Homeflavor
Home
Categories
All
Literature
History
Art & Culture
Science & Tech
Social Science
Religion & Philosophy
Lifestyle & Hobby
Health & Medicine
Education & Reference
Home
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James
2. Temperance in meat and drink, simplicity of apparel, chastity,
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James
2. Temperance in meat and drink, simplicity of apparel, chastity,
Chapter 7
21 words
Chapters
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
and non‐pampering of the body generally, may be fruits of the love of purity, shocked by whatever savors of the sensual.
Previous Chapter
Next Chapter