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My grandfather's blessings : stories of strength, refuge, and belonging / Rachel Naomi Remen.

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  • ISBN: 1573221503
  • ISBN: 1573228567
  • Physical Description: 382 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2000.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
I. Receiving Your Blessings -- Blessing 22 -- Wrestling with the Angel 25 -- Shell Game 28 -- Spice of Life 31 -- Lot's Wife 36 -- Having What You have 39 -- Letting Go 41 -- Owning 43 -- Keeping It Together 46 -- At the End of the Day 50 -- Remembering 53 -- Getting Real 56 -- What Matters 63 -- Teachers Everywhere 66 -- You Have to Be Present to Win 68 -- Knowing the Heart 70 -- Counting Your Chickens 74 -- I'Chiam! 77 -- II. Becoming a Blessing -- Getting It Right 86 -- Gift 88 -- Being Used 90 -- Seeing the Buddha Seed 93 -- Simply Natural 96 -- All in the Family 99 -- Transmission 101 -- Bearing Witness 103 -- Trajectory 106 -- Holding On to the Heart 109 -- Lost and Found 112 -- Finding New Eyes 116 -- Strengthening Life 120 -- Friend 124 -- Wisdom 127 -- III. Finding Strength, Taking Refuge -- Meeting Place 137 -- Pearls of Wisdom 139 -- Way Through 141 -- Right Protection 144 -- From the Heart 146 -- Wholeness 150 -- Link 152 -- Getting Clear 155 -- Being Fed 158 -- When Somebody Knows 161 -- A Place of Refuge 164 -- Coming Home 166 -- In the Gray Zone 168 -- Finding the Center 170 -- In the Beginning 175 -- Call Home 177 -- Broken 181 -- Promises, Promises 188 -- IV. Web of Blessings -- Belonging 197 -- Lifeline 201 -- Learning to Serve 205 -- We Are Enough 209 -- Finding the Connection 214 -- Breathing In and Breathing Out 216 -- Gift of Service 218 -- Fellow Travelers 222 -- Laying On of Hands 225 -- Choosing Your Battles 229 -- Heaven and Hell 232 -- Wise Man 234 -- How the World Is Made 237 -- One Little Candle 239 -- Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts 242 -- V. Befriending Life -- Game 251 -- Knowing Life 253 -- Loving Life 256 -- Eggs 258 -- Finding the Way 260 -- When It Works 263 -- Habit 267 -- Gift of New Eyes 269 -- Making a Difference 272 -- Bottom Line 276 -- Crazy Clean 279 -- Integrity 281 -- Path 288 -- A Matter of Life and Death 290 -- Mirror 293 -- Who Serves? 297 -- Beyond the American Way 300 -- Emperor's New Clothes 303 -- Forgiveness 306 -- Gift of the Magi 310 -- Completion 314 -- Celebration 317 -- VI. Restoring the World -- Lineage 329 -- Beyond Words 331 -- Final Patient 333 -- Mystery 337 -- A Question of Style 339 -- On the Cutting Edge 343 -- Mary 346 -- After Dark 349 -- Thirty-six 352 -- Finding Safety 356 -- Way It Is 359 -- Presence of God 363 -- Friction in the System 365 -- Reward 368 -- Real Story 370.
Subject: Remen, Rachel Naomi > Religion.
Jewish way of life.
Jewish ethics.
Jewish exempla.

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