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Jude, St
3.1
,
3.2

Juno

Katib, Abid:
Shifa hospital, Gaza
8.1

Keats, John
4.1
,
10.1

Lacaille, Nicolas

Laodicea, Council of (AD 364)

Last Supper
2.1
,
2.2

Lateran, Fourth Council of the (1213–15)

law
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
10.1

Leeds

Levitt, Helen:
New York
8.1
,
8.2

libertarianism
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
3.5
,
3.6
,
3.7

liberty
see
freedom

Lincoln, Abraham

Lippi, Filippino:
The Adoration of the

Child
8.1
,
8.2

literature
1.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
4.6
,
4.7
,
8.1

loneliness
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4

Long, Richard:
Red Slate Circle
8.1

Louis XI

Louvre museum
8.1
,
8.2

love
2.1
,
2.2
,
3.1
,
6.1
,
8.1

Luke, St

McDonald's Corporation

Manchester

mandalas, Buddhist
8.1
,
8.2

Mantegna, Andrea:
Crucifixion
8.1
,
8.2

Marcel, St

Marcus Aurelius
4.1
,
4.2

marriage
2.1
,
3.1
,
6.1

Mars

Martin, Agnes

Marx, Karl

Mary, Virgin
5.1
,
5.2
,
5.3
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
8.3
,
8.4
; Seven Sorrows
8.5
,
8.6

Maslow, Abraham

Mass
see
Catholicism

meals

meditation
4.1
,
4.2

metaphysics

Michelangelo Buonarroti:
Pietà
8.1

mikveh
4.1
,
4.2

Mill, John Stuart
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
4.6
;
On Liberty
3.1

Milton, John:
Paradise Lost
7.1

Mishnah
3.1
,
3.2

Missal
see
Catholicism

Modernism

monasticism
1.1
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
8.1
,
8.2

Montaigne, Michel de

museums and art galleries
2.1
,
8.1
,
8.2
,
9.1

Musil, Robert

news

Nhat Hanh, Thich

Nietzsche, Friedrich
1.1
,
10.1

Oe, Kenzaburo

oratory
4.1
,
4.2

Original Sin

Padua: basilica of St Anthony
4.1
,
4.2
,
10.1
; Cappella Scrovegni
3.1
,
3.2

paganism

Palissy, Bernard

paradise
1.1
,
3.1
,
6.1
,
6.2
,
10.1

parenting
3.1
,
3.2

Pascal, Blaise:
Pensées
6.1

Passover
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4

paternalism
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3
,
3.4
,
3.5

Pentateuch
see
Torah

Pentecostalism
4.1
,
4.2

Pericles

perspective
7.1
,
8.1
,
9.1

pessimism

Pessoa, Fernando

Philip Neri, St

philosophy, teaching and study of
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
4.5
,
4.6

physics, teaching and study of

pilgrimages
4.1
,
9.1
,
9.2
,
10.1

Plato
4.1
;
Republic
10.1
,
10.2

Plotinus

population density

Poussin, Nicolas

prayer
4.1
,
5.1
,
6.1

pride
2.1
,
3.1

progress, scientific and economic
6.1
,
6.2

propaganda

property development
9.1
,
9.2

Protestantism
9.1
,
9.2

Proust, Marcel

Psalms
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2

psalter
3.1

psychotherapy
10.1
,
10.2

publishing
4.1
,
10.1

Pugin, Augustus
9.1
,
9.2

reading
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
8.1

Reformation

Rembrandt:
Christ in the Storm on the

Sea of Galilee
8.1

restaurants

retreats, religious
4.1

Rilke, Rainer Maria, ‘Archaic Torso of Apollo'

Rita of Cascia, St

Roman Empire
2.1
,
4.1
,
9.1
; deities
5.1
,
9.2
; rise of Christianity
1.1
,
10.1

Romanticism
8.1
,
10.1
,
10.2
,
10.3
,
10.4
,
10.5
,
10.6

Rome: Basilica of San Lorenzo
9.1
; Chiesa del Gesù
9.2
,
9.3
; San Lorenzo in Miranda
1.1

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

saints
3.1
,
9.1
; secular
10.1
,
10.2
;
see also
individual saints

Salvi, Giovanni Battista:
The Madonna in

Sorrow
5.1

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Seneca
4.1
,
4.2

sermons
1.1
,
1.2
,
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

Serra, Richard

Seven Sorrows of Mary
8.1
,
8.2

sex: and marriage
2.1
; religious laws on
3.1

Shakespeare, William
10.1
,
10.2

shrines
4.1
,
4.2
,
9.1
,
10.1

Smith, Adam

Smith, Paul

sophists
4.1
,
4.2

Soth, Alec

soul
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

spas

Spinoza, Benedictus de
7.1
,
7.2

spiritual exercises

stars
7.1
,
7.2

Stations of the Cross
8.1
,
8.2

status, social
2.1
,
2.2
,
10.1

Stendhal

strangers, fear of
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3

Struth, Thomas
8.1
,
8.2
;
National

Gallery I, London
8.1

suffering

Talmud
3.1
,
3.2
,
10.1

Tarkovsky, Andrei

tavolette
8.1
,
8.2

taxation

tea ceremony
see
Zen Buddhism

technological progress
6.1
,
6.2

teddy bears

telescopes
6.1
,
7.1
,
7.2
,
7.3
,
9.1

Ten Commandments

theft
3.1
,
3.2
,
3.3

Theravada Buddhism

Thomas Becket, St
2.1

Titian
8.1
,
8.2
;
The Flight into Egypt
8.3
,
8.4

Tolstoy, Leo:
Anna Karenina
4.1
;
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
4.2

Torah
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

Torgau: Schloss Hartenfels chapel
9.1
,
9.2

Torments of Hell
3.1

Trent, Council of (1563)

tsukimi
see
Zen Buddhism

United States
4.1
,
4.2
,
6.1

universities
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3
,
4.4
,
8.1
,
10.1

urban life
2.1
,
2.2
,
2.3
,
2.4
,
2.5
,
9.1

Utrecht: Cathedral of St Martin
9.1

van Orley, Bernard:
The Seven Sorrows

of the Virgin
8.1

Veneziano, Paolo

Venice: Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari

Venus

Vipers, Father Chris
10.1

Wagner, Richard

Wailing Wall
6.1
,
6.2

Wall, Jeff

weddings
see
marriage

welfare benefits
2.1
,
2.2

Wesley, John
4.1
,
4.2
,
4.3

Whitman, Walt
3.1
,
4.1
,
4.2

Winnicott, Donald

Woolf, Virginia
3.1

work: careerism
2.1
,
2.2
; commuting
2.3
,
2.4
; recruitment
10.1
; training manuals
10.2

Yom Kippur
see
Day of Atonement

Zen architecture
1.1
,
9.1

Zen Buddhism
2.1
,
4.1
;
chanoyu
(tea ceremony)
4.2
,
4.3
;
tsukimi
(ritual) celebrations
10.1
,
10.2

Zophar the Naamathite

Zurbarán, Francisco de:
The Bound Lamb
8.1

About the Author

Alain de Botton
is the author of essays on themes ranging from love and travel to architecture and philosophy. His best-selling books include
How Proust Can Change Your Life, The Art of Travel
and
The Architecture of Happiness
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