agenda
The "gay agenda" is a rhetorical strategy deployed by the religious right and other social conservatives to magnify fear and hostility of queers. Queers are accused, among other things, of strategizing to recruit children into sexually deviant lifestyles ; dismantling family and marriage as cornerstones of civilization ; and forcing the entertainment industry and court systems to do their bidding. Queers certainly do have an agenda but it is not the one that the religious right claims it is. It is to assert their presence in the public space ; claim and name their identities ; and strategize for social justice in law, schools, and workplaces. The Gay Agenda : Claiming Space, Identity, and Justice claims and reclaims the language of "agenda" and turns the rhetoric of the religious right on its ear. The contributors provide insightful and sharp commentary on gay agendas for human rights, marriage and family, cultural influences, schooling and education, and politics and law.
01/2014
Policiers
Wolf
Berlin-Est, 1962. Un mur sépare deux mondes. Cette barrière protéiforme est partout. Elle court sur le bitume des rues berlinoises, plonge dans les eaux de la Spree, saccage les forêts, ampute les lignes de métro. Certains la croient infranchissable, tandis que d'autres continuent à espérer. Wolf est un adolescent promis à un grand avenir dans la patrie socialiste, il appartient au mouvement des Pionniers. Pourtant son regard est tourné ailleurs, vers l'Ouest, vers Ruth, sa petite amie. Quand elle l'engage à fuir avec ses proches, il hésite. Le devoir patriotique est si peu en harmonie avec les sentiments amoureux, surtout quand les policiers de la STASI donnent le ton. La décision est difficile, la fuite est une gageure, et le succès reste très hypothétique. La voie est semée d'embûches, mais le jeune Wolf devra apprendre que les obstacles les plus redoutables ne sont pas toujours les canons des fusils ; ils prennent parfois l'aspect diaphane des fantômes du passé, celui des souvenirs que l'on croyait disparus à jamais. Entre fuite vers l'avenir, et recherche de ses origines, le pionnier Wolf va découvrir que ce chemin vers la liberté peut avoir un goût bien amer. Les enjeux sont-ils à la mesure du risque ? Nous vous laissons le soin de l'apprécier...
02/2014
Livres 3 ans et +
Penelope at the Louvre
Penelope and Grandpa visit the Louvre Museum : the Mona Lisa, the mummies, the Venus de Milo... Penelope wants to see everything ! And what if she gives a pen to the Egyptian scribe... Penelope is full of good ideas... Would you like to help ? It's easy to do with the magic tabs.
01/2009
Livres 0-3 ans
YAOUNDÉ BABA SCARED?....ME?....NO WAY!
YAOUNDE BABA SCARED ? ... ME ? ... NO WAY ! YAOUNDE goes off in search of his little goat, BEEE, who, in spite of the young boy's watchful eye, has gone missing. On the way he meets ZOULÏA, a friendly mouse, and ARWANE, a little ant, who help him to find the little goat. Their search will lead them to an isolated hill where a very strange creature lives - a creature capable of transforming itself into unimaginably frightening shapes and forms to scare away anybody who dares to set foot on its steep hill. In order to find BEEE, YAOUNDE and his two friends will have little choice. They will have to cross its territory and confront this incredible and terrifying creature. 6 to 10 Years.
10/2017
Critique littéraire
Ancient Greek by Its Translators
When not familiar with the language itself, most readers over the centuries have had access to the ancient Greek texts only or mostly through (Latin or vernacular) translations. Such an approach is not only indirect and mediated, but also distorted and even impoverishing : meaning then prevails over the linguistic form and substance of the texts themselves. What do later or modern readers read when they read translated texts written in an ancient so-called dead language ? They read a given meaning - sometimes unfaithful, often inaccurate - dictated by a genuine understanding, the blind continuation of tradition, or an untold hidden intention. The complex range of significances conveyed by meaning simultaneously reflects the time and space (called synchrony) of when and where a text has been translated, the historical learning and linguistic skills of the translators, as well as their ideas and style. As a contribution to the perennial debate about translation (mere literary transliteration vs. creative transposition), this volume aims at analyzing some striking cases of various (literary or not) texts translated from ancient Greek showing how much for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries aesthetics and ideology matter as much as - and often even more than - rigorous philology.
02/2022
Romance sexy
Say Yes to the Boss
Embrasser mon boss ? Jamais ! A 27 ans, Mona Vargas est encore célibataire, au grand désespoir de sa mère. Chaque dimanche, c'est le même refrain : cette dernière cherche à lui coller un mec dans les pattes ! Alors quand son boss, Hugo Capelli, aussi horripilant que sexy, lui demande de jouer sa fausse fiancée et de l'accompagner à la garden-party organisée par son ex, elle décide d'accepter. A une condition : qu'il consente lui aussi à se faire passer pour son petit ami auprès de sa famille. Avec lui, pas d'ambiguïté, puisqu'ils n'ont rien en commun ! Il est aussi sûr de lui, arrogant et égocentré qu'elle est désintéressée et dévouée. Et de toute façon, c'est son patron ! Mais ça, c'est sur le papier...
04/2022
Réalistes, contemporains
Walk me to the corner
Walk Me to the corner est le nouveau roman graphique d'Anneli Furmark, l'une des voix les plus importantes de la bande dessinée suédoise. Depuis son premier livre publié en 2002, elle raconte des histoires centrées sur l'intime et sur ses personnages. Walk me to the corner est - comme le disent les protagonistes de l'histoire - une sorte de "Brokeback Mountain pour dames d'un certain âge" . Le personnage principal du récit est Elise, la cinquantaine, mariée depuis plus de 20 ans, dont les enfants ont grandi et ont déménagé. Elle tombe soudainement éperdument amoureuse d'une femme du même âge, Dagmar, également en couple, avec qui elle commence une relation. Bien que leur passion soit mutuelle, aucune des deux femmes n'est prête à quitter sa famille. Des complications surviennent lorsque le mari d'Elise tombe amoureux d'une jeune étudiante et qu'il divorce, tandis que Dagmar refuse de divorcer... A travers l'histoire de ces deux femmes et les questionnements d'Elise, Walk me to the corner explore avec délicatesse et empathie ce qu'implique de quitter la sécurité d'une vie routinière à la cinquantaine pour se jeter dans l'inconnu.
10/2021
Suspense
The Last One to Die
Elle pensait vivre le meilleur été de sa vie... ce sera peut-être le dernier. Niamh, 17 ans, a travaillé comme une dingue pour pouvoir se payer des cours d'été dans la plus grande école d'art dramatique de Londres. Elle s'imagine découvrir une ville accueillante mais se heurte à une ambiance glaçante : de nombreuses jeunes filles, dont ses nouvelles amies, se font violemment agresser. Toutes ont le même profil, celui de Niamh... qui va se retrouver au coeur du plus effrayant des films d'horreur ! Un thriller haletant sur fond de légendes urbaines.
09/2021
BD tout public
Welcome to the Death Club
Vous avez été choisis, vous faites partie des rares élus, Winshluss vous invite à faire un tour dans son fameux Club de la Mort ! Fouillez dans votre poche, trouvez-y votre billet et lancez-vous dans les dédales de cette fête foraine macabre où l'effroi le dispute au sarcasme. Guidé au milieu des attractions par la grande faucheuse en personne, vous ricanerez en choeur des tableaux qu'elle fera apparaître devant vous, compilant les vanités et les rêves médiocres d'une humanité en sursis, obèse et pourrissante... Mais ce sera votre visage décomposé et grouillant de vers que vous croiserez au détour de la galerie des glaces ! Vous vous consolerez de voir que vos compagnons de train fantôme n'auront pas meilleure mine que vous, avatars disneyens ou pantins de série B rescapés d'un film de zombies projeté un soir de panne de climatisation dans un cinéma de Tijuana. Mais avant même de pouvoir échanger avec eux quelques phalanges, vous serez entraîné par votre amie jusqu'au grand huit, où vous apprécierez de ne plus avoir d'estomac. Pour vous remettre de vos émotions, la grande parade des horreurs vous montrera avec une précision "entomologistique" vos semblables bouffer, vivre et s'accoupler dans un grouillement de cafards. La Camarde, qui n'est guère plus qu'un exterminateur d'insectes, les réduira en bouffie pour votre seule distraction dans un bouquet d'éclaboussures ! Ne vous restera plus qu'à vous diriger avec elle vers la buvette où, devant un verre de mort aux rats, vous regarderez les néons s'éteindre et les portes du club se refermer, heureux d'avoir encore une bouche pour rire... et des yeux pour pleurer.
01/2010
Manga
Descendants. Rotten to the Core
Afin d'être punis, tous les pires méchants de l'histoire sont désormais prisonniers de l'île de l'Oubli, un endroit sans magie dont il est impossible de s'échapper. C'est pourquoi les enfants de Maléfique, la Méchante reine. Jafar et Cruelle d'Enfer n'ont jamais pu s'aventurer à l'extérieur de l'île... jusqu'à aujourd'hui ! Invités dans le parfait royaume d'Auradon, ils vont en effet se retrouver à devoir aller dans la même école que les enfants de nos héros Disney préférés. Mais Mal, Evie, Jay et Carlos auront surtout pour tâche d'exécuter le plan machiavélique de leurs parents pour que ces derniers puissent répandre la terreur à nouveau. Nos jeunes adolescents rebelles vont-ils suivre les traces de leurs horribles parents ou choisiront-ils d'écouter la bonté de leur coeur et de sauver le royaume ?
10/2018
12 ans et +
Love letters to the dead
Tout a commencé par une lettre... Une simple rédaction demandée par un prof : écrire à un disparu. Laurel a choisi Kurt Cobain, parce que sa grande soeur May l'adorait. Et qu'il est mort jeune, comme May. Si elle ne rend jamais son devoir, très vite le carnet de Laurel se remplit de lettres à Amy Winehouse, Heath Ledger... A ces confidents inattendus, elle raconte sa première année de lycée, sa famille décomposée, ses nouveaux amis, son premier amour. Mais avant d'écrire à la seule disparue qui lui tient vraiment à coeur, Laurel devra se confronter au secret qui la tourmente et faire face à ce qui s'est vraiment passé la nuit où May est décédée.
10/2015
Photographes
Jerusalem. To the Last Path
A la fin des années 1990, David Sauveur est un photojournaliste habitué aux chaos de l'histoire, reconnu internationalement. Lorsqu'il découvre Jérusalem, c'est pour d'autres raisons : non plus dénoncer la violence des hommes, mais sentir vibrer leur besoin de beauté. Pendant cinq ans, par une immersion méditative dans l'épaisseur de la cité millénaire, il recueille au Polaroid la matière de To The Last Path ("Vers le dernier chemin"). Naît une série de photographies subtiles, tout en lenteur et délicatesse, portées par une rare intelligence de la pluralité et des contradictions de la ville aux trois religions. Ce livre, accompagné d'un texte de l'historien Vincent Lemire, présente pour la première fois l'oeuvre de David Sauveur, dont une agression en août 2011 a interrompu la carrière.
01/2022
Monographies
Paris - The Place to be
From Montmartre to Montparnasse, from the Elysée to the Trocadéro, from the Louvre Museum to the Orsay Museum, from the Latin Quarter to the Butte aux Cailles and the Monceau plain, each district of Paris conceals unsuspected treasures ! This Paris off the beaten track can be discovered along the alleys, parks, bridges and great monuments... Discover the small and the great history of these high places.
03/2024
Littérature française
Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba)
Mehersthan Memoir (Meher Baba) This book is dedicated to the unique One who has assumed a form and name to lead the play of universal existence. He throbs in our loving heart ; He breathes in our living soul. He sings in our fervent spirit and he thinks in our purified mind. That infinite Ancient One from his supernal height, bends towards us to embrace us in his love, and to feed our soul with the nectar of his bliss. Blessed are they that have the mind to know him, the heart to feel him and the love to live in his consciousness ! He may have been born to human parents in Poona, studied in a college, played cricket, left home, have seen great souls, sat alone silent, spoken in gestures, written books - but that is not his history. Many live such a life ; many scholars write books ; many saints sit in contemplation ; many monks leave home for mountain resorts ; but they cannot be one like him. Millions of bulbs challenge in vain the darkness of night. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. One sun rises and the night dissolves into his golden light. We have seen monks, yogins and saints. Some live alone for peace. Some open Ashrams and collect donations to run them. Some comercialise their name and form. Some display miracles to surprise human minds ; some offer boons ; some predict the future ; some curse you when you do not offer them what they want. Some seek pleasure and treasure. But who seeks God and finds God in the self to awaken God-awareness in other men and women ? Who says "I am God and you are God too"? Who rises above the prattle of words, the rattle of weapons and battle of ideologies to the lofty peace of supersonic silence and pours his blessings from the dizzy height of the soul in tune with God ? Who is he that embraces all in the heart and awakens the soul which has none of the human creations of caste, religion, race, pedigree nor colour ? Editions ASSA, Christian Piaget
07/2017
