Sentences with phrase «not as an adventure»

It's sometimes tempting to think that somehow it would be easier to think of your life not as an adventure, but as something else to be gotten, endured.

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As somebody who did not particularly enjoy school, I hope you have some fun finding out about Virgin's adventures!

But that'd be tremendously silly — though the urgency of the main quest is certainly a propellant, going on adventures with your son is just as (if not more) rewarding.

Before my experiment of a year without flying, I would have seen not flying as deprivation and sacrifice, but my experience taught me that my happiness, joy, adventure, cultural exploration, and so on didn't depend on flying.

(The article doesn't speculate as to why, but perhaps adventure - inclined women are less likely to buckle down to tasks they find intrinsically boring than their male counterparts?)

Affectionately known as the «Cruise Director» while in the office, Jim can be found exploring the streets of Chicago and planning his next international adventure when not growing and caring for Team Sprout.

As a self - described «adventure junkie,» Yanik has found that his own life - changing experiences such as running with the bulls, flying MiG jets, HALO skydiving, exotic car rallies and Zero - Gravity flights have not expanded his limits but also led to breakthroughs in ideas, focus and business thinkinAs a self - described «adventure junkie,» Yanik has found that his own life - changing experiences such as running with the bulls, flying MiG jets, HALO skydiving, exotic car rallies and Zero - Gravity flights have not expanded his limits but also led to breakthroughs in ideas, focus and business thinkinas running with the bulls, flying MiG jets, HALO skydiving, exotic car rallies and Zero - Gravity flights have not expanded his limits but also led to breakthroughs in ideas, focus and business thinking.

While I always enjoy planning my next adventure, investors may want to consider Europe as an investment opportunity, not just a vacation spot.

Erica Christensen is unbelievably good as Leslie, just capturing the nuance of someone who has got a strong center to her, who isn't going to be pushed over, stands up for herself, but loves her husband dearly and feels like through her Christian faith she is now going on this incredible adventure.

However this break is complete and systematic in Process and Reality and most explicit in Adventures of Ideas, Chapter X, where the notion of one actuality as truly present in another, and not merely represented in it, is asserted to be the one fundamental metaphysical advance since Plato (AI 214f.).

Detailed notes, ten appendices and a very workmanlike index complete what is not only a great adventure history but also, as the introduction itself concludes, «an inspiring record of heroism and self - sacrifice and an essential source» forthose interested in English Catholic History.

I fail to see how that response has anything to do with the point that I was trying to make, and, seeing as how you seem to have missed my postings intention entirely, I will not bother reading too deeply into your thoughtful analysis of my commentary in return, which would no doubt be an engaging and intellectual adventure.

If process is a whole with parts, the meaning of «process» as temporal extension can not be a growing together of parts into a whole, or the «concrescence of many potentials» (Process 22), because the «togetherness of things» in the occasion of experience (Adventures 234) is already established as the actual entity begins since «relationship is not a universal.

An actual entity as a «self - creation is separate and private» (Adventures 198); any changes to its parts and it would not be the same actuality (Process 288).

Confident that their God goes before them as he went before the people of Israel, the people in such a church will see themselves engaged not in a holding operation, but in a great adventure.

The sermons that are preached from our pulpits may not be as bad as mine was, but most Father's Day sermons tend to beat up on dads rather than encourage them and challenge them to dream big, take risks for God, embark on an adventure, charge ahead, and be a man!

When not saving lives as a registered nurse, she enjoys spending time with her husband, dreaming up her next travel adventure, and writing about embracing life's everyday moments at jessicaachance.com.

The cosmic enterprise is like a great adventure, in which deity moves out towards the creatures — not as if it were only an incidental or accidental act of God, but because God by very necessity of the divine nature itself is constantly outgoing, self - identifying, receptive, and responsive.

It is significant that there are an increasing number of those who believe that God's life itself must be conceived as having an element of adventure and movement into an open future, else we can not conceive that He enters sympathetically into our human experience.23

On reaching Seville, Juan finds that report of his Neapolitan adventure has reached the court of Castile, as has Duke Octavio, but fortunately the duke still does not know who cuckolded him.

This doesn't mean we must now go and have random meals with random people (although we might as well seize the opportunity and embrace adventure).

It is presupposed by truth, which as «the conformation of Appearance to Reality» (Adventures of Ideas 309) could not exist without it.

The glorification of violence as a means to solve conflict is everywhere in our culture and I was that lame person that couldn't stand mixed - martial - arts battles and railed against video games and movies that depicted war or crime as an adventure, even arguing we are «a generation of virtual sociopaths.»

We can not reduce them to formulas; but the clear conclusion from this way of seeing the pastoral task is the recognition that one of the surest aids to an effective pastoral care is to think of the pastor as involved in the needs, the suffering, the adventure of the spirit to which he brings the insight and concern of his office.

Thus we may no longer investigate religion as though it were not also part of the unfolding adventure of cosmic evolution.

Up to this point, I believe, Leclerc's differences are not with Whitehead's philosophy as developed in Process and Reality and Adventures of Ideas.

In other words, Whitehead's reference to creativity as the universal «factor of activity which is the reason for the origin of the new occasion of experience» (Adventures 179) is not against the ontological principle.

When science has gained a more perfect picture of the spatio - temporal patterns exhibited by the life and adventures of a particle, including perhaps the evolution of the cosmos from a stage in which it did not contain this particle, and into one in which it will no longer contain it, then perhaps speculation as to an inner life of the particle.

(Adventures of Ideas, New York: The Free Press, 1967, 170) Whitehead replaces the characterization of God as an absolute despot with the Platonic conviction»... that the divine element in the world is to be conceived as a persuasive agency and not as a coercive agency.»

However, the perspective on theodicy adopted here is one in which the evil of chaos, monstrous as it is, does not negate the value, significance or purpose that resides in a universe of adventure and tragic beauty.

So to the Exchange, and thence home to dinner with my brother, and in the afternoon to Westminster hall, and there found Mrs. Lane, and by agreement we met at the Parliament stairs (in my way down to the boat who should meet us but my lady Jemimah, who saw me lead her but said nothing to me of her, though I ought to speak to her to see whether she would take notice of it or no) and off to Stangate and so to the King's Head at Lambeth marsh, and had variety of meats and drinks, but I did so towse her and handled her, but could get nothing more from her though I was very near it; but as wanton and bucksome as she is she dares not adventure upon the business, in which I very much commend and like her.

Eschatological religion does not appeal to the human instinct for safety as much as to our passion for adventure.

When God lets Himself be born and becomes man, this is not an idle notion of His, something that occurs to Him as a way of undertaking something to put an end after all to the boredom which people have been impudent enough to say must be associated with being God — it is not for the interest of an adventure.

Then there are the stories of getting my biographer's job done amidst the often sluggish realities of Vatican life: stories that wouldn't have fit in Witness to Hope and The End and the Beginning, but which now retrospectively illuminate, not only my own adventures in Rome (and elsewhere), but the accomplishment of John Paul II in getting the balky machinery around him to work as well as it did under his creative, courageous, firm, and collaborative leadership.

Our course plan implied that the heroic adventure of Trinity Church was only beginning, that it did not already exist as a story and a code that generated value and outlook.

As the Jewish philosopher Hans Jonas has written, «We literally hold in our faltering hands the future of the divine adventure and must not fail Him, even if we would fail ourselves.

The individual (exemplified by «each actual occasion,» as Whitehead says) displays «Spontaneity, originality of decision -LSB-...] Freshness, zest, and the extra keenness of intensity arise from it [individuality]-LSB-...] Thus the wise advice is, not to rest too completely in any continued realization of any perfection of type» (Adventures 258).

Not only does Whitehead call attention to Type VIII as a key to Type VI, that is Mathematics as a theory applicable to Beauty; but also to Mathematics as a key to Cosmic and Natural Harmony «Plato drew the conclusion that the key to the understanding of the natural world, and in particular of the physical elements, was the study of mathematics» (Adventures 149).

The kind of adventure God calls us to is not the quit - your - job - and - travel - the - world kind of adventure that, while good and fun, we tend of think of as a way to escape or delay living a mature, responsible life.

But on the other hand, is there not a deep difference between the categoreal scheme of Process and Reality and such a category as harmony in Adventures of Ideas?

In my view, however, «Moby - Dick» has not been as influential as either Harriet Beecher Stowe's «Uncle Tom's Cabin» or Mark Twain's «Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,» each of which has carried considerable weight in our national conversation about race.

Jean de Lery, in the account of his adventures among the Indians of Brazil, about 1557, describes the wooden grating set up on four forked posts, «which in their language they call a «boucan;» on this they cooked food with a slow fire underneath, and as they did not salt their meat, this process served them as a means of keeping their game and fish.

I didn't know I would want to become very familiar with this kind of adventure as an adult.

Barfi is somewhere between a fudge and a coconut ice, but it isn't too sickly and cloying as it is very fragrant, so much so that it takes your senses on a little (or big) adventure.

For as long as mom was physically able, there was no adventure she wouldn't be game for.

On the other hand, my kids, as excited as they were to go on this adventure, did not feel rushed.

Unlike my French Friday adventure, I did not cook every recipe in the book, but as a group, we collectively hit every single one.

When «Childhood Favourites» was selected as this month's Sweet Adventures Blog Hop theme the aforementioned creations ran through my mind immediately... and in a fit of not particularly unexpected re-invention, lemon custard ended up on top of cheesecake and both were made vegan, soy and refined sugar free.

As for music; Tallest Man on Earth, Goldfish and Caravan Palace [both dancy but good], a bit of jazz and old stuff like Fred Astaire, I like podcasts too, The Thrilling Adventure Hour is fantastic if you like old time radio stuff [it's not actually old time, just the style and is also a little odd but great!]

To not see them as «just another company,» but a group of energetic, like - minded souls with senses both of humor and adventure.