Stephen Mitchell
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
""Stephen Mitchell's gift is to breathe new life into ancient classics. In Joseph and the Way of Forgiveness, he offers us his riveting novelistic version of the Biblical tale in which Jacob's favorite son is sold into slavery and eventually becomes viceroy of Egypt. Tolstoy called it the most beautiful story in the world. What's new here is the lyrical, witty, vivid prose, informed by a wisdom that brings fresh insight to this foundational legend...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In The First Christmas, Stephen Mitchell brings the Nativity story to vivid life as never before. A narrative that is only sketched out in two Gospels becomes fully realized here with nuanced characters and a setting that reflects the culture of the time. Mitchell has suffused the birth of Jesus with a sense of beauty that will delight and astonish readers. In this version, we see the world through the eyes of a Whitmanesque ox and a visionary donkey,...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In A Mind at Home with Itself, Byron Katie illuminates one of the most profound ancient Buddhist texts, The Diamond Sutra (newly translated in these pages by distinguished scholar Stephen Mitchell) to reveal the nature of the mind and to liberate us from painful thoughts, using her revolutionary system of self-inquiry called 'The Work.' Byron Katie doesn't merely describe the awakened mind; she empowers us to see it and feel it in action. At once...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Decode the 13 conflicts that derail many couples' communication after kids -- like what you're really saying when you fight about discipline or diapers, and how to work through tough issues together -- from popular Instagram counselors Erin Mitchell, MACP, and Stephen Mitchell, PhD"--
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
It is the story of literature's first hero, an historical king of Uruk in Babylonia, and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole city and that wisdom can be found only when the quest for it is abandoned.
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In 2002, with the publication of Loving What Is, Random House introduced the world to Byron Katie and The Work. Nearly twenty years later, Loving What Is continues to inspire people across the globe to investigate their stressful thoughts, listen to the answers they find inside themselves; and open their minds to profound, spacious, and life-transforming insights. The Work is simply four questions that, when applied to a specific problem, enable...