Looking In the Distance: The Human Search for MeaningSpirituality, like morality, has historically been tied to religion – and yet it is possible for one to exist without the other. In this meditative and highly personal account, Richard Holloway considers the nature of the spiritual, and what it means to live with the inevitability of death. Both celebration of the possibilities that life affords and an examination of how doubts and fears too often paralyse, especially as we age, Looking in the Distance is an inspiration, told with the compassion and good humour characteristic of its author. |
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User Review - PeterBrunning - LibraryThingExplores human spirituality, with or without religion or God. In four parts: looking, speaking, listening and leaving; covers philosophy, psychology, ethics and ending - of traditions and life. Very readable and thought-provoking, well referenced and illustrated with poetry. Read full review
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| Title | Looking In the Distance: The Human Search for Meaning |
| Author | Richard Holloway |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Canongate Books, 2009 |
| ISBN | 1847677800, 9781847677808 |
| Length | 240 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy Philosophy / General |
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