Sentences with phrase «influenced by the mind»

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Listeners don't seem to mind commercial breaks in podcasts and are influenced by the messaging they're hearing.

But Gates and his predecessors at least agreed to play by certain rules: not to take the money back if they changed their minds, not to use it to further increase their wealth, not to use it influence the political system (although that rule has some loopholes), and so on,» Kwak explains.

Herrera says her ethically minded stance was influenced by her father, who had family and friends in the manufacturing industry and taught her the importance of supporting low - pollution factories that were considerate of their surrounding communities.

(And the two founders who are the focus of another fascinating feature that just went live, «The Mind Readers» by Tom Foster, also show outside influence: Rana June's parents came from Iran, and Rana el Kaliouby emigrated from Egypt.)

One paper, «Lost in the Sauce,» by Michael Sayette at the University of Pittsburgh and coauthors, reported that people under the influence are more susceptible to mind wandering, which could be helpful in some scenarios but harmful in others.

If we also keep in mind Isaiah 45:7, this divergence in theology becomes explainable and the contradiction is exposed for what it probably is; a shift in the theology of the Hebrews, influenced by the dualistic Persian religion at the time of the Persian's conquest of Babylon in around 539 BCE.

«Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone; that the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over the faith of others, setting up their own opinions and modes of thinking as the only true and infallible, and as such endeavoring to impose them on others, hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.»

Little by little, though the irresistible development of those yearnings you implanted in me as a child, through the influence of gifted friends who entered my life at certain moments to bring light and strength to my mind, and through the awakenings of spirit I owe to the successive initiations, gentle and terrible, which you caused me to undergo: through all these I have been brought to the point where I can no longer see anything, nor any longer breathe, outside that milieu in which all is made one.

Teachers, preachers, and others who devote themselves to the work of instruction can be saved needless frustration and disappointment if they bear in mind the weight of educational influences exerted by the culture as a whole, and if they take account of the prevailing cultural patterns as they plan their teaching.

3 And smaller numbers seek, or are influenced by, experiences of clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition, and other extrasensory perceptions that provide clues to their views of the personal as well as the cosmic mind.4

While monasticism in modern times has been deeply influenced by Dom Paul Delatte's rather rigorous interpretation of the Holy Rule (he was Abbot of Solesmes from 1890 to 1921) we find in Hugh Gilbert's firm but gentle hands a rather more humane understanding of the contemporary mind, particularly in his substantial treatment of the concept of obedience (a minefield for any Christian apologist) which stands at the centre of this present work.

Whereas the religious believer has interpreted these as due to the influence of the Spirit of God, the psychologist is aware of the many emotional tensions at work in the human mind, only some of which are realized by the subject himself.

El Salvador offers clear examples of the diversity of options used by U.S. policymakers to influence hearts and minds.

instincts are stored in our subconcious mind, that part of our brain whose developement is influenced by genetics

On the contrary it is quite certain that his cosmology, though strongly influenced by «On Mathematical Concepts of the Material World,» was still a «free creation of the human mind.»

When it's ingrained in your mind from a very young age that one MUST believe there is someone / something in control of their life, that tends to carry over into adulthood and does influence the decisions made by said adult.

One astronomer responded to our survey by saying that, though he does not believe in a personal God, «I try frequently to open my mind to an influence of what is good, and the subjective and psychological effects of this can be quite profound, such that I am happy to make contact with the religious tradition by saying that I am praying to God.»

Most of us have been strongly influenced by these since birth and have great difficulty in finding freedom we have not yet experienced the necessary renewing of mind.

Why can't we all just mind our own business when it comes to peoples bedrooms and wedding albums, neither side get's to preach in schools, though I understand how you would think of it as the atheist getting his way by just not having you preach your God to his children in a publicly funded school, but he's not sending an atheist spokesman to influence your children, he just doesn't feel it's right to allow the religious spokesman into the schools to influence any children on his tax dollar.

There are two basic ways by which one may influence the formation of the minds and lives of others, writes Buber.

He whom Reason leads, according to Spinoza, is led altogether by the influence over his mind of good.

There are two basic ways by which one may influence the formation of the minds and lives of others.

I thereafter even came to the conclusion that this experience was showing me exactly how man was inspired by god to write the bible, it must have been showing me just how the holy spirit influenced the mind and thoughts of the men who wrote the bible.

McCabe may have been influenced by Anthony Kenny who calls the mind «a capacity for capacities» (the capacity to learn language, do mathematics etc.).

I have no reason to believe that the other world religions are much different from the Graeco - Judaeo - Roman melange in this regard, bearing in mind that the Jews, Greeks, and Romans influenced one another and that all were deeply affected by still earlier Asiatic world views like Zoroastrianism.

But that is far from saying that, influenced by the links which unite them, our grouped minds working together are not capable of achieving results which no one member of the group could achieve alone, and from which every individual within the collective process benefits «integrally», although still not in the total sense.

Bennett illustrated by saying that there «are two theologians of wide influence whom I have in mind.

Certainly Reinhold had a greater influence on my early formation, but I confess that I reflect more often on arguments made by H. Richard, and his lapidary summaries of whole schools of moral and theological thought stick stubbornly in the mind.

The author's concern is how mind and body are related and how research in neurobehavior is influenced by process cosmology.

I am not amongst those who believe that this was «all bad»; but I do think that it was not as good as it thought it was, and I am disturbed by the fact that it wields, still, far too weighty an influence on the imaging of church in the minds of its people.

Then when Barth himself changed his mind — as he so often and so publicly did, as if it were merely a matter of an excusable error after he had formerly fired so all - inclusive a barrage in support of his now - discarded view — it is small wonder that many people became exasperated and, though they might themselves be deeply influenced by him, preferred not to admit it.

The panexperientialist version of physicalism does justice to this fact by portraying the mind in each moment (that is, each dominant occasion of experience) as having both a physical pole, which is constituted by the causal influences from the physical environment, and a mental pole, which entertains ideal possibilities, including logical, ethical, and aesthetic norms.

On the other hand, for minds deeply influenced by Nominalist traditions of philosophy in the West, a» mystery» means an intellectual conundrum, something one step removed from worldly experience and therefore not quite real in its psychological impact.

By politicizing the Gospels, they alienate the majority of people who may be influenced by the word of God, but are driven away by the narrow - minded and ignorant way evangelicals interpret that worBy politicizing the Gospels, they alienate the majority of people who may be influenced by the word of God, but are driven away by the narrow - minded and ignorant way evangelicals interpret that worby the word of God, but are driven away by the narrow - minded and ignorant way evangelicals interpret that worby the narrow - minded and ignorant way evangelicals interpret that word.

While I am not aware of significant discussions of this issue among process thinkers, Matthew Fox and Brian Swimme, who though not directly influenced by process thought nonetheless share the relational vision, have incorporated elements of this, particularly through the use of art, in their own education process in order to stimulate the «right» brain, the intuitive and imaginative capacities of the human mind.

Rather than speculate about what lies ahead, however, I would prefer to focus now on my perceptions of my context and my work, as these have been influenced by my change of mind.

12 It is worth noting, by contrast, that Morgan later credits the influence of Whitehead on his own ideas: cf. «Mind in Evolution,» Creation by Evolution, ed.

This analogy suggests two things: (1) God, like the mind of a human being, may have specific intentions for part of his body that do not pertain (except very indirectly) to the rest; and (2) God may wish to influence part of the created order by his desires or preferences for it and not be certain of success.

The human mind influences the human body by desiring and choosing certain states of affairs.

In the absence of an alternative the whole world is now suddenly thrown open to a global culture symbolized by Western ways in drinks, clothes, movies and music, styles of life and value systems, all of which have a powerful influence on the minds of people, particularly of the younger generation.

Perhaps most important of all, the pervasive presence of mind in nature provides a receptive basis for a teleological influence that can be felt by all of the component occasions of experience.

Parents have incredible influence on the way a child develops their mind and will, but ultimately each person is limited by their individuality and choices.

Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds, that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his Supreme will that free it shall remain, by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint: That all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being Lord both of body and mind, yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do, but to extend it by its influence on reason alone.

A further significant facet of Hartshorne's social conception of the universe is his idea that the wills or minds of organisms influence their component organs or parts as well as being influenced by them.

The local media, including CNN, Fox and your local TV stations and newspapers are a very important element of social and political behavior, as society is shaped by what it sees, hears and reads and it is conditioned by the events that influence the mind of every person.

Theology must be formulated in the terms of the social mind of the time, which meant, for the Chicago thinkers, in democratic categories and thought forms shaped by the influence of modern science.

Rather than acknowledge that it is itself comprehended and contextualized by a transcending field of influence, the mind would prefer to remain in its position of pretended mastery, even if this leads to the isolation of despair.

Religion, of which the rewards are distant and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

Influenced by the prevailing faith in man's progress and the evolution of culture, these authors dismissed myth as the product of the prelogical mind during «the childhood of the race».

While it was a fictional story (and a bit of a fluffy read), there is some truth to how the quality of a dish can be influenced by our state of mind when cooking it.