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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... lost doors. He tries to climb the wall around the world.1 I gave my life to that search. I became a priest, then a bishop, then a primate. Now, forty years and many battles later, it has passed and I am left sitting in the chair looking ...
... lost doors. He tries to climb the wall around the world.1 I gave my life to that search. I became a priest, then a bishop, then a primate. Now, forty years and many battles later, it has passed and I am left sitting in the chair looking ...
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... total emptiness for ever , The sure extinction that we travel to And shall be lost in always . Not to be here , Not to be anywhere , And soon ; nothing more terrible , nothing more true . This is a special way of being afraid No trick.
... total emptiness for ever , The sure extinction that we travel to And shall be lost in always . Not to be here , Not to be anywhere , And soon ; nothing more terrible , nothing more true . This is a special way of being afraid No trick.
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... lost in a dense wood or as frightening as falling overboard into the sea at night with no one to know we have gone . The strange thing is that this void , this Nothing or No one , gave us birth , and it is impossible not to be ...
... lost in a dense wood or as frightening as falling overboard into the sea at night with no one to know we have gone . The strange thing is that this void , this Nothing or No one , gave us birth , and it is impossible not to be ...
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... 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 watchmaker. So it was with the universe itself ...
... 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 watchmaker. So it was with the universe itself ...
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