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Author Fischer, Norman, 1946-

Title Sailing home : using the wisdom of Homer's Odyssey to navigate life's perils and pitfalls / Norman Fischer.

Publication Info. New York : Free Press, 2008.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  294.3 FISCHER    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  294.3444 FIS    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  294.3444 FISCHER    Check Shelf
Edition First Free Press hardcover edition.
Description x, 234 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-[235]).
Contents 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 -- 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 -- Sleep -- Reveal yourself -- Love's risk -- On the threshold -- Laertes, or forgiveness -- Peace.
Subject Homer. Odyssey.
Religious life -- Buddhism.
ISBN 9781416560210
1416560211
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