Sentences with phrase «many such experiences»

I recently had such an experience.

(I had such an experience when, en route to an unfortunately named barbecue restaurant, I Twittered, and then hastily deleted, this gem: «Walking to Smoke Joint.»)

Standing beneath glowing paper lanterns in the alleyway behind Honest Ed's, the iconic discount department store in the heart of the city, watching the sun dip behind Ed's famous façade, you would have known how rare and delightful such an experience is in a metropolis that until recently limited its street food almost exclusively to hot dogs.

Such experiences give James unique insight into national and global leadership that suggest value in his views.

Proactively seek out such experiences and challenge yourself to go all in.

Such experience matters to Clint Greenleaf, co-founder and chief executive of HomePlate Peanut Butter, a four - employee company based in Austin, Texas.

Just under half (48 %) had been harassed 2 — 5 times, while 28 % had more than five such experiences.

Apple Vice President Jennifer Bailey said such experiences were premature and not representative.

«To secure such experienced and sought - after professionals I think speaks highly of what we're achieving at NWQ, and where we're seeking to go with the firm,» Mr Horton said.

Such experience will provide another unique perspective for Financial Samurai readers.

The author cites the following as evidence: «At least one in 10 people will say they've had such an experience if you ask them bluntly.»

Only homophobes and fundamentalist preachers, we are given to understand, would want to discourage young men from such experience.

Have you tried to have such an experience with the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny?

Even for events that are 1 in a billion, there are still 7 people every day who would have such an experience.

And while it probably never works to overconfidently inform atheist friends that the serenity they feel in nature or the rapture they experience listening to music is the specific product of a specific God, we can at least embrace such experiences as points of connection.

Can say that I believe in every thing that you disbelief of when it comes to the Creator and the Creation of universe, life and guidance, God has given me hearing, seeing, thinking and heart feelings to see and experience signs and small miracles to have faith in him and continue with good deeds I was told of in his Holy Book although am not perfect at that but nothing to lose but contrary to that there are more to gain in life and life after... For those disbelievers they lose their senses by being locked and blocked from such experiences... It is all about souls as verses speak for them selves;

It would still be true, I think, that the content of such an experience, and even a fully adequate and somehow (impossibly) guaranteed inventory of that content, would not alone provide any nonarbitrary basis, intuitive or articulate, for distinguishing what is essential to the experience simply as an experience, and what is essential to it as a specifically human experience — nor even for determining whether there is anything peculiarly one's own in the experience, as distinguished from what is essential to human experience as human or as experience.

Some who have no such experience become great saints.

His was the first theology to be based systematically on religious experience, setting Christianity into the context of a broader understanding of such experience.

It hasn't been my only such experience, either.

But i do appreciate their efforts to create an environment where such experiences, as much as it lies within their power, are prevented and / or quickly contained.

Paul makes it clear that boasting about such experience does no good.

This early absorption of the individual in the social group is made clear in the Old Testament by the further fact that, at the start, there was no such experience as would be called now «personal religion.»

Such experience no longer regards purely particular things as do the senses, but rather through intuition finds the universal genus behind them all — indeed, experience is «the universal now stabilized within the soul,» according to Aristotle in Posterior Analytics.

The first such experience occurred when he was six, as he gazed at a toy garden that his brother made for him out of moss, decorated with twigs and flowers, and set in the lid of a biscuit tin.

And if such experience helps to make your life healthier, more beautiful, more complete and more satisfactory to yourself and to those you love, you may safely say: «This was the grace of God.

In a time when the richness of play (from recreational activity to the arts) is available to an increasing number of Americans, and when some are finding sources of pleasure, meaning, and power within such experiences, Christian theology is being challenged to reassess its suspicions of play.

That new dimension is revealed through such experiences as we have described as the fundamentals of religious reality.

Apart from such experience, they suppose, argument is unconvincing.

Ultimately, of course, beauty is a function of experience, but we commonly use the term to refer to objects so structured as to stimulate such experience.

For the principles of biology will have to deal with the elusive logic of achievement, whereas in the hard sciences there is no such experience as success or failure.

It would seem probable that it is the emotional intensity of such an experience which melts the alcoholic's shell of defenses and opens him to help.

At first they may be taken merely as aesthetic moments, such as communing with nature, savouring memories andimages, meeting mysteries, the heightened sensing of musical sounds, odours, colours, the thrill of acute poetic expression, or moving encounters with other human beings; but on further reflection people often cite such experiences as having a spiritual quality and as hints of the divine.

Perhaps we can not yet name such an experience as the atoning body of Christ; but we can know it as the dead and alien body of God, and consequently we can not dissociate the alien body of the Antichrist from the Christ who is the embodiment of the self - negation of God.

It seems to them that this is an insecure foundation on which to build the whole Structure of Christian belief and the way of life which follows from it; especially since such experiences may not be unique, for there are possible parallels, not only in the visions of the saints but in many alleged psychic phenomena.

In such experiences nothing external stood between the soul and God; the divine Spirit was an immediate, personal presence, awesome and masterful, directing thought and compelling action.

If no such experiences can be cited, it is impossible to have an intelligible conception of the deity.

I hope all of you have the privilege of such an experience, but it only comes with an open mind and an open heart.

There are many facets to such an experience.

The Rinzai tradition of Zen stresses that the third stage comes only after a sudden awakening in the satori experience, whereas the Soto tradition says that no such experience is necessary.

Paul implies that it is just such experiences which have been made possible by the cataclysmic death and resurrection of Christ and which will be climaxed by that final renewal, the second coming.

When they are accompanied by such experiences, however, they support our apprehension and understanding of those experiences and our commitment to their permanent validity.

Researchers had indeed found a region of the brain that could be linked to religious experience, but they neither claimed that this region was the cause of all such experiences nor sought to disparage or «reduce» religion or religious experience.

He gives several accounts of such experiences, his own and those of others — experiences that alerted him to the potentially powerful effects of reading.

It is natural that such experiences will surmount even the sweetest, most imperturbable reason and inform one's perspective.

Although for Bergson it is conceivable that the past could be experienced as fully immediate and vivid, the influence of the past in the present does not turn on such an experience, for the past does slip into obscurity, according to Bergson, when we do not attend to it.

On this line of reasoning, then, we can take issue with Whitehead's apparent assumption that such experiences are so self - evidently accurate that they need no further justification.

I went through such an experience that at the time seemed horrible but after coming out the other end, I am glad God put me through it!

The point is that if spirit - filled Christians want to communicate effectively with those who do not share such experiences, then they should heed the assumptions of the secularists, for it is a safe bet that if another person's deepest presuppositions are ignored, the possibility for meaningful dialogue diminishes rapidly.

Similarly, religious forms and symbols arise out of elemental religious experience and must be renewed and transformed by such experience if they are to retain their living reality.