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Looking in the Distance : The Human Search for Meaning by Richard Holloway (2007, Hardcover)

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PublisherCanongate Books

ISBN-101841957364

ISBN-139781841957364

eBay Product ID (ePID)57020781

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Book TitleLooking in the Distance : the Human Search for Meaning

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLanguage, Christianity / Episcopalian

Publication Year2007

GenreReligion, Philosophy

AuthorRichard Holloway

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight12 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5 in

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Dewey Edition23

ReviewsA sentence is not finished till it has a full stop, and every life needs a dying to complete it. It is dying that finishes us, that ends our story. At the end of The English Patient, when Almasy carries Katherine Clifton into the desert, Michael Ondaatje captures something of the way death finally defines us. We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography. When the map of our life is complete, and we die in the richness of our own history, some among the living will miss us for a while, but the earth will go on without us. Its day is longer than ours, though we now know that it too will die. Our brief finitude is but a beautiful spark in the vast darkness of space. So we should live the fleeting day with passion and, when the night comes, depart from it with grace.

Dewey Decimal204.4

SynopsisBy the former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard Holloway, "Looking in the Distance" celebrates the possibilities of life, its rewards and profound challenges, with a fresh, humane optimism that is both passionate and pragmatic. Fearlessly pondering life's end, Holloway examines how doubts too often paralyze people. He explains, "A sentence is not finished till it has a full stop, and every life needs a dying to complete it ... Our brief finitude is but a beautiful spark in the vast darkness of space. So we should live the fleeting day with passion and, when the night comes, depart from it with grace." Written in the context of organized religion's structural difficulties, "Looking in the Distance" is a highly personal and meditative work that helps us better understand the myriad ways in which the human search for wholeness and healing can be approached. Accessible, funny, inquisitive and ever hopeful, it will inspire all who read it., By the former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard Holloway, Looking in the Distance celebrates the possibilities of life, its rewards and profound challenges, with a fresh, humane optimism that is both passionate and pragmatic. Fearlessly pondering life's end, Holloway examines how doubts too often paralyze people. He explains, "A sentence is not finished till it has a full stop, and every life needs a dying to complete it ... Our brief finitude is but a beautiful spark in the vast darkness of space. So we should live the fleeting day with passion and, when the night comes, depart from it with grace." Written in the context of organized religion's structural difficulties, Looking in the Distance is a highly personal and meditative work that helps us better understand the myriad ways in which the human search for wholeness and healing can be approached. Accessible, funny, inquisitive and ever hopeful, it will inspire all who read it., Looking in the Distance celebrates the possibilities that life affords us and fearlessly ponders its end, all while examining how doubts too often paralyze people, especially as they age. Written in the context of organized religion's structural difficulties, Looking in the Distance is a highly personal and meditative work that helps us better understand the myriad ways in which the human search for wholeness and healing can be approached. Accessible, funny, inquisitive, and ever hopeful, it will inspire all who read it.

LC Classification NumberBV4509.5.H645 2007