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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... give up on ethics; that without God there could be no human goodness. And I sketched an outline of what a purely secular or godless ethic would look like. I tried to find good human responses to a number of contemporary ethical ...
... give up on ethics; that without God there could be no human goodness. And I sketched an outline of what a purely secular or godless ethic would look like. I tried to find good human responses to a number of contemporary ethical ...
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... give to humanity's preoccupation with its own meaning or lack of meaning . There are any number of metaphors we can use to capture this insistent concern we have about ourselves . Hafiz used the image of swimming alone in the sea ...
... give to humanity's preoccupation with its own meaning or lack of meaning . There are any number of metaphors we can use to capture this insistent concern we have about ourselves . Hafiz used the image of swimming alone in the sea ...
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... gives such a dangerous edge to religious conflict. It is why Montaigne dryly observed that it was rating our conjectures highly to burn people alive for them. Another mordant observer of the excessive self-importance of religious ...
... gives such a dangerous edge to religious conflict. It is why Montaigne dryly observed that it was rating our conjectures highly to burn people alive for them. Another mordant observer of the excessive self-importance of religious ...
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... gives it a sense of stability , when , in fact , we experience it as constant change ; it is not so much Being , as Passing , as something endlessly in the process of becoming something else . There are times when the cosmic ...
... gives it a sense of stability , when , in fact , we experience it as constant change ; it is not so much Being , as Passing , as something endlessly in the process of becoming something else . There are times when the cosmic ...
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... gives briskly confident answers to all of life's puzzling questions. If we could stop the flow of human knowledge and experience, and if Being itself were not in a constant state of passing or becoming, these systems might attain a ...
... gives briskly confident answers to all of life's puzzling questions. If we could stop the flow of human knowledge and experience, and if Being itself were not in a constant state of passing or becoming, these systems might attain a ...
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