YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Maturity in Spiritual Life
Essays 271 - 300
BC and embarked on numerous expansionist campaigns. He later turned to Buddhism and, repenting of his earlier policies of violent ...
the sensual realm is looked upon as a way of enhancing bodily awareness in its sensual expression, which in turn trigger an enhanc...
I find I do this far too often. In regards to flexibility, I have a deep desire to please others. Therefore, I am easily overwhelm...
the pagan world, sex was considered a divine gift and it carried none of the sense of sin and punishment that became associated wi...
a place where she could just live with normal people, people with jobs, people with dreams, people who believed like she did. Desp...
between ethics and religion.4 Because this seems whimsical at best and cumbersome, even nonsensical at worst, Im very glad to hea...
the good place" (Hemingway 29). The same way in which nature balanced Hemingways perspective of the world around him, Adams aff...
who waste time believing or fearing that which is untrue could not possibly be calm or contemplative; as such, they could change t...
II). Through this imagery, Dante suggests that the human soul is naturally inclined to journey towards the light and to wish to as...
And then, in 1960 he became co-pastor with his father of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, a position he retained until his murder (Bro...
is arguing in this poem that the search for eternal peace and a relationship with the divine can be just as meaningful when carrie...
who one is, murder is deemed to be wrong. It is ones duty to find other means of solving ones problems than to simply murder the o...
(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...
no nurturing. Neither story has a good ending, but the characters do emerge somewhat enlightened. Candide takes a very differen...
subject. There is a great deal of argument as to what constitutes personal identity. Is identity ones mind or body, or is it, rath...
and with that has come an interest in spirituality itself, outside of any religious context. It is this search for a truth that m...
the individual. For one to realize his best self he had to first discover himself and to learn to trust himself. He believed in ...
any further for Gilgameshs psychological implication than his unyielding ambition to attain what he hoped for on his journey after...
sweet unto me" (II, I). It seems that Augustine wants to review the past in order to share the journey to the present, and to rem...
wrong with him. Seth states, "I dont like the way he stare at everybody. Dont look at you natural like" (Wilson 232). The fact t...
honorable combat and murders Ither by throwing a javelin into Ithers eye (Ash). A true knight would never have indulged in such a ...
71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...
social order that refuses to acknowledge the elements of good and bad. Correspondingly, Fontana (2003) points out how the good "a...
anthem music spread more rapidly in the South (Tanner, 2006). It was the minstrel shows that were most responsible for this musics...
business transactions occur within the city limits, not to mention the fact that some of the wealthiest people choose to hang thei...
note that he differentiates between "religion" and "spirituality." Hamer maintains that "spirituality is genetic, while religion i...
a medical intuitive and medical doctor, claims that a multitude of issues including psychological and emotional problems will caus...
on p. 262 of her book. "However, I have come to believe that her life was ruined not by septic shock or noncompliant parents but b...
Are the criteria for the charismatic part founded on Scripture? If the criteria for the charismatic identity is not founded on Scr...
This five page essay reviews the book by John B. Cobb, Jr. Two different views of Cobb are pursued. These views are formed around...