Sentences with phrase «consciousness of individual persons»

The immediate context for the reception of revelation is the partly incommunicable consciousness of individual persons.

Not exact matches

The appearance of the twin notions of person and self within Western consciousness serves to counter the tendency to swallow up individuals in collective purposes.

They teach us that there can be no such thing as community without unity of consciousness, collective action free of individual greed, humility and respect for the other and as much concern for the other person's welfare as for our own.

Key concepts in the new consciousness are: subject, felt relations, internal relations, sympathy richness of experience, creative solitude, hope, faith affection new being, ultimate concern (= God), compassion and God's action in the world as internally related to all individual entities from protons to people.

Although numerically identical with real consciousness in each person, it is the act which accomplishes the negation of the limitations which affect individual destiny.

I am using the word «person» in its ordinary sense to designate an individual possessed of self - consciousness and will [whatever be the essential nature of personality].

In fact, if we agree with him that human experiences of as brief a duration as one - tenth of a second may be distinguished in consciousness, and if we disregard the problem of whether a sleeping person also experiences at about the same rate of ten occasions per second, then simple arithmetic enables us to conclude that the concrete reality of a human being that lives seventy years is well over two billion individual «selves»!

Similar approaches can be used to revitalize other people - serving institutions: (1) The consciousness of many religious leaders (professional and lay) concerning the urgent need in their community for networks of nurture for both individuals and families must first

When speaking «of «persons»... beware of... anachronistically foisting contemporary notions of the person onto the ancient texts, especially since most modern Westerners tend to focus on the person as the center of individual psychological consciousness...» (p. 37).

Although numerically identical to each person's real (reelle) consciousness, it is the act that accomplishes the negation of those limitations which affect an individual's destiny, it is the letting go (depouillement) of self.

Some of the techniques described here are suitable for use with groups or individuals or couples when the main focus is on reeducation or consciousness raising with normally functioning people.

As an individual gradually claims and develops the neglected dimensions of the unconscious and integrates these balancing aspects with consciousness, the destructiveness of the reclaimed dimensions is transformed so that they feed the creativity of the person's inner life.

Attention means an ability of an individual to direct his / her consciousness to specific objects or phenomena that possesses a certain level of significance for this person.

Or is it the case that there have already been such events — e.g. the 2003 European heatwave that reportedly killed tens of thousands of people, or hurricane Katrina — but that since it can always be said that «no individual extreme event can be directly attributed to global warming», that no event, no matter how extreme, will ever cause the sort of «tipping point» in public consciousness that the 9/11 attacks did?

Brain injuries can be mild, moderate or severe, usually depending on the nature and location of the forces or impact upon the brain, whether the person lost consciousness (and if so, for how long), age, sex and general health of the individual, and the post injury course of care and treatment.