Sentences with phrase «awareness of the self as»

That additional quality is the awareness of the self as aware; it is «self - consciousness».

In Augustine a new consciousness takes shape, one that finds the originating and firm center of certainty in the self - awareness of the self as existing, thinking and willing.

Awareness of the Self as an Autonomous Person is Facilitated by the Close Intimate Connection We Call «Attachment»

Not exact matches

As I've gotten older, I've been able to recognize some of the deeper themes of religion, power, and self - awareness that I didn't pick up on when I was 12 or 13.

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As part of our pre-course paperwork, we'd completed a 360 - degree evaluation, wherein we'd rated ourselves in response to questions about habits and performance, about our time management, our self - awareness and trustworthiness, our ability to accept criticism, our ability to listen, and dozens more items.

More pejoratively: The term «tech bro» also refers to a tech company employee who acts entitled, lacks self - awareness and is tone deaf about sensitive issues such as the realities of urban poverty.

As I've argued before, self - awareness is also the meta - skill of the 21st century: Among other benefits, self - aware people are happier with their careers and relationships, are better students, perform better at work and run more profitable companies.

More self - awareness equates to a higher level of emotional intelligence which leads to better decision making that translates to improving in business and as a leader.

Meditation has also been linked to increasing the reserve of willpower we have available, as well as improving attention, focus, stress management, and self - awareness.

Self - Awareness is your ability to accurately perceive your emotions and stay aware of them as they happen.

This book is essential for leaders of companies to read, as it can help increase self - awareness, both in ourselves and our teams.

While the notion of self - awareness as a route to self - improvement can be traced as far back as 600 B.C., she says, it has been only in the past four decades or so that psychologists and others have truly studied it — and tried to understand it on a scientific basis.

As with Jobs, it was only through this long exile that Page was able to mature into a self - awareness of his strengths and weaknesses.

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

A careful choice of words, as well the appropriate facial expression or physical gesture, in all the stages of a child's development, deepens self - awareness.

Being unhindered and unburdened by self - awareness, there is a sincere expression that comes through when their young voices ring out with the melodies and lyrics reflecting the deepest mysteries of grace — mysteries they may not fully understand as they sing.

The prereflective cogito (nonthetic self - awareness) is involved as a necessary structure in both consciousness as mere revealing intuition (prereflective positional consciousness of the world) and consciousness as knowledge (reflective positional consciousness of the past self).

Scientific understanding, humane appreciation, existentialist self - awareness, history as cumulative experience, psychological insight, and respectful regard for what religious people have to tell us about their experience — all are needed for and capable of inclusion in this new perspective.

But Father Heisig indirectly and implicitly suggests that the church might best be understood as the «Divine Without»: «groaning for self - consciousness and development, achieving its first self - reflective glimpses of divinity in the man Jesus and growing into that awareness through the course of history.»

Here once again there is a remarkable similarity between certain emphases in Whitehead as well as in other process - thinkers and the strong insistence of contemporary existentialism on the centrality of the «subjective» feelings and of self - awareness in human experience.

If he has achieved reasonable awareness and self - acceptance of his own weaknesses and sin, he will be better able to stand for what he regards as right without being self - righteous, moralistic, or rejecting of other sinners.

Now a considerable number of Christians see his divinity in some special feature of his humanity, such as his intense awareness of God, or his total self - giving and sacrificial love.

The fact that Rinzai hoped for a creative response is itself exemplary of the fact that, in Zen, the true self includes volition as well as awareness.

These people I talk about have no clue what they are doing as if they don't have any self - awareness of what they are doing.

If the reality at work is the inner creativity of God expressing himself as, among other things, the «low - level universals» of a multiplicity of «I's» or as expressing himself in the supposed subjectivity of psychicalized cells, how exactly does my present self - awareness derive from this?

the seeming absence 0f other selves within experience is what my theory implies would characterize human experience, since a self on that level could not conveniently manage other selves as clearly and distinctly manifest to it, but only selves on such a low level that only vague mass awareness of them would reach full consciousness, for individually taken they are too trivial to notice.

It is an integral aspect of our creatureliness, and its problematic, as with every other dimension of our «finite freedom in anxious self - awareness» (Tillich), should elicit foremost in the disciples of Christ compassion: com - passion, Mitleid — that is, the with - suffering of those who share, and recognize that they share, the same possibilities and ambiguities as they find in others, albeit perhaps in different configurations.

Our own self - consciousness is direct awareness of ourselves as such persons» (PR 107/164).

But notice that this kind of awareness is always of the self as experience.

He has an encounter that changes him forever, teaching him self - awareness and, above all, knowledge of the One whom he will always think of as a loving Father.

For in such an analysis, what is disclosed is that we are in truth a certain direction or routing of events which, because of a persisting memory of what has occurred along it, and because there has emerged (at some point in the evolutionary development so far as our own species is concerned) an awareness which includes both consciousness and self - consciousness, may meaningfully be given a specific identity.

Gallup as well as other investigators have been puzzled by the apparent inability of gorillas to exhibit self - awareness (SRCOG 175).

Young people in particular often visualize their moral problem in some such way as this: on the one side is the ideal life with its purity, its self - forgetfulness, its fine awareness of things invisible, and on the other side are the primitive instincts — pugnacity, egotism, sensuality, the caveman within, and between these two there is an irreconcilable hostility.

well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?

Another approach to increased awareness of your higher Self is to picture and carry on an inner dialogue with your Wise Teacher or the Wise Woman or Wise Man within you, or image and consult with your «inner light,» as the Quakers and Mahatma Gandhi refer to the inner source of wisdom.

First in Socrates did the individual soul attain to self - awareness in the sense of knowing itself as an object of its own inquiry and its own activity.

The combination of the understanding of the individual as the one addressed by God, and thereby placed in decision, and the awareness of the inwardness of the decision joined in producing that peculiar kind of responsible, self - conscious individuality which justifies the term «person.»

It appears likely that scientific psychology will eventually fulfill its promise as the culminating natural science of man and that this will occur when the essential data of critical self - awareness are integrated with the methods of objective behavioral observation and inference.

In respect to self - awareness as an essential ingredient in the knowledge of man, the example is most clearly set by the discipline of mathematics, understanding of which requires strict reflective scrutiny of the processes of thought.

I shall emphasize this awareness as God - given, not self - generated: but in our present experience God works in and through our thoughts and aspirations — inspiring new ideas, certainly, but building these upon the foundations of previous ideas, not out of a vacuum.

Just as physics reveals little of significance about man until one reflects on the enterprises of science and technology, so scientific psychology, aiming to out - do physics in objective rigor, can yield little insight about man until the distinctive human quality of self - awareness is acknowledged as an essential factor in psychological inquiry.

From the 16th century when Francis Xavier decided to cast his lot with the East against his own Western culture, to the 19th century when Christaller singlehandedly promoted Akan culture, to the 20th when Frank Laubach inveighed against the encroachments of American power in the Philippines, missionaries in the field have helped to promote indigenous self - awareness as a counterforce to Western cultural importation.

We have seen that the modern emphases on persons and their own past and future, on self - consciousness and self - awareness as the beginning of understanding, on a linear time and a hopeful history all begin with Augustine.

Memory, reasoning, the use of signs and symbols, self - awareness, the exercise of imagination, the sense of depth or height of certain crucial experiences, the sense of humor, the realization of what Karl Heim called the nonobjectifiable ego — all are forms of self - transcendence, as are despair and madness.

A person is essentially one who is aware of relationships — who is conscious of self as over against not - self — and it is the experience of dependence which provides this awareness.

In the series, Scher describes her creative process as starting from a point of breaking down her own self - awareness and allowing subconscious to take hold.

Self - awareness could mean only awareness of himself as he appeared to others, rather than as immediately and privately given to himself.

This seemed to contradict the traditional view of free will and mental causation as it indicated that our awareness of the will to act (in this case to move a finger, etc) occurs after the brain has decided to act - suggesting that our self - consciousness regarding free will is, in fact, mistaken.