Sentences with phrase «magical thinking takes»

I like what you said here Carol «Actually, magical thinking takes the mystery out of religion and puts the believer back in control».

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«There are people who engage in magical thinking about retirement happiness, just as some engage in magical thinking about retirement security — they want it, but they take no steps to get there,» says James Pawelski, who is also the executive director of the International Positive Psychology Association.

my thinking is that someone can take lessons from any teacher or from observation of someone they consider worth following, it doesn't mean they believe they're really magical (though there are exceptions).

Mormons do not wake up thinking their underwear is going to take them on some magical ride through space or that it gives any advantage in the afterlife.

The kids really think about the shot they want to take, and the «instant» result of watching the photograph develop in front of their eyes is quite magical.

Regardless of whether or not the stats get interpreted correctly by the press, science usually takes a backseat in this new anti-science andti - reason magical thinking USA.

It's taken years to open to this magical language of the soul, traveling through the fears within my mind thinking that I didn't know enough theory to write my own music.

If you think a white shirt and a black pants combo is a bit dull, put a dramatic belt on and take a second look, I am sure you will realise how magical it is.

This sensational spinoff not only feels like a fresh angle on the magical world we think we know so well, but also takes into account how the young adults who first found these books and movies have grown, and may be craving something more sophisticated that they can share with their kids.

Magical thinking and exceptionalism can take over: «If only I get my work to the market, my genius will be evident.»

I think the fact the Colson Whitehead used magical realism to describe his version of the Underground Railroad is a clear signal that we need to not take this as history but look for other kinds of truths in it.

If you feel compelled to use actively managed funds, however, look for a strong (and lengthy) track record and take these three steps to help ensure that your choice is grounded more in logic than in magical thinking:

A few weeks ago, we reviewed the Jackson Galaxy Donut Cat Bed, and I mentioned in the review that I thought the fabric must have some magical cat attractant in it because even Allegra, who's usually slow to adopt anything new, took right to it.

Take one discreet turn down an unassuming path you had not even noticed, however, and you can discover magical 5 bedroom villas you never would have thought existed!

I'm not going to lie, there is no magical loophole to avoid planning and it does take time, but it really isn't as bad as you'd think.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,