The Conduct of LifeHarcourt, Brace, 1951 - 342 pages Discusses the ultimate ethical and religious issues that confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the reintegration of modern civilization. |
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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 ...
Page 187
... balance that is partly achieved and assist in those further developments , which , by upsetting balance , lead to growth and increasing fullness of life . To this end , our sterile mechanistic culture must be exposed to an even more ...
... balance that is partly achieved and assist in those further developments , which , by upsetting balance , lead to growth and increasing fullness of life . To this end , our sterile mechanistic culture must be exposed to an even more ...
Page 190
... balance of a life focused completely within itself and lived to itself , the balance of the self - absorbed and self - enclosed mys- tic or yogin is , in a sense , too easy to achieve ; it is like walking firmly on a board laid on ...
... balance of a life focused completely within itself and lived to itself , the balance of the self - absorbed and self - enclosed mys- tic or yogin is , in a sense , too easy to achieve ; it is like walking firmly on a board laid on ...
Contents
THE CHALLENGE TO RENEWAL | 3 |
The Nature of Man 223 | 22 |
COSMOS AND PERSON | 58 |
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