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Book

Olga Krasnikova
“Loneliness” (in Russian)
Nikea, 2015.
(“Personal growth” book series)

Olga Krasnikova — counseling psychologist, psychology
lecturer, the head of the psychological center „Sobesednik”,
rector assistant of Moscow ICP.

The book is dedicated to the problem of loneliness.
The „solo“ way of life is widespread today. But Olga
Krasnikova‘s book is not about formally lonely existence
which, by the way, can be comfortable. It is about deep lone-
liness. About the broken communication of a person with
other people, with the world , and first of all - with himself.
This dissonance can occur at any time, in bitter and joyful circumstances, and even in quite safe family
life background. It is impossible to to overcome the feeling of senselessness and emptiness, reestablish
the lost communication until the person adjusts the dialogue with himself, accepting his existential lo-
neliness. It is amazing how many of us avoid meeting with themselves. What is that we don‘t accept in
ourselves or are afraid of? The quiet and wise book of Olga Krasnikova helps us to understand it.

Olga Krasnikova
„Delays and unfulfilled promises“ (in Russian)
Nikea 2014
(“Personal growth” book series)

There are people who are always late. And there are those who always come in time and become nervous
when they are forced to wait. There are fans of promise, but not its performing. Others, on the contrary,
are trying to keep their word and demand the same from others. Anyway, we are suffering from delays
and unfulfilled promises - our own or others, so the book by the psychologist Olga Krasnikova applies
to absolutely everyone. After reading it, you can understand why some people are so hard to come in
time, and learn how to minimize the damage caused by their own or someone else carelessness and
perhaps become a little more tolerant.

Werner May (Germany)
Instructions for astonishment. Becoming rooted in mystery. (in German)
IGNIS-Edition, Kitzingen, 2014
(Anleitungen zum Staunen. Sich im Geheimnis verwurzeln. )

• Astonishment keeps you young. Because children are astonished. We capture
something of being a child again when we are astonished: spontaneous or ca-
refree reactions, all that is natural to children, become available to us as adults.
• Being astonished motivates us to want to know more about what we are
astonished by. We notice there is still much for us to experience. Space for
experience opens up surprisingly and therefore with freshness.
• Being astonished awakens in us a fundamental sense of something greater or
more significant, tends to draw us up beyond ourselves. This not only motiva-
tes us, but also makes us more humble, more ready to receive.

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