Sentences with phrase «of harmony with nature»

«Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet... Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life.»

Room Armonia (Spanish for Harmony), a hotel - style room with a private bathroom, is named after one of Bodhi Surf + Yoga's fundamental beliefs: the importance of harmony with nature, peacefulness amongst human beings, and the unity of all things.

Taoism teaches the way of harmony with nature, and has been the inspiration for much of the landscape painting of China.

Only when we recover ancient animism's I - Thou relationship with nature, rather than the I - It relation of Western religion, can we recover the root principle of harmony with nature that was destroyed by biblical religion and its secular stepchildren.

He had become fascinated with the Navaho ideal of harmony with nature and man and the contrast to that ideal that American society presented.

Not exact matches

(Part 2) Interactive Dialogue on Harmony with Nature during the commemoration of International Mother Earth Day - General Assembly, 72nd session

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One of Francis's primary concerns is a «tyrannical anthropocentrism» (68) that treats nature as something to manipulate at will rather than live with in harmony and respect.

I find on the contrary, that... in our knowledge of physical nature we have penetrated so far that we can obtain a vision of the flawless harmony which is in conformity with sublime reason.»

Such a view would not be quite so absurd as might at first appear: the divine temporal evaluations would seem to be no more arbitrary than those of the constitution of the primordial nature in Whitehead's view; and the divine subjective aim toward the maximum of value intensity, together with the property of everlastingness and the Categoreal Obligations (constituted by the primordial nature) of Subjective Unity and Subjective Harmony, would seem sufficient to insure the mutual coherence of the growing series of divine temporal evaluations.

The AA program seeks to reverse this catastrophic farrago by rewriting the mental pathways of the addict using his residual spiritual notions to restore God as the ultimate witness to his behavior, coaxing him to live again in harmony with his given nature and natural limits.

In this way the oppressive political order, unjust exploitation, war for security and survival, and harmony with the nature will be expelled from the created order of God, and justice, peace, and integrity of creation will be fulfilled in the Garden of God.

But there is also the promise of a unified planetary society living in harmony with nature, using the natural resources of the earth for the benefit of all the earth's living creatures, and opening up prospects of human adventures never before possible.

Is it in harmony with the nature of God's world?

Harmony with nature and one's own body, a more «feminine» and less dominating attitude toward one's self and others, an ability to accept feelings and emotions — including feelings of weakness and despair — a willingness to accept personal variety, have all been valued and tried in practice.

The biblical understanding of nature, therefore, inheres in a human ethical vision, a vision of ecojustice, in which the enmity or harmony of nature with humanity is part of the human historical drama of good and evil.

Also in the face of the ecological disaster created by the modern ideas of total separation of humans from nature and of the unlimited technological exploitation of nature, it is proper for primal vision to demand, not an undifferentiated unity of God, humanity and nature or to go back to the traditional worship of nature - spirits, but to seek a spiritual framework of unity in which differentiation may go along with a relation of responsible participatory interaction between them, enabling the development of human community in accordance with the Divine purpose and with reverence for the community of life on earth and in harmony with nature's cycles to sustain and renew all life continuously.

The biblical understanding of nature inheres in a human ethical vision, a vision of ecojustice, in which the enmity or harmony of nature with humanity is part of the human historical drama of good and evil.

The vision of lions lying down with lambs represents a gross misunderstanding of harmony in nature.

Nature is always trying to re-establish harmony, and with the psyche the principle of synthesis is dominant... The task of therapy is to aid the individual in transforming the personality, and integrating apparent contradictions.

Genesis affirms the value of human guidance and transformation of nature in harmony with the whole of creation, and it rejects our culture «s frequent affirmation of consumption and waste.

But whoever wants, on the other hand, really to behold and receive all truth, and would have the truth - world overhang him as an empyrean of stars, complex, multitudinous, striving antagonistically, yet comprehended, height above height, and deep under deep, in a boundless score of harmony; what man soever, content with no small rote of logic and catechism, reaches with true hunger after this, and will offer himself to the many - sided forms of the scripture with a perfectly ingenuous and receptive spirit; he shall find his nature flooded with senses, vastnesses, and powers of truth, such as it is even greatness to feel.

Because they took for granted that all scriptural references to Jesus were true, they had to come up with one doctrine of his nature that was in harmony with all these different passages.

It is the extracted essence of Wisdom that we seek to mobilize our lives in harmony with nature, culture and environments...

But he is not made known as Son of God in reality until he is established in power, until it becomes clear that such a character of trust and loyalty is indeed in complete harmony with the nature of things.

According to Roger Ames (NAT 117), an «aesthetic order» is a paradigm that: (1) proposes plurality as prior to unity and disjunction to conjunction, so that all particulars possess real and unique individuality; (2) focuses on the unique perspective of concrete particulars as the source of emergent harmony and unity in all interrelationships; (3) entails movement away from any universal characteristic to concrete particular detail; (4) apprehends movement and change in the natural order as a processive act of «disclosure» — and hence describable in qualitative language; (5) perceives that nothing is predetermined by preassigned principles, so that creativity is apprehended in the natural order, in contrast to being determined by God or chance; and (6) understands «rightness» to mean the degree to which a thing or event expresses, in its emergence toward novelty as this exists in tension with the unity of nature, an aesthetically pleasing order.

Among empirical theologians there has been a ready admiration for Darwin and an uneasy alliance with Whitehead, who despite his deep appreciation of the agonistic nature of things, retained faith in the harmonies and uniformities underlying, he believed, the mathematics, the logic, and the theoretical physics of his time.

Before we can explain why persons might be persuaded by Christian theism rather than, say, Romantic harmony with nature or Nietzsche's defiant assertion of the self's powers, we have to understand how any of those systems could articulate ways that persons actually live.

It faces us afresh when ever the order of a traditional society with its apparent timeless harmony of nature, humanity and religion offers to absorb or replace the Christian message.

Yes, it is profoundly in harmony with the nature of man as a unity of matter and spirit.

In us, matter is brought into direct synthesis with spiritual mind... [it] is subsumed and transformed into a more perfect state by direct union with the Godhead... It is this destiny and this environmental harmony that is lost by sin in the first generation... this threatens the eternal frustration of human nature - spiritual as well as physical death.»

The implications of this idea for a theology of nature are not, of course, worked out in the New Testament itself, but, obscure as the thought - forms undoubtedly are to us, there does shine through them a conviction that the whole universe, could we but see it, is in its essential nature in harmony not merely with some unknown divine power but specifically with God as revealed in Jesus, and that therefore there must be some modus vivendi between humans and nature which, even if not yet attained, is in keeping with all that is best in both.

The simple pages of Genesis reveal in sheer majesty both the original plan of God, and the qualities of human nature in that beginning, and what could, and did befall if man ate of the tree of the experience of sin: the harmony with God is destroyed, and the tyrannical power of the soul in man, if man adores himself as his sole centre of life and meaning, is to bring into the flesh a storm of unruly desire and addictive greed.

«It is clear that the strengthening and maturing of faith which we seek requires a deepening appreciation of the role of faith in completing and fulfilling our human nature and in particular its harmony with true reasoning.

Nature is seen as an unspoiled realm of spontaneous harmony that is to be found by getting in touch with the world outside of human intervention.

In recognition of the indigenous South American people who «have maintained, controlled, protected and preserved quinoa as food for present and future generations thanks to their traditional knowledge and practices of living well in harmony with mother earth and nature,» the United Nations has declared 2013 as The International Year of Quinoa.

Our growers strive to work in harmony with the subtle influences of nature.

Why... Organic systems work in harmony with nature, keeping harmful chemicals out of our land, water and air, creating a healthy environment rich in wildlife, woodlands and nutrients.

«I see faces in Morocco, Peru and the islands that are part of nature, in harmony with it.

• The opportunity to live in harmony with nature in a beautiful wilderness setting on the shores of a private lake.

Observing the changing seasons helps the children to work appropriately and fosters a sense of harmony with the rhythmic life of nature throughout the year.

A living calendar of rhythm and harmony with nature is created through our seasonal festivals and celebrations.

Demeter farms work according to biodynamic principles, in harmony with nature, and they respect the species - specific traits of animals and plants.

Explains living in harmony with your child as he follows nature's plan for the development of intelligence.

Sorry for digressing but the point is someone from Alberta (whose heritage is arguably both Saudi Arabian and American in nature) is not necessarily a bad thing coupled with the socialist laws, diversity and harmony of immigrants seeking capitalist gains like you see in Canada.

While Plato condemned what today we call capitalism and the accumulation of property, Aristotle considers both in harmony with human nature — within limits.

«We like to think of indigenous people as living in harmony with nature,» he says.

WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of our planet's natural environment, and build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.

One of ayurveda's purposes is to restore your harmony with nature, as doing so is the key to great health.

She believes that following the divine lead on health - related questions, simplifying diet choices and living in harmony with nature can take the stress and confusion out of our day and make healthy living natural and joyful!

Bringing some nature into our homes is not only a great way to ease the strain of everyday life, but it brings us back to more harmony, aligning us with the natural flow of energy in the heavens and earth.