I previously suffered with anxiety, fear of disapproval, an inability to set personal boundaries and difficulty identifying general convictions. (marriagerecoverycenter.com)
Freud treated dreams as «the royal road to the unconscious,» a thesis that served his general conviction that consciousness, the reasoned control of life, constitutes only the surface part of the energies that propel or immobilize persons. (religion-online.org)
If Jesus» belief in miracles is understood as a general conviction that certain happenings, which we today are accustomed to attribute to natural causes, depend upon a higher, divine cause, then the belief is meaningless and has no relation to his idea of God. (religion-online.org)