Now she's back with another non-fiction title and in Big Magic, Elizabeth challenges readers to live their most
creative lives by finding the source of their love, inspiration and joy.
-- Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Galleries AKADEMIE X is a guide on how to live
a creative life by some of the world's most thought - provoking artists and writers.
Not exact matches
They're
creative and articulate, accustomed to
living literally
by their wits.
The harsh personal sacrifices demanded
by the
creative life litter the biographies of great artists.
«It has the power to influence public debate, mobilize communities, and — most importantly — offer
creative solutions to help people receive better care, no matter where they
live or who they are,» write Richards and Karp, who believe that the tech industry owes its success to both of its employees as well as the communities it serves, whose health needs are often partially met
by Planned Parenthood itself.
Studies have shown that simply
by sleeping more, we can
live longer, be happier and less stressed and even become more
creative.
When I stopped listening and abiding
by what the creativity myth was telling me — that only a select few people have the potential to tap into their
creative genius — my
life took on a whole new meaning.
A
creative entrepreneur, in contrast to the myriad of other types of entrepreneurs, earns a
living by making, packaging, and selling their creativity.
«It gives game developers new abilities to bring their
creative visions to
life by opening up the concept of gaming without boundaries.»
The first, a lavish shindig thrown
by Atlantis
Creative Group, a strategic marketing company in Toronto, featured a red carpet, limousines and, if you can believe it, a
live tiger.
Creative services is another hallmark The Marketing Machine is known for, according to Spinak, who pointed to clients like CenterEdge Software being run by smart, technology - oriented individuals who may not have the creative chops of someone who lives and breathes graphic design and branding for a
Creative services is another hallmark The Marketing Machine is known for, according to Spinak, who pointed to clients like CenterEdge Software being run
by smart, technology - oriented individuals who may not have the
creative chops of someone who lives and breathes graphic design and branding for a
creative chops of someone who
lives and breathes graphic design and branding for a
living.
Established in 2013
by four friends who shared the pain of planning their major
life events, the company now empowers thousands of
creative businesses and their clients.
The good
life, the good society, was one in which all sorts of groups — families, clubs, co-operative societies, small towns run
by boards of elders —
lived the
lives they wanted to
live in a
creative interaction governed
by the spirit of
living and letting
live.
Which is to say that the path which the individual
life must take is one of growth from nothingness to being,
by attempting first to understand that one's
life situation is ambiguous; second,
by opening oneself up to the
creative God - power within oneself and waiting for its revelation, however gradually it may come; and third,
by acting upon its discovery.
He criticizes textualism (a mode of judicial interpretation)
by citing the author's attempt to «show how lawmakers are engaged in the
creative work of ensuring that natural law... is given effect in our human
living.»
The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many,
by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated
by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public
life, have come to be corroded
by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially
creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.
And all this labour was set in motion
by the active,
creative awakening of his soul inasmuch as that human soul had been chosen to breathe
life into the universe.
«I acclaim you as the divine milieu, charged with
creative power, as the ocean stirred
by the Spirit, as the clay moulded and infused with
life by the incarnate Word.
But also it does seem to suggest that the universe exists because of God's
creative action and the scientific evidence we have indicates that this
creative action was not a one - off event because, in addition to the problem of inheritance, the actual conditions for
life to occur on Earth are so stringent that they could not have happened
by a process of natural chance.
Hays explains the move from text to
life by appealing to metaphor, which is the
creative coupling of unrelated terms that provokes new insight.
It inspired a great civilization in which others besides Muslims
lived creative and useful
lives and which,
by its achievement, enriched the whole world.
I am contending that religious qualities of experience are acquired, if at all, only
by an individual who has borne within solitariness the relational matrix of existence, achieving a
creative tension between the contrasts of
life without permitting fixation on either pole to turn the contrast into an irreconcilable opposite.
To talk in that fashion is not to speak of a kind of meaningless re-enactment of what went on in the creation; it is to speak of a vital,
living, and ongoing movement, where God knows and experiences (if that word is, as I believe, appropriate to the divine
life) that which has taken place, but knows it and experiences it with a continuing freshness and delight — and, if what has taken place has been evil, with a continuing tinge of sadness and regret — such as must be proper to the chief
creative and chief receptive agency who is worshiped and served
by God's human children.
Far those who would become lost in the intoxication of
creative work (for the doctor or professor or farmer who works joyously), the play of the Sabbath is a reminder that we can not find ultimate meaning
by mastering
life.
This is what we understand
by God as the
creative life of the universe» (MG 76).
Life in its entirety, regarded as a
creative evolution, is something analogous; it transcends finality, if we understand
by finality the realization of an idea conceived or conceivable in advance.
It deals with Christology and the doctrine of God, as well as prayer, the resurrection, heaven, etc. and it provides a general introduction to Whitehead's thought.128 The Task of Philosophical Theology
by C. J. Curtis, a Lutheran theologian, is a process exposition of numerous «theological notions» important to the «conservative, traditional» Christian viewpoint.129 Two very fine semi-popular introductions to process philosophy as a context for Christian theology are The
Creative Advance
by E. H. Peters130 and Process Thought and Christian Faith
by Norman Pittenger.131 The latter, reflecting the concerns of a theologian, provides a concise introduction to the process view of God together with briefer comments on man, Christ, and «eternal
life.»
It suggests that the latter should more properly be called «special - creationism», for what it really teaches is that every
life - form is made
by a special act of creation, and it counsels Christians not «to present God's
creative design as if he were granddad in the potting shed with components on a shelf, a workbench and a pencil behind his ear!»
Nietzsche envisions a permanent realm of
life within the boundaries of the temporal universe, but only
by relinquishing freedom of choice, any novel temporal advance, and any
creative, individual influence.
The unique Christian participation in God's kingdom is grasped in theology
by creative and critical understanding of Christian tradition, and
by creative and critical growth in the Christian ways of
life.
But the uniquely
creative element in Christian experience is just the overflow of new
life and power which come from the depths of that experience in which our human despair is met
by the suffering love of God in all its majesty, humility, and holiness.
And according to a report
by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, EQ even affects the
creative aspects of a person's
life, like the way they express themselves through art.
2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953), p. 102: «Dr. Thornton's own doctrine was rendered inconsistent
by his insistence that although the
creative process disclosed a series of emergents,
life, mind, spirit, and thereby foreshadowed the culmination of the series in the coming of Christ, yet that event differed radically from all its predecessors and signalized not the consummation of the process but the intrusion into it of a Being wholly distinct and independent.»
Pepler further develops this premise
by proposing that: «
Life must gradually be informed
by creative worship if we are to furnish the imagination with sensations that are not constantly militating against religion and making it an unnatural and unsocial effort to remain religious at all.»
But this testimony of our own experience to the uniquely
creative character of this ancient event is confirmed
by our observation of the
life of the church and
by our study of its history.
As Levin says, the basic challenge is to reconfigure relational
life by both deploying and purposefully limiting the blessings of technology, our
creative accomplishments that are, after all, wonderful revelations of what beings made in the image of the
creative and relational God can do.
What one can infer from Jesus» resurrection is that the fountain of
life and being is not necessarily frustrated
by death, and therefore that we may take courage and hope regarding the deaths of others and of ourselves that we may in like manner be the occasion for some of the
creative - death - defeating power which was so magnificently poured out in the case of Jesus.
33:4, 6, 9) Man shared in this creation, taking physical and intellectual possession of the world
by his giving names to all
living creatures (Gen. 2:19) Throughout the Old Testament, in ordinary and sublime statements, in magic or prophecy, Israel took as her starting point the conviction that a word possesses
creative power.
Further, if we
live by such a vision in this
life, it means we are seeking the most
creative, novel, stimulating, intense experience in virtually everything we do.
They are «turning on» to
life by developing
creative and satisfying interests.
By understanding their presence in time and their
creative participation in its unfolding, people overcome their sense of
life's immutability and find courage for a transformed future.
Surely you assert that all but one of them are all fabricated
by the
creative minds of humans attempting to explain
life's mysteries?
Out of the infinite mystery
by which our tiny human
lives are surrounded have come intimations of the inner quality of the
creative Reality upon whom we depend; He moves in upon us to awaken and then to deepen our returning movement towards Him.
We are not forgetting the freedom of the Gospel and its promise of freedom to the human spirit; but are saying that in the Christian view all freedom has its conditions set
by the
creative action of God in determining the conditions of
life.
Just as the most intense energy of the male and the most enduring persistence of the female principle form the unlimited power of nature, as love and
life consist in separating and uniting, in restlessness and steadiness, in energy and being, so the
creative and the receptive forces work to produce the perfect creation of genius: the more matter is formed
by the
creative force, the more intense the struggle, the greater the effect.
We can say that, as primordial, God is the continuum of all possibilities, the treasure - house of potentiality to be applied to the creation; that, as consequent (or as affected
by that creation), God is the recipient of all value of good achieved in the
creative advance; and that, as superjective, God «pours back into the world» (as Whitehead once put it) that which has thus been received from it but is now harmonized within the divine
life that is «the Harmony of harmonies.»
Thus in the final analysis we must assent to an ultimate triunity of principles defining the divine
life: the divine
creative act nontemporally generating the primordial nature, from which proceeds the consequent nature as implicated in the Whiteheadian «categoreal conditions» established
by the primordial envisagement.
Quoting Pope Francis, Archbishop Tomasi said that «the time has come for everyone to find the courage to be generous and
creative in the service of the common good, the courage to forge a peace which rests on the acknowledgment
by all of the right of two states to exist and to
live in peace and security within internationally recognized borders.»
According to Whitehead all
life aims at satisfaction, albeit the varying contents of the particular satisfaction are determined
by the subjective aim of the unique
creative desire of each entity.
the conviction runs through the New Testament that, in the faith which it records, a fresh, original
creative invasion of the world
by the
living God had taken place.