The Unruly Soul By: VampyItalian She is the calming of a summer storm. She picks up her sword swinging it at every obstacle that comes before her. She may get knocked down once or twice, but she gets back up to begin her fight. She’s as strong as mother nature intended her to be. She may be quiet, but she is also fierce. She’s not weak by any means. She’s poetic with words of love, The author has experienced grief and pain. She has bipolar, depression, and anxiety, and knows the struggle to survive each day can seem overwhelming. In The Unruly Soul, she explores and confronts her pain and broken dreams, finding and celebrating occasional flashes of joy and love. In rich and vivid reflections, she writes about her battles with the inner demons of depression and anger, as well as the fight to feel heard and understood. Smalls rays of light from her family and pets give her enough strength and hope to continue. Intimate and universal, filled with powerful imagery, The Unruly Soul is brave exploration of mental illness.

This volume explores the tremendous influence of Plato’s Phaedrus on the philosophical, religious, scientific and literary discussions in the West. Ranging from Plato’s first readers, over the Church Fathers and the Platonic commentators, to Byzantine and Renaissance thinkers, the papers collected here introduce the reader to the first two millennia of the dialogue’s reception history. Thirteen contributions by both junior and established scholars study the engagement with the Phaedrus by such major figures as Aristotle, Galen, Origen, Clemens of Alexandria, Plotinus, Augustine, Proclus, Psellus, Ficino, Erasmus, and many others. Together, they cover the wide range of topics discussed in the dialogue: the value of myth and allegory, religion and theology, love and beauty, the soul and its immortality, teaching and learning, metaphysics and epistemology, rhetoric and dialectic, as well as the role and the limits of writing. By placing the dialogue in this broad perspective, the volume will appeal to readers interested in the Phaedrus itself, as well as to classicists, literary theorists, and historians of philosophy, science and religion concerned with the dialogue’s reception history and its main protagonists.

"St. John of the Cross lived a monastic and ascetic life, believing this was the best way to combat the evils of the world, the flesh, and the Devil, and to focus on God alone. The Ascent of Mount Carmel, which he began composing after his escape from prison, is the story of the loneliness and suffering of the soul before its reunion with God. Included in this volume is not only the relatively brief poem only eight stanzas long but the poet s own stanza-by-stanza, line-by-line, and verse-by-verse deconstruction as well. Divided into three books (and a grand total of 91 chapters), The Ascent of Mount Carmel also contains footnotes to verses of scripture referred to in the poem. Spanish mystic and poet ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS (1542 1591) played a major role in the Catholic Reformation of the 16th century, and produced several renowned writings, including his Spiritual Canticle, The Dark Night of the Soul, and Sayings of Love and Peace."

The Catholic Church bases its faith on the Holy Scriptures and Holy Tradition. Catholic dogma is presented in the Nicene Creed is detailed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Their canonical law is systematic and set out in the Code of Canon Law. The present book features 10 of the most famous works by outstanding Catholic writers, saints, hagiographers, and Doctors of the Church. Saint Aquinas Thomas The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition St. Francis De Sales An Introduction to the Devout Life Saint Louis De Montfort True Devotion to Mary: With Preparation for total Consecration Teresa of Avila Interior Castle St. John of the Cross Ascent Of Mount Carmel St. Catherine of Siena The Dialogue of St. Catherine of Siena Thomas a Kempis The Imitation of Christ Ignatius of Loyola The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola Brother Lawrence The Practice of the Presence of God Alban Butler The Lives of the Saints