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Aug 30, 2016 · He confronted death directly, with courageous curiosity and radiant lucidity, in one of his New York Times essays posthumously collected in the small, enormously life-affirming book Gratitude (public library) — that great parting gift which gave us Dr. Sacks’s warm wisdom on the measure of living and the dignity of dying, edited by his partner, the writer and photographer Bill Hayes, and ...
Oliver Sacks. Eye, Imagination, Brain. 146 Copy quote. Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. Oliver Sacks. Memories, Imagination, Perception. Oliver Sacks (2011). “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain”, p.127, Pan Macmillan.
Quotes. Choose Life. “Choose life. In many other faiths, life down here on earth with its loves, losses, triumphs, and defeats, is not the highest value. Heaven is to be found in life after death, or the soul in unbroken communion with God, or in acceptance of the world-that-is. Life is eternity, life is serenity, life is free of pain.
Here there is suffering, there reward; here chaos, there order; here pain, there balm; here poverty, there plenty. Judaism has relentlessly sought God in the here-and-now of life on earth. Yes, we believe in life after death, but it is in life before death that we truly find human greatness.” Ceremony & Celebration, p. 21
May 15, 2007 · The New Testament writers saw the death of Christ as the climax of his life. His whole life was designed to bring him to the cross (Mark 10:45; John 12:27; Hebrews 2:14). That is why he was born, and why he lived. To speak of the saving effect of his death was therefore to speak of his death as the sum and climax of his sinless life.
Mar 29, 2024 · 2. Jesus’ death is significant because of its cause. The remarkable thing is that, although Jesus was sinless, His death was because of sin – the sin of others. He died to satisfy God’s wrath against human sin. On the day that Adam and Eve sinned in the garden of Eden, the fig-leaf garments they made for themselves proved an insufficient ...
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Sep 4, 2015 · Oliver Sacks, the celebrated neurologic storyteller who died at the end of August at age 82, once described himself as “strongly atheist by disposition.” Sacks could write sensitively about ...
