Religious Studies
epub |eng | 2000-11-01 | Author:Tenzin Gyatso & Dalai Lama & Jeffrey Hopkins & Richard Gere [Gyatso, Tenzin & Lama, Dalai & Hopkins, Jeffrey & Gere, Richard]

Question: How is it possible for me to make an effort in my meditation practice when there is no me, no I? Answer: Most likely, this is the misunderstanding I ...
( Category: Ethics November 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Jonathan Haidt

FIGURE 9.3. Lyudmila Trut with Pavlik, a forty-second generation decendant of Belyaev’s original study. (photo credit 9.2) In the 1980s the geneticist William Muir used group selection to get around ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism November 25,2014 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Russell, Gerard [Russell, Gerard]

The Samaritans have preserved carefully over the generations their ancient scrolls, which record a Torah that differs somewhat from the Jewish one. Here in 1905 a Samaritan priest displays one ...
( Category: Ethnic & Tribal November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Daniele Bolelli [Bolelli, Daniele]

Buddha's own teachings, after all, emphasized independent inquiry and personal experience over doctrine and strict rules. So, in an odd kind of way, Lin Chi and Hsuan Chien's words were ...
( Category: Comparative Religion November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-21 | Author:Holmes Rolston, III

Evolutionary Headings: Surprising or Inevitable? Is evolution going anywhere? If so, are these origins and headings surprising or inevitable? Reflecting on the second big bang, we must return to the ...
( Category: Science & Religion November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2008-01-07 | Author:Sam Harris [Harris, Sam]

The Clash of Science and Religion While it is now a moral necessity for scientists to speak honestly about the conflict between science and religion, even the National Academy of ...
( Category: Politics & Government November 23,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Sam Harris [Harris, Sam]

Consciousness Like Descartes, most of us begin these inquiries as thinkers, condemned by the terms of our subjectivity to maneuver in a world that appears to be other than what ...
( Category: Rationalism November 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:David Sloan Wilson [Wilson, David Sloan]

Without attempting to prejudge the results, I think that the basic functionality of religion will be amply confirmed. Durkheim was right. Something as elaborate—as time-, energy-, and thought-consuming—as religion would ...
( Category: Sociology November 21,2014 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mary Oliver [Oliver, Mary]

THE NOTEBOOK “Six a.m.— the small, pond turtle lifts its head into the air like a green toe. It looks around. What it sees is the whole world swirling back ...
( Category: United States November 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:Nadia Bolz-Weber [Bolz-Weber, Nadia]

CHAPTER 11 Pirate Christian You have heard that it was said, “You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.” But I say to you, “Love your enemies and pray ...
( Category: Alcoholism November 13,2014 )
mobi |es | 2011-05-18 | Author:James George Frazer

CAPÍTULO XXXIX EL RITUAL DE OSIRIS 1. LOS RITOS POPULARES Una pista muy útil para averiguar la naturaleza originaria de un dios o diosa la suministra con frecuencia la estación ...
( Category: General November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1995-11-10 | Author:Geraldine Brooks [Brooks, Geraldine]

Later that year the king’s democratic initiative bore fruit in an election that left Islamic hard-liners dominating the Parliament. Just before the election, a delegation of liberal-minded Jordanians had come ...
( Category: Cultural November 11,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 | | | Author:G.K. Chesterton [Chesterton, G.K.]

VIII: The End of the World I was once sitting on a summer day in a meadow in Kent under the shadow of a little village church, with a rather ...
( Category: Roman Catholicism November 11,2014 )
mobi |es | 2011-11-29 | Author:William James

MODO PARA NO IMPEDIR AL TODO Cuando reparas en algo, dejas de arrojarte al todo; porque, para venir del todo al todo, has de negarte del todo en todo; y ...
( Category: Religion November 11,2014 )
mobi |es | 2009-10-09 | Author:HERMANN HESSE

CAPÍTULO XII Al día siguiente no se decidía a ir al taller. Como ya hiciera otros días de murria y desgana, anduvo vagando por la ciudad. Veía a las mujeres ...
( Category: Classics November 11,2014 )