Essays Tagged: "spiritual quest"

Odysseus' Strengths and Weaknesses

Odysseus' Strengths and WeaknessesThe Odyssey by Homer is a metaphor for one man's spiritual quest. Throughout thestory Odysseus develops and growth. Odysseus learns how to use his br ...

(2 pages) 18379 1 5.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Yoga for Sports Performance Why this ancient discipline has become the latest cross-training tool to enhance athletic performance and reduce the risk of injury.

s competition. The poses also serve as a means to alter one's consciousness and mental focus in the spiritual quest for "enlightenment." In essence, yoga is designed to bring body, mind, and spirit in ...

(2 pages) 45 2 4.1 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Society of Friends: History of the Society of Friends and contemporaneous observation

een Catholicism and Anglicanism, and 16th Century Calvinism. At age nineteen, Fox began a four year spiritual quest which ended when he experienced a "direct call from God" to preach the concept of th ... self the "same power to teach, to heal, and to prophesy that the Apostles had." Early Quaker spirituality reflected many Anabaptist ideals. They felt that the essence of Christian belief should ...

(7 pages) 44 0 4.0 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays