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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... Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. Letter of John Keats to George and Tom Keats (No.45) In 1999 I wrote a book called Godless Morality: Keeping Religion out of Ethics. As the title suggests, the ...
... Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason. Letter of John Keats to George and Tom Keats (No.45) In 1999 I wrote a book called Godless Morality: Keeping Religion out of Ethics. As the title suggests, the ...
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... mystery. I had no clear sense about what it meant except that it suggested heroic adventure, an endless quest after an object flying from desire. Years later I recognised myself in A.S.J. Tessimond's poem 'Portrait of a Romantic': He is ...
... mystery. I had no clear sense about what it meant except that it suggested heroic adventure, an endless quest after an object flying from desire. Years later I recognised myself in A.S.J. Tessimond's poem 'Portrait of a Romantic': He is ...
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... them into an explanatory package , to make them continuous with each other . That would not be honest to my own experience of the mystery of life , which has been disjunctive and contradictory rather than seamless; so I shall.
... them into an explanatory package , to make them continuous with each other . That would not be honest to my own experience of the mystery of life , which has been disjunctive and contradictory rather than seamless; so I shall.
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... the essence of the human experience at those vulnerable moments when we are most open to the mystery of our own existence. The first one I call 'looking into the abyss'. Looking into the abyss It's three o'clock in the morning.
... the essence of the human experience at those vulnerable moments when we are most open to the mystery of our own existence. The first one I call 'looking into the abyss'. Looking into the abyss It's three o'clock in the morning.
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... mystery of the meaning of Being can be neither demonstrated nor destroyed by 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 ...
... mystery of the meaning of Being can be neither demonstrated nor destroyed by 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 ...
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