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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... things. They revel in the richness of human art and, through its various forms, they experience moments of grace and transcendence. They are increasingly fascinated by the complexities of the human psyche as revealed by the ...
... things. They revel in the richness of human art and, through its various forms, they experience moments of grace and transcendence. They are increasingly fascinated by the complexities of the human psyche as revealed by the ...
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... things I have seen . I shall not attempt to weave 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 ...
... things I have seen . I shall not attempt to weave 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 ...
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... things jagged and disconnected, just as I saw them. But before I settle myself in the chair to start describing what I see, let me affix a health warning. Religion, even without the definite or indefinite article in front of it, is ...
... things jagged and disconnected, just as I saw them. But before I settle myself in the chair to start describing what I see, let me affix a health warning. Religion, even without the definite or indefinite article in front of it, is ...
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... thing it will not feel, not seeing That this is what we fear – no sight, no sound, No touch or taste or smell, nothing ... things may never happen: this one will ...5 As far as I am concerned, Larkin has captured the mood all right, but ...
... thing it will not feel, not seeing That this is what we fear – no sight, no sound, No touch or taste or smell, nothing ... things may never happen: this one will ...5 As far as I am concerned, Larkin has captured the mood all right, but ...
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... thing is that this void , this Nothing or No one , gave us birth , and it is impossible not to be emotionally involved with a parent , however absent and indifferent . There's a poem that captures this ambiguity better than the ...
... thing is that this void , this Nothing or No one , gave us birth , and it is impossible not to be emotionally involved with a parent , however absent and indifferent . There's a poem that captures this ambiguity better than the ...
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