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.»
Not exact matches
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».