Sentences with phrase «of ordinary human life»

The Brooklyn Follies is Paul Auster's warmest, most exuberant novel, a moving and unforgettable hymn to the glories and mysteries of ordinary human life.

Paul Auster's warmest, most exuberant novel, a moving and unforgettable hymn to the glories and mysteries of ordinary human life.

All gods are transcendent, in the sense of having their being beyond the borders of ordinary human life.

Unlike the noble souls who apparently find satisfaction in pursuing purposes in the certain knowledge that the whole universe is purposeless, he is oppressed with the futility of an ordinary human life.

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Drawing on his life story, as well as conversations with ordinary and extraordinary people he has met along the way, Dr. Bob presents a compelling framework that will define and dramatically enhance your experience of what it means to be human.»

Posthuman pleasure captures the peak of human happiness, the moment just before «the softly - falling soot of ordinary life» returns to cover our joy.

I'm passionate about finding life before death, the extraordinary in the ordinary, the divine in the daily, and the flesh and blood of human community.

While the former aims at the restoration of «true man,» «original man,» the goal of the latter was the transcendence of the human condition, the acquisition of some degree of freedom from the needs or laws that determine ordinary human life by assimilation to a radically different state of being [The Heating Journey (Pantheon, 1973) p. 17].

On the contrary, «fundamentalism has offered ordinary people of conservative instincts an alternative to liberal faith in human progress, a way of making sense out of the world, exerting some control over their lives, and creating a way of life they can believe in.»

For the true self discovered in enlightenment is the ordinary self or «everyday mind» of each and every human life.

Begin to drop a providentially active God from this picture, and we get a vision of life that makes human happiness central and sees us as beings whose dignity lies chiefly in enacting that benevolence in ordinary life.

But religious love is only man's natural emotion of love directed to a religious object; religious fear is only the ordinary fear of commerce, so to speak, the common quaking of the human breast, in so far as the notion of divine retribution may arouse it; religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge; only this time it comes over us at the thought of our supernatural relations; and similarly of all the various sentiments which may be called into play in the lives of religious persons.

So far we have not discussed the area of human life which is known as the «religious experience», the awareness of the «more - than - human» impinging on ordinary experience.

Their theories do not directly «create a framework of interpretation which can provide an overall orientation for human life» for most of us ordinary people.

It suggests that, in addition to the contempt shown for human life in these practices, they are also very bad medicine: «One is struck by the fact that, in any other area of medicine, ordinary professional ethics would never allow a medical procedure which involved such a high number of failures and fatalities» (DP 15).

Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

Liturgy speaks to the depths within us, to the world we share beyond that of ordinary life, what Peter Berger has so well described as «an infinitely vaster and «more real» world, in which and through which human life receives its ultimate significance.»

No New Age proponent of the culture of death and instant gratification would risk a potentially cheesy postscript in which the ideal of happiness is not the celebration of occult power or the human ego, but ordinary family life.

The metaphors in the poem keep the wonder of renewal firmly fixed on ordinary human experience: the new life has to do with dew and rain and versing.

In these states, the ordinary contrast of good and ill seems to be swallowed up in a higher denomination, an omnipotent excitement which engulfs the evil, and which the human being welcomes as the crowning experience of his life.

In response to an amendment to this Bill seeking to clarify the legal status of the human embryo, a former Lord Chancellor stated, «An embryo is not a chattelA human entity which is living is not a chattel and neither is it a person in any ordinary senseIt is wrong to try and define a human embryo in terms of established legal definitions which are plainly inapplicable to human embryos.

Things acclaimed British director Mike Leigh is known for: wry comedy - drama poking at ordinary lives and the class system, a compassionate yet sharp take on the human condition, his almost unique working method that involves workshopping and improvising for months with his cast before a frame of film is shot.

The simple pleasures of a twisty plot work in concert with Soderbergh's fascination with the visual textures of ordinary human spaces, resulting in a film that feels lived - in, even at its most cornily artificial.

The Zookeeper's Wife is a powerful, emotional fact - based drama about both the depth of human suffering experienced during World War II and the remarkable courage and strength of character that ordinary women and men demonstrated when their friends» and neighbors» lives were in danger.

But the more our daily toil and struggle in the sloughs of ordinary human existence and human suffering increased, and the more our journey within in the fearful paradoxicality of everyday life contrasted with the neat and seemless principles of neoliberal logic of privatization, the more rational Marxism sounded to me.

The American Humane Association Hero Dog AwardsTM Now in its second year, the Hero Dog Awards competition searches out and recognizes America's Hero Dogs — often ordinary dogs who do extraordinary things, whether it's saving lives on the battlefield, lending sight or hearing to a human companion, or simply the tail - wagging welcome a pet owner relishes at the end of a hard day.

The annual national competition searches out and recognizes America's Hero Dogs — often ordinary dogs who do extraordinary things, whether it's saving lives on the battlefield, lending sight or hearing to a human companion, or simply the tail - wagging welcome a pet owner relishes at the end of a hard day.

The American Humane Hero Dog Awards ® are an annual, nationwide competition that searches out and recognizes America's Hero Dogs — often ordinary dogs who do extraordinary things, whether it's saving lives on the battlefield, lending sight or hearing to a human companion, or simply providing the tail - wagging welcome a pet owner relishes at the end of a hard day.

At first he applied that insight to most ordinary items of American life, especially humble edibles, all those cheeseburgers and ice cream cones and pillowy wedges of pie, made even more dream like because they were rendered in soft materials, with their inevitable hint of the pliancy of the human body, and splattered with mock - Abstract Expressionist drizzles of paint.

Rather than focussing on the important but inherently incremental developments in the science behind the issue, the media would do us all a favor by maintaining a consistent message regarding the underlying issue (i.e. human action is causing climate change, and climate change has the potential to do great harm to our way of life) and focus on how ordinary people can take steps in their own lives to help address the problem in ways that don't require inordinate sacrifice.

«uncertainty» equals no consensus but consensus is not proof this is just one classic example of just more humans trying to justify their existence and no the IPCC Judith Curry and everyone else involved continue dancing on the head of a pin whilst Mr Ordinary gets his wealth sequestrated in order to pay for these guys to indulge in their pet hobby when the person who is making their life possible derives no benefit whatsoever except higher and higher energy bills, more restrictions on their ability to travel whilst again the lauded few get to travel across the planet 1st class to tout their jaded theories of how what and where and all I hope and pray is that we get another five years of flat temperatures then you are all toast and in a great need of having to work for a living or get another hobby.

According the words their ordinary meaning was also consistent with respecting the respondent's right to respect for his private and family life as required by Art 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Chicago, IL About Blog By fostering intensive collaboration between philosophers, religious thinkers, and psychologists, we will investigate whether self - transcendence helps to make ordinary cultivation and exercise of virtue a source of deep happiness and meaning in human life.

Chicago, IL About Blog By fostering intensive collaboration between philosophers, religious thinkers, and psychologists, we will investigate whether self - transcendence helps to make ordinary cultivation and exercise of virtue a source of deep happiness and meaning in human life.

From Publisher's Weekly: «Thirteen linked tales present a heart - wrenching, penetrating portrait of ordinary coastal Mainers living lives of quiet grief intermingled with flashes of human connection.