Sentences with phrase «life relationships rather»

Dana learned to pay attention to her own real - life needs, and refocused on how to meet them through real - life relationships rather than through a fantasy relationship.

Not exact matches

When paired onscreen with actors living fully in the present — playing characters who are defined by their relationship with the lead rather than by their own complicated backstories — DiCaprio is again made to suffer.

It requires you to answer a foundational question of living with an entrepreneurial spirit: How can I nurture and develop a relationship that invests in mutual success for the future rather than what I need now?

In a statement, the company said it had not bought the rights to a specific story about her affair with Trump, but rather had bought exclusive life rights to stories about any relationship she has had with a then - married man, the Journal reported.

Rather, Google's new social - networking endeavor is about trying to gain valuable insights into people's lives and relationships.

And crucially, it ought to be rather good at using its vast trove of data about people's lives to make more of the «real relationships» Zuckerberg is so infatuated by.

We settle for the comfort and pleasure of the lesser goods in life rather than pursue the Greatest Good, which is a transformational relationship with God.

It is not as if matter has been invested with some divine quality in its own right — that would indeed be a magical understanding — rather it is the dynamic, Spirit filled presence of the Christ in an enfleshed relationship with his People that constitutes the principle of sacramental life - giving empowerment.

Rather, she explores the complex of emotions that beset a woman seeking to navigate the unpredictable waters of contemporary relationships — sleeping with a married man who in turn has an unfaithful wife («Don't think of me»); longing for a lover who slipped away without saying good bye («My lover's gone»), vaunting one's independence whilst yearning for some permanent connection («My life»), feeling deeply uncomfortable with oneself: «I just want to feel safe in my own skin.»

When you understand Scripture and theology as God meant it, you are freed to live life in relationship God, rather than under the control of religion.

She did mention in the video that even her atheist friends were telling her that her philosophies were actually more Christian than atheist, so I rather think she was latently religious all along, sort of like gays who live for years in hetero relationships, then finally realize what they are, after years of saying something else.

It is rather that in the incarnation of the Word of God humanity has been taken into unity with God; human life has been sanctified; and a way has been opened for all men in every century and in all circumstances to enter into their right relationship to the Creator (the relationship of sons to their Father) through God's gracious approach to them in Christ and the response of trust and obedience which God in Christ evokes from them.

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.

A useful group - life checklist allowing participants to rate a group on communication, acceptance of persons, leadership, climate of relationships, and other aspects can be found in Philip Anderson's Church Meetings that Matter.10 Evaluation is not a frill; rather it is essential to discovering what you are accomplishing in groups and how you can do better.

There will be no future healing if a couple delude themselves, through a pastor's misguided attempts to provide loving support, into thinking that their divorce is a momentary inconvenience which is best forgotten rather than a broken relationship which will exert continuing influence on their lives.

But, they can be helped to greater adequacy in living by varied counseling approaches involving the selective use of guidance, authority, instruction, along with a focus on improving interpersonal relationships (rather than effecting major intrapsychic changes) and seeing one's situation from a more constructive perspective.

Many couples would not need to divorce, or to live in a de facto divorce of a dead relationship, if they could face and resolve their angers rather than let them accumulate.

rather, it is the living out of love in relationship that i'm trying to articulate as the spirit.

Hasidic teaching is like psychoanalysis, writes Buber, in that it refers one from the problematic of external life to that of the inner life, and it shows the need of beginning with oneself rather than demanding that both parties to a relationship change together.

Karl Marx's contention, that the aim of philosophy should not be the quiescent understanding and acceptance of life as it is, but rather the transformation of nature and society, strengthened the instrumental relationship between knowledge and power.

It is, rather, holy, austere, concerned for others in their total relationship to one other, to themselves, to God, and to the natural order in which they live.

«3 The term «eternal life» seems to point rather more unambiguously to the fulfillment of the good in life beyond death, yet in the fourth gospel, for which this is the central symbol, eternal life means a relationship to God in which man participates in this world.

At the moment I think, we might rather try to be life - giving in some other sense, as looking for some kind of project or social work we can do together (as I think it is very important for a relationship to not just focus on each other forever).

A man who is utterly self - contained and whose chief ambition is to be «self - existent» and hence to exist without dependence upon relationships of any sort, is a man whom we regard as an unpleasant if not vicious specimen of the race; and it is odd that deity has been regarded, and this even in Christian circles, as more like such a self - contained human being rather than as like a man who in every area of his life is open to relationships and whose very existence is rich in the possibility of endless adaptations to new circumstances.

Just for the information, I'm a gay man living in a relationship who accepted that he will probably always live in the «maybe» of this question but who decided to live from grace rather than from «being right».

Even in gay loving relationships which by the way are a mere quarter of 1 percent of the US people are we giving in and changing the definition of marriage for all and allowing these who define marriage by their own rules and ways rather than saying you need to live up to this standard.

The alcoholic who has developed trustful relationships — with himself, others, and God — is able to «die living rather than live dying,» as one put it:

Several themes stand out in Mayernik's accounts of these cities: the persistence of a humanist sensibility grounded in sacred order (including what can only be regarded as a sacramental sense of the relationships among the human body, the city, and the cosmos); the role of memory in the life of traditional cities; the relationship between memory and artistic action; and the city as the physical embodiment of shared aspirations rather than «reality.»

Many factors in our society militate against depth relationships — the frenzied pace of our lives; the frantic pressures to get ahead which encourage using rather than relating to people; the constant mobility of many families which contributes to a rootlessness and noninvolvement in community life; the anonymity of megalopolis where people do not know the names of even those in adjoining apartments.

Gilly's gained some real charm since her days at Craster's Keep, but I'd still rather see what root Bran's living under than pretend I care about Sam and Gilly's relationship.

Rather than divorce, couples stay married, remove the romantic / sexual aspect of their relationship, and live in the family home with similar on / off responsibilities.

As of now, sadly I am unable to work as an old injury i sustained when i was in school got worse, and now i am on disability, pay my bills, have my own place, but as it said in the article, i get zero replies as i am looking for a long term relationship since i would rather not spend the rest of my life on my own.

Policy formulation that sees marriage as the only good relationship format for commitment seems, therefore, to be rather short - sighted and ill - informed when other relationship forms, such as cohabitation or living apart together, can involve equal if not more commitment.

When Gov. Andrew Cuomo got to the workforce reduction part of this budget address, he rather pointedly noted that he has had a «good relationship» with labor all his life and only considered layoffs (9,800 of them, to be exact) to be a «last resort.»

He ended the relationship with Labour after suspecting it was turning into a trap rather than an opportunity - largely because Tony Blair failed to live up to his part of the bargain by offering a change in the electoral system.

But Heathcote wanted to see whether the benefits of social living might come from the strength of individual social relationships rather than simple safety in numbers.

We find that it is unlikely that this obligate symbiotic relationship relies on a single process or pathway, but rather on more complex interactions that likely vary over the life cycle of the parasite,» the researchers conclude.

In fact, they occur wherever animals live in «bonded» groups — where individuals gather together because of their personal relationships rather than being forced to by environmental factors such as a food source or safe sleeping site.

Although one often hears people refer to a relationship break - up or a redundancy as the trigger for a suicide, this is far too simplistic and in reality it is often a culmination of different life events rather than one individual»cause».»

Bromage points out that the first reconstruction of ER 1470 was erroneous by giving it a flat face, but - ``... recent studies of anatomical relationships show that in life the face must have jutted out considerably, creating an ape - like aspect, rather like the faces of Australopithecus ``.72 This finding is one of a number which suggest that the species Homo habilis never existed.

It takes courage to end a relationship on the expiry date rather than wait till it goes completely rotten and stinks up your whole life.

She stayed in the relationship because of this fear rather than because she wanted to spend her life with Keith.

Be specific about the concerns at hand, rather than generalizing about your whole life, your relationship history, your character, the world, and so on.

As a result, our relationship with eating says something rather significant about how we choose to live our lives.

By asking these questions, you are essentially increasing your awareness for the kind of relationships that do work, rather than having a running list of things you don't want in your own love life.

I've spent most of my life in various relationships with food and my body, most of the time feeling rather destructive or controlling in nature.

It's honestly hard for me, but I've been needing to invest more time into my relationships rather than work, so I'm hoping it makes a much needed difference in my life.

There is no singular solution to that problem; rather it is a way of approaching the relationships in your life, comprised of countless little acts of love and appreciation.

After interviewing some 28 Aussies aged 21 - 39, all of whom lived alone, Hughes found that rather than assigning less value to «sexual - couple» relationships, her participants aspired to be in a long - term and healthy relationship.

18) Your partner spends more time with his / her friends than with you We all lead busy lives, but if your partner has started spending the majority of his / her time with friends rather than you — it's time to ask yourselves if there's a problem with the relationship.