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Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.

My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq

It was made clear to me that Music is related to everything, especially nature and language, but in order to speak it naturally, I had to first make myself a part of it.

The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright.

Man's Search for Meaning

God never cooperates with evil. He simply offers us the opportunity to transform the painful experiences in our lives into advantages and blessings. (Fr. Maximos)

The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality

In summing up Lawrence's earlier novels and in anticipating the later, Sons and Lovers is of central importance to the whole Lawrence canon because it contains the psychological basis of much of the later doctrine.

The Novels of D. H. Lawrence: A Search for Integration

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

I understood that no one could have lobbed such a stinging wad of shame out into the world without having a considerable personal reserve of it to draw on.

Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.

Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

In fact, the idea of a God who is both all-powerful and all good is a logical impossibility.

Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

The search for the soul mate, the perfect partner to complete you, is a bit like searching for the perfect food when you’ve got a giant ulcer in your stomach. No matter what you find, it will never be good enough.

The Love Mindset

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays

My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it’s absurdity dressed up in a three-piece business suit.

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see the wild an reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its moods, its color, its nature.

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

Travels with Charley: In Search of America

I realized the preserving a relationship at all costs was not as important as affirming the human right to be free from abusive treatment.

Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search For What Saves Us

A God who punishes disobedience will teach us to obey and endure when it would be holy to protest and righteous to refuse to cooperate.

Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search For What Saves Us

Dancing falls into the same category as poetry for a woman – it equals dreaming, which may inspire thoughts about such banned topics as love and desire.

The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

For Christians . . . an unreflective faith is not possible if we take seriously the injunction to love God with the mind as well as the heart and soul.

What Does a Progressive Christian Believe?: A Guide for the Searching, the Open, and the Curious