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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... crafting of this text; and to Amy Purden for suggesting the Hafiz poem to me that seems to sum up so much of what the book is about. RICHARD HOLLOWAY EDINBURGH, 2004 Preface Negative Capability: that is when Acknowledgements.
... crafting of this text; and to Amy Purden for suggesting the Hafiz poem to me that seems to sum up so much of what the book is about. RICHARD HOLLOWAY EDINBURGH, 2004 Preface Negative Capability: that is when Acknowledgements.
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... seems to be referring to one side of religion here, its use as a suppressant of or antidote to the nagging discontent that characterises the human species in highly developed societies. Buddhism is probably the most successful exponent ...
... seems to be referring to one side of religion here, its use as a suppressant of or antidote to the nagging discontent that characterises the human species in highly developed societies. Buddhism is probably the most successful exponent ...
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... seems to be stretched upon . Everything I once thought to be steady and enduring has disappeared into the ceaseless flux of a universe without meaning . The mood is probably best expressed by Philip Larkin's ' Aubade'- dawn : I work all ...
... seems to be stretched upon . Everything I once thought to be steady and enduring has disappeared into the ceaseless flux of a universe without meaning . The mood is probably best expressed by Philip Larkin's ' Aubade'- dawn : I work all ...
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... , the life that impels its indifferent way through time and space, does not seem to care about anything; it simply is. Even that does not quite capture the mood, because to say that the life force that activates the universe '
... , the life that impels its indifferent way through time and space, does not seem to care about anything; it simply is. Even that does not quite capture the mood, because to say that the life force that activates the universe '
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