The Conduct of LifeSecker & Warburg, 1952 - 342 pages |
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Page 180
... balanced existence , for either the person or the community , then harmony and balance perhaps demand a degree of inclusiveness and completeness sufficient to nourish every kind of nature , to create the fullest variety in unity , to do ...
... balanced existence , for either the person or the community , then harmony and balance perhaps demand a degree of inclusiveness and completeness sufficient to nourish every kind of nature , to create the fullest variety in unity , to do ...
Page 183
... balance that is truly conceivable or desirable in the human organism is a dynamic balance : that of the fountain , endlessly chang- ing , though within the pattern of change retaining its form . Even the figure of the fountain is ...
... balance that is truly conceivable or desirable in the human organism is a dynamic balance : that of the fountain , endlessly chang- ing , though within the pattern of change retaining its form . Even the figure of the fountain is ...
Page 184
... Balance is valuable as an aid to growth : it is not the goal of growth . But the ideal of balance is too central ever to disappear completely . In partial form it reappeared in the Benedictine monastery , with its life devoted to work ...
... Balance is valuable as an aid to growth : it is not the goal of growth . But the ideal of balance is too central ever to disappear completely . In partial form it reappeared in the Benedictine monastery , with its life devoted to work ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF | 92 |
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