Sailing home : using the wisdom of Homer's Odyssey to navigate life's perils and pitfalls / Norman Fischer.
"Homer's Odyssey has a timeless allure. It is an ancient story that is significant for every generation: the struggle of a homesick, battle-weary man longing to return to love and family. Odysseus's strivings to overcome divine and earthly obstacles and to control his own impulsive na...
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| Other title: | Brian E. Lebowitz Collection of 20th Century Jewish American Literature. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Donor: | Lebowitz copy gift of Brian E. Lebowitz. |
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New York :
Free Press,
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st Free Press hardcover ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The sea of stories
- The paradox of return
- Waiting
- Speak your grief
- False stories
- Leaving home
- A mentor's path to enlightenment
- Practice with the body
- Working with disaster, pleasure, and time
- The lotus eaters : remembering to practice
- Being nobody
- Fatigue
- Circe, or desire
- The land of the dead
- The siren call
- Impossible choices : Scylla and Charybdis
- Sleep
- Reveal yourself
- Love's risk
- On the threshold
- Laertes, or forgiveness
- Peace.