**Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale" (_Kirkus_ , starred review).** Bound together by shared experience b
Stopping: How to Be Still When You Have to Keep Going
โ Scribed by Kundtz, David
- Publisher
- Red Wheel Weiser
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 141 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Newburyport
- ISBN
- 1609252462
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Stopping is a simple, straightforward technique for ""doing nothing, as much as possible, for a definite period of time, with the purpose of becoming more awake and remembering who you are, "" so that you can live more purposefully and peacefully.;Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Part I: Stopping at the Speed of Light; 1. Facing the Mountain of Too Much; 2. Why Cramming and Cutting Don''t Work; 3. Doing Nothing; 4. A Fast Train on the Fast Track; 5. Stopping at the Speed of Light; 6. Intentional Living: from Routine to Choice; 7. Stopping Before Everything ; 8. Contemporary Contemplation; 9. Finding the Spaces Between the Notes; 10. Stopped: Awake and Remembering; 11. Stop and Go For It!; Part II: The Three Ways of Stopping; 12. Stillpoints, Stopovers, and Grinding Halts; 13. Stillpoints: The Heart and Soul of Stopping.
โฆ Subjects
Electronic books
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