meaning by design
lucy oliver
meaning by design
lucy oliver
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Some traditional ways to dive deep and find principles to guide everyday life:
Meditation, properly instructed, is an indispensable foundation for taking the reins of one's own destiny and for designing a life with purpose and depth.
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Seership helps to see more deeply into the nature of everyday life and actions, and investigate the principles of a meaningful philosophy to live by.
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Symbolic Encounters explores personal symbols and metaphors, helping to work through problems, find the inspiration for a new project or reveal new perspective.
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My own story began with an introduction to meditation by an inspirational teacher in 1975 during post-graduate work at the University of Oxford.
DIARIES OF A YOUNG MYSTIC
​This unusual autobiography is an intimate chronicle of soul-search from the diaries of a young woman living and studying in the university town of Oxford in the late 1970’s. For fifty years the diaries lay forgotten in a trunk, until rediscovered by her at the age of 72. The diaries cover six years of an intense maturing process to find and articulate a meaningful framework for life and loving.
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Aided by the wisdom of hindsight, the interwoven commentary by herself as an older woman reflecting on her younger self makes these diaries much more than just a trip down memory lane. The voices of Youth and Age intertwine throughout the narrative, and create a profound and sometimes searing portrayal of love, loss and spiritual growth, catalysed by a combination of academic learning and direct perception.
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Oxford itself, the "town of dreaming spires" is an evocative backdrop, almost a protagonist in its own right, in this fresh and poetic evocation before the sprawl of modern developments and the impact of mass tourism.
£4.99 Ebook £10.99 Paperback Available from Amazon, your local bookstore and most Ebook retailers.
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