This, surely, was where the most
important meanings of his life would be found.
Not exact matches
While it is key to be aware
of the new changes made by the CRA, it equally
important for Canadians to look at changes in their own
life, and what that
means for their taxes, she added.
«Buying a neighborhood is probably one
of the most
important things you can do for your kid,» explains Ann Owens, a sociologist at the University
of Southern California, who studied how wealthy people use their
means to improve their kids»
lives effectively.
[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?
The words «FAMILY», «LOVE», «FORGIVENESS» and «GOD» take on new
meaning as a result
of your insight into what should be extremely
important for all
of us to accomplish while we are
living and then have a totally positive memory
of the most
important aspects
of life before we die.
While I have tried to describe rather carefully the pastoral role
of a clergyman working in a mental health center as contrasted to that
of a parish pastor, I think it is
important that some aspects
of his pastoral role be maintained diligently — his openness to all levels
of pastoral conversation, his availability at all times, his understanding
of and empathy with the deep yearnings
of people for a sense
of purpose and
meaning in
life, forgiveness, moral clarity, the sense
of the holy, and the importance
of confidentiality and continuity in relationships.
You see, works are
important in the Christian
life, but they are the result
of living by faith, not the
means of living by faith.
And being good
meant trying to
live in accord with the ethical teaching
of scripture, whether that was understood as a narrow and highly specific code
of righteousness, or more generally as following
important principles such as the golden rule, loving your neighbor as yourself, and so forth.
A man who thinks that nothing is more
important than the satisfaction
of the sex urge can not understand the
meaning of chastity; a man who ranks the amassing
of material things as the supreme end
of life can not understand generosity; and a man who has never a thought beyond this world can not understand the things
of God.
Arguably one
of the most
important and influential physicists, astronomers, inventors and scientists to ever
live, Galileo took a non-literal approach to Scriptures that the Catholic Church
of the 1600s interpreted to
mean that the Earth was the center
of the universe.
There are indeed many intelligent, sincere, well -
meaning people who say such things as: «Whatever the controversy, and however strong the scholarly arguments against it, I choose to believe in the supernatural aspects
of my faith, simply because it is very
important for me in the
life of my faith to be radically aware
of sacred mysteries.»
Amos's «righteousness,» Hosea's hesed, or «lovingkindness,» and Isaiah's «holiness» represent three
important developments
of the
meaning of the divine kingship for the
life of the community.
So, too, does faith consist
of certain basic assumptions: assumptions about
meaning and value, certain attitudes about the proper way to relate to people and to the world, and certain presuppositions about what is most
important and most valuable in
life.
These groups are not substitutes for the total
life of the congregation in worship and witness; but they may be a most
important means of breaking through rigidities and opening up a frank discussion where there will be no fear
of probing sacred symbols and doctrines.
It is
important to appreciate that estrangement is a part
of the experience
of all human beings including those who know what fullness
of life means.
It is true that both the gospels and the speeches
of Peter and Paul in Acts give
important testimony as to what the apostles taught about the Christian
life and proclaimed about the
meaning of Jesus» own
life, death, and resurrection; yet both the gospels and Acts were written, not by apostles, but by later disciples, and their evidence on particular points stands in need
of confirmation, if possible, from the apostles themselves.
The symbolic
meaning of the story is
important to Luke: Jesus is both the bearer and the giver
of new
life.
They don't need you interpreting the
meaning of life for them so you can feel all
important and godly.
When society supports the terminally ill in committing suicide — by not engaging in suicide prevention for them as we do for other categories
of suicidal people, and by legalizing access to lethal
means — it sends the insidious message that the
lives of the dying are less
important and less worth protecting than are those
of the healthy, and even that their families (and society) may be better off if they die sooner rather than later.
I think it's hugely
important to find
meaning; not just at the end
of life, but throughout
life too.
It is
important to note that these themes not only mark a
life that succeeds in being faithful — which is what it is all about — but these are also the ingredients we need in our
lives in order to achieve a deep sense
of satisfaction and
meaning, to experience joy in the wonders
of the world, and — dare I say it?
It
means asking hard questions
of yourself and your culture, resolving to intentionally do away with those things that are not
life - giving,
important, and meaningful.
In the early days, before modern
means of communication were available, the religious center was especially
important, but even today it serves as a
means by which Muslims learn to
live together in unity and diversity.
At the beginning
of these lectures I said that a study
of the
meaning of Jesus in the early church would involve a study
of both
life and dogma,
of both Christ and Christology, and that there could be no doubt that
life is more
important than dogma, Christ than Christology.
If God possesses even emotional attributes that humans possess, it all
of a sudden would
mean that God had biological needs, since emotions are
important for the performance and
life of the organism they exist in.
In making such a statement, it is
important to make clear at once that by the «fact
of Jesus» I
mean more than the merely formal, external fact that an individual by that name had actually
lived at a given time and place.
I believe the spiritual, the internal, will always overpower the external but in order to experience that we have to have an upside down view
of everything in that the physical is not ever as
important as the spiritual — and this is something special a gift a freedom that is amazing and in our world
of Ugg boots and cars with amazing technology, with the million catalogues that drop through the door or show their wares on our screens... to discover and experience the joy
of the internal spirit
life is nowhere near as easy as it sounds — and once experienced it is an effort to hold to it and feed it for it to grown and be the power it is
meant to be.
This is why the historical - critical method
of studying the Bible is
important, for it enables us to grasp what it actually
meant to
live as an Israelite in a given era.
This
means to place his teachings and his example at the center
of your understanding
of how to
live,
of what is
important in
life, and
of what God is like.
That is why it is so
important to instruct one's family in advance not to employ excessive
means to sustain
life when there is no prospect
of recovering consciousness.
But if we do
mean it, then we must teach and
live, in a world full
of injustice and starvation, the
important biblical doctrine that God and his faithful people are on the side
of the poor and oppressed.
They made time for the most
important things in their
lives and squeezed
meaning out
of every last second.
Philosopher Albert Borgmann, a Montana neighbor
of mine, is our most eloquent and
important spokesman in exposing the dangers
of letting technology determine the way we
live, dictating the
means by which we, in his phrase, «take up with the world.»
Plants are appropriately treated primarily as
means and,
of course, critically
important ones for
life on earth.
Important successor movements did survive, but the major
meaning of the»60s was purely negative: the erosion
of the legitimacy
of the American way
of life.
Far more
important than the question as to whether such occasional prayers can be answered as we wish is the basic need
of all men to be sure that
life has
meaning.
Repentance is vitally
important for
living life with God and with each other the way
life was
meant to be
lived, but repentance is not one
of the conditions for receiving eternal
life from God.
Theology is
important, but the problem often seems to be that lots
of Christians think they've got theology all figured out and that
means they are going to tell me and everyone else how to think and how to
live.
Since Daniel was such an
important part
of the
meaning of our
lives, what was left for the future?
Perhaps we are not
important to the world or to the process
of life in general, but we are part
of it and are allowed to have
meaning to ourselves and to the people around us.
This point is particularly
important when we are placing our own religion's sense
of life's
meaning, allegedly given to us by a special historical revelation, into an encounter with other traditions» sense
of life's
meaning, given to them by their own symbolic traditions.
Now I
live with death, not with horrible loathing, but using it as a criterion to determine what is
important in my
life; as a stimulus to cheerfulness, for through it I shall recover those I love; and as a way
of giving
meaning to my work, since my efforts, no matter how minor and unimportant, may serve God's final goal [John Knox, 1974, p. 63].
Education, social skills, «contacts» and experience in the dominant culture are all part
of what it
means to be «nonpoor,» and since none
of these can simply be shed, even someone who has embraced voluntary poverty or some kind
of simpler
life style remains middle class in the most
important respects.
Nutrient density is super
important, but when
life includes the daily struggle
of crashing blood sugar, yes, the glycemic index can be a
life saver, even if it
means missing out on * some * nutrients temporarily while you learn to find diverse low GI foods.
This is
important because it helps create a situation where dads (by which we
mean the full diversity
of men with a significant caring role in children's
lives, including biological and other fathers and father - figures), as well as mums (in a similarly diverse sense), feel comfortable and valued — in the context
of a culture which still privileges women as more naturally suited to caring, and more
important as parents (and by extension, less
important in other contexts, eg the workplace).
As much as stress is a part
of grownups»
lives today, it is, alas, also increasingly a part
of kids»
lives as well, which
means stress management for children is an
important topic for parents to understand.
The conspiracy theorist
living inside my brain says we can expect to see more
of this type
of «journalism», followed by calls on the school officials to DO SOMETHING because IT IS FOR THE CHILDREN»S SAFETY and IF WE LET THE PARENTS SEND LUNCHES TO SCHOOL THEN CHILDREN WILL DIE!!!!!!!! (note the many, many exclamation points — that
means this is a REALLY
IMPORTANT POINT Y ’ ALL), followed by local school officials implementing policies to BAN CHILDREN FROM EATING FOOD BROUGHT IN FROM «OUTSIDE» and mandate that they eat, instead, the lunch provided by the school.
This doesn't
mean you don't value your children or care about your children and it definitely doesn't
mean that your children aren't an
important part
of your
life.
So, stopping to smell the roses, so to speak, while pregnant can help to drive home the
meaning of this
important phase
of life.
It
means treating the dining room as an integral part
of the school, where children and teachers eat; lunch as part
of the school day; the cooks as
important staff members; and food as a vital element
of school
life.