Meditation helps you to
be present in the moment which helps you experience more and helps you be calmer and more focused.
Not exact matches
Unless we observe a rather swift improvement
in market internals and a further, material easing
in credit spreads — neither
which would relieve the
present overvaluation of the market, but both
which would defer our immediate concerns about downside risk — the
present moment likely represents the best opportunity to reduce exposure to stock market risk that investors
are likely to encounter
in the coming 8 years.
But these male and female bodies with
which we
are concerned
are living at this historical
moment and
in the
present sociopolitical context.
An impressive number of testimonies suggest that
in some instances of extreme danger the totality or quasi-totality of our past
is glimpsed «at once, more accurately,
in a
present moment which is contemporary with a very short interval of public time.
The only answer
which is plausible can
be given by the biological theory of knowledge:
in the same way as our perception carves Out of the whole physical reality only that zone
which has practical importance for our organism, only those recollections
which are relevant to our
present situation
are transmitted into our
present moment.
To
be present among [the least of these]
is to encounter what the Celtic saints called «thin spaces,» places or
moments in time
in which the veil separating heaven and earth, the spiritual and the material, becomes almost transparent.
Indeed, everything
in the past
which can
in principle
be recalled
in the future under hypnosis, for example, must
be fully
present in unconscious experience at every
moment.
The
moment in which the final note
is heard
is one
in which the phrase as a whole attains a unity and completeness that
was not
present in any of the antecedent
moments or
in the final note taken by itself.
This union of history and the
moment involves a tension and a contradiction, for although redemption takes place at every
moment, there
is no definite
moment in the
present or the future
in which the redemption of the world could
be pronounced as having taken place once for all.
For once permanence
is abstracted from flux and lifted to dominance
in awareness, the complexity of the
present moment is simplified and its intensity diluted just as surely as by elevating the flux of passing values to dominant emphasis, disjoined from that
which abides.
It
is rather the «impact» of the relation
in the
present moment between the human I and that non-human existing
being which has become real for him as «Thou».
In the language of The Concept of Anxiety, she only sees the «quantitative determinations» of sinfulness in human history, without seeing the «qualitative leap into sin,» which is human evasion of God in the present moment in tim
In the language of The Concept of Anxiety, she only sees the «quantitative determinations» of sinfulness
in human history, without seeing the «qualitative leap into sin,» which is human evasion of God in the present moment in tim
in human history, without seeing the «qualitative leap into sin,»
which is human evasion of God
in the present moment in tim
in the
present moment in tim
in time.
In Adventures of Ideas 233 he writes: «The
present moment is constituted by the influx of the other into that self - identity
which is the continued life of the immediate past within the immediacy of the
present.»
It
was not at all like the modern research interview
in which an observer attempts to elicit information about subjectively held attitudes from individuals who have never reflected on their feelings until the
moment when they
are presented with preceded questions that
are not part of their own subculture.
This, of course,
is in accordance with our earlier comments about direction or routing; and any accurate portrayal of human existence
is to
be found, not
in some static cross-section at this or that
moment, but rather
in the movement
which that existence
is taking from the past, through the
present, towards the future.
However, as Schindler has suggested, self - consciousness could
be understood as immanent
in the
present moment of experience as a nonthetic consciousness
which would not amount to knowledge
in the sense of objectification.
Christians, however, may understand the decisiveness of Christ as the
moment in evolution when God's promise and self - gift,
which have
been continually and creatively
present to the cosmos from its birth,
are embraced by a human
being without reservation.
Part of the answer
is that these ancient events
are moments in a living process
which includes also the existence of the church at the
present day; and another part
is that, as Christians believe,
in these events of ancient time God
was at work among men, and it
is from his action
in history rather than from abstract arguments that we learn what God
is like, and what
are the principles on
which he deals with men, now as always.
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?
And there
is an aim toward the future, so that each
moment is already anticipatory of what will follow — that future has not yet happened, but the intimations of it
are found
in the way
in which in the
present it
is being aimed for.
The sense
in which this
is true must
be explored; it will suffice at the
moment if we repeat once again that «memorial» here does not indicate mental reverie but rather a genuine and vital re-call of the past into the immediacy of
present experience.
It
is infinitely comic that an orator, with truth
in his voice and
in the expression of his features, profoundly touched and profoundly touching, can
present the truth
in a heart - rending way, can tread all evil and all the powers of hell under his feet, with an aplomb
in his attitude, an assurance
in his glance, a resoluteness
in his step,
which is altogether admirable — it
is infinitely comic that almost at the same
moment, almost «with his dressing - gown still on,» he can run cowardly and timidly out of the way of the least inconvenience.
Intercourse, or deliberated abstention from it,
is the primal act by
which in an absorbing
present moment we reach out from ourselves to the future.
However,
in the
present moment (whatever its duration) there
is no actuality
which is coming to
be or developing, none by whose decision - making new definiteness
is being realized.
Concluding, he says that the situation
which the non-Christian nations
present at the
present moment is something like the spiritual situation
which confronted Israel
in the days of the rise of the great prophets.
I shall explore what It might mean to live as a confessing people
in the context of the radical sin of low - intensity conflict and how we can faithfully respond to the
present historical
moment in which our participation
in the structures of oppression call us to
be prophetic witnesses and living signs of hope.
Man as we know him today, man of metaphysics, of abstract thought, the creator of his own environment, the space - traveller, the moulder of himself, the man of God and of grace and of the promise of eternal life, precisely this man who
is radically distinct from any animal and who at the
moment of man's origin, though perhaps very slowly, took a path
which led him so far away from all that
is merely animal, yet
in such a fashion that he carried with him the whole inheritance of his biological pre-history into these realms of his existence remote from the animals,
was there when man began to exist.18 And what now
is historically and externally manifest,
was then
present as a task and as an active potentiality.
As we then said, such
moments have their «importance»
in that they illuminate what has gone before,
are in themselves a kind of concentration of what
is actually
present, and provide new opportunities and possibilities both for understanding (
which is the «subjective» side) and for that emergence of novelty
in concrete experience (
which guarantees «objectivity»)
which is the occasion for further creative advance as the process continues on its way.
He works
in and through, with and by, for and on behalf of all those actual entities
which at any given
moment are present.
Because the crisis of decision
in the
present moment gives man his essential character, he can not console or justify himself by viewing his sin as a weakness
which forms no part of his true nature, or as a mistake
which is an exception to
be outweighed by appealing to his normal self.
Man
is seen
in his essential
being,
in his life,
which is lived
in specific decisive
moments in the
present,
which can not
be understood through a general description of humanity.
At some level or limit, rhythms become brief enough to appear as recurrent
present moments,
in which case, they
are «distanced» from long rhythms of (fluid) consciousness and require intuitive access.
From the imagery of incense and candles, to the organization of the Mass, it
's all about bringing heaven to earth
in that one
moment in which the body and blood of Christ
is actually
present, as we believe
in the Catholic faith.
From a Buddhist perspective, I
was clinging to my past selves; as long as I
was doing this, I could not
be fully
present in my current
moment of subjective experiencing or to the environment
in which I
was presently living.
To her holy soul, «the divine
moment was the
present moment,... and when the
present moment was estimated
in itself and
in its relations, and when the duty that
was involved
in it
was accomplished, it
was permitted to pass away as if it had never
been, and to give way to the facts and duties of the
moment which came after.»
To surrender («abandon ourselves») to him there
is the same as finding him
in the «
present moment»; it
is the acceptance of God's will,
which is always love, and the implementing of it as much as we can,
in the given time and situation that
is ours now.
It
is true that what will happen
in the next
moment is determined
in large part by the previous and
present state of things actualized; but each new
moment, according to process thought,
is also open to the infinite range of possibilities contained
in the PN of God,
which transcend the limited possibilities contained
in previous actual states.
For process metaphysics it would
be inconceivable to restrict the locus of possibility to that
which has
been actualized or
is being actualized
in the
present moment.
A theology that
is open to the future must first exist
in the
present, not a
present which is an extension of the past, but a
present which is a culmination of the past, and hence for us a
present which is a
moment of vacuity and meaninglessness.
In place of utopianism which sees the new world just around the corner, and in place of progressivism which sees progress as inevitable, we can think of progress in terms of possibilities that are realistically appropriate for this present momen
In place of utopianism
which sees the new world just around the corner, and
in place of progressivism which sees progress as inevitable, we can think of progress in terms of possibilities that are realistically appropriate for this present momen
in place of progressivism
which sees progress as inevitable, we can think of progress
in terms of possibilities that are realistically appropriate for this present momen
in terms of possibilities that
are realistically appropriate for this
present moment.
Freedom
is an indetermination
in the potentialities for
present action
which are constituted by all the influences and stimuli, all «heredity and environment,» all past experiences, an indetermination removed only by the actuality (event, experience, act) itself, and always
in such fashion that other acts of determination would have
been possible
in view of the given total conditions up to the
moment of the act.
The man, who enters the
present moment with his past still clinging to him,
is put
in a critical position precisely as the man
which through his past he has become; staking all, he stands before the future.
The crisis of decision
is the situation
in which all observation
is excluded, for
which Now alone has meaning,
which is absorbed wholly
in the
present moment.
Like many other activities of ministry — rendering a theological judgment, structuring a sermon,
being present to persons
in acute crisis, discerning the plan of action and strategy to
which a congregation
is called at a particular
moment in its life — choosing a myth requires the complex interworking of rational judgment, adequate information, emotional openness and self - awareness, intuition, sensitivity, prayerful reflection, and more.
In particular, Walford examines the apparitions of Fatima and the Divine Mercy as essential moments for understanding this papacy and its relation to the Second Coming, but he also draws out from the World Youth Day speeches the significant theme of «Watchmen of the Morning», which appears to have been ever present in his addresses to young peopl
In particular, Walford examines the apparitions of Fatima and the Divine Mercy as essential
moments for understanding this papacy and its relation to the Second Coming, but he also draws out from the World Youth Day speeches the significant theme of «Watchmen of the Morning»,
which appears to have
been ever
present in his addresses to young peopl
in his addresses to young people.
We
are all currently part of a world marked by futility and the consequences of sin,
which work through every aspect of our
present lives here — as we can clearly see
in our more honest
moments with ourselves and each other.
Zen Buddhism concerns itself with the «here and now» — reality
in the
present moment — and not with theories or theology involving ideas about that
which can not
be grasped directly
in the
present moment.
Since every actual entity
is required to include all the determination
presented by the last satisfaction / superject of the cosmic series, and since this determinate
being includes all that has
been created except what
was created contemporaneously (that
is,
in unison) with that cosmic
moment, the only
being that would
be «lost» if a creature, C, reached a satisfaction
which was not carried forward into a new
moment, D, would
be the unique determination made by C itself.
To enter into a detailed description of these would not further our
present purpose; but it
is important to bear fixedly
in mind that all offense
is in its essence a misunderstanding of the
Moment, since it
is directed against the Paradox,
which again
is the
Moment.
In the midst of all that my mind did one of those random backflips — an out - of - the blue flash of intention then back to the present moment, which in this case was the view and the light — where I imagined making this salad when I got back hom
In the midst of all that my mind did one of those random backflips — an out - of - the blue flash of intention then back to the
present moment,
which in this case was the view and the light — where I imagined making this salad when I got back hom
in this case
was the view and the light — where I imagined making this salad when I got back home.