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The Varieties of Religous Experience: Lectures VI and VII. The Sick Soul

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The Varieties of Religous Experience: Lecture III. The Reality of the Unseen Similar meaning (72%) The Varieties of Religous Experience: Lecture VIII. The Divided Self, and the Process of its Unification Similar meaning (71%) The Varieties of Religous Experience: Preface Similar meaning (71%) The Varieties of Religious Experience/Lectures VI & VII Similar meaning (70%)
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At our last meeting, we considered the healthy-minded temperament, the temperament which has a constitutional incapacity for prolonged suffering, and in which the tendency to see things optimistically is like a water of crystallization in which the individual's character is set. We saw how this temperament may become the basis for a peculiar type of religion, a religion in which good, even the good of this world's life, is regarded as the essential thing for a rational being to attend to. This…

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