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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... expressed in moral-psychological terms, is 'selflessness', 'sanctification'; in physiological terms: hypnotization – the attempt to win for man an approximation to what in certain animals is hibernation, in many tropical plants ...
... expressed in moral-psychological terms, is 'selflessness', 'sanctification'; in physiological terms: hypnotization – the attempt to win for man an approximation to what in certain animals is hibernation, in many tropical plants ...
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... expressed by Philip Larkin's ' Aubade'- dawn : I work all day , and get half - drunk at night . Waking at four to soundless dark , I stare . In time the curtain - edges will grow light . Till then I see what's really always there ...
... expressed by Philip Larkin's ' Aubade'- dawn : I work all day , and get half - drunk at night . Waking at four to soundless dark , I stare . In time the curtain - edges will grow light . Till then I see what's really always there ...
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... expressed this time through Christianity, was the row that broke out in England and the USA in the summer of 2003 over the proposed appointment of two gay men as Anglican bishops. Traditionalists noisily opposed the appointments on the ...
... expressed this time through Christianity, was the row that broke out in England and the USA in the summer of 2003 over the proposed appointment of two gay men as Anglican bishops. Traditionalists noisily opposed the appointments on the ...
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... expressed by William Paley in the famous 'lost watch' argument in 1802. If you found a watch when you were out walking and marvelled at the perfect intricacy of its design, you would correctly deduce that it had been created by a ...
... expressed by William Paley in the famous 'lost watch' argument in 1802. If you found a watch when you were out walking and marvelled at the perfect intricacy of its design, you would correctly deduce that it had been created by a ...
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