A Study of Pleasure and PainTheosophical Press, 1962 - 97 من الصفحات The theme of this book is that pain is functional in the advancement and enrichment of life in nature and in man, therefore it should be received with understanding and consideration. The arguments found within are purely scientific and illustrated by examples in the lives of common people. Fully discussed are the topics of how pain arises and ceases and the different kinds of pain. |
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الصفحة 34
... knowledge of them or of his ego . He may think he isn't , but why does he do it ? In living it seems there is always growing and always something that we like . There is constantly with us this overtone of the joy of being , which no ...
... knowledge of them or of his ego . He may think he isn't , but why does he do it ? In living it seems there is always growing and always something that we like . There is constantly with us this overtone of the joy of being , which no ...
الصفحة 67
... knowledge we seek may be not direct knowl- edge about iron or electricity , but other people's knowledge of these things . We find that two heads are better than one , just as two pairs of arms are better than one pair . Our environment ...
... knowledge we seek may be not direct knowl- edge about iron or electricity , but other people's knowledge of these things . We find that two heads are better than one , just as two pairs of arms are better than one pair . Our environment ...
الصفحة 68
... knowledge of the essential ingredients of its increasing edifice of knowledge . This frustration was solved by the birth of love ; that which , piercing the individual's mental egotism as from above , in- forms the individual in a ...
... knowledge of the essential ingredients of its increasing edifice of knowledge . This frustration was solved by the birth of love ; that which , piercing the individual's mental egotism as from above , in- forms the individual in a ...
المحتوى
Pain Among the Animals | 7 |
Plants Animals and Babies | 13 |
Old Age and the Stages of Life | 19 |
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action activity animal antelope anxiety attention awakening better Bhagavad Gita bodily body Buddha called cause Chapter coherence comes consciousness death desires doctrine emotional pains enhancement enjoying enjoyment Epictetus Epicurean evolution example experience extent eyes fact faculties Father feeling function further give grow Hindu human hunger ice-cream idea impulse individual intellect intelligence interest Jesus Julian Huxley kind knowledge law of karma legs living look lower mind material forms matter means meditation memory ment mental merely modern nature nirvana object observed old age one's organs ovum paramecium Patanjali perhaps person philosopher picture pleasure present psychosis purusha realization reason regard Sankhya Sanskrit seen self-image sense sexual selection Sir Edwin Arnold sometimes speak stages Stoic Theosophical Society Theosophists things thinking thought tion tree trouble true truth uncon unity word Yoga Yoga Sutras