Tongues of Fire: An Anthology of Religious and Poetic ExperienceKaren Armstrong |
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... pain and death should not be , that most religions have evolved a myth of a golden age when evil did not exist . Then man sinned and let it loose upon the world . For whether you call it ' sin ' or ' ego ' , it is clear that a lot of the ...
... pain and death should not be , that most religions have evolved a myth of a golden age when evil did not exist . Then man sinned and let it loose upon the world . For whether you call it ' sin ' or ' ego ' , it is clear that a lot of the ...
Page 129
... pain , ' Whether his labours be sublime or low- " The pain alone ; the joy alone ; distinct : ' Only the dreamer venoms all his days , ' Bearing more woe than all his sins deserve . ' So answer'd I , continuing , ' If it please 129 ...
... pain , ' Whether his labours be sublime or low- " The pain alone ; the joy alone ; distinct : ' Only the dreamer venoms all his days , ' Bearing more woe than all his sins deserve . ' So answer'd I , continuing , ' If it please 129 ...
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... painful and the desolation , when the mystic is called back from the Reality he seeks to his ' sole self ' , is agonizing and painful . Spiritual writers speak of the aridity that fills the soul when God is absent and the Way seems ...
... painful and the desolation , when the mystic is called back from the Reality he seeks to his ' sole self ' , is agonizing and painful . Spiritual writers speak of the aridity that fills the soul when God is absent and the Way seems ...
Contents
Genesis | 20 |
From The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | 38 |
Heal me my | 40 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
beauty beloved birds breath Camelot canst CHARLES CAUSLEY Christ Christian comfort CZESLAW MILOSZ D. H. LAWRENCE dark David Goldstein death divine doth dream earth ecstasy eternal eyes face fear feel fire flame GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS glory green hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven holy Hopkins Lady of Shalott light live look Lord meditation mind moon MOSES IBN EZRA mysterious mystic nature never night o'er pain Paradise peace Penguin Peter Levi poem poet poetic poetry prayer pure R. A. Nicholson R. S. THOMAS reality religion religious experience rose round sense shadow shine sight silence sing sleep solitude SOLOMON IBN GABIROL song soul speak spirit stars Sufi sweet tell thee things thou art thought thro tongue Transcending translated by David tree vision vocation voice WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wings Wordsworth