Sentences with phrase «greater meaning in life»

I have significant experience helping individuals struggling with alcohol / chemical dependency, anxiety, depression, co-occurring disorders, PTSD, stress management, and the pursuit of greater meaning in life.

The second dimension, search for meaning in life, concerns the need for intently seeking a valued life purpose or mission and a greater meaning in life and originates from human intrinsic motivation (Frankl, 1963).

People see me to help ease distress and often to find greater meaning in life and connection in relationships.

I also enjoy helping others find greater meaning in life to move forward in a way that feels full and good.»

«There is no greater meaning in life than to use the education opportunities you have to make a difference in people's lives, and doing that for a city is so tangible.»

Attendees at Inner Fire are called «seekers,» recognizing that both they and professional staff at Inner Fire (referred to as «guides») are all striving individuals seeking balance, purpose and greater meaning in life.

So, here are those five meaningful thoughts that Guy writes about in his book, which I believe serve a great learning for most people aspiring to find a greater meaning in life and become better as value investors.

As for me, I guess I'm deluded, just as King David before me, I love Torah and find great meaning in living a life of mitzvot connected to God and my community.

Are you looking to create greater meaning in your life?I have found great satisfaction in my work by helping people create greater meaning in their lives, which helps overcome many struggles - including depression, anxiety and dealing with trauma.

My family is so special to me and gives me great meaning in life.

Not exact matches

Massachusetts: From Algonquian Massachusetts, a name for the native people who lived around the bay, meaning «at the large hill,» in reference to Great Blue Hill, southwest of Boston.

Utah: From Spanish yuta, name of the indigenous Uto - Aztecan people of the Great Basin; perhaps from Western Apache (Athabaskan) yudah, meaning «high» (in reference to living in the mountains).

The scheduled attendees of the conference encompass a wide variety of experts, ranging from medical professionals, hospice advocates, scholars, religious and spiritual leaders, as well as entrepreneurs and business men and women interested in learning how an understanding of death and dying can help them live lives of greater purpose and meaning.

Many aren't traditional Christmas presents, but that just means they'll make great gifts for the boundary - pushing entrepreneurs in your life.

[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 for you?

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

For such is the great scandal to man, as he said in the Washington interview, of an «emphasis on individual life» (and here he means that Christian sense of personhood).

and being aware of your environment, being respectful of those of all beliefs and none beliefs, and of our world, and its about personal responsibility, with that said why is is such a bad thing to believe in something greater than yourself, how can somebody live there life without believing in something, what kind of life is that, life is meant to be discovered, its one big mystery, and all the science in the world can still not prove how we exactly came to be?

In fact, the question of living life without any evident inherent meaning is the core of Albert Camus's great essay, «The Myth of Sissyphus.»

Also, while you may be able to «find» meaning in life as an atheist, this meaning can not possibly be anything more than personal (subjective) wish fulfillment in denial of greater reality, that there is no meaning.

Another condition of us being in this life to experience a world of both good and evil is that we go through this life for a limited time only, and that for us to obtain the greatest happiness that God can give us, it can't be done if were all dead without any means to overcome death.

It is the living fact of their place within the laws and layers of meaning embedded and embodied in creation as set out in God's great purpose which is to be fulfilled in Christ.

When we refuse to give ourselves completely, especially in marriage, we destroy the foundations for a truly mutual and loving relationship, and we no longer live up to the meaning of marriage which is the Great Marriage of total self - giving between Christ and the Church.

Yet through all these diversities of phrasing — whether faith was thought of as a power - releasing confidence in God, or as selfcommitment to Christ that brought the divine Spirit into indwelling control of one's life, or as the power by which we apprehend the eternal and invisible even while living in the world of sense, or as the climactic vision of Christ as the Son of God which crowns our surrender to his attractiveness, or as assured conviction concerning great truths that underlie and constitute the gospel — always the enlargement and enrichment of faith was opening new meanings in the experience of fellowship with God and was influencing deeply both the idea and the practice of prayer.

And for the Christian faith, the claim to be made is that the moment of greatest intensity is the emergence in the sphere of history and of human life of the person of Jesus Christ, with all that he was and all that he continues to be, all that he did and all that he continues to do, all that he meant and all that he continues to mean for those who respond to him in heart's surrender.

To do it would mean not only a great deepening of the spiritual life, but by the release of tension a great increase in the effectiveness of one's work.

Great as is the significance of the emergence of self - conscious persons within the very fabric of the universe for any reflection on its possible meaning and purpose, this must not lead us to underplay the significance also of the rest of the universe and of all other living organisms to God as Creator — even though we are able to depict only in imagination the kind of delight that God may be conceived to have in the fecund multiplicity and variety or created forms.

This also is the reason that every Christian must of necessity be «high church,» not in any denominational sense, not with any ecclesiastical overtones, but simply because to be a Christian at all — as we have defined it — means to be a member of that great community of Christian life and worship and faith which has come to be known as «the church.»

The following centuries of monastic experimentation gave them deep insights into humility, and into the great theological virtues of faith, hope and charity, They understood the Gospels to be saying that we are meant for great things — meant to live in imitation of Christ himself.

«In an age of disenchantment with churches, but also of great longing for stability, certainty, and meaning in life, 85 percent of people still marrIn an age of disenchantment with churches, but also of great longing for stability, certainty, and meaning in life, 85 percent of people still marrin life, 85 percent of people still marry.

in the greater scheme of things, as time was created for us as a means of seperating the day from the night but god, the idea that when God made the heavens and earth before establishing time, many billions of years may have passed by, even the time frame I mean men according to the bible used to live for 600 - 11 years old.

Not sure i am convinced because how do you explain the verse an eye for an eye in the old testament there have always been consequences for wrong doing and stiill are for sin.If we believe the word then that word is from God not satan.As far as satan is concerned he uses violence as his tools of trade he works on our fears and is limited to robbing stealing and destroying he does nt have anything else.Violence confirms to us that there is a spiritual battle going on both on the earthly plane and in the heavenlys and the battle is over souls.The verse the kingdon of heaven is expanding and violent people take it by force is referring to that spiritual battle and as satan uses violence to expand his dominion so does God use violence to counter him.So what does he mean by that term for me i think it is saying that the the force of evil that satan uses or violence is overcome by a greater violence or force a more powerful one that being the Love of Christ.Through the cross we see that clearly portrayed and in our lives that very same battle is still happening right now for dominion be clear if we walk in the flkesh satan will have dominion over us but if we walk according to the spirit and abide in Christ we have freedom from our old nature.and satan.He can oppose us but he wont be able to influence us if we are in Christ.

In archaic religion each man finds meaning by repeating the creation, or to put it the other way about, he finds meaning by projecting the pattern of his own little story into the great story which explains not only his own little life but how things are.

-- who give heed to the meaning of the great racist persecutions and who try to understand this meaning, they will see Israel as drawn along the road to Calvary, by reason of that very vocation which I have indicated, and because the slave merchants will not pardon Israel for the demands it and its Christ have implanted in the heart of the world's temporal life, demands that will ever cry «no» to the tyranny of force.

This huge, blue planet is in existance just so we can be born, live, make a living, have a baby, then die... no connection, no spirit, no soul, no more appreciating the beauty around us, no more being astounded at the improbabilities, no more being amazed at the wonders of life... because none of that has any meaning any more, it's just a bunch of junk that happened accidently... who cares, we're just all going to fade away into nothingness... become one with the dirt, because we are actually no better than the dirt... I don't know about you, but I'm depressed now... but then that's what's great about our country, you can choose to believe or... not... in this... country... that has... no particular meaning... in the grand scheme of thngs... oh, yeah, that's right there is no «grand scheme of things»... so never mind.

In the study just cited, respondents were asked first to indicate which among a list of such experiences they had ever had and then whether or not each experience had affected their thoughts about the meaning and purpose of life a great deal.

By this he meant that for a great many people the whole function of their faith is to provide them either with a keen awareness of what God does for them and in them or with a way of escape from the real facts of life.

Even in great cities, where the machinery of life does not stop and throngs never pause, the church means to many people chiefly a place of relaxation from the strain of life.

This deepening and solidification has produced several highly significant developments in Buber's thought: a growing concern with the nature and meaning of evil as opposed to his earlier tendency to treat evil as a negative aspect of something else; a growing concern with freedom and grace, divine and human love, and the dread through which man must pass to reach God; a steady movement toward concern with the simpler and more concrete aspects of everyday life; and an ever greater simplicity and solidity of style.

Although this is not the place to discuss at greater length the nature of evil, human sin, suffering, death and the relationship between them, they must find mention here for they constitute the chief problems which continually confront man and make him question whether there is any justice or meaning to be found in life.

I have always found it very strange that these who call themselves successors of the apostles, I mean some poor men — preachers of humility and repentance — should possess great wealth, wallow in luxery, and fill posts more proper to satisfy the vanity of the age and the ostentation of the great than to occupy men who must meditate on the nothingness of human life and on the quest for salvation.

... Dawson thought it strange that 16th - century men should read so many pagan classics and, philosophy and theology aside, so little of the great Christian works that had subsequently appeared, especially works of the imagination like the Cid or Parzival that were built around the question of what it means to live the Christian life in the world.»

It's a risky invitation to accept because it means living in the tension of hearing ourselves make the great confession «Jesus, you're the Messiah!»

I've found that most people — including many law professors — have a great deal of difficulty wrapping their minds around the idea that the Court would permit the intentional destruction of a healthy infant who was capable of living outside his or her mother's body, when the mother's health (in the ordinary meaning of that word) is not in serious danger.

While in temporal occasions, succession does mean the fading of the occasion as it becomes a part of the past, he is arguing that the counterpart of the occasion in God has a greater unity of life than it had in the temporal world and that in God»... succession does not mean loss of immediate unison.»

Dispensational pre-millennialism asserts that the «millennial kingdom will be ushered in by a divine, supernatural and catastrophic manifestation from heaven at the Second Coming of Christ... when the conditions of life have reached the depth of great tribulation» (from Herman A. Hoyt, an article in The Meaning of the Millennium, edited by Robert G. Clouse, p. 63.

It is a great mistake to conclude that we thereby deprive it of all value and meaning.5 When man reaches the limits of his empirical knowledge about himself and his world, he confesses his faith, or his response to life, in the form of myth and poetry.

But what Jesus meant was that only he who loses himself in devotion to something greater than himself really lives.

So that we can find meaning in life by being about something greater than ourselves.

While Churchill was a great orator, his words meant much back in those days but how soon does history tend to overlook such orations,,, For is it not a more wiser ambition to live freely among all religious persuasions and cling ever gently upon one's own independent literacies even though self - indulgence of the religious socialisms may give rises toward individualized dementia?