... and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and the subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King ... . Such as a few family members that I have which only believe that God can heal them, and believe that there was no point of the creation of medicine to help cure sickness and diseases. Because of the strong faith that they had, and believi...

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... . It's a beautiful and loving world where communion is shared among all. Bliss and happiness are the rewards of this land of paradise. There is no disease or sickness, no pain or sadness. The metaphysical and spiritual feeling one has, reminds me why I adore this world from that of my own. When I quickly return to consciousness, almost immediately I want to return. Almost everyone ... ...

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... line, out of sight of his prefect..."p 20) person of Stephen Dedalus. His affliction, that is, his artistic affliction/curse, is principally one of the mind and psyche. Phobias are a sickness of the mind and therefore, can only be transcended through use of the psyche, and by the cultivation of the mind.(2) Stephen's flickering and resistant wit is present both when ... the intellectual affiliation is represented by an ephemeral reference to the professor being an "atheist freemason" (and, of course, a professor of mathematics). In the course of Stephen's larger intellectual and spiritu...

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