Hearts Books

The title of this book, 'Awakening the Mind, Lightening the Heart' is, in essence, the core topic of this book. This book is entirely dedicated on teaching us how to awaken our minds and lighten our hearts.

His Holiness's eloquence and understanding of compassion are great and vast as an ocean. I realized this while reading the book. It took me over two months' time to get to page 30, because I was determined on completely understanding and grasping the meanings of each page before I moved onto the next. I was also determined to apply each page's teachings into my life before I'd move onto the next. How wrong I was to think I would finish this book in a timely fashion.

I would read a few pages, then set the book aside and contemplate on the teachings. I'd carry His Holiness's words in my heart and my mind as I went about my day's events. I'd go back to read the book, thinking I'd pick up where I left off. While skimming through the pages I had already read, I'd stop and notice that I realized something about a paragraph. How curious, I had already read it, but suddenly it was as if I were reading it again with fresh eyes, and I'd learn yet something else. Doing this again and again, it took me two months before finishing page 30. Then I'd look back on the past few months and realize I had basically changed into a much more patient and caring person.

I started on this book a long while back, and I'm still discovering and rediscovering truths and revelations in His Holiness's simple words.

The reason I provided the small anecdote is because this book can last you a lifetime if you apply His Holiness's teachings into your life. There is a lifetime's worth of lessons to be learned from the seemingly simple exterior of his teachings.

This book basically starts us at the basics and teaches us the fundamentals of Buddhism. What is suffering? What is the cause of suffering? How do we overcome suffering? The Dalai Lama goes over the Four Noble Truths and the Three Poisons (ignorance, greed, hatred) in such a friendly, warm, simple and engaging manner that we can't help but sit there and listen. I felt as if I were a preschooler listening to my favorite teacher while reading this book, and truly, when reading this book with an open, receptive mind, you'll feel as if you're re-learning all the basics about everything. It's as if we've walked all our lives in a manner that has caused us to trip and fall constantly, and here His Holiness is giving us a guide that teaches us why we were walking incorrectly, why our previous way of walking would cause us to fall, and finally, how to practice walking correctly in a manner that won't cause us to fall and hurt ourselves.

Usually, I review books and items pretty harshly. I'll point out descrepancies, things I didn't like, etc. I'm at a loss with this book. I've been a Buddhist for my entire life and after reading this book, I realized just how far from understanding I was. Don't be fooled by the deceptive simplicity of this book. It's one thing to read something and understand it, but in trying to apply it, this book will provide a lifetime's worth of lessons, knowledge, and understanding. It's as if the closer you come to accepting what the Dalai Lama always teaches -- compassion -- the more understanding you gain from the book that perhaps you never saw there before.

This is a book, I feel, that anybody can read. All it does is offer insight into suffering, what causes us to suffer, and how we overcome suffering. It's not about His Holiness preaching on and on about the Dharma. It's about him taking the best of the Dharma and bringing it to you in a very reader-friendly format, coupled with his own explanations.

I couldn't think of anything better.

I have been reading the book each day,it has become so well worn I decided to buy another.The concise step-by-step information appealed to me. The book is well written, illustrating a clear path to enlightenment through wisdom and compassion. The simple steps guide the reader to an easy understanding of the peace and beauty of a compassionate life. I was drawn to discovering more about Tibetan Buddhism after reading "some of the dharma" by Jack Kerouac. In contrast, this book by the Dalai Lama compelling in its advice about the importance of disciplining the mind. Kerouac struggled with these issues, and may have found some measure of comfort had he had this book available to him.

The teachings and the wisdom written by His Holiness is incredible. I regret not knowing his teachings during childhood. The book is an easy read and quite powerful. I shall meditate each day in hopes of following His teachings. I have passed it along to a good friend and am looking forward to reading it again.

Core Teachings of Tibetan Buddhism. I can't recommend this series high enough.

This was my daughter's first book. I bought it before she was born, and we started reading it together around 2-3 months. It was her #1 favorite until she discovered Spot "lift the flap" books at age 9 months. It is still one of her favorites: she loves lifting the flaps, loves the animals, and it is the right length for a baby's attention span. When my daughter has a babysitter, this is the book she picks for them to read to her (and she has tons of books). Since the message is so sweet and very heartwarming for a mom to read to her baby, it is rewarding that my baby loves this book as much as I do! It would make a great shower gift or gift for an adopted child. I am sure this book will grow with my daughter, and when she is older she will understand the animal puns and plays on words. Buy it!

I was also looking for a soft book that my baby (7 months) could look at all by himself or we could read together. This one is perfect. Very soft, brightly colored and has flaps to play peekaboo. Really keeps his attention.

My baby is almost 6 months old and in a desperate search for books that I can read to him and he can chew on, I came across this lovely cloth book at Borders. It wasn't that attractive sitting on the shelf but when I opened each page and lifted the cloth flap, the words were so cute and touching for a new mom like me that I decided to buy it right away. This book is simple, with bold colors and nice textures. I can't wait to show it to my baby and hear his giggles!

I bought 2 Messages from the Heart cloth baby books for a shower and they was a huge hit! people keep oohing and ahhing over the cute messages iside. They are very high-quality and feel so soft and snuggly, unlike a lot of other cloth books out there. There are different touch-and-feel fabrics inside. BABY LOVE book opens into a crib bumper that spells out "LOVE." MY BLANKET opens into a patchwork quilts with hearts. Overall, these are the greatest baby gifts, equally perfect for boys and girls.

There are a lot of books that have been written by folk with little practical experience of qigong or knowledge of the fact that it is a comprehensive way of leading your life, rather than just a set of breathing exercises and meditations.

It is clear from the very beginning that this is someone who "walks the talk." Not only does it ring true, but there is also something else that speaks to the authenticity of the book: I was taught many of the exercises by a qigong Master in Nanjing, China, in 1991. And to my knowledge, they have never been published anywhere else.

The book is a fascinating narrative, as well as a set of practices. It does not attempt to provide details of some of the very interesting research that is being done into qigong, so it will not convince a sceptic. Unless he or she will give it a try!

Enjoyable and empowering!

If you've stumbled across this book while doing a search, consider it no accident. As there is apparently no big marketing push to thrust this book upon you, it seems to simply be awaiting one's readiness to receive it before making itself known. In "Beautiful Heart, Beautiful Spirit" Katherine Orr has distilled the basic principles of a modern master's teachings of Wudang Qigong and conveyed them with lucid simplicity. I found something very fresh and sincere being communicated here - there was no sprinkling of over-used quotes and aphorisms of past sages; Orr's communication of Master Qing Chuan Wang's teachings stands on its own and flowed seamlessly. She covered a lot of ground, weaving a story of Wudang Qigong - a bit of its historical roots in China as it relates to this master's lifework, its philosophical principles, its scientific and medical aspects, its powerful potential to heal and transform, as well as the practical aspects of how to get started incorporating it into one's life.

Finally someone has communicated, in terms we can understand, - and literally FEEL - how to connect with this seemingly mysterious force called "qi" (pronounced "chee" - life force energy) and how to establish a life-long relationship with it through a gentle daily practice. While there is much to read about and reflect on in content, what this book does so well, with each chapter, is paint a picture of what "qi" is and what it feels like through the sensitivity of this master. Beyond any visual image or mental concept that might be conjured up, this picture is a feeling - the very essence of something subtle yet powerful, something ever-changing, vibrant and alive - as life itself. This is not a picture easily painted but Katherine Orr does it with grace - her writing the very embodiment of this art form itself.

Yes, the easy-to-follow movements in the book are pleasurable and centering (and even easier to follow with the companion DVD), however, what I found most profound about the practices - which are like fluid moving meditations - is their ability to take me beyond mind, to both calm and lift the spirit, to transport and transform. There are so many wonderful and powerful truths presented in this book - read it, experience it for yourself and you will feel yourself tapping in to qi - and to a whole "new," yet ever-present, reality.

The book is well organized and offers practical information for someone trying to begin or enhance practice. I did not experience any of this text as esoteric. The exercise instruction is very clear. In the exercise section, the pictures are simple and amazingly instructive. After reading this book, I felt confident I had learned a valuable practice. Put another way, I was not confused, overwhelmed, or left wondering. This book is well worth its cost, indeed worth more.

Engagingly written. A good read of a personal story. The book
is packed with information for beginners and long time students. I highly recommend this book

Meredith Greenleaf, President of Sedona Women. Sedona, Arizona

I thought this was a powerful book. The characters were developed well.

Mallory Burgess' fourth novel of the Faurer family is passionate, surprising and moves at a fast pace. I was hard pressed to determine what came next. The historical context was amazing, set against the events surrounding Bonnie Prince Charlie's attempt to reclaim the Scottish throne.

This is the first Mallory Burgess novel I've read but it's only the beginning. I plan to read the other books that precede "Beloved Heart" as soon as I can. The characters are multi-dimensional and wonderful. The coverage of historical events was handled with great care and in just the right amount of depth. I highly recommend this book.

BELOVED HEART is a wonderful completion to the saga of the family of Michel Faurer and Madeleine de Courtnay first told in Ms.Burgess's BELOVED KNIGHT. BELOVED KNIGHT, the first in the trilogy, sets the stage for future books; set in a back drop complete with Templar Knight betrayal and the struggles of Robert Bruce's fight for Scotland's freedom. Next in the saga came the story of son, Rene and his struggle to capture the fiesty Cat Douglass, while struggling with a legacy his father left him. BELOVED HONOR is filled with page turning conflicts rich in anguish as both Rene and Cat find a way to to secure their love and Scotland's future. Lastly the third book in the triology is possibly the best of the first three books. This is the story of Anne Faurer, the daughter, who has her mother's beauty and her father's determination to fight for Scotland's cause. However, she loses her heart to the English Lord who now owns her parent's home. Yet their lives are interwoven as she races to save a brother she loves and possibly lose the only man she could ever call her BELOVED LORD. The ending of this last book leaves the reader wanting more and Ms Burgess doesn't leave her faithful readers hanging. However, she jumps the story up 400 years to another time in Scottish history where admist the turmoils of another fight for freedom, a love is born in the home that was built of Faurer love. BELOVED HEART is a cherished PS to the BELOVED saga. All four books are not to be missed by those who love a tale interwoven in a tapistry that reflects the rich details of Scotland's history where love for one's country is as important as love for each other. Mallory Burgess is one author not to be missed by serious historical romance readers.

I bought this for myself and was disappointed that I didn't buy it as a Christmas gift for many on my list. I use it all the time to keep recipes I find or special family recipes. It also includes helpful hints and conversions. This is a well-used addition to my cookbook collection, and it happens to be home to many of my favorites!

I love this Recipe Keeper binder with recipes on the thick, glossy dividers. I found it easy to print recipes on my computer printer using the colorful empty pages included in this book. The dividers have pockets to store recipes on cards or those torn from magazines and newspapers. I recommend this book for cooks of all ages.

I recieved this as a wedding gift from my mother. I love it so much because it catorizes recipes and has additional sheets to keep your own recipes. It's good for newlyweds because i was able to have my future mother in law add all recipes she makes for my fiance, my mother added all the recipes she makes for our family, and others write down some favorites. It's one of my favorite things in my new kitchen.

This is a great book - got it to fill with my daughter's favorite family recipes as a Christmas Gift - she's just starting out on her own! But I dont know where to find refill pages...

i just got finished reading beyond the pale and it is an awsome end to an awsome series of books... the action is great.. the feeling is great.. the end is the best. Anyone who likes shadowrun will love all 3 of these... i hope to see ryan and these other characters in future shadowrun books.. even if they aren't the main ones.

Beyond the Pale (the third and last book of the dragon heart saga) is one of the best books I ever read!

Assets. Inc. really knows how to capture your attention, this is a must read, though I suggest reading books 1 and 2 first.

This third and final book in the Dragon Heart trilogy ties up all the loose ends left in the previous two books. The trilogy itself blended into the Shadowrun universe beautifully, and gave those creative enough to use it lots of background information. The ending wan't quite what I expected, but that's a good thing. I would recommend all of these books to a friend.

"Susan Ballard gets it right and Borrowed Time is a hoot and a half."
--Bob Boze Bell
Executive Editor, True West magazine

One of the best books I've read in ages! Most books I've read on the old west are generally written more about the Earp family and their story with John "Doc" Holliday as a side character. This book really focuses on Doc's life and humanizes him in a way I've never seen before. He was more than just a gunslinger and gambler. He was a man tormented by the fact that he had a deadly disease, and lived his life like everyday might be his last. The story is so well written that you find yourself engulfed in it and the characters. The friendship between Doc and Wyatt Earp is so real and so natural, it's almost like you know them personally. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone! A really fantastic read, I couldn't put it down! I'm really looking forward to the next book in the series!

Being a fan of all things Old West and in

particular "Doc" Holliday and the Earps, I decided

to pick up a copy of "Borrowed Time".



Almost instantly I found myself teleported back in

time to places rich in detail and atmosphere. From

the rolling plains to the bustling cowtowns, I could

clearly envision myself in these settings. The

descriptions were vivid as well as historically

accurate which as a student of the Old West I found

very satisfying. I could almost smell the smoke

filled saloons, or feel the cold wind blowing in

from the plains.



Doc Holliday, usually portrayed as a one

dimensional, almost abrasive character in books and

film was brought to life in Ballard's story as a

living, breathing, complicated man complete with

real emotions and a depth that's severely lacking in

most other characterizations. This not only applies

to Holliday but all of the other characters as well.

I particularly enjoyed the banter between Doc and

Wyatt, conversations that seemed as natural as any

you might have with a best friend. None of their

interactions seemed contrived or stiff.



The story telling, besides being richly

descriptive, also had an easy going style and a nice

flow, balanced nicely between dialog and action.



This was one of the few stories I've read, Western

or otherwise that I felt connected to the characters

and cared about them as well.



It was an engrossing novel I simply couldn't put

down. A winner for sure and honestly I can't wait to

read the second book in this series and anything

else that S.M. Ballard writes.



---J. Place

Winooski, Vermont

Borrowed Time, a novel by S.M. Ballard Reviewed by J.D. Harkleroad

Borrowed Time is S.M. Ballard's first in a trilogy about the life and times of John Henry "Doc" Holliday. Before I read this novel, my first thought was What more can be said about Doc Holliday than has already been said? Boy, was I wrong! Until now (with the notable exception of Val Kilmer's portrayal of Doc in the movie Tombstone), Holliday has only appeared as a shadowy appendage peripherally attached to Wyatt Earp's coat-tails. Ballard, however, brings Doc Holliday to life in his own right, fleshing the man out while revealing little-known layers of his life. The reader feels as if he is observing first-hand Holliday's transformation from his genteel, cultured background as Dr. John Henry Holliday to the hot-tempered gunman/alcoholic who came to be known as "Doc" Holliday.

Ballard has thoroughly researched her subject and it shows. The Tombstone Times, Arizona's History and Information Journal, has published numerous non-fiction articles by Ballard, many of them about Doc Holliday. The character so engrossed her that the concept for a Holliday trilogy was born.

Borrowed Time is not another "shoot-em-up-Tony." While action abounds in this novel, two other story-lines run parallel to the main plot. One illuminates Doc's interpersonal relationships: his abiding friendship with Wyatt Earp; his love/hate relationship with "Big Nose Kate" (Fisher) Elder who, by the way, did not have a big nose; his antagonistic relationships with both Bat Masterson and Wyatt's brother Virgil. The other story-line revolves around Holliday's struggle to live as normal a life as possible while dealing with an illness that, in that time period, proved fatal more often than not. The reader, however, gets so caught up in the Doc Holliday character that, even knowing how the trilogy will ultimately end (we all die sometime) is in no way a deterrent.

Borrowed Time is a great read that will appeal to both men and women, and I'm eagerly looking forward to Holliday in Tombstone, the second in Ballard's trilogy due out in 2008.

This book is very easy to read. It boils things down, but it is not simplistic. It incisively refutes the theoretical underpinnings of biopsychiatry, including the flawed and mis-stated studies which purport to show that "mental illness" is inherited, the simplistic and virtually unsupported chemical imbalance theories of "mental illness," and the myths and hype surrounding psychiatric drugs.

Colbert's own view of the causes and cures of "mental illness" is just one way of stating a general truth, but it zeroes in on the reality of what "mental illness" and its "cures" are all about. As he states at pages 116 and 117:

"1. We all hurt each other at times, both unintentionally and intentionally.
2.We all need others to heal those hurts.
3. We all deny to some extent how we hurt others, and how we need others to heal our hurts.

People create exotic theories about the causes of strange behavior and emotional disorders, because it's too uncomfortaable to admit our basic human need for each other, and because we don't like to face the fact that we can hurt and be hurt by our fellow humans....Let's not hide any longer behind our fancy theories and our often abusive cures. Let's learn what it takes to attend to and heal wounded hearts."

This may sound like wishful thinking, but Colbert makes plain that the real wishful thinking is done by biopshciatry, an edifice of mutually supporting empirical and logical errors, held together mainly by its adherents' own determination to be convinced of thier own preconceptions.

I have read twenty-five books on this subject, most more technical than this one. The beauty of this book is that it accurately conveys the essence of a technical subject without itself being technical.

Noticing than when he paid attention to the emotional pain that existed alongside a client's behaviour, the client's symptoms of paranoia disappeared, psychologist Ty Colbert realised that her behaviour was not "dysfunctional" but functioning quite effectively to protect her inner woundedness.

This contrasted strongly with proponents of the biopsychiatry who present models of supposed biological-defect or chemical-imbalance. They sound quite convincing until Dr Colbert looked deeper into the actual research and found the claims to be very weak indeed. Meanwhile, the list of so-called "mental disorders" keeps increasing as does the medication of them. In this model, pain is denied, symptoms surface, but are seen as the product of a defect and are suppressed medically.

Over 15 years he developed the "Emotional Pain Model" detailed in Broken Brains or Wounded Hearts - What Causes Mental Illness (Kevco, 1999). It represents a desire to take the mystery out of mental illness and provide a clear path for the future, allowing the reader to develop a proper understanding of any and all emotionally troubling conditions.

Dr Colbert proposes a three-phase model for eliminating emotional disorders and developing emotionally healthy children: People are taught to ientify feelings and resolve conflicts; Symptoms are seen as indicators of an overload of emotional pain; Non-medical, non-abusive healing environments are developed.

This book is an important contribution, validating an approach to therapy that is truly and wholly healing. As he says, "To see emotional disorders as diseases to be drugged is to hide from our own pain, as well as the pain of the afflicted .... The more we see and understand their pain, the more we will be able to see our own pain and become unafraid to reach out."

This book opened a new life for us. A close relative has suffered two years with schizo affective illness (between schizophrenia and bipolar). He's tried medications that disabled his brain to such an extent he couldn't function creatively or even normally, hospitals that take all control from the ill individual, and psychiatrists who see you for 10 minutes and prescribe a new medication. He's now in a clinic that uses no medication, probing the emotional-spiritual crisis that brought on all these symptoms of mental illness. this book explains these two radically different ways of looking at mental illness and opens a path to real healing and a productive normal life. He's in charge of his life now because of Ty Colbert's insight into the "wounded heart." His brain isn't broken at all; he's beginning to understand the crisis that drove him. A "10" rating isn't high enough.

I am Dr. Colbert's former patient.I am a paraplegic,with a condition called Spina bifida.I have had MAJOR depression since second grade(when other kids discovered I was different, and, started making fun of me because of it)!!!Until I met Dr. Colbert,(and, read his book) I thought it was because there was something wrong with me!!! At that age , your subconscious mind does most of the work(since the concious is still developing).The subconscious mind does not have the ability to reason. It is just a computer. whatever gets in to the subconscious you will act upon as it it is the truth!!!If you put garbage into a computer, you get garbage out!!!Dr. colbert taught me this! THE MAN IS A GENIUS!!! If it weren't for him, I doubt I would still be here!!!I most likely owe him my life!!!

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Dear sir, I find very interesing to go through your book everytime I read this book. very helpful textbook for cardiac anesthesia

I think this book is wonderful. It is probably the best source for information on anesthesia management of congenital heart diseases, perioperative management of ischemia and ventricular failure.It is a 1999 edition, so there are a few points which need to be updated in view of recent advances in both drugs and surgical procedures, but I would still recommend this book to all the prospective cardiac anesthesiologists.

The interesting thing about this book is that it is read by everyone in the field of cardiac anesthesia. When discussing a subject, many people refer to what is written in this book, so you really need it! The book is easy to use because of the clear language and the modest amount of information on a subject.

this is the bible of EP
you MUST have every edition of it

This is probably the best reference work in this area, of what's available in print, book format.

Exellent review of the current concepts of electrophysiology.

From Ion channels in the molecular Genetics of the arrhythmia to the moment you push a patients face in a bucket of ice to convert them, good stuff. So little is still known about AvNode Rentrant tachycardia, Atrial flutter, classic WPW, etc. that it's highly refreshing to see a text like this. We know about Long QT syndrome and the specific genes responsible for this, mostly, and now the ones that have been identified for WPW, but there is so much more to understand. Did the open heart cryoblations hold fast, years later? What are the lasting effects of radiofrequency ablations? We are still experimental in our understanding, yet so advanced. Pacemakers, ICD's, and proper conversion methods for each arrhythmia, the dreaded Adenocard, etc. so much to do and learn, still.