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This manual is simple and direct. Instructions and explanations are well written and easy to implement.
Exiled Heart A Meditative

I’ve had this vacuum for a little over a month and have mixed feelings.

When it worked, it was quite loud, but sucked up everything I put in its path (including large paint chips when moving out of an apartment). It had no problem picking up hair from a carpet (handy with two cats) and didn’t require me to stop after completing a room and pull hair out of the belt like my preceding vacuum. No problem with the cord length but had a LARGE problem with the cord attachments. Namely, whenever you use one of the hose attachments, the main vac never turns off, so it’s sucking through the hose and through the bottom simultaneously (even when the handle is locked upright), resulting, sometimes, in dust shooting out of the hole where the hose connects.

The reason it gets two stars is my fiance went to vacuum last night with the hose attachment, went to move the vacuum so she could reach a spot, and accidentally went over the cord with the bottom of the vacuum for half of a second. In that half second, the cord was completely shredded and severed, caused an electrical fire, and burnt our carpet.

A call to Hoover informed us that this is not considered a manufacturer’s defect (even though having the bottom constantly running seems like a pretty big design flaw, idle or not), so we will have to pay to have it repaired ($25-40, depending on the vacuum). Needless to say, we’re not pleased.

UPDATE: Turns out the $25-40 is actually $80-90 with parts and labor. That’s more than it cost to purchase the vacuum in the first place. Hoover just lost a customer.
Bless your Dirty Heart

A very moving account of a childhood, torn between 2 cultures and between private and public passions.
A Crowded Heart A

“I have ordered 5 HDMI cables from Eforcity, two different orders. First for myself, then for family and friends. Just can’t beat the price. The first time around, I received the cables a day later then stated. The second time around, I received them several days early. None of us can tell a quality difference between these and the $50.+ that a friend had. Great Buy!!”
The Heart of the

We have numerous brushes for the cats and this one is the most effective. The amount of hair it removes is shocking; you’d think the cat would be bald. Whether or not it works for you depends on your cat. One of my cats looooooves the Furminator. I wish the other cat would cooperate but he doesn’t like being brushed no matter what the brush is. Unless you have a small or short-haired cat, this the size to get else you’d be furminating all day.
Heart Smart Chinese Cooking

Haven’t really used the card a lot yet, but I have not had any problems with it.
The Heart Has Its

I arrived at this 1993 book after reading Jack Kornfield’s more recent book, AFTER THE ECSTASY, THE LAUNDRY (2000). I enthusiastically recommend both books.

We must be a lamp unto ourselves, the Buddha said. We must find our own true way. This is really the point of Kornfield’s book. As a former Buddhist monk, a psychologist, and a seasoned meditation teacher, Kornfield has the qualifications to help us on our journey through life. “What matters is simple,” he writes. “We must make certain that our path is connected with our heart” (p. 11). To live a genuine spiritual life in this confusing world, and a society all too often “addicted to alcohol, drugs, gambling, food, sexuality, unhealthy relationships, or the speed and busyness of work” (p.23), we must bring our full attention to life. “To open deeply, as a genuine spiritual life requires,” Kornfield says, “we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit . . . We need a warrior’s heart that lets us face our lives directly, our pains and limitations, our joys and possibilities” (p. 8).

Although written from a Buddhist perspective, this book will appeal to anyone interested in living an authentic life. It is filled with insightful passages. In Chapter Two, Kornfield encourages his reader to stop the war with oneself and make peace. He teaches his reader in Chapter Seven to name one’s demons, e.g., greed, fear, doubt, judgment, confusion, anger, boredom, sleepiness, and restlessness, in order to gain power over them. “A genuine spiritual path does not avoid difficulties or mistakes,” Kornfield observes in Chapter Six, entitled “Turning Straw into Gold,” “but leads us to the art of making mistakes wakefully” (p. 72). (Facing the difficulties of one’s spiritual life becomes the theme of Kornfield’s current book, AFTER THE ECSTASY, THE LAUNDRY.) Learn to be a lamp unto yourself, he writes in Chapter Eleven, “our liberation and happiness arise from our own dee
A Path with Heart