Sentences with phrase «simple living means»

Simple living means a lot of different things for them.

Not exact matches

The simplest explanation of this rule is this: the biggest Social Security check in the family is a 100 % «joint - and - survivor» benefit, meaning that large check keeps paying as long as either spouse is living.

It's pretty simple, the «meaning to your life» is while you're alive, not after you die.

A review of Kierkegaard's treatment of the temporal «moment of vision» or «instant» (Augenblick) in this work is probably the best insulation against supposing too quickly that what Heidegger means to bring out about Dasein by insisting that in each case we «are» it is the simple subjective immediacy of psychic life.

I know that I've shifted in what I blog over the years — less blogging about my tinies experiences / lives, for instance, less burn - down - the - Internet soapbox rants, less day - in - the - life blogging with simple stories from daily life — but that means that when I do write, it's with more thoughtfulness and intention, I hope.

Just because someone said some magic words over water does not mean it somehow changed the water... it is still just water... a simple chemical compound with amazing characteristics... one of the reasons it was incorporated into your relgion is because it was realized that water is a key to life... not divinity.

I do have a logical exlpanation of the meaning in my life, a very simple one.

Unfortunately, they don't have the sense of autonomy that would lead them to refuse sex if their own life - chances (as well as those of their as - yet - unborn children) are in danger of being damaged by male reluctance to use the simple means of contraception readily available.

I would strike up a conversation, then say «you don't know me but I'm a Christian and God is going to share with me about your life» I don't mean simple things like «you have the flu» or «Headaches», but deep, personal things that others couldn't know or even guess.

But the meaning evoked may not consist so much of an orderly, systematic accounting of life as of a simple intuitive sense that life as such has meaning.

This deepening and solidification has produced several highly significant developments in Buber's thought: a growing concern with the nature and meaning of evil as opposed to his earlier tendency to treat evil as a negative aspect of something else; a growing concern with freedom and grace, divine and human love, and the dread through which man must pass to reach God; a steady movement toward concern with the simpler and more concrete aspects of everyday life; and an ever greater simplicity and solidity of style.

Our life, therefore, is a search for the meaning of spirit, not a simple possession of it, even though we are spiritual beings.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns in a power struggle.

But after a while, in our new generations, we see what happens when God disappears... The major problem is that if God is not there and the Creator of my life is not there, in reality life is a simple part of evolution, nothing more, it does not have meaning in itself.»

It may simply mean that in that denomination evangelism is a separate function — and therefore needs to develop a holism of its own — or that the materials sent me represent a larger slice of that denomination's life than what others would call «evangelism pure and simple.»

«14 He adds,»... we must break once for all with the idea of death as simple destruction of an individual... individuals are eternal realities... «15 Using the illustration of a book he says, «Death is the last page of the last chapter of the book of one's life... «16 And he comments,»... death, like «finis» at the end of a book, no more means the destruction of our earthly reality than the last chapter of a book means the destruction of the book.

The motu proprio, he insists, «compromises thecoherence of the Church's self - understanding and threatens to reduce the liturgy to a simple matter of individual «taste» rather than what it is meant to be: an accurate reflection of what we believe as Catholic Christians who live in the twenty - first century»: for that, of course is utterly different from what Catholic Christians who lived in previous centuries (and in the twentieth century before the sixties) believed: hence, the absolute indefensibility of what he calls «this medieval rite».

Do you mean to tell me that building a church and teaching sermons about Jesus in impoverished South American countries is somehow less effective than building family housing, teaching modern irrigation techniques, and demonstrating how even the simplest modern medicine and hygeine practices can save many, many lives?

If evolution is a fact and if the most basic meaning of evolution is that the complex forms of life emerge from the simple, how can the dualistic forms of evolutionary theory account for the emergence of the human mind from inert lifeless matter, the animate from the inanimate?

-- but it takes only a moment's encounter with Christ Himself for a simple believer to find the whole meaning of life.

Even a professed atheist like Jean - Paul Sartre, despite his protests and despite his insistence that the only meaning is what we ourselves put into things, evidently still finds sufficient sense in the simple fact of living so that he does not take his own life.

To live «in the moment» means to be gracefully present to the simplest and most complex joys and tasks.

Sometimes I wonder if it would be easier (or maybe I mean, simpler, or CLEARER) to just navigate a total walking away from faith, instead of a very specific changing of faith and remaining in faith, but having a very, very significant shift in what you believe and how you live it out, because family and friends will carry on like nothing's changed, but EVERYTHING has changed, even within faith.

God could had it been both ways is possible for him... created of all livings from chemicals to full creatures... in the book if looked so simple is because God message was to people with less knowldge premitive whether in the east or west... and had to be in simple examples but that might hold big meanings in today's knowldge and facilities... about mankind God created at it's best, but never in the Quran it was stated that men had been given his (God's) looks... God told us that all creatures are nations like us, which means they were created in the same way... although God as well spoke of integration of mankind and well as animals in cross marriages that made variable nations...

There were of course some sharp questions about the unequal distribution of wealth and power, hut beyond that was the question whether the quality life was a simple function of wealth and power, or whether the endless accumulation of wealth and power was not destroying the quality and meaning of life, ecologically and sociologically.

God could had creation either ways is possible for him... created of all livings from chemicals to full creatures... in the book if looked so simple is because God message was to people with less knowldge premitive whether in the east or west... and had to be in simple examples but that might hold big meanings in today's knowldge and facilities... about mankind God created at it's best, but never in the Quran it was stated that men had been given his (God's) looks... God told us that all creatures are nations like us, which means they were created in the same way... although God as well spoke of integration of mankind and well as animals in cross marriages that made variable nations...

Note also in the reading that this is the word, it is what God said to Moses; that the quality of divine compassion and mercy and grace here comes through as it has not previously in Exodus; that this is a recital of faith in the nature and purpose of God (see the emphasis upon the divine «I,» even more pronounced in Hebrew, and compare the same feature in Joshua 24); and that all of this is an expansion of the single, simple, eloquent theme which opens and closes the recital: «I am the LORD,» conveying in the very name all the essential meaning of the divine Life.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place, without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words» father, mother, spouse, parents» retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs or a pawns in a power struggle.

Education, social skills, «contacts» and experience in the dominant culture are all part of what it means to be «nonpoor,» and since none of these can simply be shed, even someone who has embraced voluntary poverty or some kind of simpler life style remains middle class in the most important respects.

The simple pages of Genesis reveal in sheer majesty both the original plan of God, and the qualities of human nature in that beginning, and what could, and did befall if man ate of the tree of the experience of sin: the harmony with God is destroyed, and the tyrannical power of the soul in man, if man adores himself as his sole centre of life and meaning, is to bring into the flesh a storm of unruly desire and addictive greed.

In the sermon on the meaning of life, the direction of movement is from complexity and searching in many directions to simple, succinctly codified answers.

Each describes a seemingly simple answer to the question of the meaning of life and then negates this answer with statements that typify confusion, mystery, openness, searching: «he does not know real answers,» «you don't know where you're going,» «we find ourselves never getting anywhere,» «what are the real answers,» «knowledge does not contain answers,» «there are no answers in power,» and so forth.

Again — I'm not religious, but don't misinterpret simple simple language and make yourself look ignorant — «heaven and earth» — it's a phrase which means «everything» — not the «afterlife» or «where God lives».

For some people living your purpose may be enjoying a simple, happy and uncomplicated life engulfed in personal meaning.

And the fact that it is so utterly simple to make means you can enjoy this life - changing nourishment whenever you want.

He has simple, nonmaterialistic desires, and he thrives on the remote and the solitary, whether that means living in the town of Gunnison, Colo., (pop.

The goal is actually quite simple: keep or add the stuff that increases the joy, meaning, and connection in your life, and reduce or get rid of the stuff that doesn't.

Developed by moms, the Gunapod is a soft baby sleep sack that has a simple - yet - ingenious layout of zippers and snaps incredibly easy to adjust into many configurations, which means baby is more comfortable & mom's life is easier.

We have the means to pay for our simple life.

Living collectively meant that it took forever to get a decision on anything, so something as simple as «hey can we wash cloth diapers in the washer?»

Tell them, in very simple terms, what it all means to them and their lives.

Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More by Doing Less by Christine Koh and Asha Dornfest is a simple introduction to what it means to be «minimalist» when you have kids but don't let the word scare you off, minimalist can mean many things to many people.

Pets have a way of calming us down, and because they live in the moment they can help tweens prioritize and find meaning and joy in simple things.

Sustaining our family's lifestyle, no matter how simple we live, means we need to create an income for ourselves.

Overall, the message is as simple as the means are complex — know who your people are, go find»em where they live, and make it easy for them to stay in touch.

«We continue to appreciate what you are doing for our youth because when you take these children off the streets, you provide the means for them to live a simple life.

An early diagnosis can mean simpler and more effective treatment - it can potentially be live - saving.

We live by the simple belief — which has proven true time after time — that the election of Democrats means better government for everyone.

But let's be clear, the simple act of purchasing food / heat / light and other essentials means I am funding commercial broadcasters, because it would be practically impossible to buy most of life's necessities without purchasing things whose price includes the cost of advertising on commercial broadcasters.

It could mean a simpler scenario for how that first spark of life came about on the planet.