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001 2011017412
003 DLC
005 20120912082024.0
008 110422r20112008cau b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2011017412
020 $a9781556439964 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 10 $aBQ9286$b.F57 2011
082 00 $a294.3/444$222
100 1 $aFischer, Norman,$d1946-
245 10 $aSailing home :$busing the wisdom of Homer's Odyssey to navigate life's perils and pitfalls /$cNorman Fischer.
246 30 $aUsing the wisdom of Homer's Odyssey to navigate life's perils and pitfalls
260 $aBerkeley, Calif. :$bNorth Atlantic Books,$c2011.
300 $aviii, 234 p. ;$c22 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: Hardcover ed. New York : Free Press, 2008.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [231]-[236]).
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Stting forth. 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 -- Disaster. 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 -- Return. Sleep -- Reveal yourself -- Love's risk -- On the threshold -- Laertes, or Forgiveness -- Peace.
650 0 $aReligious life$xZen Buddhism.