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  Can the Brain Free Itself From...

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

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  "Can the brain free itself from all self-delusion? - 11 October 1975 
  • Thought and the brain. 
  • Can the brain free itself from all self-delusion? 
  • Why has the self become important? 
  • Can there be only sensation, thought, and no desire? 
  • Can desire - which brings illusion, self-deception and all the complications of 
  changing desires – can the root of desire be dissipated? 
  • What prevents one from having a real insight? That is, seeing the truth of desire 
  and therefore end it. Is it that we have never asked this question? 
  • When there is no desire whatsoever then there is a total revolution, and that will 
  affect the consciousness of man. 
  • Is there a movement, an action that keeps the brain pure, uncontaminated?"

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  Women Without Kids - The...

  Anonyme

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  “The work Ruby is doing is liberating.”—Glennon Doyle, New York Times bestselling author of Untamed“A startling, confronting, and liberating treatise.” —Holly Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of Quit Like a WomanWhat is “woman” if not “mother”? Anything she wants to be.Foregoing motherhood has traditionally marked a woman as “other.” With no official place setting for her in our society, she has hovered on the sidelines: the quirky girl, the neurotic career obsessive, the “eccentric” aunt. Instead of continuing to paint women without kids as sad, self-obsessed, or somehow dysfunctional, what if we saw them as boldly forging a first-in-a-civilization vision for a fully autonomous womankind? Or as journalist and thought leader Ruby Warrington asks, What if being a woman without kids were in fact its own kind of legacy?Taking in themes from intergenerational healing to feminism to environmentalism, this personal look and anthropological dig into a stubbornly taboo topic is a timely and brave reframing of what it means not to be a mom. Our experiences and discourse around non-motherhood are central to women’s ongoing fight for gender equality. And whether we are childless by design or circumstance, we can live without regret, shame, or compromise.Bold and tenderhearted, Women Without Kids seeks first and foremost to help valorize a path that is the natural consequence of women having more say about the choices we make and how our lives play out. Within this, it unites the unsung sisterhood of non-mothers—no longer pariahs or misfits, but as a vital part of our evolution and collective healing as women, as humans, and as a global family.

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  Wu - The Chinese Empress Who...

  Jonathan Clements

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  Empress Wu Zetian (624-705 AD) was the only woman to be the sovereign ruler of imperial China. A teenage concubine of the Tang Emperor Taizong, she seduced his son while the emperor lay dying. Recalled from a nunnery as part of an intricate court power-game, she caused the deaths of two lady rivals, before securing her enthronement as the Emperor Gaozong's consort. She ruled in the name of her husband and two eldest sons, presiding over the pinnacle of the Silk Road, before proclaiming herself the founder of a new dynasty. Worshipped as the Sage Mother of Mankind and reviled as the Treacherous Fox, she was deposed aged 79, after angry courtiers murdered her two young lovers. The subject of countless books, plays, and films, Empress Wu remains a feminist icon and a bugbear of Chinese conservatism. Jonathan Clements weighs the evidence of her life and legacy: so charismatic that she could rise from nothing to the height of medieval power, so hated that her own children left her tombstone blank.

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  Conversational French Dialogues...

  Language Mastery

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  FINALLY—SPEAK REAL FRENCH WITH CONFIDENCE (WITHOUT BORING GRAMMAR DRILLS OR EXPENSIVE CLASSES) 
  Tired of French courses that promise fluency but leave you fumbling over basic conversations? 
  Want to actually understand French speakers—not just memorize phrases you'll forget tomorrow? 
  Here's the problem: Most French courses bury you in grammar rules and robotic repetition that make learning feel like torture. No wonder you quit after a week. 
  But there's a better way. 
  Scientists have proven it: You learn languages fastest through immersion and storytelling—the exact way you learned English as a child. That's why "Conversational French Dialogues" by Language Mastery works when traditional methods fail. 
  What makes this audiobook different: 
  ✓ 100+ real-world dialogues recorded by native French speakers—authentic conversations you'll actually hear in Paris, Montreal, or Lyon 
  ✓ Two-speed audio tracks: Start slow to catch every syllable, then graduate to natural speaking pace as your brain adapts 
  ✓ Story-based learning that keeps you hooked—you'll absorb vocabulary and grammar naturally without realizing you're studying 
  ✓ Curated vocabulary lists highlighting the most useful words for everyday situations 
  The result? In less than 30 days, you'll: 
  - Navigate French conversations with newfound confidence 
  - Understand native speakers without constantly asking "Comment?" 
  - Build vocabulary that sticks (learned through context, not flashcards) 
  No textbooks. No endless drills. No frustration. 
  Just press play, immerse yourself in compelling French stories, and watch your skills transform. 
  Your French breakthrough is waiting. Grab your audiobook now and start speaking avec confiance!

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  State of the Union 1986

  Ronald Reagan

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  The 1986 State of the Union Address delivered February 4, 1986, was delayed following the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster which killed its seven crew members. Reagan reports the U.S. is the economic miracle to which the world once again turns, with record economic growth and inflation cut from over 12 to under 4 percent.  
  But the federal budget system is broken. “We do not face large deficits because American families are undertaxed; we face those deficits because the Federal Government overspends.” “We must proceed with Grace commission reforms against waste.” Tax cuts have done more to “help America's economy break free than any program since John Kennedy's tax cut almost a quarter century ago.” 
  We “must redouble our efforts for freer and fairer trade.” We oppose legislation touted as providing protection that raises prices for us all.  
  We see a renaissance in education and support “vouchers that give parents freedom of choice”. Hundreds of billions of dollars in poverty programs have led to a breakdown of the family and deteriorating schools. As Franklin Roosevelt said, “Welfare is a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit.” Welfare “should be judged by how many of its recipients become independent of welfare.” 
  Reagan sees technology as the solution to “the greatest problem of the 20th century. A security shield can one day render nuclear weapons obsolete and free mankind from the prison of nuclear terror.”  
  “The American dream is a song of hope… to discover a new universe inside a tiny silicon chip or a single human cell.” “So, let us go forward to create our world of tomorrow in faith, in unity, and in love. God bless you, and God bless America.” 
  Audio recording courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. 
  AspenLeafMedia.com

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  Transcendence and Liberation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and his ideology was disseminated through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. 
   
  Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay "Nature". Following this work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence." 
   
  Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first and then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays, Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series, represent the core of his thinking. They include the well-known essays "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul", "Circles", "The Poet", and "Experience." Together with "Nature", these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period. Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for mankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world. Emerson's "nature" was more philosophical than naturalistic: "Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul." Emerson is one of several figures who "took a more pantheist or pandeist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world."

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