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William George Jordan 19.yy sonlarında yaşamış Amerikalı bir düşünür ve yazar .Özellikle karakter eğitimi, içsel huzur üzerine kitaplar yazmış. Hayatı boyunca insanın ruhsal olgunluğu kadar toplumsal adaleti de duyarlı bir Düşünsel çaba içinde olmuş eserleri halen bizlere yol gösterici olan bir yazar.
@ensokitap tarafından tekrar basılmış bu kitap .
William George Jordan’ın “Sakinliğin Görkemi” (İng. The Majesty of Calmness) kitabı, aslında bir kişisel gelişim klasiği sayılabilecek türden, kısa ama yoğun bir eser. Jordan 19. yüzyılın sonlarında yazmasına rağmen, verdiği öğütler günümüzde de geçerliliğini koruyor.
Jordan’a göre sakinlik, bir insanın en büyük gücü ve en görkemli erdemidir. Öfke, telaş, acelecilik ve endişe; hem zihni hem de karakteri yıpratır. Oysa sakinlik; kararlılık, özgüven ve hayatı daha bilinçli yaşama becerisidir. Ona göre insan, başarıya ve mutluluğa giden yolda en çok “iç huzuruna” muhtaçtır.
Sakinlik = Güç: Gürültülü, telaşlı ya da hırçın olmak güç değil; aksine zayıflığın işaretidir. Gerçek güç, olaylar karşısında dengeli kalabilmektir. İnsan önce kendi duygularını, tepkilerini, düşüncelerini kontrol etmeyi öğrenmeli.
İş hayatında ya da özel hayatta gerçek başarı, sakinliğin getirdiği berrak zihinle mümkündür.
Jordan, zekâdan çok karakteri ön plana çıkarır. Ona göre güvenilir, sabırlı ve sakin bir kişi olmak, zekâdan daha değerli.
Çok yalın bir dille yazılmış, kısa ama yoğun bir metin ..
Özellikle günümüzün hızlı, kaotik dünyasında “yavaşlamayı "öğütler kitap .
Denemeye çalışacağım ben decartik hayatımı sakinleştirmek istiyorum artık ..
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Sakinliğin Görkemi 
William George Jordan
Sakinliğin Görkemi William George Jordan
4/5 Stars (%77/100)
It was a really good collection of poems and this is the first time I'm properly meeting Neruda. I've heard so much about him and I can see why people like him so much. Even though I enjoyed listening to his poems (thanks to the narrator as well), I realized, after finishing it, that I don't really remember the names of the poems. If I already know the poet and their work, then the audiobook is more enjoyable for me. Since this is my first time with Neruda, I can't seem to remember anything, only the feeling of joy and calmness. I guess I'll have to get a physical copy of his poems. Still, I would recommend this audiobook to other people, especially the love poems of Neruda.
In a net shell, a very emotional novel by amazing author.
This book can be named as an autobiography of first and last love of Kahlil Gibran the great philosopher who met a girl named Selma Keremy at Beirut, Lebanon. This was love at first sight. Selma is a young beautiful girl as a picture of Beirut who is as still as a Pond, as deep as an Ocean, as lively as Life. It is filled with friendship, love, power struggle and pain and suffering that comes along with any human relationship.
I consider it to be a very personal book by Gibran. As he says, "I was eighteen years of age when love opened my eyes with its magic rays and touched my spirit for the first time with its fiery fingers and Selma Karamy was the first woman who awakened my spirit with her beauty and led me into the garden of high affection, where days pass like dreams and nights like weddings."
It starts when Kahlil goes to Lebanon for an outing and meets his father's old pal Farris Effandi Keremy. Farris is quite old age and very gentle and kind and has lost his wife when Selma was in her adolescent stage. He invites Kahlil to his house. One evening Kahlil goes there and meets a beautiful girl Selma who is Farris's daughter.
Selma is as gentle and kind as her father. Bishop Bulos Galib is a powerful man in the local society who controls the locales as he wishes. For name sake he is a Bishop but he is a very cunning and wrong doing person. He has a nephew, Mansour Bey Galib, living with him and following his footsteps. Infact Mansour is one step ahead than his uncle. He enjoys wine, girls and all evil doings of the society. Kahlil got stuck to Selma's beauty and calmness and it is "love at first sight".
One evening when Kahlil is sitting at Farris's house, Bishop's man comes to take away Farris as Bishop
