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Looking In the Distance

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

Looking In the Distance

By Richard Holloway

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About the book

Spirituality, like morality, has historically been tied to religion - and yet it is possible for one to exist without the other. In this meditative and highly personal account, Richard Holloway considers the nature of the spiritual, and what it means to live with the inevitability of death.Both celebration of the possibilities that life affords and an examination of how doubts and fears too often paralyse, especially as we age, Looking in the Distance is an inspiration, told with the compassion ...Show more

Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Narrative theme: Identity / belonging
Parenting: advice and issues

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ISBN

9781786893932

Publisher

Canongate Books Ltd

Published year

2019

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Looking In the Distance

Format

Paperback

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