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The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James
1. Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood,
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James
1. Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood,
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Chapter 1: Chapter 1
Chapter 2: 1. A feeling of being in a wider life than that of this world’s selfish
Chapter 3: 2. A sense of the friendly continuity of the ideal power with our own
Chapter 4: 3. An immense elation and freedom, as the outlines of the confining
Chapter 5: 4. A shifting of the emotional centre towards loving and harmonious
Chapter 6: 1. Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood,
Chapter 7: 2. Temperance in meat and drink, simplicity of apparel, chastity,
Chapter 8: 3. They may also be fruits of love, that is, they may appeal to
Chapter 9: 4. Again, ascetic mortifications and torments may be due to
Chapter 10: 5. In psychopathic persons, mortifications may be entered on
Chapter 11: 6. Finally, ascetic exercises may in rarer instances be prompted
Chapter 12: 1. _Ineffability._—The handiest of the marks by which I classify a state
Chapter 13: 2. _Noetic quality._—Although so similar to states of feeling, mystical
Chapter 14: 3. _Transiency._—Mystical states cannot be sustained for long. Except in
Chapter 15: 4. _Passivity._—Although the oncoming of mystical states may be
Chapter 16: 1. That the visible world is part of a more spiritual universe from which
Chapter 17: 2. That union or harmonious relation with that higher universe is our true
Chapter 18: 3. That prayer or inner communion with the spirit thereof—be that spirit
Chapter 19: 4. A new zest which adds itself like a gift to life, and takes the form
Chapter 20: 5. An assurance of safety and a temper of peace, and, in relation to
Chapter 21: 1. The uneasiness, reduced to its simplest terms, is a sense that there is
Chapter 22: 2. The solution is a sense that _we are saved from the wrongness_ by
Chapter 23: 141. Compare the other highly curious instances which he gives on
Chapter 24: Chapter xi. of book ii. of Saint John’s Ascent of Carmel is devoted
disgusted with too much ease.
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