Sentences with phrase «personal experiences of the world»

It draws heavily upon our personal experiences of the world, and yet it can teach us something about ourselves at the same time.

Investigating both natural and psychological phenomena, Ms. Voigt's narrative works express her personal experience of the world.

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There's so much you do have, and it's not just things; you also have experiences, family and friends, memories, pockets of happy moments, laughter your shared with someone, your personal strengths, your skills and talents, and you most likely also have a reasonable amount of knowledge about the world and how it works.

It is also said to be a personal account of her battles in the Senate, and details her experiences with constituents struggling to maintain their economic place in the world.

I can tell you from personal experience why I'm here: because of the opportunities I've had to travel across the world, and the fact the company assesses things through a lens that says, «What is the attitude and aptitude of this person?»

Drawing upon decades of personal experience with hundreds of accomplished entrepreneurs, CEOs, and venture capitalists, Silicon Valley management consultant and former high - tech senior executive Steve Tobak shows you exactly what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur and exceptional business leader in today's highly competitive world.

Some investors rely on their own research — areas of the world or economy where they have personal expertise or experience, for instance.

Gerri Detweiler has more than twenty years of experience guiding individuals through the confusing world of credit, and has earned a reputation as a reliable and independent resource on personal and small business credit.

In the urgency of my situation we projected our concepts of society and world through our narration of personal experiences.

That estimation of Spirit spontaneously active in the world is based upon personal experience.

If man today is asking, can God's existence be reconciled with man's deepened experience of himself as free creator of the world, the Whitheadian approach with its notion of God's persuasive personal action in the world, with its discovery of God's presence yet absence in man's creative activity, with its stress on the mutual immanence of God and the world, offers pathways for further development.

My own continued search for The Divine, and my own personal experience of «learning how to pray» from some of the poorest people in the world in Guatemala, and the indigenous Mayan Indians, who really do have FAITH in spades.

Amid the way of personal existence, we identify with and cling to past and future experiences in our own life - stream, accentuating our own continuity over time, but often at the expense of also identifying with other people and the rest of the world.

Our clue is that if the atonement means God doing what needs to be done to reconcile the world to himself, then the human experiences which may reflect this work of God must be those of personal reconciliation.

Man seeks to form for himself, in whatever manner is suitable for him, a simplified and lucid image of the world, and so to overcome the world of experience by striving to replace it to some extent by this image... Into this image and its formation, he places the center of gravity of his emotional life, in order to attain the peace and serenity that he can not find within the narrow confines of swirling, personal experience.

Ninian Smart has shown that although Western religious traditions have been predominantly numinous and Eastern traditions predominantly mystical, all the major world religions have in fact included both types of experience.18 Early Israel gave priority to the numinous; biblical literature portrays the overwhelming sense of encounter, the prophetic experience of the holy as personal, the acknowledgment of the gulf between the worshipper and the object of worship.

If we find the life of the Church a continual support and fulfillment for what the pastor seeks to do, we also discover that the experience of personal and mutual ministry in the Church deepens our participation in the Church's worship, sacraments, and witness to the world.

Whitehead's divine, enduring actuality is recurrently revising his ongoing experience of the world in response to the demand for personal, vital, concrete integrity.

In a personal sense, Suchocki subjected Whitehead's philosophy to the criterion of fitness to women's experience and concluded, «I came to it not as an interesting speculative system, though it is surely that, but from my need to understand my world in holistic terms through a conceptuality which fits my experience» (OM 62 - 63).

Moreover, he repeatedly affirms that the God of our world and us creatures today can not be known at all through any metaphysical proof and only partially through science, Scripture, religion, and personal experience.

About God there is considerable doubt and uncertainty, not only in the secular world but in Christian circles as well, with various attempts to preserve the meaning and value of God for human experience without the personal God of historic Christian faith.

One of the predetermining factors in the witness of John Paul II against the secular materialism of the Western world was his personal experience of resistance to another kind of materialism, and to the political culture that came with it, in what was then called Eastern Europe — now a thing of the past.

Such «religious intuitions» are the «somewhat exceptional elements of our conscious experience» that Whitehead seeks to elucidate as evidence for God's consequent experience of the world.9 Only a living person experiencing a whole series of divine aims, sensitive to the way in which these shift, grow, and develop in response to our changing circumstances can become aware of their source as dynamic and personal, meeting our needs and concerns.10 Jesus, full of the Spirit, knew God personally in this intimate way, until these aims were taken from him in the hour of his deepest need, when he experienced being forsaken by God on the cross.

That past world, and especially his own personal past, not only presents Simpson with certain data — and this any realistic phenomenology of experience must recognize — sets itself forth as desirous of certain conceptual syntheses of those data and their implied concrete expressions, e.g., honesty, respect for social order, obedience to duly established authority, etc..

It proves to be an integration of the influence of past personal experience with that of events in the brain and, largely through them, of events in the rest of the body and the wider world.

Again, the insistence on the societal nature of the world, and on man's genuine participation since he himself is organic to that world, illuminates the Christian belief that man belongs to the creation and that the whole natural order, as well as human history and personal experience, is integral to the purpose of God.

In the real world people are individuals with a variety of beliefs related to their personal experiences.

It means that all that I have lived, experienced, and done «in my body» — and that is everything I do, experience, and live — is so much a part of my total self that in the re-creation of that self by God there is some continuing instrument or organ of experience which makes possible for me both personal existence and also participation with other men and life in a world which is more than just personality.

Where understanding God by way of discursive reasoning addresses these problems by trying to explain the world and to establish the sure validity of its worldview, understanding God by way of the affections grounds certainty in the sureness of immediate experience and grounds a sense of personal significance in the intensity of the intimate face - to - face communities in which those experiences occur and flourish.

We are Beam Suntory... One Global Team, comprised of thousands of individuals from around the world with our own unique thoughts and perspectives, work and personal experiences, religious and cultural beliefs, as well as race, gender and age differences.

I wanted to share a few of my personal highlights from the gluten free world in 2015 — the most exciting foods, and the experiences that I enjoyed most of all.

Gary Westlake, founder of design agency Purple Creative, along with Sarah Macaulay, global marketing manager, at Glenfiddich will draw on their personal experience to identify the key factors in creating a new visual identity for a long established brand, like Glenfiddich, the world's most awarded single malt whisky.

of course no team wants to lose but I can guarantee you that the reaction by the Chelski fans after today's results are nowhere near what would have occurred if we shit the bed on opening day... the difference is they have tasted EPL success on more than one occasion recently, they have won the Champions League and they have done it with 3 different managers in the last 12 years with a similar, if not smaller, wage bill than us... in comparison, we have been experiencing our own personal Groundhog Day with nothing to show for it but a few silvery trinkets that would barely wet the appetite of a world - class club... so it's time for Wenger to stop gloating over our week one escape act and make some substantial moves before this window closes or I fear that things will take a horrible turn when the inevitable happens... living on a knife's edge is no way to go through a full season of football and regardless of what side of the argument you fall on, you could feel high levels of toxicity in the air and that was friggin week one... I would much rather someone tried their best and failed, than took half - measures and hoped for the best

I have begun reading sociologist Eva Illouz's 2012 book Why Love Hurts and while I haven't gotten too far into it, and thus will likely have a lot more to say about, Illouz says the modern world, with its deregulated of marriage markets and freedom to choose one's own partner has, made the search for love an «agonizingly difficult experience» that leads to collective misery and disappointment, which is then internalized by people — especially women — as a personal failing.

This is the place I want to share things with you — newsworthy things in my world of birth and lactation, thoughts and personal experiences, and ideally continue to educate any reader that comes across it.

India's Roses: An honest sharing of personal parenting experiences and the steps a family takes towards becoming more environmentally responsible in hopes of helping the world and raising a child that loves and respects the planet she lives on.

What horrible side effects of being part of the fringe group are you alluding to - being different, making positive change in the world, being creative, living a life of making decisions based on personal beliefs and experiences?

Shedd's Extraordinary Experiences connect guests with the living world through personal encounters with some of the aquarium's most charismatic animals.

Using a blend of professional objectivity, evidence - based research, and personal, straight - forward suggestions gathered from years of experience, this book brings the reader into the private world of therapy with the postpartum woman.

In honor of World Breastfeeding Week, I'm sharing my personal breastfeeding experiences here on the blog.

So my own personal experience and the research would lead me to believe that no, breastfeeding past infancy isn't messing up our kids and I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it's because all that love, all that connection can't be a bad thing and I'm glad my daughter has a friend so secure and so confident that understands the natural biological function of breasts as feeding tools for babies that they can laugh together at the messages the world sends them about the female form.

Play's process of capturing a pretend narrative (situation) and combining it with the reality of one's experience in a playful setting is, at least in childhood, how we develop our major personal understanding of how the world works.

Bloggers around the world have gathered together to share posts which provide current or soon - to - be breastfeeding mothers with a wealth of well - researched information, personal stories, and statistics designed to help you have the most successful breastfeeding experience possible.

Students entered the competition from all over the UK — including the Channel Islands — and submitted sample articles covering topics such as their personal experiences with disabilities, portraits of world - famous and local Paralympic athletes or activities for disabled people in their communities.

As we approach the centenary of the First World War, the first flurries in what will be an avalanche of books, covering political, military, social, financial and personal experiences, have slid into the shops.

Avoidance itself is not a problem; rather, the behavior can become problematic when escaping becomes harmful or contrary to personal goals and sets a rigid pattern of experiencing and responding to the world.

It can range from ordinary personal computers controlled by a mouse where house buyers can «walk» through a property on an estate agent's computer, to supercomputers simulating total immersion in an imaginary world, with every move of the participant's body picked up by sensors, and with sound and tactile effects to enhance the experience.

So how to keep the catastrophist AGW bandwagon rolling when the direct and consistent personal experience of billions is that of a cooling world?

It is an incredibly amazing and unique meeting where the young generation gets a chance to meet Nobel Laureates from different disciplines, getting involved in discussions about research and science in general as well as personal experience of the success which changed the world for the benefit of mankind.

Author of books: Atmospheres of Mars and Venus (1961, nonfiction) Planets (1966, nonfiction, with Jonathan Norton Leonard) Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966, nonfiction, with Iosif S. Shklovskii) Planetary Exploration (1970, nonfiction) Planetary Atmospheres (1971, nonfiction, with Tobias C. Owen and Harlan J. Smith) U.F.O.'s: A Scientific Debate (1972, with Thornton Page) The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective (1973, nonfiction) Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (1973, nonfiction) The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence (1977, nonfiction) Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record (1978, nonfiction) Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (1979, nonfiction) Cosmos (1980, nonfiction) Comet (1985, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Contact (1985, novel) Nuclear Winter (1985, nonfiction) A Path where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race (1990, nonfiction, with Richard P. Turco) The Demon - Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996, essays) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are (1992, nonfiction, with Ann Druyan) Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994, essays) Billions and Billions (1996, essays) The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006, nonfiction, posthumous, with Ann Druyan)