Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... awareness of man's limitations and grandeur . He does not put man " in his place . " He keeps him there , a much harder task in an age of disintegrating tradition somewhat short yet of absolute demolition of unifying common heritage ...
... awareness of man's limitations and grandeur . He does not put man " in his place . " He keeps him there , a much harder task in an age of disintegrating tradition somewhat short yet of absolute demolition of unifying common heritage ...
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... awareness is the ul- timate acropolis of this impregnable citadel of self . So smile as you open your valise at " Customs " and say , " Noth- ing to declare . " Whether state or municipal , secular or religious , the big - little world ...
... awareness is the ul- timate acropolis of this impregnable citadel of self . So smile as you open your valise at " Customs " and say , " Noth- ing to declare . " Whether state or municipal , secular or religious , the big - little world ...
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... species , but to bring Beauty back in a new appreciation of the wonder and profusion of a world teeming with creatures in an organically linked system . Nor is this awareness limited to a God - intoxicated Immortality 189.
... species , but to bring Beauty back in a new appreciation of the wonder and profusion of a world teeming with creatures in an organically linked system . Nor is this awareness limited to a God - intoxicated Immortality 189.
Contents
Preface Foreword Poem Sonnet to Death Chapter I The Ferries at Bayhead Death as Natural Transition | 1 |
Last Things First Necessity of a Point of View | 11 |
God on Trial The Problem of Evil | 19 |
Copyright | |
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