Streams of Contentment: Lessons I Learned on My Uncle's Farm - Couverture souple

Wicks, Robert J.

 
9781933495606: Streams of Contentment: Lessons I Learned on My Uncle's Farm
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ISBN 10 : 193349560X ISBN 13 : 9781933495606
Editeur : Ave Maria Press, 2013

Synopsis

Author, speaker, psychologist, and spiritual guide Robert J Wicks opens a window into his personal life, relating stories of the people and places that shaped his spiritual perspective in youth and early in his professional career. Now in paperback, Streams of Contentment shows Wicks as a New York City boy spending summers on his uncles farm in the Catskills. He highlights the resonance between life in the country and the insights of spiritual writers on gratefulness and mindfulness, concluding: The crucial calling for me now is to be content with who and where I already am. With characteristic charm and insight, Wicks offers a simple prescription for finding contentment: have low expectations and high hopes, recognise that a little silence and solitude is no small thing, and discover the surprising power of humility. He also includes 30 brief reflections and simple practices for discovering contentment. In 15 poignant, sometimes humorous, and always instructive lessons, Wicks builds on the insights first developed in Riding the Dragon to demonstrate how contentment is found through simplicity, gratitude, and compassion.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Robert J Wicks strives to open people who are used to giving to the miracle of receiving. He accomplishes this goal by marrying sound psychology and basic spiritual truths that set the stage for profound personal transformation. A popular presenter at workshops and conventions, Wicks is especially appealing to people in the helping professions physicians, teachers, psychologists, and ministers assisting them to integrate the psychological and the spiritual so they can extend their emotional flames to others without burning out in the process. He has worked around the globe from the psychological debriefing of relief workers evacuated to the United States from Rwanda to conducting workshops in Cambodia for members of the international community assigned to help the Khmer people rebuild their nation. Additionally, he delivered presentations at Walter Reed Army Hospital to health care professionals involved in caring for Iraqi war veterans with amputations and severe head injuries. Wicks, a Queens, New York, native, received a master s degree in clinical psychology in 1973 from St. John s University and a doctorate in psychology from Philadelphia s Hahnemann Medical College in 1977. In 1996, Pope John Paul II awarded Wicks a papal medal for his service to the Catholic Church. Wicks has written more than forty books. He serves as a professor of the graduate programs in pastoral counseling at Loyola College, Baltimore. Wicks and his wife Michaele have a grown daughter. They live in suburban Baltimore, Maryland.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Author, speaker, psychologist, and spiritual guide Robert J Wicks opens a window into his personal life, relating stories of the people and places that shaped his spiritual perspective in youth and early in his professional career. Now in paperback, Streams of Contentment shows Wicks as a New York City boy spending summers on his uncles farm in the Catskills. He highlights the resonance between life in the country and the insights of spiritual writers on gratefulness and mindfulness, concluding: The crucial calling for me now is to be content with who and where I already am. With characteristic charm and insight, Wicks offers a simple prescription for finding contentment: have low expectations and high hopes, recognise that a little silence and solitude is no small thing, and discover the surprising power of humility. He also includes 30 brief reflections and simple practices for discovering contentment. In 15 poignant, sometimes humorous, and always instructive lessons, Wicks builds on the insights first developed in Riding the Dragon to demonstrate how contentment is found through simplicity, gratitude, and compassion.

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Éditeur
Ave Maria Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
193349560X
ISBN 13 
9781933495606
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  1933495278 ISBN 13 :  9781933495279
Editeur : Ave Maria Press, 2011
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