First published in the 1920s, this book attempts to provide the reader with a guide to living. Gibran lets his protagonist, called simply the prophet, deliver homilies on a variety of topics central to daily life: love marriage and children, work and play, possessions, beauty, truth, joy and sorrow and death.
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Suggesting a new way of thinking about daily life, its problems and its creative opportunities, this book offers a therapeutic programme for bringing the soul and spirituality back into one's life, and helping one to look more deeply into emotional problems and sense sacredness in ordinary things - real friends, satisfying conversation, fulfilling work, and experiences that stay in the memory and touch the heart. ...

When asked what he does, Robert Fulghum usually replies that he is a philosopher, and explains that what he likes to do is to think about everyday things and then to express what he thinks by writing, speaking or painting. This is a collection of his favourite observations, written over the years, that reveal simple truths about small lives with big meanings. ...

This series of apothegms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathusan or Zoraster, contain the kernel of Nietzche's original thought. In it he states that "God is dead" and that Christianity is decadent and leads mankind into a slave morality concerned with the next life rather than this. "Ubermensch" or superman with a "will to power" who would dare to be impulsive an be the creator of a new heroic morality which would set him apart from ...

First published in the 1920s, this book attempts to provide the reader with a guide to living. Gibran lets his protagonist, called simply the prophet, deliver homilies on a variety of topics central to daily life: love marriage and children, work and play, possessions, beauty, truth, joy and sorrow and death.
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Joe Simpson, author of )This Game Of Ghosts( and )Touching The Void(, debates whether the noble instincts and principles which once characterised the world of mountaineering have been irrevocably displaced, using the example of an Indian climber left to die on Everest as his colleagues continued with their summit bid. "Above all, Simpson is a born writer" )The Times(.
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Reissued in Pimlico trade paperback, to coincide with the paperback publication of )The Sense Of Reality(.
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Examines the concepts behind the teaching of Gurdjieff. Based on his experience as a former pupil, the author explains how efforts can be made to discover and practice the concept of meaningful living. ...

Considered as one of the most influential works of British philosophy in the 20th century, this examination of ideas of knowledge, imagination, consciousness and the intellect was first published in 1949.
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This work provides a clear, straightforward treatise on Buddhism in general and awareness in particular. The author's observations and insights are plain, practical and down-to-earth and deal exclusively with the present, not with theory, speculation or belief in some far-off time or place. ...