Not because anybody's evil, but just because of the way the world works, we've made it really hard for teachers and kids to have that kind of joyous, wondrous,
liberating experience in a lot of schools and classrooms.
Leaving faith was the single most
liberating experience in my life.
Growth groups can help make the power of authentic relationships — the people dynamic —
a liberating experience in community after community for the greening of the world.
Not exact matches
He
experienced it again
in the late 1990s when he wrote a book that considered the potentially
liberating power of Web 2.0 (before it was actually known as that).
And that's a shame, because attaining the state known colloquially as «inbox zero» is one of the most
liberating experiences a person can have
in the Internet age.
Well, the last time Americans had a president who was psychologically «programmed» to ignore facts that didn't agree with his beliefs, the USA ended up wasting $ 1T
in an illegal war to «
liberate» 100's of billions of barrels of Iraqi oil (as many as 1.2 M people died
in the process due to violence, disease & starvation resulting from the conflict), nearly $ 5T was added to the U.S. federal debt, a man with
experience as the Judges and Stewards Commissioner for the International Arabian Horse Association was put
in charge of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the U.S. subprime credit «bubble» expanded hugely & then imploded, wiping out some $ 14T
in global wealth & destroying millions of jobs, etc..
This no doubt expresses the fact that many people have not been
liberated and empowered or deeply touched inwardly by their
experience in churches.
True, every man today who is open to
experience knows that God is absent, but only the Christian knows that God is dead, that the death of God is a final and irrevocable event, and that God's death has actualized
in our history a new and
liberated humanity.
Let the contemporary Christian rejoice that Christianity has evolved the most alien, the most distant, and the most oppressive deity
in history: it is precisely the self - alienation of God from his original redemptive form that has
liberated humanity from the transcendent realm, and made possible the total descent of the Word into the fullness of human
experience.
because the Christian lives
in the fully incarnate body of Christ, he acknowledges the totality of our
experience as the consummation of the kenotic passion of the Word, and by giving himself to the Christ who is present to us he is
liberated from the alien power of an emptied and darkened transcendence.
Once we grasp the radical Christian truth that a radically profane history is the inevitable consummation of an actual movement of the sacred into the profane, then we can be
liberated from every preincarnate form of Spirit, and accept our destiny as an occasion for the realization
in the immediacy of
experience of the self - emptying or self - annihilation of the transcendent and primordial God
in the passion and death of Christ.
The vivid
experience of a
liberating love is so rare and precious that
in our eagerness to retain it we may place ourselves
in bondage to conditions, real or imagined, that we associate with it.
Some have negative biases toward small groups because of painful
experiences with rebellious, partially
liberated «group - ers»
in their organization.
They will only be met when affluence
liberates us more or less completely from concerns of this type
in order that we might
experience more leisure and give ourselves more fully to discretionary and recreational pursuits.
This eschatological consummation will be the death of the transcendent God, his self - negation by a total incarnation of actualization «throughout the total range of human
experience, «18 his «kenotic passion» fulfilled
in a «new and
liberated humanity «19 — a humanity
liberated from even the memory of God to become its own Divine Self.20
Freedom from believing
in god is a wonderful
liberating experience.
But I'll suffice to say that for me, being
in that place was the most difficult, and
liberating experiences I've had.
We may have some unique opportunities to
liberate the Bible within the churches, and to release Scripture to act as a text of liberation within our communities and
in our personal
experience.
It was reading almost exactly the same set of documents back
in college that opened my mind to the possibility and desirability of a Catholic social order, so I do hope this book will help others to have that
liberating experience, too.
- poses the possibility of
experiencing a defamiliarization of the reality structures of being -
in - the - world and with it an actualization of a new self - awareness that is both
liberated and
liberating.
It
liberates and exhilarates
in ways few other
experiences still can.
And for those theological students who first knew the faith only
in authoritarian, biblicistic or pietistic forms, study of it by way of historical consciousness proves a
liberating experience.
Give a (brave) listen to his album «Curse Your Branches» — the narrative inherent
in the songs is hard, and then
liberating, as he wrestles with the «coming out» journey from a wounded / wounding faith
experience.
It is a matter of common
experience that within restricted groups (the pair, the team) unity, far from diminishing the individual, enhances, enriches and
liberates him
in terms of himself.
Unless a man is unusually
liberated from male prejudice and empathetic regarding the
experience of being a woman
in our culture, he had better not attempt to lead an all - women liberation group.
It provides the spiritual food for communities of exploited people who examine «their
experiences of suffering to death»
in light of structural causes and the
liberating example of Jesus Christ.
If we can truly know that God is dead, and can fully actualize the death of God
in our own
experience, then we can be
liberated from the threat of condemnation, and freed from every terror of a transcendent beyond.
Only by accepting and even willing the death of God
in our
experience can we be
liberated from a transcendent beyond, an alien beyond which has been emptied and darkened by God's self - annihilation
in Christ.
In other construals the advice would be, «Study religious
experience» or «Reflect on
liberating praxis,» or «Study Christian tradition (or at least the first five centuries of it).»
However,
in the modern world we find the strange phenomenon of the Christian who is
liberated from the fear of damnation, a Christian who apparently is incapable of
experiencing terror.
In my
experience, admitting a lack of certainty can be a strangely
liberating and faith - building
experience.
With one blow it pulverized the contradiction
in that without circumlocutions it placed materialism on the throne again... One must oneself have
experienced the
liberating effects of this book to get an idea of it.
The New York Times: The Freedom of the Hijab Ayesha Nusrat, a 23 year - old Muslim woman
in New Delhi writes about her decision to start wearing the hijab, and how that decision has been «the most
liberating experience ever.»
It's a very
liberating experience to get those family recipes back
in your life!
Thus the changes
in Germany haven't yet been an entirely
liberating experience for Lange, who sandwiches training around an afternoon shift at a hospital.
These new
experiences with men are part of the
liberating experience of reaching the age where you realize that you don't need all of the «conventional» things that you thought you had to have
in your 20's or 30's or you would just die alone and unhappy.
For me, it is always a wonderful and
liberating experience to spend time alone, truly alone and independent,
in nature.
Ruth, your
experiences in Mongolia must have been so
liberating,
in a breastfeeding sense.
«There's a little concern about the unknown, but I think our
experience in Connecticut is so powerful
in terms of
liberating candidates from endless dialing for dollars,» Demos president Miles Rapoport said.
Psychotherapist Nathalie Theodore adds that
in her professional
experience, pansexuality is the most
liberating label for her clients.
You are going to learn how to shift out of fear, stress, separation and excessive control into a
liberating way of being centered
in awareness, gratitude, inner ease and the
experience of flow.
To know exactly what my body had done
in each training session to create the muscle fatigue and soreness I was
experiencing during the challenge was so
liberating.
It is also the kind of
experience that generates faith
in our chosen path,
liberating sustained focus and energy to proceed.
The harmony we
experience in nature, the at - home - oneness we feel when immersed
in the divine miracle that is planet earth, made me think about how coming home to the natural world can
liberate us from our culturally conditioned ruminations.
In modern times, developing a Jade Egg practice can be a very
liberating and embowering
experience as it offers women a path to heal themselves with love, awareness and consciousness.
New hair color is a
liberating experience, and the color that you have
in mind probably isn't considered that crazy anymore.
It's not ideal but you're
in it now and you have two choices: the above despondent picture or the idea that, given a little time, support and conscious self - love, dating after divorce can be a truly exhilarating and
liberating experience.
But the major dramatic thrust of this section is the change
in Ronsel, who
experiences what it's like to be both
liberated and a liberator, also exploring a loving relationship with a white German woman.
Not exactly a shrinking violet, Smarzowski has established himself as a brutal realist with a taste for the ugly and the grotesque, with such movies as The Wedding and House of Evil presenting Polish
experience in an unforgiving, and yet
liberating way.
Once you put
in the effort, the realism goes from daunting to
liberating, especially,
in my
experience, with the new rallycross events, where you essentially need to flip off all the assists if you want to have any hope of success.