One who listens with an open mind and heart can discover
real meaning in their lives.
Not exact matches
It
means treating those who become addicted to VR, and
in turn have difficulty functioning
in the
real world — choosing instead to «
live»
in a virtual world.
In the context of this study that simply meant more anxious subjects tended to feel more irrationally negative about the neutral word puzzles that accompanied stressful images, but in real life this effect could cause actual troubl
In the context of this study that simply
meant more anxious subjects tended to feel more irrationally negative about the neutral word puzzles that accompanied stressful images, but
in real life this effect could cause actual troubl
in real life this effect could cause actual trouble.
What does that
mean in real life?
These instant notifications can use the phone's GPS as well,
meaning you're occasionally notified that someone nearby is interested
in meeting you right now — it's almost like
real life, without the risk of face - to - face rejection.
Author Mark Manson suggests prioritizing things that have
real meaning and value
in your
life.
The buttons cost $ 4.99 (
meaning that
in theory, the ability to buy with one click
in real life can add up quickly), but Amazon will credit Prime members for the cost of each button provided they actually order something with it.
Hint: Bull market
means «up» because
real -
life bulls attack by driving their horns up
in the air.
For
real estate, Owen talks about purchasing
in premium locations (even if that
means paying extra, and always think long term) and gives
real life examples of properties
in Vancouver and how they have appreciated over time.
Thus, while the overall CPI may be -2 %, the worker's own cost of
living may only decrease.5 %, which would
mean a 2 % pay cut is not breaking even, but rather a 1.5 % decrease
in real wages.
What does this
mean in real life?
So if you have one kind of growth — booming financial fortunes
in the stock market, higher
real - estate prices and more expensive
means of
living — then you are going to have slower growth
in the
real economy because money is diverted from peoples» pay - checks away from buying goods and services to just having to pay the banks.
But somehow equating that belief with the
real physical danger of playing on the freeway...
means that «belief» has gotten an inordinate place
in life.
Because they want to talk about something
real — something that really
meant something
in their
life, not the invisible person
in the sky who they never even spoke too.
My
life may not have
meaning, but if I try very hard, and do very well, it could have quite a lot of
meaning,
real meaning, that will be felt here
in the
real world, not
in a possible reward
in a realm that can't be proven to be anything other than imaginary.
What we
meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to
live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and
living as a «watched» person
in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the
real thing on display.
The actions and events
in this story should not be construed to
mean promotion or approval of those actions
in real -
life situations by the author.»
Now this might seem like an insignificant part of the story or that I am dragging out this time
in a young Midwestern girl's
life, but this was of most importance because this also
meant I got my first
real bible.
The
real good
life is
meant to be up
in the air — because
life's
real battles are being fought up
in the air — up
in the heavenlies.
The love of God, shed abroad
in our hearts by His unmerited mercy, is the bedrock, the cornerstone of that work which makes us justified, righteous and ready for the very
real new creation ahead — the hope that makes our days here (often scared with pain and trial) have
meaning — that's the hope of our calling that allows (as Steve notes) us to
live for each other.
Thus the universal religion of the Church transcends even the goodness of notional theology and
lives in the individual heart; and it is only through this
means that we can be
in any degree sure of falling
in love with the truth to give it our
real assent.
Speaking personally, it
means the grievous loss of something about Catholic observance which always used enormously to impress me as a non-Catholic: the spectacle of Catholics keeping their weekday obligations, often at enormous inconvenience to themselves: as an Anglican, for whom any liturgical obligation was essentially a matter of my own whim, this was immensely attractive: there was the sense that Catholics were under obedience, and that their religion was a
real force
in their
lives, one not to be diverted by secular pressures or values.
Process doctrines can go the whole way with existentialism
in recognizing that man
in his freedom may plunge into self - worship, or self - destruction; but this is because the
real world has this risk within it, not because God wills that any creature should lose the
meaning of
life or decrees that any person should lose his possibility of knowing the good and doing it.
For it can surely not be seriously denied that, according to Mt 25, a man may encounter Christ
in his neighbour more truly and decisively as his Saviour than
in a eucharistic communion which, despite the
Real Presence and its sacramental efficacy ex opere operate is but the sign and the
means of that union with Christ
in the Holy Spirit which happens
in the difficulties of our daily
life even unto our «dying
in the Lord».
This is often our approach to liturgy and social
life: we try to «read» the liturgy for symbols and
meanings that we take out and apply
in the «
real world» — the offering
means we should give of our wealth, the kiss of peace
means we should seek peace
in international relations, and so on.
Is that mud puddle
in your yard making complex
life I
mean real stuff not some microscopic protozoa but an insect
Third, the context has shifted:
in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the
means of achieving
real if limited justice for human
life in the world, and a corresponding theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined
in terms of the United Nations system is proposed as the best
means to those common goals.
The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about
real -
life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they
mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety
in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.
There is a
real danger that we might come to equate success
in the economic system with a successful
life, that we might come to identify the material rewards of the system as our goal
in life and the source of
meaning for us.
The
real opposition for Buber is not between philosophy and religion, as it at first appears to be, but between that philosophy which sees the absolute
in universals and hence removes reality into the systematic and the abstract and that which
means the bond of the absolute with the particular and hence points man back to the reality of the
lived concrete — to the immediacy of
real meeting with the beings over against one.
The
real conflict for Buber is not between philosophy and religion, but between that philosophy which sees the absolute
in universals and hence removes reality into the systematic and the abstract and that which
means the bond of the absolute with the particular and hence points man back to the reality of the
lived concrete — to the immediacy of
real meeting with the beings over against one.
This Presence and power include three things: «the whole fullness of
real mutual action,» «the inexpressible confirmation of
meaning,» and the call to confirm this
meaning «
in this
life and
in relation with this world.»
By this he
meant that for a great many people the whole function of their faith is to provide them either with a keen awareness of what God does for them and
in them or with a way of escape from the
real facts of
life.
This single statistic
means that, aside from eating, sleeping, and working, most people
in America spend about 80 % of their entire
lives in the world of television rather than
in the
real world.
And
in fact
in the course of this book we have seen how we can develop a theology (which is an explanation of our religion, a conceptualization of that which gives
real meaning to our
lives) that is consistent with both our faith and our common sense.
Real health
means righteousness
in daily
life.
Jesus Feminist is really a story — a story about how I am learning to set up a little outpost for the Kingdom of God
in my
real right - now
life, as a sign and a foretaste of what it
means to be human
in God's kingdom.
Before we set out Whitehead's view, it should be noted that if his view really is a different way of looking at
real things, then we will need to think about freedom, human action, responsibility, the
meaning of
life, the self, etc.
in a new way.
Why believe
in real truth - that actually confronts the deep multiplicity of what it
means to be human, and actually change your
life - when you can believe
in your own shallow truth that simply adds to one's self - justification and denial of reality, and remain the way you are?
The divine call to us men, and our response to it,
means that we are responsible for doing here and now
in the situation
in which we stand whatever will serve the work of God who is seeking to bring all
life to fulfillment
in that universal community of love which is the
real good of every creature.
The humble act of self - examination; the opening of the closed self to the cleansing and healing work of God; the sealing of moral resolve
in dependence upon the power of God; all this is what
real prayer can
mean in the moral
life.
What are they teaching children about what it
means to be human, about decision - making, about social roles, about
living in the
real world?
Are they teaching what it
means to be human, about decision - making, about social roles, about
living in the
real world?
«I
mean, this stuff actually took place
in real life.»
But there can be no Christian
life at all unless there is some
real meaning in progress
in strength to express love.
This aspect of the new
meaning in the
life of faith helps us to see more deeply into the question of whether faith can ever be lost once it has become
real in life.
Although its
real use is the existential or metaphysical use of clarifying our original confidence
in the worth of
life, the terms and categories
in which it speaks are not derived from our inner awareness of our existence
in relation to totality, but from our external perception of the world by
means of our senses.
James Madison, that staunch advocate of free speech, insisted that the right of people to speak and to listen is not an end
in itself, but is a
means of achieving «popular government,» by which he
meant the democratic process whereby people have the opportunity to take a
real part
in the decisions which affect their
lives.
We must stress that this
life of faith is a
real possibility for us, is
in fact the only possibility that yields
meaning and wholeness and depth of character and right relation to God.
The purpose of all of these religious messages is to make the spiritual assertion that our
lives are devoid of security, truth, and
meaning unless and until we become a part of God —
in other words, until we become part of that which is really
real.