What matters is not growth in power and possessions but
in richness of experience of all that lives.
He is, as Charles Hartshorne would put it, «the supremely worshipful», who is surpassed by anything which is not Himself; yet in His own life He may surpass,
in richness of experience and capacity for adaptation and provision of new opportunity for advance, that which He has been.
The worthwhileness of occasions is
in the richness of the experience of occasions.
Not exact matches
The sight
of dozens
of people covered from head to toe
in thick grey mud can take some getting used to, but it all adds to the
richness of the
experience.
«The dialogue
of robos vs. humans or old vs. new really misses the
richness of what's going on, which is an entire industry re-inventing itself to be more modern, more
in line with what investors want to pay for, and to be more
in line with the consumer
experiences of today.»
Their travel to and from Hong Kong was provided by Hong Kong Airlines, which
in partnership with the Asia Pacific Foundation
of Canada is supporting Canadian youth
in experiencing the
richness and diversity
of Hong Kong's culture and people.
Cobb does this because
of the «natural emphasis
of process thought... on finding ways for all to grow together
in freedom and
richness of experience» (PTPT 149).
This unconscious feeling would have to retain the
experience in all
of the
richness and individuality with which it is now recalled.
In a time when the
richness of play (from recreational activity to the arts) is available to an increasing number
of Americans, and when some are finding sources
of pleasure, meaning, and power within such
experiences, Christian theology is being challenged to reassess its suspicions
of play.
In this way the
richness of both present
experience and Christian theology is flattened and reduced to the single focus
of our mission
of realizing God's future within our present suffering and affliction.
Jewish tradition holds that Torah has 70 faces, which tells me that Torah has many facets and can be understood
in a variety
of different ways — indeed, it's that very
richness and multiplicity which allows us to continue to
experience it as holy.
It suggests that the whole
of nature is part
of the divine self; it shows how the exploitation
of nature impoverishes the very
richness of divine
experience; it encourages a respect for the intrinsic value
of individual organisms; and,
in saying that God loves the world as a self loves a body, it suggests that embodiedness itself is a good to be cherished rather than an evil to be avoided (McFague, 74).
There is intrinsic value, or
richness of experience,
in every living creature, human or nonhuman.
We aim to rediscover and reconstruct a society based on «belief
in the ability
of human
experience to generate the aims and methods by which further
experience will grow
in ordered
richness» (PCM 227).
On this scale humans would have a
richness of experience and a degree
of self - determination vastly different
in degree, though not
in kind, from the proton.
Everything is appraised
in terms
of its capacity to contribute to the
richness of this momentary
experience, which is prized for its own sake.
Key concepts
in the new consciousness are: subject, felt relations, internal relations, sympathy
richness of experience, creative solitude, hope, faith affection new being, ultimate concern (= God), compassion and God's action
in the world as internally related to all individual entities from protons to people.
First, the aim at intensity or
richness of experience on the part
of individual moments
of the soul's life leads the soul to actualize itself
in ways that are immediately rewarding to it, independently
of their consequences for the organism as a whole.
One answer might be that the
experiencing of values first
in temporal sequence and then
in immediate togetherness adds to the
richness of the values
experienced.
Even
in this sense transcendence may have all the depth and
richness I at least could ask: mystery, ineffability, ecstasy, reunion and reconciliation, worlds upon worlds
of various sorts and stages
of existence, an ideal order
of which our
experiences of truth, beauty and goodness are fragmentary glimpses.
But since consciousness presupposes
experience and not
experience consciousness, we must reckon with the possibility that all
of them are,
in fact, prehended at all times — hence, with an immense
richness of unconscious
experience.
The degree
of contrast and
richness of experience depends
in large measure, as we have seen, upon the environments
of which organisms are a part and with which they interact.
Needless to say, as we have also seen, the human and non-human environments
of which human beings are a part and with which they interact need to provide the maximum opportunity for contrast, intensity, and
richness of experience in a society that is just, sustainable and participatory.
In order to insure this
richness of experience for his consequent nature, God therefore provides to each occasion that initial aim which, if actualized, would contribute maximally to this harmonious intensity.
The character
of the world is influenced by God, but it is not determined by him, and the world
in its turn contributes novelty and
richness to the divine
experience.»
And we might conceive
of the entire progressively redeemed world as «God's body,»
in and through which God's primordial conceptual
richness is actualized and
experienced in an open - ended process.
But whether the «nature
of things» be grounded
in God, or whether God be the primordial exemplification
of «the nature
of things» with respect to an independent, abstract «category
of the ultimate,» it is the case that both the biblical record and process - relational thought recognize a pervasive movement toward greater
richness of experience as a generic feature
of reality.
So that Christ combines the imagination, spontaneity, and
richness of experience which were God's aims
in drawing forth human beings, with the free obedience and loving communion with God which
in a «fallen» world are otherwise approximated only by creatures
of a «lower» order.
In that pursuit we discover a new
richness of experience which brings joy.
And when values become realities
in human life we
experience a
richness of life that was not there before.
In God's primordial nature God draws the world to greater
richness of experience as each entity responds to possibilities for itself over eons
of evolutionary time.
As we have seen, process thought not only affirms pluralism, which is reflected
in our schools, universities, and colleges no less than
in our society, but advocates such an attitude
of openness towards individuals, groups, cultures, and ideas different from ourselves and our own groups, cultures, ideas that the possibility
of increased contrast,
richness of experience,
of mutual transformation, without loss
of integrity, is enhanced.
When we give our hearts entirely to seeking God
in the
richness of his Word, we begin to discover and
experience that same kind
of electricity.
The field belongs increasingly to those who have
experienced the
richness and depths
of the tradition and who are restive with the something - new - every - week folks who,
in Luther's words, have «no more than an itch to produce something novel so that they might shine before men as leading lights.»
«Our
experience... bequeaths its character to the future,
in the guise
of an effective element forever adding to, or subtracting from, the
richness of the world.
The natural emphasis
of process thought, however, is on finding ways for all to grow together
in freedom and
richness of experience.
That would force a deeper recognition that,
in our capacities as consumers as well, there is far less correlation than has been supposed between the
richness of human
experience and the quantity and quality
of goods and services consumed.
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.
If Cézanne attempts to have the landscape think itself within his
experience, it can do so only
in terms
of the cultural forms that are at hand, or that he will invent
in response to the complex
richness of the landscape.
The links forged on the field representing Oxford can last a lifetime — so you can arrive with optimism and confidence that, whatever your chosen activity or level
of competition, sport and exercise will lend your
experience here untold
richness and enhancement
in many areas.
«Hope for Today» verses peppered throughout each chapter, journaling cues, prayers, and the stories
of other women who have
experienced loss will help readers move from grieving
in silent solitude to living life
in the
richness of God's love.
«I believe the absolute number
of neurons an animal has, especially
in the cerebral cortex, determines the
richness of their internal mental state and their ability to predict what is about to happen
in their environment based on past
experience,» Herculano - Houzel explained.
Without areas
of wilderness we have nothing to act as a contrast to the barren urban wastelands most
of us find ourselves
in, and finally, without nature, we would lose the
richness of human
experience that is just as much a part
of our heritage as our genes.
If the values we give to the environment are cultural,
in the sense that wonder, contrast and
richness of experience are general human values, then we don't run the risk
of patronising other cultures whose value system is different from our own.
Indrani Ganguly - Fitzgerald
of the Neurosciences Institute
in San Diego and her colleagues chose fruit flies for two reasons: they are known to sleep and the size and
richness of their tiny brains depend on youthful
experience.
Whether suffering from a blue mood, symptoms
of depression, or
in need
of inspiration, the mind - body - spirit connection that we find on our mats allows us to
experience the
richness of life and the miracle
of breath, movement, meditation and sound.
Whether
in a savory dish or sweet dessert, our Whole Milk Kefir
experience is one
of wholesome, indulgent
richness.
In this afternoon intensive
of both theory and practice, you will learn the unique techniques
of asana, pranayama, and relaxation necessary for
experiencing the
richness of both external and internal mantra recitation.
Bioshock 2 may not be as grand
of an
experience like the outstanding original but it does everything a sequel should do and it is still the best game ever
in terms
of narrative
richness.
The Social Network (Sony) Directed with typical technical fastidiousness and textural
richness by David Fincher from a verbally dexterous script by Aaron Sorkin, this story
of the creation
of Facebook is less interested
in how the website was created than
in how a young, arrogant genius with no people skills managed to deconstruct and reconstruct the social
experience as a web - based simulacrum: a club that even Mark Zuckerberg (or, rather, «Mark Zuckerberg») could thrive
in.