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 51
... reason more to guide them to a comfortable and healthy bodily existence , while the Stoics were more concerned with an austere control of emotions by reason , having observed that the follies and fancies of the mind are the chief cause ...
... reason more to guide them to a comfortable and healthy bodily existence , while the Stoics were more concerned with an austere control of emotions by reason , having observed that the follies and fancies of the mind are the chief cause ...
الصفحة 82
... reason to be profoundly grateful to the numerous nameless students and workers of that Society . Speaking of myself , I contacted this doctrine back in the 1890's in the pages of Sir Edwin Arnold's book , about two years before I knew ...
... reason to be profoundly grateful to the numerous nameless students and workers of that Society . Speaking of myself , I contacted this doctrine back in the 1890's in the pages of Sir Edwin Arnold's book , about two years before I knew ...
الصفحة 86
... reason is - as Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick so aptly remarked on one occasion - even if you cannot make up your mind you have to make up your life . We must act , and must do so on the basis of the highest probability . This means that our ...
... reason is - as Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick so aptly remarked on one occasion - even if you cannot make up your mind you have to make up your life . We must act , and must do so on the basis of the highest probability . This means that our ...
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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