Every individual experiences life in their own unique way.
Sherry Karver's Thoughts Left Visible reflects on
individuals experiencing life in a «sea of sameness».
SHANNA Tingom, is the co-founder of Heritage Financial Strategies, whose specialty is working with female entrepreneurs, business leaders, and
individuals experiencing life transitions.
Not exact matches
Regarding
individuals like you and me, who can't directly influence governments and large institutions, I believe step 1 is to act, and to
experience how
living by your values improves your
life, however much it looks like deprivation or sacrifice first.
«We know relatively little about why older adults decide to pursue self - employment in later
life, the self - employment
experience itself, and the
individual and societal outcomes of this growing type of work,» Halverson and Morrow - Howell write.
An
individual's past
experiences with money are what shape these attitudes, which then inform their financial decisions and behavior throughout their
life.
On March 8 recognize women's achievements; credit their contributions; acknowledge the value of their
lived experience; and celebrate their
individual and collective successes!
Music: Not Impossible started with the premise of providing a better
live music concert
experience for the deaf and hard of hearing, however, now has advanced into a platform for those
individuals to perform in ways they never thought they would before.
Birth order is not decisive when it comes to an
individual's
life achievements, but personality is shaped by
experiences, and
individuals have different
experiences due to birth order, said Ben Dattner, a NY - based organizational psychologist.
TORONTO, ON (July 18, 2017)-- FACIT, which commercializes innovative cancer treatments, has launched a recruitment campaign targeting
individuals who possess strong clinical development, commercial and fundraising
experience in the technology and
life sciences sectors.
Mormons believe eternal
life is not exclusively an
individual experience — but attained and
experienced together in the most fundamental familiy unit — a husband and wife, married to one another, who need one another to attain and
experience heaven.
There IS no right or wrong — a person's beliefs are
individual and based on feelings — everyone has different feelings based on their reaction to what they have
experienced in
life.
The novel, drawing on Augustine's insights, transformed the
individual's reliance on God into self - reliance and staged the hero's growth through a series of
life - transforming
experiences.
The role of religion in the
lives of
individuals and societies depends greatly upon personal and historical
experiences and developments.
Yet in his Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, John Henry Newman insists on the necessity of
individual experience and weakness of theoretical knowledge in forming religion and morality: «many a man will
live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a syllogism.»
At the beginning, a physical organism, whose
life - principles were breath and blood, whose mental and emotional
experiences were the functions of bodily organs, the ordinary man was submerged in the corporate mass of his tribe, without
individual status, separate hopes, personal rights, or claim on divine care apart from the group.
The
individual can not escape his incorporation in the group and his never ending dependence on it; it is the master fact of his
experience; his whole
life, apart from his most intimate bodily aches, pains, and delights, consists in the shared
life of the group.
I'm sure there is spiritual knowledge provided and gained to these
individuals experiencing this phase of their
life» end.
They had inculcated a deep sense of sin and a conscious need of personal salvation; they had overpassed national and racial lines and had made religious faith a matter of
individual conviction; they had emphasized faith in immortality and the need of assurance concerning it; they had bound their devotees together in mystical societies of brethren fired with propagandist zeal; and they had accentuated the interior nature of religious
experience in terms of an, indwelling Presence, through whom human
life could be «deicized.»
In our
individual experience, it seems that when a few things fall apart, the whole apparatus of
life threatens to collapse.
When the
individual begins to realize that many of the things about his
life for which he has been blaming himself, consciously or subconsciously, are actually the result of early
experiences over which he had no control, he becomes better able to accept responsibility for making constructive changes.
In the
life of a given
individual, a way of
experiencing is a result of both habit, itself conditioned by social and historical circumstances, and choice.
Our
individual experience and
life style has an aesthetic quality and we can see ourselves concretely as spatially and temporally at home in the cosmos.
I am contending that religious qualities of
experience are acquired, if at all, only by an
individual who has borne within solitariness the relational matrix of existence, achieving a creative tension between the contrasts of
life without permitting fixation on either pole to turn the contrast into an irreconcilable opposite.
The reflections of the French Catholic writer François Mauriac, who succeeded in leading a conventional family
life despite what he
experienced as the powerful lure of alcohol, drugs, and homosexuality, demonstrate the gap between the austere piety of the religious
individual and the tactful lifestyle that Tóibín detects in James:
Even some critics who accept the fundamental reality of the I - Thou relation as «the centre of any genuine religious
experience» treat «revelation» as the objective — «the act of God whereby He has disclosed the way and destiny of Israel» — and meeting, or the I - Thou relation, as the subjective — «the act of man whereby that destiny and its divine source are drawn into the inner
life of the
individual.»
As in the
life of the community attained reality must ever again be placed in the continuity of
experience, so in the
life of the
individual hours of orienting follow hours of realization and must so follow.
Here are some observations from a Catholic young woman whose
life «sucks» in the midst of prosperity: In my
experience (I readily grant all of the problems with drawing inferences from
individual and anecdotal observation), highly eligible men in my social set delay marriage for no good....
The mentally healthy person is the productive and unalienated person; the person who relates himself to the world lovingly, and who uses his reason to grasp reality objectively; who
experiences himself as a unique
individual entity, and at the same time feels one with his fellowman; who is not subject to irrational authority, and who accepts willingly the rational authority of conscience and reason; who is in the process of being born as long as he is alive, and considers the gift of
life the most precious chance he has.
It is an event which is
experienced by an
individual or a group of people as an abiding astonishment which no knowledge of causes can weaken, as wonder at something which intervenes fatefully in the
life of this
individual and this group.
Highly personal, however, as this authority is the
experiences out of which it grows can also be affected by the participation of the lonely
individual in the
life of the whole Church, including its
life of prayer.
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Experiencing interpersonal relationships in which God and the good
life come alive for the
individual.
The spiritual conversion
experienced by both of these groups is intended to carry the
individual along in a «new» way of
life, and it does for those...
We have not an
individual identity, but fragments of
experience; not the narrative of a
life that is in some sense a whole, but a decentered flow of
experience.
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.
Only as we rethink the radical nature of Christian community and reform our institutions so that they might faithfully strive to transmit their cumulative tradition through ritual and
life, to nurture and convert persons to Christian faith through common
experience and interaction, and to prepare and motivate persons for
individual and corporate action in society can true Christian education emerge.
These mid-career
individuals are wiser and have more
life experience.
The aspect of process philosophy to which I have most particularly drawn your attention is its concept of immanence, whereby it affirms an actual sense in which one entity is immanent in another; a sense in which the
experiences of one
individual «
live on» in those of another, the subjectivity of these
experiences passing from the former to the latter.
Needed is a foundation for uniting a radical understanding of God's action in history with radical
individual and corporate discipleship in the world — namely, reflection which results from depth
experience, the spiritual
life, the interiorization of faith through meditation, prayer and corporate worship.
When this author has had the the same
life experiences as each
individual on this planet, only then can we properly discuss my or your relationship with a higher power.
But the
individual need not
experience his
life in and of itself, but as participating in the broad sweep of divine creation, contributing in its small way to the increased intensification of divine
experience, making possible the emergence of new forms of existence beyond man.
The novel events in the
lives of
individuals (human and otherwise) are unified in the
experience of God.
It was enough to
live in the little colony of his people, drawn apart from the corrupt world, seeking to save
individuals and
experiencing already that perfect love and joy which was the foretaste of
life in God's Kingdom.
Although sanctification in the
life of communities and social institutions is not so clearly defined an
experience as it is in the
individual, Niebuhr said that old forms and structures of
life may be renewed rather than destroyed by the vicissitudes of history.
It is a «social event» founded on the basic need for human beings to interrelate with others of their kind within the context of a nourishing social environment; it is a «
living - togetherness» constituted of
individual human beings sharing a common and, to some extent, mutually satisfying form of social
experience.
He says that in Christian
experience «the
individual is actually freed to
live a
life of serenity and creativity» (p. 58), and again, «there is no limit to either sanctification in
individual life or social perfection in collective
life... except that there will be some corruption....
The
individual is the traveler using the body to
live out necessary
experience, but is not the same as the body.
Lowen points out that «as long as the ego dominates the
individual he can not have the oceanic or transcendental
experiences that make
life meaningful.»
In unclouded joy, and in sheer sorrow, there remains always, as an
experience, the presence and support of Christ - communally in the Church, personally in the
individual life: «my peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you: not as the world gives, do I give to you».
The theologian might add that for each person the basic religious questions deal with the significance of his
individual life — the only one each of us
experiences from the inside — and his relation to the singular God, who is never one of a general class of objects.