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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... sense of God. I have written this book for that great company, because I now find myself within it. The book is in four movements. The first three loosely cover some of the philosophical, psychological and ethical elements of human ...
... sense of God. I have written this book for that great company, because I now find myself within it. The book is in four movements. The first three loosely cover some of the philosophical, psychological and ethical elements of human ...
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... 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 in love with the land ...
... 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 in love with the land ...
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... sense of displeasure is combated by means that reduce the feeling of life in general to its lowest point. If possible, will and desire are abolished altogether . . . The result, expressed in moral-psychological terms, is 'selflessness ...
... sense of displeasure is combated by means that reduce the feeling of life in general to its lowest point. If possible, will and desire are abolished altogether . . . The result, expressed in moral-psychological terms, is 'selflessness ...
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... sense of ultimate meaninglessness . I have been engulfed by the void , made to look into the abyss of emptiness that life seems to be stretched upon . Everything I once thought to be steady and enduring has disappeared into the ...
... sense of ultimate meaninglessness . I have been engulfed by the void , made to look into the abyss of emptiness that life seems to be stretched upon . Everything I once thought to be steady and enduring has disappeared into the ...
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... sense of bafflement at the massive indifference of the universe. We try to care about one another, but life itself, the life that impels its indifferent way through time and space, does not seem to care about anything; it simply is ...
... sense of bafflement at the massive indifference of the universe. We try to care about one another, but life itself, the life that impels its indifferent way through time and space, does not seem to care about anything; it simply is ...
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