«Furthermore, it fulfilled Dewey's demand that education should be «life itself» and not merely a preparation for future living; what could be «a better preparation for later
life than practice living it now?
Not exact matches
If you implement these tactics and
practice these techniques, you will be connected to the flow of
life and you will find more «luck»
than you ever have before.
[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger
than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more
than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own
life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep
Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to
live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to
life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?
If you are a medical doctor and you're
practicing part - time, you probably earn a lot more
than the 14 grand I was making — all told my net annual income was less
than $ 25,000, and I managed to
live on it.
And polls suggest that the country is no more Christian in belief
than in
practice: half of all Danes say God doesn't matter in their
life at all.
In language that hinted at what was to come, it declared: «We believe that planned parenthood,
practiced with respect for human
life, fulfills rather
than violates the will of God....
The monastery's publishing program has had more success, with more
than a hundred new titles each year, covering all areas of church
life: Christian spirituality, church history, Scripture, church music and arts, Orthodox ascetic
practices, monasticism, liturgy and church prayer, and the
lives of the saints.
Rather
than a means of removing suffering, prayer (and today I would add, meditation) seems to me to be a
practice which can assist in navigating the inevitable challenges and sorrows of our
lives, and act as a vehicle for thoughtfully reflecting on the joys and goodness we experience in an attitude of thankfulness.
Without such a means of assessing Catholic
practice the Vaughan school has been left with a less
than perfect system of giving extra credits to families based on the participation in the
life of the parish.
For example, deforestation, which usually accompanies development as now
practiced, has been more vigorously opposed by those who see intrinsic value in the whole of the
living world
than by those who are concerned chiefly for peasants and workers.
To suggest that total voluntary exclusion and participation in an individual's self selected religious
practices and spiritual
life is somehow politically incorrect or wrong, or making it a target of criticism or political point, is nothing less
than a display of ignorance and disregard for individual rights.
The motivation for this pastoral
practice is clear: it is the belief that the love generated by a spiritually coherent community is greater
than the sum total of the love emanating from its individual members»
lives.
Meanwhile the Lutheran, Anglican, and some Reformed groups carried on church
life under the
practice of Christian nurture rather
than revivalism
More
than an intellectual manifesto, the invitation pledges signers to specific spiritual
practices: maintaining a vital prayer
life, conducting works of mercy and engaging in a regular Friday fast «as a form of prayerful resistance to the idolatrous
practices of our culture.»
She invites her readers into Christian
practices that heighten both the spiritual and relational dimensions of time, so that we may
live with greater authenticity as people created in God's image — with an awareness of time as a gift rather
than a burden thrust upon us by our daily planners, and with a sense of being «attuned to the active presence of God.»
Americans of 1955
practiced «religiousness without religion, a religiousness with almost any kind of content or none, a way of sociability or «belonging» rather
than a way of reorienting
life to God.
«With
practice, we can learn to reflect on how much better things are
than they might be, which will in turn make the good things in
life feel even better.»
I would add, following the example of the best American Catholic «public philosophers» John Courtney Murray and Orestes Brownson, that we should, as loyal Americans [we Porchers and REM fans are all about standing for the place where we
live], actually explain why our Fathers built better
than they knew — which means criticizing their thinking and affirming [most of] their
practice with a theory that at least wasn't completely their own.
Christian interest in Buddhism and the attempt to appropriate its insights is far more widespread
than Buddhist interest in Christianity Still, the situation is not a simple one in Japan, he said, Much of the vitality of religious
life and
practice in Japan is in the so - called new religions, some of which draw on Buddhism more
than others.
Beliefs and ways of
life, save in respect to certain minimal attitudes and
practices without which social
life could not successfully be carried on, are matters of private rather
than public business.
In principle it is perfectly compatible with views of punishment harsher
than those normally
practiced toward convicted criminals (murderers or otherwise), but whether one's general attitude concerning punishment tends toward the severe or the lenient, the basic fact of the Cain story as a paradigm is the preservation of a guilty
life.
At its best, this new concern with the spiritual
life reflects a laudable desire to make Christian faith a matter of the heart no less
than the head, a discipline of devotional
practices rather
than a repetition of doctrinal propositions.
The other world is the world of prevention, which depicts
living with disability as a fate that can be worse
than death and offers a rationale for justifying the
practices of selective abortion.»
These forces are the stuff of everyday
life: rates of birth higher for Mexicans and Mexican - Americans
than for most other ethnic groups; a chain of entirely legal immigration, as Mexican - Americans bestow residency and citizenship on their spouses, children and parents; and a
practice of illegal immigration that is, in the vast majority of instances, born from ordinary people exercising common sense.
Do you mean to tell me that building a church and teaching sermons about Jesus in impoverished South American countries is somehow less effective
than building family housing, teaching modern irrigation techniques, and demonstrating how even the simplest modern medicine and hygeine
practices can save many, many
lives?
But don't
practice your prayer and worship as though they are somehow more sacred
than or set apart from «ordinary
life.»
They are basic to the whole movement, and far more important in their bearing upon the organisational
life of the Mormons
than either the Bible or The Book of Mormon, for it was in these successive revelations of the prophet that the growing movement took shape, and their most characteristic beliefs and
practices were determined.
I've always said I'd rather
live next door to a
practicing Buddist
than a biker.
The Jewish people, more faithful
than any similar group in the keeping of the moral laws they share with the Christians, more assiduous in the
practice of repentance, more diligent in forgiveness, have indeed survived to this day and so demonstrated in a fashion the social relevance of their faith; but it would be difficult to describe the sort of existence the Jewish race has enjoyed as «fullness of
life.»
It seems impossible also to organize a genuine course of study including the Biblical disciplines, church history, theology, the theory and
practice of worship, preaching, and education on other grounds
than those of habit and expediency unless there is clarity about the place of these studies and acts in the
life of the Church.
Worship, to one who does not accept its bases in belief, is apt to seem more like a cultic
practice nurtured in mythology
than a
life - renewing force.
«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more
than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious
practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better
than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal
life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».
According to Henri De Lubac, the dominance of such an impersonal ecclesiology leads to the following problems in ecclesial
life: a dry
practice of the faith; an abstract theology which is expressed in objective rather
than personalist categories; and a danger of reducing theological mysteries, as well as ecclesial relations, to the impersonal.8
Similarly, Dalit and Adivasi religio - cultural beliefs and
practices that celebrate accessible love and solidarity with the marginalized are closer to the God - dynamic as manifested by the
life and teachings of Jesus
than those that highlight the overpowering, destructive, and violent characteristics of God.
In a way Westerners
living thousands of miles away could never know, he learned that Islam was more
than a creed or a set of devotional
practices.
Even when God is denied, the
practice of meditation is often commended; Comte, who had no other deity
than le grand Etre (which was the human race in its best representatives), still thought that contemplation and aspiration directed towards this «being» (if that word is not absurdly inappropriate) was necessary to a good
life.
As I looked at the issue myself, I recognised that the traditional biblical view pointed to same - sex
practice as wrong, and less
than God's best for my
life.
Although earlier in commenting on the sermon he had said that the
practice of Christian love was impractical, he now in his own terms rather
than in the theological terms of the preacher was witnessing to the power of personal regard in his business
life.
Moses taught retaliation and retribution - «An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a
life for a
life — but Jesus teaches his disciples to
practice nonresistance by enduring wrongs that others inflict on them rather
than defending themselves against evildoers.
Less is recorded from the lips of Jesus
than the pen of Paul about sex relations, but it is unlikely that our Lord ever expected celibacy to be exalted as the pattern of
life for the «religious,» as is the
practice of the Roman Catholic Church.
For psychiatrists who are competent (or who can convince potential patients of their competence), private
practice has been a more lucrative alternative to hospital or center work ever since the public accepted psychiatrists as experts on the problems of
living rather
than merely on psychoses.
But it can be helpful to reintroduce these disciplines into your
life when you're ready, when they can be
practiced out of love and commitment to Christ rather
than guilt.
Practicing photography comes easier, arguing with Dima stops to make sense, friends surprise with the warmest Birthday wishes, energy is bursting... Basically
LIFE is flowing like a river and there's no better feeling
than this in the world!
Our brands have been part of consumers»
lives for more
than a century and with good
practices, care for our people and our communities and a commitment to making great products, we will be there for centuries to come.
With increasingly busy
life schedules and premium - priced yoga memberships, what better way to invigorate your
practice than with the Food Matters TV's 7 Day Yoga Challenge!
But instead of reassessing their
practices, the industry is vehemently defending the system — a system that confines 12 million egg laying hens in battery cages; forces thousands of mother pigs to give birth and
live for weeks on end in crates barely bigger
than their bodies; allows piglets to have their teeth cut and tails cut off without pain relief; and subjects «meat» chickens to such rapid growth that their bodies can barely sustain them.
In my personal experience working with Division I collegiate athletes, I've found many of them, after spending more
than half their
lives in deliberate
practice, no longer like their sport.
Both will change my
practice significantly, in that I'll be a better midwife overall, but broadening my functional program will allow for a more appropriate
life / work balance
than an all maternity
practice has provided.
Although I wouldn't say the majority of Portland parents
practice AP, I think it's more common here
than in other places I've
lived.
These families have experienced unimaginable anguish because CPMs care more about being able to
practice and make money
than they care about whether babies
live or die.