Not exact matches
When you put first things first, you empower yourself and your team to enjoy every day of this beautiful journey and
achieve heights that can't be reached
by neglecting what is important
in life.»
And the resulting efforts
by some to
achieve mindfulness —
in the workplace as well as
in people's personal
lives — is putting leaders
in a better place to run their companies.
By knowing what to improve and how to improve it, I've been able to
achieve greater success than have my peers
in other areas of
life, too.
What if I were to tell you that you could increase the odds that your kids will
achieve great success
in life — maybe greater success than you've had — simply
by making a small change
in how you praise them and talk about achievement?
Although Periscope has attracted a certain number of passionate users — and has been cited
in the past
by influential users such as Deray McKesson, one of the founders of the Black
Lives Matter movement — it hasn't really
achieved anything close to mainstream acceptance.
The first step to
achieving something vastly important but fuzzily defined like work -
life balance isn't soul - searching or reading up on the issue, it's nailing down what you mean
by the term
in the first place.
Michael
lives by TELUS» philosophy to Give Where You
Live, and when he isn't cheering on his kids at a soccer game, hiking
in the local mountains, or hitting the ski hills, he can be found helping others
achieve their goals.
«All families
in my upper middle - class neighborhood regularly enjoy a
living standard better than that
achieved by John D. Rockefeller Sr. at the time of my birth.
In addition to improving their quality of
life by achieving work -
life balance, 93 percent of working parents say that having a flexible work arrangement would increase their volunteerism at their children's schools or organized activities.
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Yet Christians are commanded to be «prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is
in you» (1 Peter 3:15), and unless one is determined to do no more than mutely wave people towards the nearest church, this can only be
achieved by giving some account of the coherence (not perfection) and development (not fulfillment) one discerns
in one's own
life.
This would assume an «imaginative,» not a historical, disposition: a divine intent
in history, God - gifted immutable laws of morality, to which man has a duty to conform; order as a first requirement of good governance,
achieved best
by a restraint and respect for custom and tradition; variety as more desirable than systematic uniformity and liberty more desirable than equality; the honor and duty of a good
life in a good community as taking precedence over individual desire; an embrace of a skepticism toward reason and abstract principle.
A person can
achieve the same feeling
by believing
in themselves, and the people close to them; and knowing that with the help of their family and friends they can overcome
life's challenges.
The purpose of the Faith Movement,
in harmony with the Trust Deed of the Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314
in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic Faith
in the modern world,
by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ
in a
living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to
achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradition.
And whoever does not value excellence, especially if it is
achieved by discipline, will not strive for it
in one's own
life.
Moreover, as William Beardslee insists, the story form tells the individual «where he has come from and where he is going,» since «
by creating its own ordered world, wherein through struggle and action an end is
achieved, the story expresses faith
in the ultimate reality of order and
life.
John Montague came
by his mature faith honestly: Sent back to his family's Ireland from the Brooklyn of his birth, enduring separation and a simple
life in the complex North, he married
in his works the intimately human and the broadly historical with a seamlessness that few have
achieved.
«It is only
by way of true intercourse with things and beings that man
achieves true
life, but also it is
by this way only that he can take an active part
in the redemption of the world.»
For Bonhoeffer, the perfection of being is
achieved through the transformation of human
life by the redemptive activity of the transcendent God, who identified himself with human beings
in order to effect wholeness.
However improbable
in a mechanistic sense the elaborate organic structure created
by life may appear, it seems increasingly evident that the cosmic substance is drawn toward these states of extreme arrangement
by a particular kind of attraction which compels it,
by the play of large numbers
in which it is involved, to miss no opportunity of becoming more complex and thus
achieving a higher degree of freedom.
Self - contempt is not redeemed
by self - esteem, but only
by mercy and love, which give us the «courage to make definitive decisions indispensable for growth, and
in order to
achieve something great
in life,
in particular, to cause love to mature
in all its beauty» [6],
in a truly feminine woman.
The religious insight is the grasp of truth: that the order of the world, the value of the world
in its whole and
in its parts, the beauty of the world, the zest of
life, and the mastery of evil, are all bound up together — not accidentally, but
by reason of this truth: that the universe exhibits a creativity with infinite freedom, and a realm of forms with infinite possibilities; but that this creativity and these forms together are impotent to
achieve actuality apart from the complete ideal harmony, which is God.61
He said the pessimist
in him mocked his receipt of a degree
in law when «law is ever more a hollow word, resonant but empty,
in a world increasingly dominated
by force,
by violence,
by fraud,
by injustice,
by avarice —
in a word,
by egoism»; when civil law permits «the progressive and rapid increase of oppressed people who continue being swept toward ghettos, without work, without health, without instruction, without diversion and, not rarely, without God»; when under so - called international law «more than two - thirds of humanity (exist)
in situations of misery, of hunger, of subhuman
life»; and when agrarian law or spatial law permits «today's powerful landowners to continue to
live at the cost of misery for unhappy pariahs»; and whereby «modern technology
achieves marvels from the earth with an ever - reduced number of rural workers (while) those not needed
in the fields
live sublives
in depressing slums on the outskirts of nearly all the large cities.»
The person acquires strength, not
by achieving depth insight, but
by the exercise of making decisions, taking responsibilities (often small, at the beginning), and handling the stresses of his
life - situation while
in a supportive relationship.
And so may you pass from death to
life, from the authority of tradition to the experience of knowing God; thus will you pass from darkness to light, from a racial faith inherited to a personal faith
achieved by actual experience; and thereby will you progress from a theology of mind handed down
by your ancestors to a true religion of spirit which shall be built up
in your souls as an eternal endowment.
What was
achieved by this struggle
in which thousands of people had to lose their
lives?
And so it follows that the opus humanum laboriously and gradually
achieved within us
by the growth of knowledge and
in the face of evil, is something quite other than an act of higher morality: it is a
living organism.
Agony now is the way of
achieving that reconciliation, that breaking down of the barrier of enmity — which the madness of men prevented love from accomplishing, and the frustration of which is the most refined torment
in the sufferings of the Messiah — a universal agony
in the likeness of that of the Savior, both the agony of the racked, abandoned Jews and of the racked, abandoned Christians who
live by faith.
Behind, through, and
in all our existence there is a relationship with a Love which is enduring, undefeated and indefeasible, faithful
in its caring and able to preserve
in its own unsurpassable
life all that has been worthily
achieved in the created order — including all that has been worthily
achieved by us humans.
Many of the people
in Minimalism had
achieved «success»
by our cultural standards, but were left feeling disillusioned, anxious and depleted so they decided to
live radically different than most Americans.
Maslow (as
in hierarchy of needs) found that self - actualization is only
achieved by those with a REALITY - CENTERED perspective on
life (i.e. Albert Einstein).
A great many of our contemporaries, perhaps the majority, still regard the technico - cultural knitting together of human society as a sort of para-biological epi - phenomenon very inferior
in organic value to other combinations
achieved on the molecular or cellular scale
by the forces of
Life.
In the last analysis Job protests, not his suffering, but an order of existence in which he is unable by his own devices to maintain his life in security and to achieve its fulfillment.17 It is his role against which he rebel
In the last analysis Job protests, not his suffering, but an order of existence
in which he is unable by his own devices to maintain his life in security and to achieve its fulfillment.17 It is his role against which he rebel
in which he is unable
by his own devices to maintain his
life in security and to achieve its fulfillment.17 It is his role against which he rebel
in security and to
achieve its fulfillment.17 It is his role against which he rebels.
The problem of the compromise of the Christian with the necessities of secular
life is solved
in Catholicism
by the establishment within the Church of religious orders
in which, through renunciation of «the world,» the
life of love can be realized and the moral merit thus
achieved, shared with all the believers
in the Church.
His critique of liberalism, as he puts it
in After Virtue, «derives from a judgment that the best type of human
life, that
in which the tradition of the virtues is most adequately embodied, is
lived by those engaged
in constructing and sustaining forms of community directed towards the shared achievement of those common goods without which the ultimate human good can not be
achieved.
James Madison, that staunch advocate of free speech, insisted that the right of people to speak and to listen is not an end
in itself, but is a means of
achieving «popular government,»
by which he meant the democratic process whereby people have the opportunity to take a real part
in the decisions which affect their
lives.
Bonhoeffer treats sanctification
in three aspects of the saints»
lives: (1) holy
living will be
achieved only
by not being conformed to the world; (2) Christian
living will be a result of walking with Christ; (3) «their sanctification will be hidden, and they must wait for the day of Jesus Christ.
In this light the particular problem for the twentieth century Christian as viewed by Cobb is that the structure of existence assumed by Jesus in his day bears little resemblance to the structure of existence which characterizes us, so that the translation of the quality of life achieved by Jesus into a context with which we can identify more immediately is no less radical than the contrast between his situation and ours (PPCT 397
In this light the particular problem for the twentieth century Christian as viewed
by Cobb is that the structure of existence assumed
by Jesus
in his day bears little resemblance to the structure of existence which characterizes us, so that the translation of the quality of life achieved by Jesus into a context with which we can identify more immediately is no less radical than the contrast between his situation and ours (PPCT 397
in his day bears little resemblance to the structure of existence which characterizes us, so that the translation of the quality of
life achieved by Jesus into a context with which we can identify more immediately is no less radical than the contrast between his situation and ours (PPCT 397).
We have yet to resolve, of course, the problem of how we are to translate the quality of
life achieved by Jesus within the structure of existence
in his situation into the «final and unsurpassable structure of existence» introduced
by him for us
in our radically different situation.
The «I» represents the quality of
life achieved within a particular structure of existence as shaped
by the way
in which a person assumes responsibility for himself within the context of the possibilities open to him.4
The moral treason of the «conservative» leaders lies
in the fact that they are hiding behind that camouflage: they do not have the courage to admit that the American way of
life was capitalism, that that was the politico - economic system born and established
in the United States, the system which,
in one brief century,
achieved a level of freedom, of progress, of prosperity, of human happiness, unmatched
in all the other systems and centuries combined — and that that is the system which they are now allowing to perish
by silent default.
The problem remains of how the quality of
life achieved by Jesus within the structure of existence
in his situation is to be translated into the «final and unsurpassable structure of existence» opened up
by Jesus for the Christian
in his radically different situation.
It is to see
in history a process
in which term - making
achieves significant results through the struggle of men of different persuasions with the stubborn facts of human
life guided
by a developing «sense of injustice».
He concludes his critical investigation
in The Historical Jesus: The
Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant with the astonishing sentence «If you can not believe
in something produced
by reconstruction, you may have nothing left to believe
in...» [5] Yet no critical reconstruction of any kind can
achieve a representation of the original reality of Jesus» career beyond the realm of probability.
True peace is
achieved only
by living in conscious connection to our Environment, to Christ our Bread of
Life, the Prince of Peace: synthesising all the elements of human life around the Person who gives them existence and purpose in the first pl
Life, the Prince of Peace: synthesising all the elements of human
life around the Person who gives them existence and purpose in the first pl
life around the Person who gives them existence and purpose
in the first place.
Hence the destruction of rural communities does not count against the gain
in per capita income
achieved by reducing the number of persons
living on the land while producing the same quantity of agricultural products.
@Chad «If you want to demonstrate that God is a myth, you need to answer how the universe came into being, how
life was first created, and how all
life forms as we know them today were
achieved via a totally random series of genetic mutations and how that is
in harmony with stasis
in the fossil record» @hippypoet «I don't really care how we got here nor do I concern myself with the why either» @Chad «exactly» @hippypoet «See, I don't have to answer where, why, and
by whom we are here because I don't need to» @Chad «exactly»
And the way
in which our text contributes to this motif can be gotten at
by asking two questions: one, about the appropriate need, or goal of
life; and two, about the means to meeting that need, or
achieving that goal.
@Chad «If you want to demonstrate that God is a myth, you need to answer how the universe came into being, how
life was first created, and how all
life forms as we know them today were
achieved via a totally random series of genetic mutations and how that is
in harmony with stasis
in the fossil record» @hippypoet «I don't really care how we got here nor do I concern myself with the why either» @Chad «exactly» See, I don't have to answer where, why, and
by whom we are here because I don't need to.
Brown distinguishes between his «eternal Now,» which is
achieved by accepting the «actuality of
living - and - dying, which is always
in the present,» and Eliade's «continual present,» which, as a flight from death, becomes a regressive attachment to «the womb from which
life came» (pp. 284 - 285).