Sentences with phrase «create lives of meaning»

She holds a Masters Degree in Contemplative Education from Naropa University and her work is centered around helping young adults, and those who teach them, create lives of meaning and purpose.
In particular, this book includes many self - discovery exercises that are highly beneficial to help you create a life of meaning and passion - a life to be excited about.
Its in the Religion and Spirituality section of the Kindle Store and about «Creating a Life of Meaning and Influence».
Reaping the benefits of simplicity we place more emphasis on creating a life of meaning rather than a life of ««stuff.»

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At the same time the new technologies - notably the combination of mobile and Internet of Things - means that the really smart cities can create an experience for their citizens that saves energy and reduces the stress of traditional urban living.
«Just like anyone can start their day with a killer workout, find a way to master a craft, find meaning in their work or create a passionate and loving relationship,» he says, «the secret lies in being able to break through the fear and unlock the limiting beliefs to create the life of your dreams.»
So maybe Ford took some chances, creating spots in which McConaughey just kind of meanderingly freestyles his way through various quasi-philosophical musings about Lincoln and the meaning of life (it's all been compared to his «True Detective» character).
And part of both of those things — creating value and communicating better — means that we are also focused on hearing from creators about how we can help them, how we can create new tools that use our platform to help them find new fans, connect with those fans, learn about their audiences, get them to live shows, and more.
Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives
As Frisella tells it, expanding his businesses from $ 20 - 30 million per year to an anticipated $ 150 million in 2017 has been the result of utilizing social media the right way — and that means creating content not just catered to the consumer, but to the lifestyle they aspire to live.
Plus, create more joy, happiness and meaning out of your work (and life).
It takes more faith to believe that than to believe in the One who created special designs for life out of the chaos and has given us the internal desire to have meaning beyond our physical bodies.
Either they necessitate a deceptive «God», e.g. creating starlight «in transit» which means that for some light the star that supposedly sent said light would never have actually existed, or they would cause effect that should be evident but are not, e.g. temporarily fast starlight would effectively cook many things, such as life on earth, if the required light (and attendant gamma radiation) were compressed into a significantly shorter time frame (think of the radiation from the apparent 13 billion years of the universe arriving at the same time, or even over a 1000 years).
All I am saying is that religions were created by humans as a means of explanation of life after death.
When we use contraception, we orient ourselves against the good of life itself ¯ and, in the same way, when we use IVF to create a new human being, we treat that being solely as a means to our own purposes.
He pointed out that Americans «live as if the meaning of our lives was ours alone to create» (September 4, 1968).
What if, instead of asking life or God what the meaning of suffering is, it's God or life asking us what meaning we will find or create?
So meaning would be created» and thus was born (with the help of popular historian Theodore White and Life magazine) the familiar imagery of the Kennedy White House as an Arthurian Camelot, a «brief shining moment» that must «never be forgot» (as Alan Jay Lerner's lyrics, from the contemporary Broadway musical, put it).
In recent years there has risen a new type of the same concern in that the advancement of human ability to control and manipulate the natural forces by means of science and technology has created life threatening situation in terms of the pollution, nuclear weapons, and intervention of the natural process with the unforseen consequences.
This also means that, flowing from Mary's role in God's plan, all womanhood is sacred and sacramentally (physically and spiritually) expresses the whole created world's call to co-operate with God in bringing God's children to birth and maturity in the life of God in the image of Jesus.
If I possess energy (am the source of it), imagination and means of manipulating the energy, I could create the universe, life and anything.
, and by working to lower the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies in the first place — which means better sexual health education in schools, funding for birth control measures and education about using that birth control, promoting research into methods of safe male birth control, and creating an environment where the women in your life can come to you to discuss safe sexual choices.
Wieseltier continues: «Both nationalism and religion are expressions of the certainty, historical and spiritual, that we have not created ourselves, that we have sources, and that those sources have something to do with the meaning of our lives.
Great as is the significance of the emergence of self - conscious persons within the very fabric of the universe for any reflection on its possible meaning and purpose, this must not lead us to underplay the significance also of the rest of the universe and of all other living organisms to God as Creator — even though we are able to depict only in imagination the kind of delight that God may be conceived to have in the fecund multiplicity and variety or created forms.
I mean, isn't a scientist «playing god» as it were by creating life out of nothing and if this «abomination» is made in the lab and not in a womb, does it count as even human?
This upheaval can at first find no other expression than the religious, for before man creates new life forms, he creates a new relation to life itself, a new meaning of life.
in the greater scheme of things, as time was created for us as a means of seperating the day from the night but god, the idea that when God made the heavens and earth before establishing time, many billions of years may have passed by, even the time frame I mean men according to the bible used to live for 600 - 11 years old.
And when women, dancing Sarah's circle, affirm the importance of relationships in human life, they are doing more than reflecting women's psychology; they are showing all Christians what it means to be created in God's image.
The phrase «the image of God» means more than mere reflection as in a mirror; it means the active and energizing capacity given to humans, as created entities, to live with integrity as the «created second» of the God who is making them.
It means that even though you may not condone everything that they are doing, or practicing, in their life, you love them with out end for who they are, a child of God, created in His holy image.
By his faith he determines the meaning he will give to life as a whole, thus creating a framework of value and expectation (that is, of love and hope) in the spirit and power of which all particular acts of freedom are performed.
In the same way, if humanity was created as the image of God, and if the only perfect image is Jesus Christ, this means that the living God can not tolerate sterile material images.
His voice and thoughts are ripe for the world to glean from... It's as if he is saying, «Listen, you normal people, I don't get why you think you have this burden or voice to try and make a difference, voice concerns, create a place for commiseration and though experiments... leave that to us, the few who should have the loudest voice, who are apart of an elite line of life commentators... I mean, for me, it's my God given job... For God's sake, I HAVE TO do this to support my family.
Already a movement is under way to improve end - of - life care by educating health - care providers to respond better to the needs of dying patients, by creating new care settings or improving existing ones, by seeking changes in methods of paying for appropriate care, by educating the public through conferences, town meetings, television programming, and even Web sites (see www.careproject.net), by providing adequate relief of pain, by withholding or withdrawing treatments that only prolong dying, by keeping company with those who are lonely, and by being a resource of meaning and hope for those tempted to despair.
The third distinctive characteristic is a complex and profound subjectivity, both conscious and unconscious, acquired after infancy by the individual absorbing the complexity of responses and meanings of a culture that has been created through many generations accumulating the resources for human living.
One of my favorite atheist behaviors is to deny that there's any goal or purpose or meaning in life, and to challenge us to «be strong enough to put that archaic stuff behind you», and then they claim life isn't meaningless, though, b / c they can create their own meaning!
The well meaning Christians in my life at the time... explained to me that «god «just creates some for the day of distruction».
But precisely for this reason all Christians do not only receive a complete and supposedly concrete natural law which is communicated to them by the official representatives of the Church, they also find out for them - selves the actual requirements of public life, so that all may have as much freedom as possible, a freedom that can act with God in view and thus create that personal finality which receives God himself as its eternal meaning.
The plight of man is this: man is so created in the very structure of his being that the meaning of his life is the realization of his freedom in love to God and to his neighbor.
Within the changing conditions and evolving life on this planet, and out of the various developing cultures that have shaped us, we humans can and do create meaning for ourselves.
Jesus of Nazareth, the Word incarnate, who was born, grew in strength and wisdom, preached and performed mighty signs, freely gave his life on the cross, was raised and is now seated at the right hand of the Father - this Jesus justified creation in himself, since God created this cosmos «with the means of obtaining remedy for our sins».
Each symbol - system forms a religious language, a language of meaning for interpreting the meaning of life (or, more correctly, creating a meaning for life).
Jacques Ellul calls this force we have created The Technique, by which he means a style of conduct that pervades our life and governs all of our personal and social activities — a kind of morality.
Though we live within a chasm of derived ascertainment concluded as being a universe does in no way or means make causal admissions that there are unknowable amounts of self - similar universes being side by side ours creating a gigantic life form living within a vast sea upon a world so ginormous that our stellar world would be 100,000 times smaller than a speck of dust!
Human spirituality can be either true or false - either related to the ultimate meaning and fulfillment of life revealed in Christ or simply created by people in their self - centeredness and rejection of God, and therefore idolatrous.
When the Bible says that we are created in the image of God, it means we are created to share in the very life of the Godhead - a relationship of love and community and communion with God and with one another.
And this means purpose, significance, and sense in the universe in which we live, and in our lives which are part of that created order.
«Therefore we can see the meaning of the Word taking upon Himself our mortal flesh and being created as a «beginning» of God's works... Before we were created, we had been elected in the predestined Incarnation of the Son, to spiritual and everlasting life and happiness.
Paul's phrase «in Christ,» which he used more than any other single expression, can not be fully explicated until we all «know as we are known»; but Paul surely means that in the Christian life we are not only separate individuals, but we are incorporated into the new reality which God has created in history through the life of Jesus.
«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».
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