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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... during the crafting of this text; and to Amy Purden for suggesting the Hafiz poem to me that seems to sum up so much of what the book is about. RICHARD HOLLOWAY EDINBURGH, 2004 Preface Negative Capability: that is when Acknowledgements.
... during the crafting of this text; and to Amy Purden for suggesting the Hafiz poem to me that seems to sum up so much of what the book is about. RICHARD HOLLOWAY EDINBURGH, 2004 Preface Negative Capability: that is when Acknowledgements.
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... poem 'Portrait of a Romantic': He is in love with the land that is always over The next hill and the next, with the bird that is never Caught, with the room beyond the looking glass. He likes the half-hid, the half-heard, the half-lit ...
... poem 'Portrait of a Romantic': He is in love with the land that is always over The next hill and the next, with the bird that is never Caught, with the room beyond the looking glass. He likes the half-hid, the half-heard, the half-lit ...
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... poem called 'Jerusalem Ecology', the first stanza of which I'd like to recite as a prophylactic against religious poisoning. The air above Jerusalem is saturated with prayers and dreams Like the air above industrial towns it's hard to ...
... poem called 'Jerusalem Ecology', the first stanza of which I'd like to recite as a prophylactic against religious poisoning. The air above Jerusalem is saturated with prayers and dreams Like the air above industrial towns it's hard to ...
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... poem that captures this ambiguity better than the straightforward despair of Larkin's ' Aubade ' . I am thinking of ... poems called Die Niemandsrose , ' The No one's Rose ' . This is one of them : No one moulds us again out of earth ...
... poem that captures this ambiguity better than the straightforward despair of Larkin's ' Aubade ' . I am thinking of ... poems called Die Niemandsrose , ' The No one's Rose ' . This is one of them : No one moulds us again out of earth ...
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