Word: insights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taking that leadership towards a universal religion for a world that is becoming scientifically one, Christianity need not replace other religions. Since in their basic concepts-e.g., the idea of dying to gain life, the idea of renunciation as a condition of insight-the great religions are already "fused ... at the top," they can continue to exist within the framework of an overall world view which will "necessarily be Christian in substance." But to achieve leadership, Christianity must first recapture the "spiritual iron" that the East has never lost...
From this prose Noah's ark aglut with fish and fowl, an olive branch of insight occasionally extends. The Old Man has a grave regional piety towards nature, and the Boy glows with a spontaneous, open-eyed wonder before it. The cycle of the seasons takes on a sensuous reality never suggested by the city-dweller's falling calendar leaves. But Author Ruark's major trouble is suggested by his title. Page after page of The Old Man and the Boy is mock-Hemingway in style and he-boy sentiments. Indeed, if Ernest Hemingway did not exist...
Since ideas have form, this formlessness is completely different from any ideas that one may have about it. The only understanding of it comes from "satori" or the "awakening," an instantaneous flash of insight. It is impossible, he concluded, to "seek the Buddha externally," but only in oneself...
...insight you portrayed in your story on Althea Gibson was very heartwarming. She is a tribute to her race and a great credit not only to tennis but to all American athletes and I believe she will be the "best woman tennis player who ever lived...
...Crucial Insight. Though liberal-arts education can never be completely Christian, or Christian education wholly liberal, said Princeton Historian E. Harris Harbison, a Presbyterian, the two are really indispensable to each other. "The goal of the liberal arts is to provide hindsight and foresight [in] this universe of things and events; the part of Christian belief is to provide insight, [which] is of crucial significance for living . . . William James remarked . . . 'When we see all things in God and refer all things to Him, we read in common matters superior expressions of meaning . . .' Here is the essence...