It is from religion that much of our thinking about God and morality originate, thus it seems appropriate to start with the question, what is religion? One of the many possible definitions Heschel gives us is that "religion is the answer to man's ultimate questions." ... Heschel states that when we are oblivious to ultimate questions, when we cease to think about the meaning of our lives, religion becomes meaningless. ... It is difficult to remain immune to the anxiety of the question, whence we come, where are we, and wither are we going." ... "It is as if God were unwilling to be ...

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There are times in life that you question the meaningfulness of life. The subject of death is a prime example of how people begin to question the meaning of life. ... Look at your life and ask questions: Am I happy? ... If you have to ask yourself that question then you are further away from the truth than you think. ... That also was the question Plato asked himself about 400 years before Christ. ...

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Lion (1987) is a novel which takes place in Toronto in the years following the First World War. Ondaatje's next novel, 1992's The English Patient, won the Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize, and was made into an award-winning film. In The Skin Of A Lion is a love story and an irresistible mystery set in the turbulent, muscular new world of Toronto in the ' 20s and ' 30s. Michael Ondaatje entwines adventure, romance and history, real and invented, enmeshing us in the lives of the immigrants who built the city and those who dreamed it into being: the politic...

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