Sentences with phrase «ecstasy which»

Agape has for Niebuhr qualities of ecstasy which define «the ultimate heroic possibilities of human existence (including of course martyrdom).24

I was caught up in an ecstasy which there are no words to describe.»

Compared with the complex ecstasies which the supernaturally regenerated Christian may enjoy, or the oriental pantheist indulge in, their receipts for equanimity are expedients which seem almost crude in their simplicity.

Not exact matches

One large European study, for example — which examined sewage from 60 cities in 19 countries — discovered an acute use of methamphetamine in two eastern German cities (Chemnitz and Erfurt), heavy use of cocaine in Zurich and Barcelona, and a notable level of MDMA (ecstasy) use in Amsterdam, Kelly reports.

The U.S. government still classifies cannabis as a Schedule I substance under the 1970 Controlled Substance Act (CSA), which places it alongside heroin, MMDA and ecstasy as drugs with a high potential for abuse and no approved medical usage.

In March, Gurgaon - based Ecstasy E-Ordering Pvt Ltd, which owns and operates food ordering site Bite Club, has raised $ 500,000 (Rs 3.1 crore) in seed funding from Powai Lake Ventures and other investors.

Ripatrazone devotes considerable attention to Ron Hansen's 1991 novel Mariette in Ecstasy, which he sees as «a postconciliar method to regain lay participation in the mechanisms of the Church.»

Then there was a thing called «the movement» (often capitalized as The Movement), which was a frequently confused mix of agitations coming out of the civil rights movement, joining up with opposition to the war in Vietnam, and linking hands with a «counterculture» that embraced everything from pharmaceutical ecstasies to flirting with revolutionary violence.

Again and again Naked Pastor brings to us the agon (y) which precedes the ecstasy.

It is a moment of ecstasy on the part of the disciples in which they behold with unveiled faces the deified Christ.

Religious ecstasy is apt to produce an emotional hangover, which is destructive to sobriety.

The portrait is psychologically true: the perennial tension between the animal ecstasies of the flesh, which bind one to unthinking material necessity, and the rational freedom of the spirit, which is always striving to subdue the brute.

This smaller unit (vs. 16) toward which the whole passage is pointed 7 is the reproduction — insofar as such is capable of reproduction — of the word received in prophetic concentration / ecstasy.

One could argue that one of the fundamental problems which many religions seek to address (although each with a different vocabulary) is articulated in the following questions: What kind of Being could know birth and death, ecstasy and terror, in the same instant?

It is no accident that this procedure works best with mystics, or more specifically with those who practiced what William James called the «mysticism of infinity» in which self, world, and divinity merge in ecstasy (which James called, with a sort of Harvard understatement, an «oceanic feeling»).

For one thing, though it may enable the individual to achieve the heights of momentary ecstasy, it robs him in return of the ineffable joys of union and conscious loss of self in that which is greater than self: the element burns up all its future in a flying spark.

Since then I have given up the «religious» which is nothing but the exception, extraction, exaltation, ecstasy; or it has given me up.

This experience of the unity of the self is understood by the mystic as the experience of the unity, and this leads him to turn away from his existence as a man to a duality of «higher» hours of ecstasy and lower» hours in the world which are regarded as preparation for the higher.

Conscience, which dictates what we should do and induces remorse for failure, is the «semi-conscious intellectual effort to experience Divinity, without recourse to anthropomorphic terms, rational propositions or mystic ecstasy» (REN 71).

Even in this sense transcendence may have all the depth and richness I at least could ask: mystery, ineffability, ecstasy, reunion and reconciliation, worlds upon worlds of various sorts and stages of existence, an ideal order of which our experiences of truth, beauty and goodness are fragmentary glimpses.

Drugs admit one to a haven of light and life, the momentary grasp of which is preferred by the addict to the boredom of ordinary self - centered existence, despite the darkness and death which are the price of the fleeting ecstasy.

Oh, he was weeping in his rapture even over those stars which were shining for him from the abyss of space and «he was not ashamed of that ecstasy.»

God the Spirit creates ecstasy reined in by order, heroism tempered by rationality, solitary raptures which are never far removed from the responsibility of communal living.

Such a total change in outlook is regarded as a glimpse into the life of ecstasy and bliss which is the consummation of the religious quest.

This hypothesis of a final maturing and ecstasy of Mankind, the logical conclusion of the theory of complexity, may seem even more far - fetched than the idea (of which it is the extension) of the planetization of Life.

The most characteristic of all the elements of the conversion crisis, and the last one of which I shall speak, is the ecstasy of happiness produced.

Then, slowly, the ecstasy left my heart; that is, I felt that God had withdrawn the communion which he had granted, and I was able to walk on, but very slowly, so strongly was I still possessed by the interior emotion.

As they gain the summit, the pilgrims also reach a pinnacle of religious fervor — which sometimes becomes hysteria — expressed through prayer and ecstasy, a great many tears, quiet moaning or cries to Mary for assistance.

which is the ultimate source and cradle of all existence and the «uncreated and ineffable Supreme»... At is beyond time and space, beyond form or any experiential differentiation, and beyond polarities such as good and evil, light and darkness, stability and motion, and agony and ecstasy.

This signal activates your brain's reward system — which includes «dopamine hotspots» — and then your brain's reward system subconsciously tells you that you should eat another Oreo to continue feeling those warm, happy vibes of ecstasy.

Here is an easy recipe for Sensational Double Layer Pumpkin Pie which Kristi's family has dubbed «Pumpkin Cheesecake Ecstasy.»

Pepper can be classed as one of the few spices which is not only an embellishment for the cook to employ, but it is also something, in the hands of the diner, that has the ability to turn an uninspiring repast into a subject of culinary ecstasy.

The NCAA considers ecstasy a street drug, which carries a lesser penalty.

His almost childlike attitude to taking on defenders was a source of pure ecstasy for both Liverpool and football fans in general, in which he would always look for the nutmeg, as if he was on the playground or back on the streets of Uruguay.

«It is part of the human experience to experience pain, the other side of which is this incredible ecstasy.»

Even better, the show has encouraged fans to upload content ranging from photos to comic strips to illustrations (Botticelli's Birth of Venus redone manatee - style) to poetry («The product of our ecstasy will be half man and half a - «tee») to songs («She had big black eyes / no discernible thighs»), some of which have been featured on - air.

The psychoactive substances bill sought to crack down on legal highs — especially the new generation of drugs that are designed to mimic the effects of traditional illicit substances such as cannabis and ecstasy — which the Home Office says caused 129 deaths in 2015.

After the supreme court granted Martin Amidu his request to cross examine Woyome, a video which captured Abdul Malik Kweku Baako dancing in ecstasy in obvious expression of «we will Teach you a lesson» which Manaseh and kweku himself warned Woyome earlier of, went viral on both social and mainstream media.

The charges stem from a search warrant executed by police in mid-September which turned up crystal meth and ecstasy at Dadey's Brooklyn Heights home, sources said.

Within 2 years, a Chinese herb called ma huang or ephedra, which companies promoted as a legal alternative to ecstasy, was under scrutiny.

David Nutt reiterated the «two bowls scenario», which illustrates the point that it is safer to give a stranger MDMA (ecstasy) than it is to give them a peanut.

Nonetheless, more than 20 million Americans have tried a psychedelic at least once, and 1.3 million are users of the drugs, by far the most popular of which is now MDMA, or Ecstasy.

The circumstances of ecstasy use increase the risk as the drug is popular in crowded clubs where people can easily become dehydrated by dancing and alcohol use; and a high - fat diet appears to raise blood levels of fatty acids which can impede body temperature regulation.

He says Ecstasy users are under the influence of a massive surge of oxytocin — the brain's «love» hormone, normally released during nursing or orgasm — which cements pair bonds.

The Upside Down Mushroom Room appears through February 20 in Ecstasy, an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in which 30 artists explore altered modes of perception via painting, sculpture, film, video, and photography.

He published a 10 - year review of drug deaths in Scotland which showed that the chances of newspapers reporting a death from an overdose of paracetamol (acetaminophen) was 1 in 250, a death from amphetamine was 1 in 3 and that every death from ecstasy was reported.

I don't know what this guy is so worried about, because I'd imagine it would be hard to fear anything while on X, which means ecstasy... or something else.

At first, I wasn't sure about this album, I thought it was a lil» bit borin» comparin» it to their previous efforts, which were made for dance clubs and ecstasy.

It's not just the look (which is ineffably right, from the mutton chops and the peasant dresses to the battered screen doors and the neon glow), it's the feel, the rhythm of hanging out, of talking yourself into a state of shivering ecstasy or fear or something in between.

So it is quite astonishing to report that, for the first time, Leigh has revisited one of his own plays, Ecstasy, which he originally put on at the Hampstead Theatre in September 1979, and which is now back at the same venue.