Sentences with phrase «by the ego of»

Not exact matches

In this light, awards shows may be viewed by some as an example of ego - stroking largess.

One night after reuniting Jon Stewart with his former Colbert Report alter - ego, Colbert opened Tuesday's show by poking fun at Melania Trump for cribbing pieces of her convention speech from Michelle Obama's 2008 speech.

Such firms are free of egos and not easily distracted by trends.

«You can tell a lot from the tonality of conversation if this person likes to generate solutions collaboratively, or if their decisions are fueled by ego,» he says.

«Through unprecedented access to the players involved, he re-creates all the drama and turmoil of these turbulent days, revealing never - before - disclosed details and recounting how, motivated as often by ego and greed as by fear and self - preservation, the most powerful men and women in finance and politics decided the fate of the world's economy.»

While most are obsessed with their own self - worth, a subset of narcissists inflate their egos by being self - sacrificing.

The pivotal message is to focus on the experiential, «moment - to - moment» self, instead of personalizing situations by attaching it to the «narrative self» (the «ego» self, or who we are).

The epic quest to rekindle the exploration of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of the next entrepreneurial frontier

Much of the ego issue can be addressed by honing your skills by asking great questions and showing enthusiasm in your performance.

He can start by explaining to members of Congress why the Fed and Treasury are alter egos and why remittances from or the assets of the Fed are not valid sources of new public revenue.

We have a large mega style church here in Lexington where the lead Pastor succumbed to his own Ego fanned by rapid growth in numbers and peer recognition of his amazing «success».

I began to look beyond the cursing, and hear the substance of their hearts: an ego hurt by a son failing in elementary school, finances were so low they felt threatened of losing their car, anger that they hoped to change the world but only worked in a taxi, and so forth.

God will never be destroyed yet only misconstrued and communionally hated by constrained aptness of willing distracters made to benefit only the id or ego of the disingenuous placards of lamentiveness!

«I'm embarrassed as I'm getting older about how much of my energy and vitality as a younger man was driven by ego and a win - lose mentality.»

The discipline of place teaches that it is more than enough to care skillfully and lovingly for oneâ $ ™ s own little circle, and this is the model for the good life, not the limitless jurisdiction of the ego, granted by a doctrine of choice, that is ever seeking its own fulfillment, pleasure, and satiation.

So, in his world being male is a handicap that needs accommodation under the ADA (in the US, at any rate) to ensure fragile egos aren't bruised by anyone of the wrong biological configuration.

In fact, dogmatic theology can make us more resistent to Grace, «knowledge, when it is not transformed by love, «puffs up», feeds instead of challenging the narcissistic ego.

Claims made for the path of rigorous discipleship do not always carefully distinguish ego needs from the Word of God, Those who take this path are often predisposed to it by a preference for self - denial or asceticism, and this preference can be just as self - centered as gluttony.

The victory sought by the spiritual combat is not some sort of boost for the ego, even though the literature for St. Patrick's Purgatory in County Donegal can talk of «the cleansing value» of the fast «giving opportunities for prioritising values and being physically and spiritually renewed» [9].

Then I ran across this: «We are whole, ego is just an irrelevant label for a crucial part of that whole, invented by Freud and expanded by fraud!»

«I mean, just consider that whole silly psychic triad of id, ego, and superego: What makes it so profound to observe that we find ourselves drawn by opposing motives?

My God, I deliver myself up with utter abandon to those fearful forces of dissolution which, I blindly believe, will this day cause my narrow ego to be replaced by your divine presence.

Bill points out that this concept of the fatal power of the disease, provided by Silkworth, became in AA a powerful deflationary tool, shattering the ego at depth and laying the subject open for conversion.

Softened by the lack of ego - strength and critical capacity, this person is quickly immobilized by aggressive ploys, needing to learn to express resistance more actively and assertively.

Just don't let the rest of the bible passages provide cover for the various prejudices of today — including the idea that you are born broken and only get fixed by God if you stoke His ego enough (and do what the thumpers say).

The Apostle's Creed in rap, and the gospel here is clear and undistorted by the stain of man's ego, and the blotches of bigotry that has spoiled religion for all — yes, even for Christians.

By reading the letter He wrote to ALL (the Bible) and stop listening to tradition of men teachings that stroke your ego of what you want to hear instead of what He wants you to hear.

It is very easy to give or receive an «ego bruise» in a marriage relationship by a rejecting word, lack of thoughtfulness (as in forgetting a birthday or an anniversary), or the attack of «putting the other down.»

When I hear a voice in my head, I don't know if it is God, or some layer of ego, consciousness or conscience... I need to pass it by the Bible.

As for the Naked Pastor blog, I think money grabbing and ego - power - trips by pastors are the least of everybody's concerns about the institution of church.

In such cases, a nation is in real danger — it is ruled by the pride and arrogance of buffoons whose egos command the nation's laws and power for their own selfish and childish causes.

Egotheism, by contrast, is awestruck wonder and thanksgiving to God for the staggering miracle of unrepeatable life, the utterly unique self - consciousness that enables one to say «I.» In a 1960 remembrance of his childhood, Updike traced his transcendent sense of self - importance to the mystery of being an incarnate ego: a self within «a speck so specifically situated amid the billions of history.

We arent being tested by god to prove our loyalty because god hasnt a ego nor need of validation to feel love.

I am helped in avoiding this attribution by his subsequent indication that the personally ordered regnant society he is tracing «answers to the notion of the conscious ego while the supporting nonsocial nexus answers to the dimly conscious regions of the «depth» dimension of the psyche» (1:406).

Assuming that I make the identification, he poses a dilemma; either my experience does not have the unity, the togetherness required by a single experience (and this because my experience includes both the clear, conscious experience of the regnant society and the dim experience of other members of the nonsocial nexus); or, my experience is that of a super entity which inherits from the ego and from the other occasions of the nonsocial nexus, and, since inheritance requires contiguity, this latter alternative presupposes acceptance of a doctrine of regional inclusion.

is nothing new starting at the very begining with the New Testament books describing the similar false interpretations by men with huge egos and agendas just like those of today... nothing new.

I used the language of «ego,» «soul,» and» «depth» dimension of the psyche» in my article and Cobb, in effect, has asked me to clarify what I mean by this language.

A chief difference was that the former, unlike the latter, were led by chief executives of exceptionally sturdy ego who, in their campaigns to consolidate enough power to make a radical break with their collegiate past, used that power as well to sever any capacity of the church to obstruct their personal sovereignty.

Our society tends to respond to the problem of lack of meaning and purpose by telling people that they will feel better if they more fully develop their egos.

In that case, either my experience does not have (at any moment) the unity of an actual entity (i.e., it is then in fact and finally many discrete experiences and not an experience at all), or my experience is an actual occasion including, or contributed to by, both the ego and the other occasions of the nexus.

The immature ego finds support by belonging to a social group which consists of others who are immature in a similar way.

If we rush to solve a problem, the solution will need to be something ready - made or quickly put together, and will most likely be a project of the ego; but if we sustain the tension created by two worlds colliding, an unexpected solution will emerge eventually from the opening to soul that tension creates.

Whitehead did not speculate on the precise location of memory within the animal organism, but the most plausible extension of his theory suggests rather that memories are maintained for the soul by other occasions, thereby freeing the soul for its adventure into novelty.2 The way in which the conscious ego draws upon the ocean of unconscious feeling which sustains it may well reflect the way the soul draws upon other living occasions.

ME is a creation of mind / ego and suffering is caused by identification with form that will inevitably decay.

It scrambles up and onward always by spiralling round whatever stands in its path — drainpipe, porch pillar, / lawn chair — but then, once anchored, corkscrews round itself, amassing braided cables of self - hugging self - satisfaction, the conquering hero's doublejointed pat on his own back, the unbridled ego trip impelled by the uppity sap from deepest root to farthest outflung tip, ecstatically, imperially quivering toward its vegetal entelechy.

Just more stiring of the Pot to go to war with Iran, getting the male egos in the Southern States fired up to Kill in the name of Religion and those who manipulate them by doing this news reporting.

In the little - seen Gamer, a young man shares responsibility for the actions of his video - game alter - ego» an avatar (played by Gerard Butler) who is employed to act out the youth's viral simulacrum in real - world situations where hedonistic consumers take on the identities and vices of video - game characters.

But just as ego therapy must generally be accompanied by some attempt to handle deeper anxieties and conflicts, so must social action and the kind of therapy that it provides be accompanied by auxiliary resources to handle the deeper human problems which an unsophisticated program of social action can unwittingly repress and deny.

Off base, driven by ego, and compelled to shine your own version of «His truth» for the benefit of other Christians.

He is full of arguments and twisted by his ego.