Sentences with phrase «conscious existence»

But when chaos builds, which it does rapidly in the workplace, behind the wheel, while on the computer, a good hug can reconnect us to that idea of conscious existence.

But within the context of fully conscious existence, the divine as immediately experienced seemed to be almost necessarily pushed aside.

Resurrection does not abolish death for it does not mean the literal restoration of a person to his former conscious existence, any more than the resurrection of life from the dying seed means the literal restoration of the original seed.

Most of the effects of the vast network of relations impinging upon us are screened out at preconscious levels; others are projected back onto environmental phenomena; very few make their way into conscious existence.

As she says, «music is a way to deal with the extreme intensity of moment to moment conscious existence.»

This concept of «soul,» and the physicalism proposed by many of the contributors, is unacceptable to those who hold that Christianity teaches that man is one unified being but composed of two essential parts - a physical body and a properly spiritual soul which, though the substantial form of the body, is a subsistent entity capable of conscious existence when separated from its body between an individual's death and the General Resurrection.

In Buddhism the presupposition is that the universe contains no food for the ultimate feeding of man's many hungers, no living water for his insatiable thirsts, so that restless hunger and thirst are man's worst enemies, to be subdued and at last eliminated, until even the desire for self - conscious existence is gone and Nirvana is attained.

There one feels the controlling sense of the misfortune of man's self - conscious existence, its endless transmigrations, vain illusions, and insatiable desires.

The anthropic principle could then be applied to conclude that we would only consciously exist in those universes that were finely tuned for our conscious existence.

The increased complexity of relational organization does not stop with self - conscious existence, but, upon this basis, develops yet further modes of complexity in institutions.

The term «resurrection of the dead» should not be interpreted as a hope for the prolongation or restoration of our own conscious existence, but rather a hope that human life has meaning, that when our conscious existence is ended, the historical life we have lived may be raised before the eternal Judge, and may be vindicated, as being of some value for that Kingdom which is eternal and for whose fuller manifestation on earth we ever pray.

There are in fact parallels between Cobb's exploration of the structure of Christian existence, and Schleiermacher's development of God - conscious existence, both of which draw upon evolutionary suppositions.

Physical, organic and conscious existence, for the most part, function according to established past patterns.

It is because you can not bear to believe you are set on this temporary stage to develop responsible moral character, and because you can not tolerate the idea that this is only the first of what may be many stages of conscious existence that you deny completely the idea of God and of life on any other plane, but the terrestrial.

A 2014 survey conducted by the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture on 15,738 Americans, for example, found that of the 13.2 percent who called themselves atheist or agnostic, 32 percent answered in the affirmative to the question «Do you think there is life, or some sort of conscious existence, after death?»

Some versions hold that our mind is not strictly the product of our brain and that consciousness exists separately from material substance, so the death of your physical body is not the end of your conscious existence.

Being: Existence; conscious existence.

Working with both natural and found environments as his primary subject, MacFarland explores the relationship to his surroundings informed by concepts such as nonlinear science, cosmic intervention and conscious existence.