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With poems of unparalleled clarity and insight, Mary Oliver captures the startlingly simple elegance of the natural world. In House of Light and other volumes of verse, she harnesses transient impressions of the outdoors and then questions our relationship with nature and with ourselves. Recognizing the tension between human morality and the amorality of nature itself, Oliver suggests that her readers reconsider their perceptions of the defining differences between humans and birds and blades of grass and even the inanimate objects that fill our world. But even as she has, in over 35 years of writing, explored questions of personal...
...hold the ideal of romantic love in low esteem. It greatly values physical beauty, which is transient and vacuous and often serves to justify sexual behavior that would otherwise be recognized as unacceptable. It breeds vindictive jealousy at least as often as it does altruism, and it hypocritically presents as selfless what is immensely egotistic. C.S. Lewis writes in the preface to The Screwtape Letters: "In human life we have seen the passion to dominate, almost to digest, one's fellow; to make his whole intellectual and emotional life merely an extension of one's own--to hate...
...that smacks of opportunity. If we step away from the transient worry about whether the Fed will cut rates further when it meets this week, we can see that bank stocks are selling for substantially less than almost any other sector of the market. Tech, drugs and even oil shares trade at a much higher valuation, relative to expected earnings. Why? Because many bank loans have gone bad in Asia, Russia and Latin America, not to mention the Long Term Capital hedge fund...
...high school and it killed me to be home every weekend watching M.A.S.H. But after all my surgeries I became the hottest thing since sliced bread. I never was home during the weekend after that and I've managed to have multiple, superficial and transient relationships. Don't worry what anyone thinks, do what you gotta do to get the lovin' that you deserve...
Nicholi quoted Lewis to give the Christian perspective on this issue, which is a part of a stated goal of the lecture series. The quote displays Lewis's reason for the transient quality of happiness: "The Creator refreshes the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not allow us to mistake them...