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From which do we come? Who are we? Where do we go? Sometimes with these questions which the men had to very early put, well before the invention of arts and the writing, the myths give answers surprising or disconcerting, but which constituted during centuries the creed of the ancient people. These myths describe the origin and the end of the world. They trace or outline the thousand and difficult ways which make it possible to reach immortality. They say it why and it how of what exists in the world, of discovered fire to the music and poetry, of Sumer in Scandinavia and India in Ireland.

What is this, will say to me you, which a true traveller? That which, in each traversed country, by the only meeting of the others and the lapse of memory necessary of itself, starts again its birth there. Jacques Lacarrière is not satisfied to reveal the world through his naked glance of walker: seasons, insects, animals, valleys, cliffs, locks, windmills, careers, churches, martyrdoms, dolmens and other treasures discovered during its course connecting the Vosges to Corbières. It also says the conversations with café owners, landlords, villager, guard-foresters and other inhabitants of these secret areas of France, which it has great pleasure to find after his many voyages in Greece and in the Middle East. Jacques Lacarrière, ideal frontier runner, invite his readers to an initiatory advance with the country of the knowledge of the beings and oneself. This author devoted the major part of his life to his love of the ways and the grecity. Translator of Greek (old and modern), it made known in France of large authors like Séféris and Vassilikos. The Greek Summer (1976) and making Way... (1977) are regarded as its traditional. -- Laure Anciel

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First works common of Sylvia Lipa and Jacques Lacarrière, this collection proposes a meeting and a rediscovery of the essential texts of Antiquity, selected above all for their resonance with our time. In through them, in Egypt, in Iran, in Mésopotamie, in Greece, in Rome and until in the field little known of the world gréco-Buddhist, the reader will be able to carry out a true pilgrimage with the sources of the thought and poetry antiques. Because even if they speak above all about their time, it is as with us as address these texts, in the depth of their words and the transparency of time "Between the moment which passes and the Beyond which lasts for ever", written Jacques Lacarrière, "is essential time present, alive, of the men. The only one which is worth to be listed. Before him, after him, there are only shades. In him only and its fragile duration, the savour of time and the light of the men reside ".

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King de Macédoine at twenty years, Alexandre conquers the Persian empire with twenty-five, a part of India with thirty, before dying in Babylon three years later. fulgurating clean to stimulate imaginations. Tougher than the history, the legend of Alexandre the Large one settled in the spirits, conveying not only the memory of reality, but as the marvellous one as it gave birth to. Jacques Lacarrière puts in scene the text written in Egypt at W century, included then in everyone medieval. He invites us to follow a history which proceeds with the way of a great initiatory account whose hero is not a king engaged in the military adventure, but a conqueror of the Absolute which, such Héraclès, Gilgamesh or Ulysses, tries to elucidate the world.

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A book which holds of the legend, the tale, the meditation and the work of historian. Indeed, the history of Yunus Emré, mystical soufi and poet wandering of Anatolia of the 13e century, "merges with the aspirations" of Jacques Lacarrière who is made his "biographer". -- Documentary Services Multi-media

Presentation of the editor

This book gathers the conferences given at the time of two historical conferences on the topic of the meditation and the action to the monastery of Holy the Balsam and the abbey of Sénanque. How peace and interior balance can they coexist with the requirements of an active life?

SDM

This work on the Christian anchorites of the deserts of Egypt and Syria to the 4e century is not only the account of the ascetic life of these rigorous and strange men, but also the report of a personal experiment, that which led the author to explore the places which were formerly the dumb witnesses of these "drunk men of God" and to traverse the accounts and testimonys left not those which knew them. Sources and texts in appendix. -- Documentary Services Multi-media


	Fourth of cover From which do we come? Who are we? Where do we go? Sometimes with these questions which the men had to very early put, well before the invention of arts and the writing, the myths give answers surprising or disconcerting, but which constituted during centuries the creed of the ancient people. These myths describe the origin and the end of the world. They trace or outline the thousand and difficult ways which make it possible to reach immortality. They say it why and it how of what exists in the world, of discovered fire to the music and poetry, of Sumer in Scandinavia and India in Ireland.
	What is this, will say to me you, which a true traveller? That which, in each traversed country, by the only meeting of the others and the lapse of memory necessary of itself, starts again its birth there. Jacques Lacarrière is not satisfied to reveal the world through his naked glance of walker: seasons, insects, animals, valleys, cliffs, locks, windmills, careers, churches, martyrdoms, dolmens and other treasures discovered during its course connecting the Vosges to Corbières. It also says the conversations with café owners, landlords, villager, guard-foresters and other inhabitants of these secret areas of France, which it has great pleasure to find after his many voyages in Greece and in the Middle East. Jacques Lacarrière, ideal frontier runner, invite his readers to an initiatory advance with the country of the knowledge of the beings and oneself. This author devoted the major part of his life to his love of the ways and the grecity. Translator of Greek (old and modern), it made known in France of large authors like Séféris and Vassilikos. The Greek Summer (1976) and making Way... (1977) are regarded as its traditional. -- Laure Anciel
	Presentation of the editor First works common of Sylvia Lipa and Jacques Lacarrière, this collection proposes a meeting and a rediscovery of the essential texts of Antiquity, selected above all for their resonance with our time. In through them, in Egypt, in Iran, in Mésopotamie, in Greece, in Rome and until in the field little known of the world gréco-Buddhist, the reader will be able to carry out a true pilgrimage with the sources of the thought and poetry antiques. Because even if they speak above all about their time, it is as with us as address these texts, in the depth of their words and the transparency of time "Between the moment which passes and the Beyond which lasts for ever", written Jacques Lacarrière, "is essential time present, alive, of the men. The only one which is worth to be listed. Before him, after him, there are only shades. In him only and its fragile duration, the savour of time and the light of the men reside ".
	Fourth of cover King de Macédoine at twenty years, Alexandre conquers the Persian empire with twenty-five, a part of India with thirty, before dying in Babylon three years later. fulgurating clean to stimulate imaginations. Tougher than the history, the legend of Alexandre the Large one settled in the spirits, conveying not only the memory of reality, but as the marvellous one as it gave birth to. Jacques Lacarrière puts in scene the text written in Egypt at W century, included then in everyone medieval. He invites us to follow a history which proceeds with the way of a great initiatory account whose hero is not a king engaged in the military adventure, but a conqueror of the Absolute which, such Héraclès, Gilgamesh or Ulysses, tries to elucidate the world.
	SDM A book which holds of the legend, the tale, the meditation and the work of historian. Indeed, the history of Yunus Emré, mystical soufi and poet wandering of Anatolia of the 13e century, "merges with the aspirations" of Jacques Lacarrière who is made his "biographer". -- Documentary Services Multi-media
	Presentation of the editor This book gathers the conferences given at the time of two historical conferences on the topic of the meditation and the action to the monastery of Holy the Balsam and the abbey of Sénanque. How peace and interior balance can they coexist with the requirements of an active life?
	SDM This work on the Christian anchorites of the deserts of Egypt and Syria to the 4e century is not only the account of the ascetic life of these rigorous and strange men, but also the report of a personal experiment, that which led the author to explore the places which were formerly the dumb witnesses of these "drunk men of God" and to traverse the accounts and testimonys left not those which knew them. Sources and texts in appendix. -- Documentary Services Multi-media