Sentences with phrase «feel the pleasure of»

... We can still feel the pleasure of that connection.»

At which point I say, oh yes, I've had this for ages, and feel the pleasure of remembering having once made an excellent decision.

As is known, not being able to feel the pleasure of affording the dream shoes is indeed a form of torture; for this reason, we offer cheap women shoes so as to more and more ladies could enjoy the moment of getting what they're dreaming of.

Make sure there is plenty of water and shade available for your dog in the summer months; many dogs dig just to feel the pleasure of sprawling in the cool soil.

While you're there, you will feel the pleasure of losing yourself in Upper East Side New York.

Not exact matches

In fact, we almost can't help sharing our thoughts and feelings: Research also shows that talking about ourselves, whether in person or on social media, triggers the same pleasure sensation in the brain as does money or food — self disclosure causes increased activity in brain regions associated with the sense of reward and satisfaction from money, food and even sex.

Thinking about things you enjoy can be almost as effective as actually doing the activity which makes you happy: «the part of the brain responsible for feeling pleasure, the mesolimbic dopamine system, can be activated when merely thinking about something pleasurable, such as drinking one's favorite brand of beer or driving one's favorite type of sports car.

Studies have revealed that when a person feels appreciated and recognized, the brain releases dopamine, the hormone that is responsible for controlling the reward and pleasure center of the brain.

According to acclaimed author Steven Kotler, during periods of flow, your brain secrets a healthy dose of pleasure - feeling chemicals such as dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine.

(Researchers have found that bragging activates the same feeling of pleasure in the brain as money and food.)

After yesterday noticing the pleasure of warmth didn't bring the happiness, satisfaction, emotional reward, or growth I expected, I felt a smaller longing for a warm shower, making the cold shower easier.

In the first place, being in touch with the body will bring us reports of sensuous pleasure, warmth, good feelings — not to be denied or suppressed; not to be apologized for; not a source of religious embarrassment.

Epicurus taught the idea that pleasure of the individual was the sole good in life, though he also believed in the existence of gods, whom they felt did not create the universe, nor inflict punishment or bestow blessings, but that they were disinterested in what man was doing.

We are reminded not just of our strength but of our weakness as well; not just of glory but also of misery; not just of pleasure but also of finitude; not just of warmth and the coming - to - be of the self in relation with others, but also of limitation and isolation; not just marriage but divorce; not just trust but betrayal and desertion; not just good feeling but pain, suffering, daily reminders of mortality, impermanence, the inevitability and the necessity of death.

I believe in The Grace of God and know that it has covered me whenever I have fallen and sinned as a Christian in word, thought or deed but I also know that when I have sinned and grieved The Holy Spirit within me that feels terrible, negating any pleasure to be experienced in sin!

David Oliphant, an archdeacon in the Anglican diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, has perceptively remarked that those who condemn homosexuals have very little appreciation of what goes on within the youth who comes to feel the pain and pleasure of sexual feelings and desire for comfort from someone of their own sex.

Marcus Aurelius observed in his Meditations (170 — 80) the importance of «keeping the divinity within us free from violence and unharmed, superior to pain and pleasure... not feeling the need of another's doing or not doing something; and, furthermore, accepting all that happens and all that is allotted us, as coming from the source, wherever it is, whence it itself came.»

The amateur in front of a microphone is tempted to indulge the pleasure of broadcasting his thoughts and feelings, to the great amusement or annoyance of his audience.

But it is through the mutual self - giving in love that our humanity is established (whether in sex or beyond), rather than the abstract experience of pleasure or the fulfillment of a craving or felt need.

I feel that the religious excitement that is supposed to come to people who meditate on the flame of a single dark candle in an otherwise dark room was no greater than the pleasure I felt when I looked down a gun - sight and become very close to my own mind and consciousness.

Both sons are prodicals what God is teaching us through the parable is revealing the intents of our hearts there sinful.The younger son wanted the worldly pleasures that was where his heart was at at least he is honest.The older brothers heart was no better because it was all about him it wasnt out of love for his father that he stayed on the farm but that by his works he would gain all that his father had.If he loved his father he would have known how his father would have responded to his brother and he himself would also have been happy to have seen his brother alive again.In the back of his mind he is worried that he may lose more of his inheritance and feels threatened and that is why he responds in the way he does.His heart hasnt changed at all even though his brother has come back from the dead.

Rather, his poetry and prose are merged and submerged in his purpose of carrying his reader to the place to which «the whole torrent of our love rushes,» the place of highly energized and pleasurable «rest» — «there,» where the apparent contradiction of rest and strongly felt pleasure coincide and can be communicated most adequately by Augustine's inardescimus et imus: we catch fire and we go.

Like trading the Lord of Life for any of my pleasures or felt needs?

The reading pleasure that results from this conversation — different for different readers — is not merely the simple pleasure of hearing a good story, but the complex pleasures of strong feelings — sometimes violent disagreement, sometimes frustration and sometimes a euphoric recognition, produced by Augustine's text, of the «beauty so ancient and so new,» to which Augustine points through the beauty of his prose.

Of all the gopis, interchangeable suppliers of pleasure and feelings of conquest, Radha begins to stand out in Krishna's mind as someone special who is desired in her uniquenesOf all the gopis, interchangeable suppliers of pleasure and feelings of conquest, Radha begins to stand out in Krishna's mind as someone special who is desired in her uniquenesof pleasure and feelings of conquest, Radha begins to stand out in Krishna's mind as someone special who is desired in her uniquenesof conquest, Radha begins to stand out in Krishna's mind as someone special who is desired in her uniqueness.

Mornings in Bodley, drowsing among the worn browns and tarnished gilding of Duke Humphrey, snuffing the faint, musty odor of slowly perishing leather...; long afternoons, taking an outrigger up the Cher, feeling the rough kiss of the sculls on unaccustomed palms, listening to the rhythmical and satisfying kerklunk of the rowlocks, watching the play of muscles on the Bursar's sturdy shoulders at stroke, as the sharp spring wind flattened the thin silk shirt against them; or, if the day were warmer, flicking swiftly in a canoe under Magdalen walls and so by the twisting race at King's Mill by Mesopotamia to Parson's Pleasure; then back, with mind relaxed and body stretched and vigorous, to make toast by the fire.

Unsuspectedly from the bottom of every fountain of pleasure, as the old poet said, something bitter rises up: a touch of nausea, a falling dead of the delight, a whiff of melancholy, things that sound a knell, for fugitive as they may be, they bring a feeling of coming from a deeper region and often have an appalling convincingness.

Many men and women believe that God is all mighty and may do all, and that he is all wisdom and can do all; but that he is all love and will do all — there they stop... Of all the properties of the blessed trinity, God wants us to feel the greatest confidence and pleasure in love, for love makes power and wisdom humble before us.Of all the properties of the blessed trinity, God wants us to feel the greatest confidence and pleasure in love, for love makes power and wisdom humble before us.of the blessed trinity, God wants us to feel the greatest confidence and pleasure in love, for love makes power and wisdom humble before us.55

I lost my faith forever unless I ever get the chance to feel the inside of her pleasure box.

We had hated writing thank - you notes, so we let our children slide, effectively teaching them that their pleasure, their receiving, was all that mattered; they didn't have to take into account the feelings of the giver or participate in the basic human ritual of reciprocity if they didn't want to.

But surely the first move toward that code is to teach children that it is care for another person, rather than the pursuit of pleasure, that is the source of sexual feeling.

One might expect, given our proposed explanation, that pleasure would engender the feeling of «slow time.»

He instructs clients in various body postures, exercises, and emotionally releasing verbalizing by which they can overcome the deadening of feelings and pleasure

But in so doing we also diminish our feelings of excitement, sensual pleasure, and aliveness.

This being - a-murderer is a state of being, an existential punishment in and of itself, even if you, personally, get away with it in terms of the law and manage to feel no guilt (or even feel pleasure in it) or even if you somehow wind up in heaven for eternity.

The simplest moral philosophy of doing unto others as you have them do unto you is readily understandable by all normal people, just as a pleasure shared is not halved but doubled but, to the amoralist, the psychopath it has no meaning as they have no empathy and feel neither the happiness nor the sadness of others, they are genetically abnormal suffering from an actual and real physical defect.

Thank you for this encouragement — I feel much more misguided than wise most of the time though God encourages me on — this time via your work — so keep it up and I pray He leads you on to continue to challenge and inspire others and that you feel His pleasure as you do so..

Intake experiences are those in which one feels loved, cared for, esteemed, and fed through the stimulation of ideas, music, inspiration, relationships, and the pleasures of the senses.

Hence we may therefore speak of an «aesthetic conversion'that takes place when we recognise beauty not merely as that which produces feelings of pleasure, but as «form», understood as «perceivable order, intelligibility and value».

«a feeling or deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one's own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired»

Finally, ascetic exercises may in rarer instances be prompted by genuine perversions of the bodily sensibility, in consequence of which normally pain - giving stimuli are actually felt as pleasures.

Instead when a person marries... he takes his sexual desire, and he does the same thing with it that we must all do with all our physical desires if we would make them means of worship — 1) he brings it into conformity to God's word; 2) he subordinates it to a higher pattern of love and care; 3) he transposes the music of physical pleasure into the music of spiritual worship, 4) he listens for the echoes of God's goodness in every nerve; 5) he seeks to double his pleasure by making her joy his joy; and 6) he gives thanks to God from the bottom of his heart because he knows and he feels that he never deserved one minute of this pleasure.

Many of us too will be inclined to attribute feelings of pleasure and pain to the animals we know well, such as our domestic cats and dogs.

The social avoidance and anhedonia (the inability to feel pleasure in normally pleasurable activities) characteristic of depression move energy resources to ghting infection, and the hypervigilance characteristic of anxiety disorders is linked to protection from attack and subsequent pathogen exposure.

The trauma of birth is more than being ejected from the pleasure and safety of the intrauterine garden of Eden; it is the feeling of no longer being whole in oneself.

The goal can not be not to feel pleasure or not to be drawn by it (both pertain to the instinct of conjugality), but not to be dominated by its quest (which is the very instinct of lust).

In their book, The Pleasure Bond, William Masters and Virginia Johnson declare: «Total commitment, in which all sense of obligation is linked to mutual feelings of loving concern, sustains a couple sexually over the years....

Even if Janzen stretches too far at points, his feel for the richness of language as a tool to inform, but also to evoke, makes this commentary a pleasure to read and an experience in rediscovering the ancestral stories.

How Muslims spoil sex: They make all women at 12 years old be operated so she does not perceive, receive or feel any type of pleasure.

I encourage you to stay... for all the broken ones that feel they don't fit anywhere... for those who are seeking a genuine relationship with God within a Religious culture that tends to offer platitudes... for those who would rather that you leave so that you don't give them the pleasure... but most of all — For Yourself!