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Search results 201 - 210 of 216 matching essays
- 201: Siddhartha's Journey
- ... join the Samanas who he thought had the secrets to finding the "self". While with the Samanas Siddhartha learned many ways to escape the "self". He would do this through meditation, abandonment of the body, fasting, and the holding of breath. He abandoned his body through these ways many times but would still always come back to being Self and Siddhartha ...
- 202: Lord Of The Flies: Man's Nature and Characteristics of Simon
- ... the assembly; ‘“Maybe,” he said hesitantly, “maybe there is a beast.” “I don't know,” said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. “But...”'. He also had his own hiding and meditation spot in the jungle. He went their to think things through, and to sort out what had happened. Also in chapter five, we learn of this; ‘”You! What were you ...
- 203: Hesse's Siddhartha as it Parallels Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- ... this when Hesse says: Siddhartha had already long taken part in the learned men's conversations, had engaged in debate with Govinda and had practiced the art of contemplation and meditation with him. Already he knew how to pronounce Om silently--this word of words, to say it inwardly with the intake of breath, when breathing out with all his soul ...
- 204: Biblical Allusions and Imagery in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
- ... supply of parallels between the life of Jim Casy and the messiah whose initials he bears. Just as Christ did, he embarks upon his mission after a long period of meditation in the wilderness. He corrects the old ideas of religion and justice and selflessly sacrifices himself for his cause.10 Unlike the parallel of Tom and Moses, this one is ...
- 205: Hugh of Balma
- ... in any event disposed to learn this true wisdom (Lees, p. 294). It is an awareness that seems to begin at least in the illuminative stage, when the soul by meditation "begins somewhat to be moved towards [God] by sending forth sparks" (Lees, p. 294, my translation; Cloud, line 385). In the unitive stage, however, he denies any effective initiative to ...
- 206: Bob Marley
- ... Rastas do not smoke marijuana recreationally, and some do not use it at all. Most Rastafarian teachers advocate the controlled ritual smoking of “wisdomweed” both privately as an aid to meditation and communally from “chalice” pipes as an “incense pleasing the Lord” (Boot 16). The argument is that ganja is the “green herb” of the King James Bible. The Ethiopian Church ...
- 207: Allen Ginsberg: Poet
- ... of his life, and had many boyfriends, Neal Cassady was one of them. Ginsberg traveled all around the world and stayed in India for a while, where he learned Buddhism, meditation and spiritual chants. He wrote poetry for over three decades, and in doing so, changed the course of American poetry. Ginsberg believed in open, spontaneous poetry, speaking his thoughts and ...
- 208: Saint John of the Cross
- ... For John, the Bible served as a living and unfailing wellspring. Its waters pervade the entire being of this mystical thinker, poet, and writer. The Bible was his hymnal, his meditation book, a book for travel, for contemplation, and for writing. Scriptural quotations throughout his works show how deeply he had assimilated the Divine Word, but he never keeps to a ...
- 209: Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
- ... conflict described by St. Paul in the Eighth Chapter of his Epistle to the Romans, "a conflict that was evidently part of the personal experience of the poetess. The prose meditation that she left to her children shows that she had often been beset by doubts 'whether there was a God'"(Morison 220). "To My Dear and Loving Husband" is a ...
- 210: Anne Bradstreet: The Heretical Poet
- ... conflict described by St. Paul in the Eighth Chapter of his Epistle to the Romans, "a conflict that was evidently part of the personal experience of the poetess. The prose meditation that she left to her children shows that she had often been beset by doubts 'whether there was a God'"(Morison 220). "To My Dear and Loving Husband" is a ...
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