Towards Acceptance: Some Thoughts: Pain, Suffering, Death, and Immortality |
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... look at them literally , without the linguist's or the scholar's aid of language and literary genre . Perhaps for relief from mere words , we should look ( à la Hokusai ) at a picture of Ptolemy's universe . It's a pretty picture , with ...
... look at them literally , without the linguist's or the scholar's aid of language and literary genre . Perhaps for relief from mere words , we should look ( à la Hokusai ) at a picture of Ptolemy's universe . It's a pretty picture , with ...
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... look on nature , not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still , sad music of humanity , Nor harsh nor grating , though of ample power To chasten and subdue . And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with ...
... look on nature , not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still , sad music of humanity , Nor harsh nor grating , though of ample power To chasten and subdue . And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with ...
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... look backward and forward in time with no loss of self - identity and its thirst for ever - expanding knowledge postulate an unquenchable search for fulfillment beyond time . 4. The will's insatiable craving for a happiness beyond ...
... look backward and forward in time with no loss of self - identity and its thirst for ever - expanding knowledge postulate an unquenchable search for fulfillment beyond time . 4. The will's insatiable craving for a happiness beyond ...
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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