Some theologians, notably Reinhold Niebuhr, interpret the image of God in man as man's capacity
for creative self - transcendence.
In such activities there is opportunity
for creative self - expression and continued growth.
Not exact matches
As it becomes easier — or at least more common —
for members of the workforce to be
self - employed or start their own businesses, you as a corporate manager have to come up with
creative ways to keep your employees on payroll and be engaged.
However, I would like him to hold some of the characteristics that an entrepreneur would need
for success as he grows up:
self - starter, problem solver, leader, passionate, and
creative to name a few
According to research by leading positive psychologist Barbara Fredrickson with the University of North Carolina, a positive outlook generates
creative thinking, builds
self - confidence and promotes overall resilience — all qualities necessary
for lasting lifestyle changes.
This fear of exposing yourself and your work holds many of us back from being our most
creative selves — and that goes
for hugely successful artists as well as you and me.
They share details of how they've built and grown brands, developed
creative means of
self - expression, found and followed their passions and cared
for themselves in the process.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced this year's 24 winners, who have been selected
for showing «extraordinary originality and dedication in their
creative pursuits and a marked capacity
for self - direction.»
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.
The same applies to the husband's awareness of the unique
self - esteem problems of women faced with changing sex roles, the continuing dual - standard in many areas, the increasing period of life after the children are raised and the problem of finding significance therein, and the preparation
for creative widowhood which faces the vast majority of women in our culture.
If the word egotism includes positive
self - regard and
creative self - determination, and if — being female, or poor, or a person of color — we have been denied opportunities
for such
self - regard and
self - determination, we may act egotistically
for good reasons.
The fact that Rinzai hoped
for a
creative response is itself exemplary of the fact that, in Zen, the true
self includes volition as well as awareness.
For Hartshorne, to be actual at all is to be an instance of
creative synthesis, and this means to have power to be partially determinative of
self and others, as well as to have the capacity to be partly determined by other
selves.
Their concurrent, or even interdependent, increase is a seeming paradox, since conformity means repetition of the past, thus prolongation of what has been, contrary to the
self -
creative freedom which appetition
for novel realization would imply.
As we have seen, what the examination of perception brings to light
for Whitehead is an occasion of experience which is a
self -
creative process, a subject synthesizing past objects into a novel unity.
Significant learning stems from the
self - directed motivation of the learner who wants something positive and
creative for... unfilled need of his.
Psychosynthesis offers a variety of methods
for facilitating spiritual growth by opening oneself to the
creative energies and wisdom of one's higher
Self.
In order
for the world to be independent of God and to possess its own existence, or to undergo a genuine
self - transcendence in evolution, its
creative ground would in some way make itself absent from that world instead of overwhelming it with divine presence.
She calls instead
for the strengthening of personal selfhood and the prizing of
self - realization and personal fulfillment which express themselves in
creative spontaneity and fantasy.
Limper thinks that the nature of things, the uniqueness of each
creative moment, is not fundamentally at odds with a drive
for self - realization that instrumentalizes nature as part of its basic strategy.
We are both
self -
creative and
creative of each other,
for good or ill, or
for good and ill.
But God's primary goal is
for each of us to be as fully
self -
creative as possible, even if such creativity results in human oppression, and this is why God would not unilaterally keep
self -
creative individuals from abusing the freedom of others even if this could be done.
Although God assists in determining the nature of reality by initiating the «subjective aim» of each emerging actual entity, because reality is
self -
creative the human being must assume responsibility
for systemic suffering and social malfunctioning in the world.
Does agency and
creative freedom not have something to do with final causality, with the capacity
for self - creation?
These two points, that the
creative process includes the lure of a telos and that the agent of creativity is responsible
for its activity, serve as a basis
for the suggestion that
self - determination in
creative processes can be conceived in terms of two notions familiar to the philosophical tradition: eros and agape.
Reacting against the paralysis of endless analysis in therapy, he failed to see that cognitive understanding and
self - insight can help mobilize one's resources
for creative change.
Yet Romanticism's sharp antithesis of the individual's
creative self - fashioning on the one hand and political, social, and religious norms on the other also sowed the seeds
for variously existentialist, hedonistic, and nihilist programs that bear much responsibility
for the devastations wrought throughout the twentieth century and into our present.
For Whitehead, the unit - actualities are «experiment occasions,» which are always in some degree «self - creative» and each such occasion contributes to the divine consciousness, which regards it with «tenderness» after it exists and inspires it with his ideal for its coming - to - be as it comes into existen
For Whitehead, the unit - actualities are «experiment occasions,» which are always in some degree «
self -
creative» and each such occasion contributes to the divine consciousness, which regards it with «tenderness» after it exists and inspires it with his ideal
for its coming - to - be as it comes into existen
for its coming - to - be as it comes into existence.
Twenty centuries witness to the effectiveness of such worship in changing men's lives
for the better, in bringing release from guilt and freedom from fear, in giving direction and purpose to their striving, and in lifting them out of neurotic
self - concern into healthful and
creative relationships to their fellows.
Christian theology has always asserted some margin
for man's
creative self - expression.
Certainly, the sermon is the strategic part of the worship service
for challenging persons to
creative self - investment.
Again, how this is possible, be it in relation to God or to the environment as they present themselves, distinctly or indistinctly, to me as a
creative self - identifying unity, is a matter
for further debate.
The primary characteristics of any
self -
creative beings — and we must suppose that this holds pre-eminently
for human beings — are freedom, transience, and novel purpose... The denial of rationality as the primary character of experience involves the denial of principles as external sources of order and thus entails the consequence that each aesthetic event will constitute its own source of order and novelty.
Because becoming has such importance
for me as
self -
creative, and is not to be construed merely as volatile being, it is apparent why my own view of God requires divine presence in the fount of becoming, not only in data prehended (cf. CC).
Creativity... is merely «the name
for a general fact»... namely that the world consists of
self -
creative actual entities.
For «mental pole,» one might suggest «reactive pole,» «
self -
creative pole,» or even «pole of transformation.»
The possibilities which are presented are blessedness which comes from
self - fulfillment and the acceptance by God of that
self - fulfillment — all of this, of course, in relationship with others and not in any presumed human isolation of
self hood — or the disintegration or failure which comes from
self - destruction or rejection by God because there is nothing to be received by God in His consequent nature
for the furthering of His purpose of good in the course of the process of
creative advance.
Even though one finds his life by losing it, by letting go of his present
self, and even though one can not realize his greater fulfilment by attempting to control the process of
creative mutuality
for his own purposes or by concentrating his attention upon his forthcoming reward, surely the vision of perfect love of man can not be conceived normatively in terms of extinction.
It does not mean that every member will have the same duties, functions, gifts, or opportunities,
for these vary with maturity and circumstances; but it does mean that every member shall have such treatment as will afford to him or her the fullest dignity, the fullest possible opportunity
for self - development and
creative growth, the fullest happiness the circumstances permit.
Thus God, as principle of order and novelty, is understood here as the
creative ground of the emergent universe, giving it its very being and presenting it with whatever possibilities
for further emergent
self - transcendence may be relevant at each particular phase.
Thanks
for sharing your
creative self with me tonight!
Glowing Balance — This is a luscious and beautiful site dedicated to
Self - care, simplicity, style & sustainability
for creatives.
«Wineworks» mission entails clear, direct and
creative self - representation
for a select group of outstanding artisanal brands,» commented Sam Bronfman, Wineworks Cofounder and CEO.
momstown Kitchener - Waterloo is currently seeking a
creative,
self - motivated, and energetic individual
for a Contract Position as a Editorial Blogger.
Cate, a
self - professed lactivist who writes at Eco Child's Play, says she doesn't believe that «setting aside
creative, imaginative free play
for an instructional doll is the best
for kids.
momstown KW is currently seeking a
creative,
self - motivated, and energetic individual
for a rolling 6 month contract position as an Event Coordinator
for our Baby Programs.
This education, built on a strong academic foundation which incorporates the arts, also brings forth
creative imagination, critical thinking,
self - confidence, and a sense of delight, wonder and respect
for nature and humanity.
This education, built on a strong academic foundation, also brings forth
creative imagination, critical thinking,
self - confidence, and a sense of delight, wonder and respect
for nature and humanity.
This is useful
for seeing
self - hypnosis and
creative visualisation sessions in progress.
I am a psychotherapist and coach and have a
creative entrepreneurial program
for women to help them become financially
self - sustaining that I want to start this May - July.