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Stephen Mitchell



Stephen Mitchell is a renowned American translator, anthologist, and poet. He has translated the go-to editions of religious and literary works such as the Tao Te Ching, the Bhagavad Gita, Gilgamesh, the Gospels, the selected works of Rainer Maria Rilke, and Beowulf. Mitchell coauthors works on mindfulness meditation for self-healing with his wife, Byron Katie.

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Books of the Times: The Book of Job

It is one of the paradoxes of Job that the hero, on the strength of the original legend, should have become a byword for patience, whereas in the biblical account he owes his grandeur to precisely the opposite quality, to an angry, anguished, sarcastic questioning of his fate.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen there’s no way out, you just follow the way in front of you.

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The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry

From Stephen Mitchell comes an anthology of poetry chosen from the world's great religious and literary traditions—the perfect companion to Mitchell's bestselling translation of Tao Te Ching.

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Loving What Is: Four Questions that Can Change Your Life

The Work is simply four questions that, when applied to a specific problem, enable you to see what is troubling you in an entirely different light. As Katie says, “It’s not the problem that causes our suffering; it’s our thinking about the problem.

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Joseph and the Way of Forgiveness: A Biblical Tale Retold

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.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhat may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character. Pride, if it doesn’t step over the line into arrogance, is simply an unprejudiced self-esteem.

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Will Yoga and Meditation Really Change My Life: Personal Stories from 25 of North America’s Leading Teachers

Stephen Cope asked 25 yoga and meditation teachers to share their “tales from the path”—their thoughts on how the long-term practice of yoga and meditation has changed their lives.

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Conversations on Compassion with Byron Katie and Stephen Mitchell

Step into an evening of radical self-inquiry with Byron Katie, as she launches her new book, A Mind at Home with Itself. As a surprise, Katie's husband and co-author of the new book, Stephen Mitchell, will help make this evening extra special by joining in on the conversation.

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The Enlightened Mind: An Anthology of Sacred Prose

A collection of prose--discourses, sermons, essays, and aphorisms--includes texts and authors such as the Hindu, Confucian, and Buddhist scriptures, Heraclitus and Plato, Chuang-tzu, Jesus, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Symeon the New Theologian, the Chinese Zen masters, and others.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhat we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

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