Using Imago Dialogue restores contact and connection, enabling mutual emotional healing, restarting the developmental engine and leading to the recovery
of personal wholeness
Merton's witness to the possibility
of personal wholeness through contemplation and to inter-religious encounter in depth is inseparable from his espousal of the peace witness.
(Images, p. 70 f.) The absence
of personal wholeness is a complement, therefore, to the absence of direction and the absence of relation.
Not exact matches
It is itself related to at least three other feelings arising during the playtime — a sense
of personal unity and
wholeness, a gratefulness for the «common world»
of the play community, and a recognition
of life's fundamental sacredness.
Play having opened him up to the possibility
of relating directly to joy itself, Lewis later found that joy to be fully actualized in his
personal experience with Jesus Christ.83 According to Lewis, not only does God's joy cause us to «en - joy» on the tangent
of play's horizon where the radical otherness
of God meets the radical
wholeness of humankind, but joy also expresses itself in the encounter with the person
of Christ.
It also shows that
personal health consists in
wholeness, that is, in the integration
of the human being through the proper articulation
of his various component functions.
Interests in God as useful to achieving
personal wholeness, even
of the most «spiritual» sort, and interests in God as necessary for social justice and emancipation, even the most urgent cases, will be under pressure to surrender pride
of place to apparently irrelevant» interests in God that take the form
of joy in and celebration
of the odd ways God is present, for their own sake.
Our culture molds our basic
personal pattern and determines our degree
of wholeness.
We worked for a sense
of wholeness, a new perspective on the self, a feeling
of internal,
personal goodness.
Social change as a result
of personal growth toward
wholeness is inevitable and
It is not identical with dialogue, but it is, along with
personal wholeness, a prerequisite
of any genuine dialogue.
Similarly, it must be based not only on the
personal wholeness of the individual but also on a social restructuring
of society.
And he couples the recognition that true freedom comes only from
personal wholeness with the assertion that freedom is only
of value as a springboard for responsibility and communion.
Buber's early essays on Judaism set forth with marked clarity the concern for
personal wholeness, for the realization
of truth in life, and for the joining
of spirit and
of basic life energies which consistently appears in all
of his later writings and determines, as much as any other element
of his thought, his attitude toward evil.
Relation is the true starting - point for
personal integration and
wholeness and for the transformation
of society, and these in turn make possible ever greater relation.
This is «redemption», not as if it were merely a rescue from human failure but as an indication
of and an empowering for the «
wholeness of life» (shalom, as the Hebrew has it) which God purposes for men and women both in their
personal existence and in their social belonging.
The emphasis on
wholeness, the interconnectedness
of everything with everything else which is so characteristic
of Whiteheadian metaphysics, nourished Suchocki in her own feminist aspirations toward integrity, i.e., a self - image which would be peculiarly her own and yet would be in line with the legitimate expectations
of others ~ she commented, «we women are weavers, weaving the intelligible pattern
of our lives out
of the fabric
of intensely
personal experiences
of sharing life with others.
And
of course that class has imbibed the values
of the capitalist consumerist society too much to bring about a new society embodying values
of personal freedom, social justice and ecological
wholeness by themselves any more.
What are some
of the conditions and habits
of life which engender
personal wholeness?
Although Shepard has taught me a profound admiration for the
personal maturity and social
wholeness of primal cultures, I would not happily give up elements
of contemporary consciousness that have developed through a long and tortuous history.
In fleshing out from Merton's unsystematic corpus his vision
of the human future, I begin with
personal wholeness.
Through contemplation one arrives not only at
personal wholeness, but also, through the activation
of the image
of God within, at transcultural maturity, so that one can take humankind as the community in which one's membership matters most.
A few things come to mind: it's temporal, over against the promise
of eternal life; it serves a purpose in
personal sanctification and in the larger scheme — the big story that God is orchestrating; and, it's part
of the fallen creation and points us to the missing
wholeness and beauty we know is lacking in our experience.
Through experiential practice and dynamic dialogue: • Learn the 10 - Step iRest Protocol to enhance your
personal meditation practice • Explore how to integrate the practices
of iRest into daily life • Foster well - being and resiliency from stress & anxiety • Experience BodySensing in movement • Practice BreathSensing for resiliency, increased energy and relaxation • Learn to skillfully meet difficult emotions and beliefs in daily life • Access an inner resource
of well - being, ease, security and peace • Awaken to your essential
wholeness
Looking at the terms outside the triangle, we see that the goal
of learning is
personal wholeness.
Despite the daily power struggles that fragment, divide, and segregate, Akunyili Crosby expresses the desire for
wholeness in tight figurative compositions that contain layers
of personal memories and
of Nigerian culture and politics.
With a heart for walking alongside others in their journey, Kim desires to help clients find
personal healing and
wholeness when critical circumstances and seasons
of life happen.»
The Center for Pastoral Counseling
of Virginia offers a training program in Pastoral Care and Counseling that enables participants to more effectively integrate the values
of emotional healing and
personal wholeness inherent in faith traditions with the principles and techniques
of sound clinical practice in psychotherapy.
The Center for Pastoral Counseling
of Virginia offers a Pastoral Care and Counseling seminar that enables participants to more effectively integrate the values
of emotional healing and
personal wholeness inherent in faith traditions with the principles and techniques
of sound clinical practice in psychotherapy.