mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Sam Harris

Chapter 5 THE FUTURE OF HAPPINESS No one has ever mistaken me for an optimist. And yet when I consider one of the more pristine sources of pessimism—the moral development ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Karen Armstrong

A spiritual vacuum had also opened up in India, and new sages worked energetically, even desperately, to find a fresh solution. By the late fifth century, the doctrine of karma, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Browning, Green, Witte [Browning, Green, Witte]

to his own son, since he knew dharma; to an evil man he was like Yama, king of the dead, but to a good man he was like Soma. And, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-03-30 | Author:Michael Herzfeld

Uncivil Pleasantries, Unpleasant Civilities A decidedly left-wing bar proprietor loved to bait police officers who, he thought, were harassing Ukrainians and other immigrants. His establishment thus became a gathering place ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1991-06-01 | Author:Joseph Campbell; Bill D. Moyers; Betty S. Flowers

CAMPBELL: -- even pulverizing him. MOYERS: But he always returns to life. At last he goes into the mountains where the trails become so confused, no one can follow him. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Steven Barboza

Chapter Four Ecstasy Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The parable of His Light is as if there were a Niche and within it a Lamp: ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-08-15 | Author:Karen Armstrong

In the Netherlands, a Jewish philosopher had developed an atheistic vision that was at once more radical yet also more religious than either Descartes’ or Locke’s.35 In 1655, shortly after ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-01-17 | Author:Lawrence Wright

THE TIME STORY WAS a turning point in the church’s history. The embarrassment for Scientology celebrities undercut the church’s strategy of making the religion appear to be a spiritual refuge ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-05-01 | Author:Christopher Hitchens

So a star was born. . . For these and for my other criticisms I was invited by the Vatican into a closed room containing a Bible, a tape recorder, ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Jon Krakauer

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. I ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Salman Rushdie

VI Why It’s Impossible to Photograph the Pampas ON A VISIT TO MIJAS LONG AGO—MIJAS, WHERE MANUEL CORTÉS HAD hidden from Franco for three decades, spending his days in an ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Salman Rushdie

VI Why It’s Impossible to Photograph the Pampas ON A VISIT TO MIJAS LONG AGO—MIJAS, WHERE MANUEL CORTÉS HAD hidden from Franco for three decades, spending his days in an ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-06 | Author:David Mills

“The study of anthropology confirmed my atheism, which was the faith of my fathers anyway. Religions were exhibited and studied as the Rube Goldberg inventions I’d always thought they were.” ...

epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2003-06-10 | Author:Jon Krakauer

My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. I ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2004-06-07 | Author:Jon Krakauer

Conceding the inevitable, Brigham adopted a pragmatic new strategy that was as brilliant as it was callous. He stopped claiming that the Indians were responsible for the massacre and decided ...