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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... universe; and they admire the way science tries to look unflinchingly at the reality of things. They revel in the richness of human art and, through its various forms, they experience moments of grace and transcendence. They are ...
... universe; and they admire the way science tries to look unflinchingly at the reality of things. They revel in the richness of human art and, through its various forms, they experience moments of grace and transcendence. They are ...
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... universe and wonder what it means. We know quite a lot about how we came about, but there is no satisfactory explanation as to why we came about. I know, of course, that many confident explanations have been given to the question Why ...
... universe and wonder what it means. We know quite a lot about how we came about, but there is no satisfactory explanation as to why we came about. I know, of course, that many confident explanations have been given to the question Why ...
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... universe without meaning . The mood is probably best expressed by Philip Larkin's ' Aubade'- dawn : I work all day , and get half - drunk at night . Waking at four to soundless dark , I stare . In time the curtain - edges will grow ...
... universe without meaning . The mood is probably best expressed by Philip Larkin's ' Aubade'- dawn : I work all day , and get half - drunk at night . Waking at four to soundless dark , I stare . In time the curtain - edges will grow ...
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... 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. Even that does not quite capture the mood, because to say ...
... 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. Even that does not quite capture the mood, because to say ...
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... universe ' is ' gives it a sense of stability , when , in fact , we experience it as constant change ; it is not so much Being , as Passing , as something endlessly in the process of becoming something else . There are times when the ...
... universe ' is ' gives it a sense of stability , when , in fact , we experience it as constant change ; it is not so much Being , as Passing , as something endlessly in the process of becoming something else . There are times when the ...
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