Category: Philosophy & Ethics

Spiritual Energies in Daily Life

We are all familiar with the coming of a peace into our life at the terminus of some great strain or after we have weathered a staggering crisis. When a long-continued pain which has racked our nerves passes away and leaves us free, we suddenly come into a zone of peace. When...

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I

2. CHAPTER II

3. CHAPTER III

4. CHAPTER IV

5. CHAPTER V

6. CHAPTER VI

7. CHAPTER VII

8. CHAPTER VIII

9. CHAPTER X

10. CHAPTER I

We are all familiar with the coming of a peace into our life at the terminus of some great strain or after we have weathered a staggering crisis. When a long-continued pain whic...

11. CHAPTER II

A very fresh and unusual type of book has recently appeared under the title, “_By An Unknown Disciple_.” It tells in a simple, direct, impressive way, after the manner of the Go...

12. CHAPTER III

If we sprinkle iron filings over a sheet of paper and move a magnet beneath the paper, the filings become active and combine and recombine in a great variety of groupings and re...

13. CHAPTER IV

From the porch of my little summer cottage in Maine I can see, across the beautiful stretch of lake in the foreground, the far-distant Kennebago Mountains in their veil of purpl...

14. CHAPTER V

A generation ago almost everybody read, at least once, Carlyle’s great book on heroes. He gave us the hero as prophet, as priest, as poet, as king, and he made us realize that t...

15. CHAPTER VI

We have all been asking, “What is the matter with the Church? Why is it so weak and ineffective? Why does it exercise such a feeble influence in the world to-day? Why do men car...

16. CHAPTER VII

Anaxagoras said twenty-five hundred years ago that men are always cutting the world in two with a hatchet. William James, in one of his living phrases, says with the same import...

17. CHAPTER VIII

The Greeks had their story of Tithonus, a deeply significant myth of a man who could not die, but who grew ever older and more decrepit until the tragedy became unendurable and...

18. CHAPTER IX

The revival of mysticism which has been one of the noteworthy features in the Christianity of our time has presented us with a number of interesting and important questions. We...

19. CHAPTER X

Twenty years ago in _A Dynamic Faith_, after reviewing the new questions which the great sciences had raised for religion, I said: “There are still harder problems than any of t...