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Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times
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"In When Things Don’t Go Your Way, Haemin Sunim offers readers a warm and reassuring path through the most challenging moments of our lives. By sharing his hard-won wisdom, he guides us from hardship to self-discovery, helping us to stay centered and feel whole."—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and co-host of the Dear Therapists podcast
From renowned Zen Buddhist teacher Haemin Sunim, a guide to turning life's challenges into opportunities for self-discovery
Have you ever felt like life has thrown you a curveball? Are you struggling to overcome unexpected challenges and setbacks?
While loss, heartbreak, and loneliness are all part of the human experience, in this warm guide, internationally bestselling author Haemin Sunim shows us that these moments can actually be rare opportunities for self-discovery, serving as stepping stones to greater things in life.
Drawing on Zen Buddhist philosophy and Sunim’s own experiences, When Things Don't Go Your Way helps you navigate life's challenges with resilience and grace. Whether you're dealing with rejection, uncertainty, loneliness, conflicts in relationships, or burnout—or simply seeking to improve your mental and emotional well-being—Sunim offers a new spiritual perspective, one that helps us face life's challenges with greater ease and understanding, and offers solace and courage when we need it the most.
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"In When Things Don’t Go Your Way, Haemin Sunim offers readers a warm and reassuring path through the most challenging moments of our lives. By sharing his hard-won wisdom, he guides us from hardship to self-discovery, helping us to stay centered and feel whole."—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and co-host of the Dear Therapists podcast
"Imagine receiving a warm hug from a book–that's exactly what you'll experience with this one. Sunim skillfully offers comforting wisdom in an accessible and gentle manner, while also embracing profound vulnerability, just as he has done with his previous books."—Vex King, bestselling author of Closer to Love and Good Vibes, Good Life
“Haemin Sunim is one of the wisest and most honest and authentic teachers I know. Drawn from his own lived experience, When Things Don’t Go Your Way offers the kind of guidance we most need when life doesn’t cooperate and we’re painfully, emotionally stuck. It shows us how our challenges themselves can become powerful fuel for spiritual awakening.”—Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance
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There is no cure for the human condition: life is hard. But Kieran Setiya believes philosophy can help. He offers us a map for navigating rough terrain, from personal trauma to the injustice and absurdity of the world.
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Solid
- By Jason Blum on 10-24-22
By: Kieran Setiya
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The 100-Year Life
- Living and Working in an Age of Longevity
- By: Lynda Gratton, Andrew Scott
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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What will your 100-year life look like? Does the thought of working for 60 or 70 years fill you with dread? Or can you see the potential for a more stimulating future as a result of having so much extra time? Many of us have been raised on the traditional notion of a three-stage approach to our working lives: education, followed by work and then retirement. But this well-established pathway is already beginning to collapse.
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Your handbook for a 100-year lfe
- By Sergio Faria on 06-11-17
By: Lynda Gratton, and others
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Time Management in 20 Minutes a Day
- Simple Strategies to Increase Productivity, Enhance Creativity, and Make Your Time Your Own
- By: Holly Reisem Hanna
- Narrated by: Kristin James
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Filled with practical advice for everybody, Time Management in 20 Minutes a Day makes increasing your productivity and getting the most out of every day a snap. Sprinkled with bite-sized lessons and personal anecdotes, Time Management in 20 Minutes a Day introduces strategic changes geared to help you improve your daily life. From obsessing over emails to hunting through clutter to mismanaging meetings - learn how to stop doing all the little things you didn’t even realize were wasting so much of your time.
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straight to the point
- By Zohra Kerris on 11-10-22
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The Daily Lesson
- 366 Essays to Challenge Your Status Quo
- By: Honerod
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The Daily Lesson is not your average self-help book. It's a collection of thoughts and reflections that challenge you to look at life differently. With a touch of philosophy, each essay explores topics we often think about but rarely talk about. From dealing with the loss of our parents to understanding love's complex nature, this book gets to the heart of what it means to be human. These essays are straightforward and speak to modern-day experiences, bringing a fresh perspective to familiar feelings. Whether you've seen some of these ideas before or they're completely new to you, each will...
By: Honerod
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What Smart Women Know
- By: Julia Sokol, Steven Carter
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Get smart about men and relationships with the help of this straightforward guide. Learn how to read that vitally important first date, how to tell the good guys from the bad, how to handle a breakup and after, and the 11 commandments for a smart woman.
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Awesome
- By H L Ward on 10-12-17
By: Julia Sokol, and others
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The Five Elements of Effective Thinking
- By: Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking presents practical, lively, and inspiring ways for you to become more successful through better thinking. The idea is simple: You can learn how to think far better by adopting specific strategies. Brilliant people aren't a special breed--they just use their minds differently.
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Thinking about Thinking
- By Cynthia on 05-20-14
By: Edward B. Burger, and others
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How to Think Bigger: Aim Higher, Get More Motivated, and Accomplish Big Things
- By: Martin Meadows
- Narrated by: John Gagnepain
- Length: 1 hr and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you ever wondered what separates people who think bigger from people who set their bars low? What makes one person accept low standards and another person constantly raise them? What drives a person who's optimizing every single aspect of her life, and what causes another person to maintain the status quo? I found this topic so fascinating, I decided to find out the answer for myself and write a book about it.
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Should be required to read in high school
- By Timothy on 08-27-15
By: Martin Meadows
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You Were Not Born to Suffer
- Overcome Fear, Insecurity and Depression and Love Yourself Back to Happiness, Confidence and Peace
- By: Blake Bauer
- Narrated by: Blake Bauer
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Discover why all suffering, illness, and unhappiness are cries from your soul asking you to fulfill your life's purpose, realize your greatest potential, and ultimately love, honor, and value yourself in every moment, situation, and relationship.
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Life changing
- By Empathy on 06-30-18
By: Blake Bauer
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The Self-Talk Workout
- Six Science-Backed Strategies to Dissolve Self-Criticism and Transform the Voice in Your Head
- By: Rachel Goldsmith Turow PhD
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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Perhaps you want to be nicer to yourself but don’t really know how to get there. Or maybe you’re someone who assumes self-criticism is a permanent part of your personality. Rest assured you’re not alone. Millions of people struggle with the toll that excessive self-criticism takes on their minds, energy levels, jobs, and relationships. And problems with self-talk vary dramatically from one person to the next: they can appear as mild but persistent inner criticism, full-blown self-loathing, or the pain of internalized oppression or abuse.
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Different meditations styles to conquer Self-Criticism
- By F on 03-29-23
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He Wins, She Wins
- Learning the Art of Marital Negotiation
- By: Dr. Willard F. Harley Jr.
- Narrated by: Dr. Willard F. Harley Jr.
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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In He Wins, She Wins, Dr. Harley introduces the revolutionary concept of joint agreement in marriage that keeps both husband and wife on equal footing and equally satisfied. This win-win model for negotiation starts with a simple rule: Never do anything without enthusiastic agreement between you and your spouse.
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Wonderful
- By Deysea Danu, Author on 09-19-23
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That Sucked. Now What?
- How to Embrace the Joy in Chaos and Find Magic in the Mess
- By: Dr. Neeta Bhushan
- Narrated by: Dr. Neeta Bhushan
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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You know those awful, terrible, sucker-punch moments in life? The ones that knock you down, burn you up, or make you cringe so hard you wish it was all a bad dream? Probably–because we all do. These epic, messy, oh-no-oh-crap moments of chaos are just part of life–yet, as Dr. Neeta Bhushan shows us, they're also beautiful opportunities for change.
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I finally have a permission to not be perfect!
- By Sokoleczka on 02-21-23
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How to Grow Through What You Go Through
- Mental Maintenance for Modern Lives
- By: Jodie Cariss, Chance Marshall
- Narrated by: Jodie Cariss, Chance Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In a world which can sometimes be challenging, frightening, overwhelming and complex, it's not surprising that sometimes we don't feel okay. This is what makes us human, but so often we are tempted to push those difficult feelings away or distract ourselves. We reach for our phone, we switch on Netflix, we over-work...but when do we stop and think about how we are really doing? Psychotherapists Jodie Cariss and Chance Marshall, founders of the revolutionary practice Self Space, are passionate about the importance of 'mental maintenance'.
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The ultimate collections of suggestions
- By Jesse Xu on 07-07-22
By: Jodie Cariss, and others
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Am I There Yet?
- The Loop-de-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood
- By: Mari Andrew
- Narrated by: Mari Andrew
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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In the journey toward adulthood, it is easy to find yourself treading the path of those who came before you; the path often appears straight and narrow, with a few bumps in the road, and a little scenery to keep you inspired. But what if you don’t want to walk a worn path? What if you want to wander? What if there is no map to guide you through the detours life throws your way?
By: Mari Andrew
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