Word: sunsets
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...Still, in Bali last week, life went on. Locals decked out in their finest clothes?colorful sarongs, snowy-white jackets, gold woven headscarves?flocked to the island's beaches at sunset to celebrate their most important festival, Galungan. It's a day when the Balinese recall the legendary victory of Dharma over Adharma, of good over evil. But even as they lit their festive candles and covered the beach with baskets of flowers, it was hard to forget the blood that had so recently been spilled on these same sands?and tempting to wonder if evil has once again regained...
...Sunset in the West,” comment, Sept...
...truly concerned with “a belief in the future,” he should look directly in front of him instead of looking up at the sunset. While the cohesiveness of a religious society may very well be shown in its churches, I side with Dostoyevsky and say that “the degree of civilization in society is revealed by entering its prisons.” If one does not want a society to fall because of its feebleness, start there...
...been canceled due to mechanical problems, and I’d have to fly out early Sunday morning instead. So I had a free Saturday night, out of the blue! I jumped in a taxi and got home in time to join my girlfriend Rebecca for a long sunset walk along the Charles and around Harvard Square...
...preach for the first time. By daytime the deer park is unimpressive. As the sun sets, though, the brick ruins of the monasteries glow incandescently amid the lush green grass. Just beyond the park's walls, a peacock climbs the roof of a Burmese Buddhist monastery to watch the sunset. In the other corner, near a statue of the Buddha preaching to his first five disciples, visitors gather around a monk who starts reciting the master's first sermon. As you listen, it is as if 2,500 years have been rolled back and you are hearing the Buddha himself...