people like you is the reason
for suffering in the world.
Not exact matches
Niedermaier described the typical garment factory owner
in the developing
world as: starved
for capital; lacking the experience to scale up operations; thin
in middle management to improve productivity; and
suffering high staff turnover.
OK, you probably know this intellectually, but
for our sanity (and our mood), most of us go through most of our days not actively thinking about how much
suffering is going on
in the
world at any given time.
WASHINGTON, Sep. 14 / CSRwire / - The
suffering of millions displaced by powerful megastorms like hurricanes Harvey and Irma underscore the critical significance of finding solutions to the
worlds greatest challenges and the need
for countries and the private sector to work
in collaboration...
[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity
for a millennial [07:40] Waiting
for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice
for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing
in the current
world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25]
Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom
Suffering made Tony hungry
for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity
in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement
for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and
suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom
suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live
in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of
suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom
suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of
suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom
suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process
for stepping out of
suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom
suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations
for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom
for you?
Even though I'm a lifelong fan of the New York Yankees, it seemed appropriate
for the Houston Astros to win it all
in the
World Series, given the trials that city has
suffered due to Hurricane Harvey.
Maybe I could promise them some future reward
for being docile...
for turning the other cheek... Even better; what if I could convince them that they could endure
suffering in this
world because it was meaningless?
I know this will draw criticism, but I say if it weren't
for all the faithful people of all good religions doing good acts, helping the poor, clothing drives, and on and on, this
world would be
in a lot worse shape than if just your average aetheist were
in charge of helping those who
suffer.
@ Concert: «I believe like a child that
suffering will be healed and made up
for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despi.cable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that
in the
world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice
for all hearts,
for the comforting of all resentments,
for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity,
for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.»
Indeed, as Pope Francis explained
in remarks at a conference co-sponsored by the St. John's University Center
for Law and Religion
in Rome this summer, Christians
suffer perhaps the largest share of religious persecution
in the
world today:
All of this material provides a rich background
for a treatment of the political, social, moral, and personal consequences of attitudes toward
suffering in the contemporary
world.
While it is certainly true that Christians
in many parts of the
world suffer persecution, the same can not be said
for those
in America.
In regards to people blaming Judas for all the suffering in the world... I blame the devil for tempting Adam and Eve and bringing sin in to the worl
In regards to people blaming Judas
for all the
suffering in the world... I blame the devil for tempting Adam and Eve and bringing sin in to the worl
in the
world... I blame the devil
for tempting Adam and Eve and bringing sin
in to the worl
in to the
world.
You are responsible
for much of the pain and
suffering going on
in the
world.
In the last six years of John Paul's life» as his physical condition deteriorated, and some called
for his abdication, insisting that he was no longer capable of managing the bureaucracy of the Church» the mystery of the interconnection of love and
suffering was dramatically realized on the
world stage.
You are living
in a convenient dream
world — convenient to your personal greed and lack of caring
for others, especially those who
suffer in poverty.
This doesn't always happen, because we live
in a twisted
world (cf. the book of Job), but when we experience pain and
suffering, it is never because God is punishing us
for some real (or imagined) sin against Him.
it is inconceivable that a God drawn along the Whiteheadian lines, with a total grasp of the possibilities unfolding before the progressive advance into chaos and with a direct pipeline to the «ear» and «conscience» of each and every emerging actual entity, could not have found
for the
world a way around such unspeakable
suffering [as that which occurred
in the Holocaust].
While we have no means of calculating analogous figures
for the globe, the ecological devastation and increasing
suffering of the poor
in many parts of the
world suggest to us that increased GNP in many Third World Countries is accompanied by increased misery and unsustainabi
world suggest to us that increased GNP
in many Third
World Countries is accompanied by increased misery and unsustainabi
World Countries is accompanied by increased misery and unsustainability.
If it is through the
suffering faithful believers that this mystery is shared
in the
world, then perhaps deliverance will come from faithful people of the unshackled East and not from a West anesthetized by material comfort and thus still unaware of its own capacity
for self - destruction.
In this present age (history as we know it) God has, for reasons best known to Himself allowed relative freedom of action to the powers of this world, which often act in opposition to His will, and cause suffering to those who keep His la
In this present age (history as we know it) God has,
for reasons best known to Himself allowed relative freedom of action to the powers of this
world, which often act
in opposition to His will, and cause suffering to those who keep His la
in opposition to His will, and cause
suffering to those who keep His law.
We also give
for the relief of
suffering in other parts of the nation and the
world.
Rabbi, if only I knew our
suffering was paving the way
for the Messiah,» cried a Jewish refugee to R. Hayyim Soloveitchik of Brest - Litovsk shortly before his death
in World War I — era Warsaw.
The more serious we become about being salt and light
in the
world, the more devoted we will become to mission and justice, the more concerned
for the least and the lost, the more stubborn about forgiving those who don't want our forgiveness, the more determined about exposing the works of darkness — and the more we will
suffer.
This, then, must be the End and rather than wish not to be here, we should accept its
sufferings and rejoice
in the privilege they contain,
for our ashes will purify Israel and the
world.
You know, my God, that I can now scarcely discern
in the
world the lineaments of its multiplicity;
for when I gaze at it I see it chiefly as a limitless reservoir
in which the two contrary energies of joy and
suffering are accumulating
in vast quantities — and
for the most part lying unused.
For if all the sick people in the world were simultaneously to turn their sufferings into a single shared longing for the speedy completion of the kingdom of God through the conquering and organizing of the earth, what a vast leap towards God the world would thereby ma
For if all the sick people
in the
world were simultaneously to turn their
sufferings into a single shared longing
for the speedy completion of the kingdom of God through the conquering and organizing of the earth, what a vast leap towards God the world would thereby ma
for the speedy completion of the kingdom of God through the conquering and organizing of the earth, what a vast leap towards God the
world would thereby make!
There is no participation
in Christ without participation
in his cross,
in his
suffering for the
world.
This is a markedly different basic understanding of the God -
world relationship than
in the monarch - realm metaphor,
for it emphasizes God's willingness to
suffer for and with the
world, even to the point of personal risk.
Is it really possible that there might be something unspeakably horrible
in store
for every single person who dies this way, or
for the
world, that only this kind of
suffering and death can avert?
Pope Francis has called
for peace
in a
world marked by war and conflict, «beginning with the beloved and long -
suffering land of Syria» and extending to the entire Middle East, the Korean peninsula and parts of Africa affected by «hunger, endemic conflicts and terrorism».
Thus the traditional conception of deity, which we have received from our past, puts its main stress on divine absoluteness or aseity; on divine causative agency as the explanation of everything that occurs whether by direct divine willing or by indirect divine permission with respect to evil done
in the
world; on divine self - containedness and hence lack of necessary relationship with anything else; on divine impassability, which makes any
suffering impossible
for God; and on divine moral perfection, with the giving of laws
in accordance with which everything should be ordered.
If on the other hand the
world is
in truth a battlefield whereon victory is
in the making — and if we are
in truth thrown at birth into the thick of the battle — then we can at least vaguely see how,
for the success of this universal struggle
in which we are both fighters and the issue at stake, there must inevitably be
suffering.
No to Privatization «red
in tooth and claw»; yes to Public Sector without political corruption; no to Liberalization, with market exploitation; yes to Liberation from exploitative coercion; no to globalization as domination of
world market with deprivation of the developmental directive of «Small is Beautiful»; yes to Universalism in sharing and caring for the suffering humanity and Good Samaritan ethic - these should be evolved and situated in Third World conditions and perspect
world market with deprivation of the developmental directive of «Small is Beautiful»; yes to Universalism
in sharing and caring
for the
suffering humanity and Good Samaritan ethic - these should be evolved and situated
in Third
World conditions and perspect
World conditions and perspectives.
The cruciform participation
in the
suffering of Christ that Francis sought is now the lot of millions of Christians around the
world, who are violently persecuted
for no other reason than that they are Christians.
The vision of the
world as God intends it to be and the reality of
suffering in so many people's lives should result
in commitment to serve the poor and to struggle
for justice.
He then utilized terminology that
for decades informed the basic stance of process theology on the nature of true power, though, as we shall see, that is open to challenge: God «persuades the
world by an act of
suffering with the kind of power which leaves its object free to respond
in humility and love.»
Suffering in this
world is a valuable tool that even humans use
for the betterment of their children.
The vibrant American Church became fractious: Many priests and religious abandoned their spiritual callings
for the
world; some theologians dispensed with their obligations to work with the Magisterium; evangelization
suffered; loyalty to Church teaching was rejected
in favor of a misguided notion of «conscience;» and dogma and truth were repudiated.
So even if we don't all respond
in the exact same way, we can all,
for example, see the
suffering of this
world as something we are called to enter into instead of flee from.
How can we think of God's care
for the
world in light of the millions of years of
suffering and death that have been a feature of evolution
in the natural
world?
I find, on the contrary, that it is much more difficult today
for the knowing person to approach God from history, from the spiritual side of the
world, and from morals;
for there we encounter the
suffering and evil
in the
world, which it is difficult to bring into harmony with an all «merciful and almighty God.
But Jesus» sacrificial death has given value to all
suffering if it is accepted and offered
in union with Him out of love
for the Father, sincere sorrow
for sins - our own and those of the whole
world - and charity towards those who have caused it.
But
in a fallen
world, tainted by sin, where selfishness,
suffering and death deface the primordial goodness of the
world, further signs are needed
for man's sake.
All those
in a «non-religious»
world, who out of full human responsibility
for others experience weakness and
suffering, participate
in the cross and hence
in the transcendence of God.
But
in that respect the sufferer's
suffering is different from the active person's
suffering,
for when the active one
suffers, then his
suffering has significance
for the victory of the Good
in the
world.
For that, too, can be a part of the innocent one's
suffering, that the
world's injustice takes on the appearance of punishment —
in the
world's eyes.
The question is: Are we responsible
for the
suffering of others
in the
world?
For years, I have wrestled with difficult questions concerning God's goodness (even His existence), as I observe the incredible
suffering around the
world and the continued prosperity of the Church
in America.
«God is Love,» Sergius Bulgakov reminds us, «but
in the
world there is malice, strife, and hatred, the
world is a canvas
for the immeasurable
sufferings of creation.