Literature is not so much self-improvement as self-conversation, self-prayer: the experience of literature, he has said, "is the experience of an isolate and solipsising glory..
Jasper Britton's fine Henry IV is a tormented usurper, first seen prostrate in self-abasing prayer, capable of volcanic violence: his brutal treatment of Trevor White's bolshie Hotspur in the opening scenes explains the ensuing rebellion.
After a LOT of self-reflection, prayer, and consultation, I decided to decline the offer.
Life at the edge of the forest is nightmarish before anything witchy occurs: gray skies, hard labor, self-flagellating prayer, the twins skipping and shrieking obnoxiously around the farmyard, playing with a black billy goat.
Part II consisted of multiple response items for CAM use, MBP (e.g., exercise, massage), PFH (self-performed prayer for own health/have asked others to pray for your health/participated in a prayer group with ritual or sacrament for your health), NP (e.g., vitamin and mineral supplements, cleansing and detoxifying diets, antioxidants), and TM (indigenous medicine).
First, consider self-directed prayers.
Which might perhaps explain why what began as a vengeful act became in the end, in its creator's mind at least, a votive act of self-mortification and prayer – an act of self-rescue.
The Reverend Frederick Cavell was a stern Victorian paterfamilias who ruled his family along strict Christian lines: prayer, self-denial and duty to others.
Nil Sorsky was renowned for his asceticism and devotion, suggesting that, through self-discipline and prayer, you could directly commune with God, making irrelevant the extravagant rituals of Orthodoxy.
Let's call the first kind of prayer "self-directed," and let's call the second kind of prayer "other-directed".
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