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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... explanation as to why we came about. I know, of course, that many confident explanations have been given to the question Why? The shorthand term for one of these explanatory systems is 'a religion', complete with indefinite article ...
... explanation as to why we came about. I know, of course, that many confident explanations have been given to the question Why? The shorthand term for one of these explanatory systems is 'a religion', complete with indefinite article ...
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... theoretical lines. Rather than concentrating on inculcating in their followers methods for coping with the pressures of the world, they set out to explain its meaning and origin . The trouble with the explanatory side.
... theoretical lines. Rather than concentrating on inculcating in their followers methods for coping with the pressures of the world, they set out to explain its meaning and origin . The trouble with the explanatory side.
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... explanation - tankers of organised religion . But even if we choose to go overboard and swim alone , we have not necessarily abandoned the religious quest ; not if we think of it as the name we give to humanity's preoccupation with its ...
... explanation - tankers of organised religion . But even if we choose to go overboard and swim alone , we have not necessarily abandoned the religious quest ; not if we think of it as the name we give to humanity's preoccupation with its ...
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... explanation, it is a wound that has to be endured. And R.S. Thomas is our poet: Why no! I never thought other than That God is the great absence In our lives, the empty silence Within, the place where we go Seeking, not in hope to ...
... explanation, it is a wound that has to be endured. And R.S. Thomas is our poet: Why no! I never thought other than That God is the great absence In our lives, the empty silence Within, the place where we go Seeking, not in hope to ...
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... explaining the mystery. This constant work of separating ourselves from earlier understandings of God is morally essential if we are not to trap ourselves in a cave worshipping projections of our own shadows. This is the truth behind ...
... explaining the mystery. This constant work of separating ourselves from earlier understandings of God is morally essential if we are not to trap ourselves in a cave worshipping projections of our own shadows. This is the truth behind ...
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