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Herrymon Maurer (1914-1998) has created a remarkable new translation of the Tao Teh Ching, inspired by a Quaker understanding of simplicity and religious experience and informed by his immersion in Chinese culture during a 1939-1941 sojourn in rural Sichuan province with his young family. The translation strives to preserve many of the Chinese metaphors as well as the directness of the sacred text and to find English phrases that render, at least to some extent, the beauty and economy of Lao Tz¿'s original. Maurer's masterful commentary helps clarify phrases that may baffle Westerners as he weaves together insights from Christianity, Judaism and Islam to situate the Tao in a context of universal humility and hope. A member of Alcoholics Anonymous, the author was acquainted with the destructive power of self, but had also discovered that the self can learn to live in relationship. First published in 1982, this revised edition of Maurer's translation and expanded commentary on Lao Tz¿'s enduring attempt to proclaim the Way of the Ways is published posthumously by family and friends who share the author's hope that it may be useful to other seekers, as suggested by Chapter 4: Tao is empty! Use it And it isn't used up. Deep! It seems like The forbear of the ten thousand things. It blunts edges, Unties tangles, Harmonizes lights, Unites all dusts. Existent and deep! I don't know whose child it is. It looks to be the source.

No one looks into the eyes of a newborn child and thinks, I can hardly wait until I'm yelling at you. This book acknowledges that we can be both delighted by our preschooler, yet find the work of raising that same preschooler a challenge. This book offers tools to relieve those stressful moments, while deepening our understanding of the preschooler's brain, body, and emotions. With brief sections targeted at the most common parenting issues, this book is designed to be useful in whatever time a parent has.

If the dead could speak from their graves, what would they tell us, the living, about their insights on life and longevity? In Digested by the Dust, the dead come alive again and reveal details about their historic times in Whittier, California at the turn of the 20th Century, their private lives, successes and failures, their secret loves and fantasies, and finally, the circumstances of their unique deaths, all in extended epitaph form.

The Chants of the Mass for Sundays, Solemnities, and Feasts.