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Ancient Wisdom for the Modern World
St. Louis, MO – Celebrate the marriage of King Solomon’s Book
of Proverbs and Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa in Proverbial Beauty:
Secrets for Success and Happiness from the Wisdom of the Ages.
Follow this guided tour beneath the
surface of the world we live in through the lens of news stories, scientific
discoveries, the natural world, folktales, and historical vignettes – all woven
together in a lyrical medley of the human experience and the collected wisdom
of 3000 years. Learn how to
gain clarity through times of darkness and confusion, develop attitudes that
deepen relationships, decrease cynicism, and find joy in the daily miracles
that fill our lives.
Researchers
cannot explain why people, when blindfolded, are unable to travel in a straight
line; but what does it tell us about ourselves that our nature inclines us to
wander in circles? What does NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s plan for “congestion
pricing” to ease traffic reveal about the way we make decisions? What can
fig harvesting, migraine headaches, and two Miss America titleholders teach us
about the underpinnings of emotional well-being? The answers are here.
Yonason Goldson, author of
three books and over 200 articles, took the long road to the rabbinate,
graduating the University of California with a degree in English Literature,
circumnavigating the globe, hitchhiking across the United States, and
backpacking across Europe before he settled into nine years of talmudic
scholarship in the Land of Israel. He and his wife now live in St. Louis,
MO, where he teaches, writes, and lectures to a variety of audiences on contemporary issues, inspiration, education,
childraising, history, philosophy, spirituality, and self-awareness.
Visit him
at yonasongoldson.com.
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