Everyday SpiritsState University of New York Press, 1993 M07 1 - 195 pages Transformation of being begins exactly where one is. This is, for most of us, at home. We are acted upon by objects familiar to us, influenced in unfelt ways, and moved toward a destiny proper to a responsible being. Dwelling is complemented by journeying. To live in a home is to journey on the path that leads through the home to a world beyond. A householder becomes a traveler. A traveler is a seeker after new impressions, fresh impressions of a reality that beckons. Opening to the commonplace—what stands in front of us on the daily round—we are open to the call to respond to our role as mediator between heaven and earth. Everyday Spirits is a book about self-perception. |
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... flying upward with our worship and our prayers " conveys the need of the higher for the denser , darker , and more gravid part of us . In join- ing the ordinary and the extraordinary , both are transformed . Heaven is thereby renewed ...
... flying upward with our worship and our prayers " conveys the need of the higher for the denser , darker , and more gravid part of us . In join- ing the ordinary and the extraordinary , both are transformed . Heaven is thereby renewed ...
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... flying spark , and henceforth can nourish itself " ( Plato , Seventh Letter ) . In that mag- nificent moment , the clan of everyday spirits is ringed round in wel- come . PART ONE SINDBAD 1 LULLABY there any person who cannot ...
... flying spark , and henceforth can nourish itself " ( Plato , Seventh Letter ) . In that mag- nificent moment , the clan of everyday spirits is ringed round in wel- come . PART ONE SINDBAD 1 LULLABY there any person who cannot ...
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... fly's eye and to have no need of sleep . If they were substantial and obeyed the physi- cist's laws , great care would be needed to move about in our world , so dense would their presence be . Our desires announce a god's influ- ence ...
... fly's eye and to have no need of sleep . If they were substantial and obeyed the physi- cist's laws , great care would be needed to move about in our world , so dense would their presence be . Our desires announce a god's influ- ence ...
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