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"Only as far as 6 pages in and I am in awe. Deserves high praise from all critics of non-fiction genres!" — Jan 14, 2026 02:48PM
"Only as far as 6 pages in and I am in awe. Deserves high praise from all critics of non-fiction genres!" — Jan 14, 2026 02:48PM
“Man cannot remain with no way out.”
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“But my hand was too small to do the gathering. [Epic of Gilgamesh, p. 79]”
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“...the faith state...is the psychic correlate of a biological growth reducing contending-desires to one direction... [p.272]”
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“The space between Heaven and Earth---is it not like a bellows?”
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“...our moral and practical attitude....impulses, inhibitions.... how it contains and moulds us by its restrictive pressure almost as if we were fluids pent with the cavity of a jar.... It becomes our subconscious. [p. 287]”
― The Varieties of Religious Experience
― The Varieties of Religious Experience
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