Sentences with phrase «more self understanding»

Research shows that the more self understanding parents have about their own childhoods the more likely their children will securely bond to them.

Not exact matches

A more realistic understanding of authenticity at work might not be simply «bring your whole self to the office» but a more nuanced balancing act.

«We have to navigate around the real world, develop perception and action systems for our self - driving cars, and understand, predict, and make more efficient the experience for our riders and drivers.»

Improved internal communication — The ISO 9000 certification process's emphasis on self - analysis and operations management issues encourages various internal areas or departments of companies to interact with one another in hopes of gaining a more complete understanding of the needs and desires of their internal customers.

When Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram first launched, few understood the purpose behind the social sharing sites and hardly anyone believed that they were more than a place for self - expression and narcissism.

What I mean is, we are the generation that have helped make massive strides in social rights, self - reflection, a broader understanding for people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and more.

Sick, sad and depressed people are more likely to use «I» because they tend to be self - reflecting and trying to understand what has happened to them.

Through our research, we've devised a framework for understanding and transforming comparison from an unconscious habit that can distort our view of ourselves and others, into a more self - aware and compassionate perspective.

Analysts who retain sympathy for the gold standard, like self - confessed «gold bug» John Mauldin, have always understood that the main argument in favor of gold is that it imposes an unbreakable trade and capital flow discipline — indeed that is also the main argument against gold — but many of them have tended to de-emphasize reserve currency economics mainly, I think, because this particular problem is to them subsumed under their more general concerns about money.

Other risks can be insured through commercial insurers, but now more and more asset managers understand and want to take advantage of the major tax & accounting benefits of formalizing self - insurance through a captive.

As you grow older you hopefully grow wiser, and you begin to understand from your own honest self - analysis that our problems are greater, more complex and more mysterious than any answer.

His «formal exposition of the concept of God's self - communication» in terms of four pairs of interrelated concepts, that is, (a) Origin - Future; (b) History - Transcendence; (c) Invitation - Acceptance; (d) Knowledge - Love, by his own admission is more a brief sketch than a full - scale presentation of a new interpersonal understanding of the God - world relationship.

its not really atheism or religion that I have a problem with, its the hate, control, and fear that goes along with it that I have a problem with, you say that those who are spiritual are into new agey, crystal ball, stuff, see that's what I'm talking about, you assume to know what something is about when you don't understand something you naturally fear it, your self righteous clouds you, don't you get that by being narrow minded in your view towards things, you really act no better than religious fundamentalists, being spiritual is a lot more than just the new agey, think positive all the time that you think it is, its about being aware of who you are?

It is commendable that the West is trying to be more open, to be more understanding of the values of outsiders, but it has lost all capacity for self - love.

Similarly, Buddhists can understand the disciplines of meditation in which they engage as setting aside the private self in favor of a reality that is far more ultimate.

Yet this same criticism, that Jesus» understanding of his self - hood is incommensurate with the kerygma's concept of a dramatic shift in the course of history or the cosmos, has been presented in still more radical fashion.

And even if there is generally an improved understanding of God, to say that this is because of a progressive divine revelation rather than because of our own increased understanding through the years is tantamount to saying that our earlier ignorance is God's fault for not revealing more sooner, It hardly seems necessary to blame human ignorance on a divine coyness, or to picture God rationing out carefully increased doses of self - revelation.

For the pastor to work with that self - understanding makes more sense than to avoid it by playing amateur psychiatrist.

Just because we are so very ignorant of the big picture and often only want to see it in our own egotistical self centered way, does not mean it has a lot to answer for; it only means we need to grow up and try to understand the big picture more than we usually do.

Some may wish to use it as an historical book; after all, it is a collection of writings bound up together in one volume, telling us of the way in which the Jewish people came by God's self - disclosure to a deeper understanding of the God they worshipped and a more adequate conception of his purpose for his «chosen» race.

Since Aristotle and Whitehead are at one in distancing themselves critically from entity understood as substrate, since they both have in mind the existence of a «self» as the decisive characteristic of entity, and since moreover they both turn in the direction of organic unities and not of «things,» it becomes all the more urgent to ask just how the Whiteheadian concept of an «actual entity» is related to the Aristotelian concept of «entity.»

If we conceive of the Word or Spirit as moving more and more fully into the body of the profane in response to the self - negation of God in Christ, then we can understand how the Christian God gradually becomes more alien and beyond, receding into a lifeless and oppressive form, until it finally appears as an empty and vacuous nothingness.

As I understand it, the relevant features of a «proposition» are these: A «proposition» is a «concrete possibility; it is abstracted from some objective event in the actual world; it is proposed as a possibility that an entity may want to consider for itself in a future moment in its process of self - creation; it is apprehended by the entity in «feeling» and so is preconceptual and largely preconsciously apprehended; it stands in a complex of relationships with other «propositions,» and the set of propositions presupposes a systematic universe; its «interest» (as «lure») is more important than its «truth.»

The more pluralized the student body becomes in regard to age, previous experience, earlier education, sex, race, social location, and vocational self - understanding, the less workable is a single, prescribed sequence of courses.

Anyone who sounds aggrieved or — in the case of Solnit's enemies — more high - minded and principled can always summon an avenging army of supporters from the vast population of Internet - dwellers unwilling to spend more than five seconds trying to understand the dispute at hand, but endlessly willing to get a quick hit of that old self - congratulation.

The evolution is toward a more profound understanding of the meaning of relationality, involving the self, the others, and the totality.

It is primarily something far more worrying: a crisis of confidence among ourselves, a crisis caused by a failure of self - understanding.

«The aesthetic image allows for a more existential aspect of communication and raises questions of self - understanding and identity through expression».

But much Buddhist writing makes more sense to me when I understand it to say something about how things are and especially about how the self is.

So far as Gandhi was concerned, it was towards a syncretism of mystic Hindu spirituality with the self - giving and suffering love of Jesus the Crucified Messiah producing the politics of nonviolence aimed at a secular nation - state based more or less on inter-religious understanding and the decentralized socialism of Sarvodaya.

He gives the neurotic the understanding which the world has denied him and makes it more and more possible for him to step out of his self - imprisonment into a genuine relation with the analyst.

These queries demand answers, for my self - understanding, my sense of worth, my identity and my community have been wrapped up with fulfilling what I have believed to be an appropriate and vital response to God's calling, to serve God by serving the church, and more precisely to do so in the field of theological education.

An understanding of revelation as the gift of an ever - more - inclusive future rooted in the kenotic love of God can help transform the Church's self - understanding in a way that would make it more closely related to the needs of our contemporary world.

The worldly view always clings fast to the difference between man and man, and naturally it has no understanding of the one thing needful (for to have that is spirituality), and therefore no understanding of the narrowness and meanness of mind which is exemplified in having lost one's self — not by evaporation in the infinite, but by being entirely finitized, by having become, instead of a self, a number, just one man more, one more repetition of this everlasting Einerlei.

Others among the Sufis held fast to shari`a, but understood it in ways which were much wider and more liberal than the interpretation of the orthodox, looking upon the law as either a system of self - discipline or as a set of symbols representing hidden religious meanings.

Among the new groups which a church should create there ought to be one or more with explicit counseling goals such as growth in self - understanding, opportunity to deal openly with feelings and problems, and opportunity to grow in the health of one's interpersonal relationships.

Writes Dark, «It is only when we're blessed by a feeling of finitude that we can begin to perceive the holy, that sense of a whole before which our limited understanding is dwarfed... Only a twisted, unimaginative mind - set resists awe in favor of self - satisfied certainty... More humility might characterize our talk of God if we believe that the whole truth can never be entirely ours and that our attempts to nail God down are always well - intentioned human constructs at best and idols at worst.»

Persons who are offered this empathic gift tend to grow toward more appropriate self - acceptance and self - understanding.

In our day we are probably more conscious than Niebuhr was in his that self - surrender, sloth, and inordinate self - humiliation need to be emphasized as much as pride to fully understand man s sin.

More important, by caving to demands for «one strike» and «zero tolerance» policies that will remove from ministry faithful priests who did one bad thing thirty years ago and have since had an impeccable record and are clearly no threat to anybody, Dallas may have changed the very self - understanding of the Church.

New Testament theology is thus disqualified from playing a constructive role in the forming of a theological method which shall take seriously the problem of faith and history, and particularly this faith, rooted as no other religious faith is, in the very concreteness of history, and becomes nothing more than»... the first permanent expression of the distinctively Christian consciousness, and begs the question of the external history of that consciousness» (Ibid., 57, 58) «thus leaving... theology with nothing to discussion except the human need for self - understanding in general.»

Nor should we belittle the possibility that theological dialogue with these movements might one day be the more fruitful because their self - understanding is not, at least in most instances, defined by the longstanding Protestant - Catholic antitheses of the Northern Hemisphere.

Contemporaneity is once more a timeless, abstract truth within my self - understanding.

(And yet Hans Urs von Balthasar, who in many respects appears more cautious in his theology than either Rahner or Schillebeeckx, has endorsed, through his reflections on Trinitarian theology, the notion of a suffering and dying God much more strongly than most other Catholic theologians: «the death, and the dying away into silence, of the Logos so become the centre of what he has to say of himself that we have to understand precisely his non-speaking as his final revelation, his utmost word: and this because in the humility of his obedient self - lowering to the death of the Cross he is identical with the exalted Lord.»

In some ways all of this remains quite abstract because the notions of sinner and creature still sound more like self - understanding than characteristics of a craft.

Our minds are much more powerful, intricate, and potentially creative (as well as destructive) than our conscious self - understanding can even imagine.

The deeper we travel on the road toward self - understanding the more we realize there is no end in sight.

The paradox of agape expressed in Jesus» words that «He who saves his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake and the gospels will find it» is explored both in the critics of Christian self - sacrifice, including Fromm, Camus and others, and in the more traditional understandings of agape including the monastics, Luther, Kierkegaard and others.

Contrary to Western stereotypes of the annihilation of the self, this reflects a more accurate understanding of the Buddhist doctrine of the «no - self.»

We are made aware of powerful impulses, whose true import we don't understand, precisely because they are recognizably different from the more basic and strictly self - serving desires for food, drink, and rest, with their strictly private satisfactions.