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...perhaps you can, if only for a moment, attain to the radically transformed, profound and transcendent state of consciousness of "Within You Without...
...role in achieving a reconciliation within its flock. But the truth is that the Latin American Catholic church has almost always been identified with the privileged powers, from the days when its priests went ashore with the conquistadors. As a result, there is widespread doubt that it can ever attain the status of a reunifying social force...
...began when white missionaries undercut the tribal status system by proselytizing its lowliest members, such as women, children and assorted outcasts. As elders lost prestige, the young flocked to cities; severed from tribal morals yet longing for them, some sank into alcoholism, prostitution and petty crime in order to attain Western luxuries. Most were victims of "alienation"?also a Western luxury of sorts...
...Arab speakers called in thundering phrases for a renewal of the war, foreshadowing further strife in the Middle East. As a fighting slogan the Arab nations have adopted "Victory or Martyrdom," and in a nationwide speech, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser declared that "we have no alternative but to attain unequivocal, decisive and dignified victory...
...raising a family, providing for them and maintain ing the virtues, we just don't have time for marital adventures outside our own home. Although admittedly we have to resort from time to time to sending all the children to a wickedly expensive Disney film in order to attain dark at the top of the stairs...