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 55
... self - image or the personality picture . Was it not the great Goethe who , when asked to name the most prevalent and most consuming human desire , replied , " To be wanted " ? I have no doubt that the complexes of desires enjoyed and ...
... self - image or the personality picture . Was it not the great Goethe who , when asked to name the most prevalent and most consuming human desire , replied , " To be wanted " ? I have no doubt that the complexes of desires enjoyed and ...
الصفحة 58
... self - image , grasping , fighting , competing , for self - satisfaction with oneself . This can lead to some success , or to breakdown with subsequent death . Perhaps the greatest blow to this self - appraisal , which even the ...
... self - image , grasping , fighting , competing , for self - satisfaction with oneself . This can lead to some success , or to breakdown with subsequent death . Perhaps the greatest blow to this self - appraisal , which even the ...
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