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Stories We Tell Ourselves

Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe

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Stories We Tell Ourselves

By: Richard Holloway
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Throughout history we have told ourselves stories to try and make sense of what it all means: our place in a small corner of one of billions of galaxies, at the end of billions of years of existence. In this new book Richard Holloway takes us on a personal, scientific and philosophical journey to explore what he believes the answers to the biggest of questions are. He examines what we know about the universe into which - without any choice in the matter - we are propelled at birth and from which we are expelled at death, the stories we have told about where we come from and the stories we tell to get through this muddling experience of life.

Thought-provoking, revelatory, compassionate and playful, Stories We Tell Ourselves is a personal reckoning with life's mysteries by one of the most important and beloved thinkers of our time.

©2020 Richard Holloway (P)2020 Canongate Books Ltd World Thought-Provoking
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I have listened to this twice , and will listen again. He encourages to forgive and to be generous and mindful . In thirst difficult times with fake news and tribal natures flourishing, it is a good time to question our beliefs.

Inspiring throughout with moments of sublime poetry.

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