Sentences with phrase «of ideal selves»

Finally, Mick achieves enlightenment, and leaves the treadmill of narrative, attaining a Nirvana more like Christian Heaven, a jubilant reunion of ideal selves.

Psychologist E. Tory Higgins of Columbia University has explored the relationships among several of our most common self - images: he asks participants to list qualities of their actual selves, of the ideal selves they would like to become, as well as their «ought» selves — the selves other people think they should be.

So, failing to affirm ideal qualities isn't necessarily bad (because Larry might become a better programmer), but it isn't particularly good either (because Larry is not working toward his vision of his ideal self).

Not exact matches

Because it's these sort of activities which allow us to become our ideal selves.

The plateaus will come and go, and we'll continue following our ideal self down the path of our lives.

And that's because our ideal self is always around that corner, our ideal self is always three steps ahead of us.

The female - focused company is part of a wave of modern sororities geared to female entrepreneurs, merging a fierce can - do motto with feminist ideals tailor - made for a generation of self - starters.

One is that there is no apparent relationship between having what she calls internal self - awareness (a clear «understanding of your values, passions, aspirations, ideal environment, patterns, reactions, and impact on others») and external self - awareness («knowing how other people see you.»)

For the self - employed or independent contractors of the world, the bank statement loan is an ideal loan product.

The upcoming legal proceedings will expose a hypocritical church — one that is focused on self - preservation at any cost, and far from the ideals of its founder.

Received through a hybrid physical feeling of God, it serves as an ideal for the concrescing actual entity in its self - development.

But many remain undecided, needing to wrestle seriously with the problem of how to relate the ideal of the Kingdom of God to the realities of everyday living, or frankly caught in the bind of having too many possessions, or simply not cut out for a life of self - denial.

Even the most energetically «unencumbered self» is always already a «person» enmeshed in social, intellectual, and institutional frameworks that structure and enable the ideal of autonomy.

«What greater expression of faith in the American experiment than this, what greater form of patriotism is there than the belief that America is not yet finished, that we are strong enough to be self - critical, that each successive generation can look upon our imperfections and decide that it is in our power to remake this nation to more closely align with our highest ideals?»

Hence, images and ideals formed at the center of the self are neither full of truth nor free of sin.

It includes our ideals, and may take the form of an ideal image of the self which is in sharp contrast to the real image, that is, how we «really» feel about ourselves.

As a matter of fact, there is a whole theological school which holds that man's unaided self - realization is the ideal to be striven after.

@usaidtwhat While some payed lip service to the lofty ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Const.itution, the pervasive mentality was obviously contrary to the «self evident truth that all men are created equal».

In short, the self is freer to envision ideals of a radically different future than it is to escape from its present commitments.

You see this sort of language a lot in complementarian literature: «real men,» «real women,» «real marriage,» «hardwired,» «programmed,» «blueprint» — as if masculinity and femininity are rigid, set - in - stone ideals to which we must ascribe, rather than fluid expressions of our unique selves.

In the books that have made her name, Cromwell is her alter ego and ideal self, the kind of man she aspired to develop into as she grew.

«57 But youth as yet untouched by tragedy is especially sensitive to the harmony of the soul's dynamism with ideals which go beyond self - gratification.

Until now (and with the exception of one attempt, fortunately thwarted, against a church in Ivry), the fanatics had attacked aspects of the flattering self - image that we «citizens» have of ourselves: the iconoclastic insolence of Charlie Hebdo, the pagan cult of sport at the French National Stadium, the carefree pleasure of the Bataclan and the boho outdoor cafés of the Eleventh Arrondissement in Paris, the 14th of July fireworks in Nice celebrating a Revolution that has promoted great ideals but also the guillotine...

This kind of faith moves our «confident assurance» away from our own self - centered ideals and toward the deeper things of our soul.

However, the ideal of philanthropy tends to divide the human race in two: relatively self - sufficient benefactors and needy beneficiaries.

Before you settle into self - assigned relationship martyrdom, ask yourself if your search for the ideal Christian partner has morphed into idolatry rather than an act of submission to God?

Thus, he concludes: «The sense of human languages and practices as the results of experimental self - creation rather than of an attempt to approximate to a fixed and ahistorical ideal..

But the «ideal of itself» selected from this lure is the result of the self - activity of the occasion.

Emblazoned on that rec room wall is a quote from Stanley Hauerwas: «The work of Jesus was not a new set of ideals or principles for reforming or even revolutionizing society, but the establishment of a new community, a people that embodied forgiveness, sharing and self - sacrificing love in its rituals and discipline.

the golden rule came from Kong Fuzi an (Atheist) which which was brought over from the Shinto golden rule (love others as you love your self) which you cant really love others until you love your self,... and the idea of tolerance and acceptance is a Pagan ideal not a christian who are completely intolerant of evething not in the bible or mention in the bible as evil,..

Young people in particular often visualize their moral problem in some such way as this: on the one side is the ideal life with its purity, its self - forgetfulness, its fine awareness of things invisible, and on the other side are the primitive instincts — pugnacity, egotism, sensuality, the caveman within, and between these two there is an irreconcilable hostility.

This white Anglo - Saxon ideal, this lofty dream of a minority at the summit of its economic and political power and the height of its historical self - delusions, has led this nation to the brink of self - destruction.

Assagioli saw that a «genuine ideal model» can help one tap the resources of the higher Self.

Our «highest spiritual ideals and aspirations also threaten to lay the most crushing burdens on humankind,» and Taylor therefore finds it quite understandable that the modern self might turn from such lofty aspirations to the goods of ordinary life and the satisfactions of creative self - fulfillment.

This was how the ideal of self - sacrifice was to be translated into brute fact.

The outcome of being clueless, The bible vs logical theology, Yes, twisting faith into self serving religious ideal and then placing it in the hands of primitive reasoning will always enforce an authoritarian ignorance that leads to this foolishness.

I will find so many opportunities to be faithful to the Lord, to my own self, to my family, to my season of life, to my calling, to my path, to my ideals, to my friends, to justice and mercy.

Even within the blocks, it will make transportation more expensive, and this will tend to give respectability to ideals of greater local self - sufficiency.

Here's where it gets tricky for those of us who did not become Christians until late in life: we have a lot of dying to our old selves to do before the «ideal» self, the one that God created for His glory, can be seen.

The result is that Heidegger's «authenticity» turns out to be little more than another version of the modernistic ideal of individual autonomy, his «resolution» a resolve toward nothing in particular, and his «care» simply a concern for the self.

Sandel's alternative to Rawls is, of course, the ideal of «constitutive attachments» and «thickly constituted selves» whose ends are often allegiances.

However, as realized, the ideals are graded in value with respect to what will enhance the present self - creation of the actual occasion.

As an ideal it stresses the worth and dignity of every man, and hence the need of securing for every man his basic human rights and his highest attainable self - development.

When this happens, it is easier to see that the American ideal of a self - sufficient family is not only impossible; it is undesirable.

In its self - creation the actual entity is guided by its ideal of itself as individual satisfaction and as transcendent creator.»

Rather the self, like the actual entity, is a self - creating creature which is guided by its ideal of itself as individual satisfaction and as transcendent creator.

Two types of ideals of civilizations are noted: ideals based on stern self - restraint and ideals based on the flowering of a culture.

When they fail, the ideals are revised and re-tested, thus participating in the revisionary process of a self - revising society.

Against this self - complimenting triumphalism, Dugin insists that liberalism is not a universal ideal but rather the next stage of Western imperialism — more precisely, American imperialism.

By the fourth century B.C., Athenian culture had become self - conseious about its ideal of both culture and education — or, more exactly, about education as «culturing» the young.10 At that point Plato introduced the first major modification in the idea (though, as it turned out, not the practice) of paideia.