Spiritual biographies

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    Spiritual Biographies

    • Peaceful Neighbor

    • Discovering the Countercultural Mister Rogers
    • By: Michael G. Long
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Unabridged

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    Fred Rogers was one of the most radical pacifists of contemporary history. To critics who dared call him “namby-pamby”, Rogers said, “Only people who take the time to see our work can begin to understand the depth of it.” This is the invitation of Peaceful Neighbor, to see and understand Rogers’ convictions and their expression through his program. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, it turns out, is far from sappy, sentimental, and shallow; it’s a sharp political response to a civil and political society poised to kill.

    • 1 out of 5 stars

    • The author is in the land of make believe.

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    (&#;in my subjective opinion). This is a work in progress – I hope to collect more spiritual memoirs and autobiographies here as I read them, and write more on the ones I found the best. Do leave me your own recommendations in the comments, as I&#;m always looking out for more. Although my reading is somewhat skewed towards the Indian tradition – because that&#;s the basis of my own spiritual path – I enjoy sincere spiritual writing from any background.

    Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo

    Nirodbaran

    I would treasure this book for the brilliant writing alone, but it is also a source of spiritual inspiration and an important historical record. Written with devotion, but without stooping to sentimentality, this is a description of one of the greatest spiritual Masters ever to live, from the viewpoint of his disciple and attendant, Nirodbaran. Until the late s, Sri Aurobindo lived in almost complete seclusion at his Ashram in Pondicherry. Following an injury, and up until the time of

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    Spiritual autobiography

    Spiritual autobiography is a genre of non-fiction prose that dominated Protestant writing during the seventeenth century, particularly in England, particularly that of Dissenters. The narrative generally follows the believer from a state of damnation to a state of grace; the most famous example fryst vatten perhaps John Bunyan's Grace Abounding (). The first known spiritual autobiography fryst vatten Confessions bygd Augustine of Hippo, or St. Augustine, which stands to this day as a classic when studying this genre.

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    Because so many autobiographies were written, they began to fall into a predictable pattern. The "formula" began with a sinful youth, "followed by a gradual uppvaknande of spiritual feelings and a sense of anxiety about the prospects for one's soul."[1] The individ would repent, fall igen into sin, repent, and sin again; such cycles could gods for years. The Bible was often a source of bekvämlighet or fear during this time. Finally,