What happens to
our sense of self when traditionally private and psychic spaces are occupied by capitalism?
Um, but what about me, it does something to
your sense of self when you have spent 2 weeks mopping up piss and shit all day.
Effective leaders have a strong
sense of self when it comes to their image, actions and communication.
Customers also might feel
a sense of self when they purchase from a retailer and it's almost as if the company were an extension of their personalities and beliefs.
Not exact matches
Have a
sense of self and the heft and confidence — and competence — to simplify, understand, and push back
when you need to.
While Millennials»
sense of entitlement may lead many managers to believe that they are a
self - focused bunch,
when it comes to recognition, it's often not all about them.
People are too conceited to want to believe that
when they die, they cease to exist, so viola, in their pea brains God exists to satisfy their own
sense of self importance through an afterlife and continued existence beyond life.
And
when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delight
of the earthly
senses... was, in respect
of the sweetness
of that life, not only not worthy
of comparison, but not even
of mention; we raising up ourselves with a more glowing affection towards the «
Self - same,» did by degrees pass through all things bodily, even the very heaven whence sun and moon and stars shine upon the earth; yea, we were soaring higher yet, by inward musing, and discourse, and admiring
of Thy works; and we came to our own minds, and went beyond them, that we might arrive at that region
of never - failing plenty, where Thou feedest Israel for ever with the food
of truth.
Can say that I believe in every thing that you disbelief
of when it comes to the Creator and the Creation
of universe, life and guidance, God has given me hearing, seeing, thinking and heart feelings to see and experience signs and small miracles to have faith in him and continue with good deeds I was told
of in his Holy Book although am not perfect at that but nothing to lose but contrary to that there are more to gain in life and life after... For those disbelievers they lose their
senses by being locked and blocked from such experiences... It is all about souls as verses speak for them
selves;
So that the delusional people in each parish can find a
sense of relief
when the CC comes a runnin» with an exorcist to cast out their
self - created demons??? Having an exorcist in each parish will just help to add more delusion to the faithful (which would
of course benefit the CC as a whole as a means
of psychologically wrestling their believers further under their proverbial thumb).
When trouble appears in one's own life which can not be mastered, a devastating
sense of frustration and futility is far more common than among those who are less
self - sufficient and more willing to depend on God.
Again,
when friends try to intervene for each other, there is (in theory) no
sense of superiority or condescention, it is «Hey, we love you, and we see you engaging in this
self - destructive behavior; we want to help you, please let us help you.»
Dr Inkpin, who was born as male but now identifies as female, said it was around the age
of four
when she began to feel aware
of her «true
sense of self».
When a loved one dies, the blow to one's
sense of self and motivation to live is potentially mortal.
When we set boundaries, it doesn't come from an inflated
sense of self, but rather a rightful recognition
of our flawed hearts.
Not what u see on CNN, not what your mum said nor your pastor or priest said and not what u see some Muslims neighbors
of yours do... noooo nay,,, what have u searched your
self... i dare u do... find the true, i swear nothing makes any
sense as Islam does, those guys know the whole truth... even if it will hurt, just like Santa - clause
when u 12 year or the rats that gives money to the de toothing kid in our Ugandan myth, u deserve to know the truth... and if no scientist has come out and disproved the divine origin
of this universe logically then there must be a mighty some one behind it and that Creator or whatever it is, HE has a way, a straight path to Him and we are obliged to know it... so my adverse to u is look hard for the true coz it is clear from false, even if u may hate it!!
As we face our obstacles to spiritual growth, there are times
when it is easy to fall into a
sense of despair and
self - diminishment and lose our confidence on the path.
When I do, my anxieties in that one area
of my life dominate my
sense of identity and
self - worth.
But on the other hand,
when in talking about sin one talks only
of such sins, it is so easily forgotten that in a way it may be all right, humanly speaking, with respect to all such things up to a certain point, and yet the whole life may be sin, the well - known kind
of sin: glittering vices, willfulness, which either spiritlessly or impudently continues to be or wills to be unaware in what an infinitely deeper
sense a human
self is morally under obligation to God with respect to every most secret wish and thought, with respect to quickness in comprehending and readiness to follow every hint
of God as to what His will is for this
self.
When immediacy is assumed to have self - reflection, despair is somewhat modified; there is somewhat more consciousness of the self, and therewith in turn of what despair is, and of the fact that one's condition is despair; there is some sense in it when such a man talks of being in despair: but the despair is essentially that of weakness, a passive experience; its form is, in despair at not wanting to be ones
When immediacy is assumed to have
self - reflection, despair is somewhat modified; there is somewhat more consciousness
of the
self, and therewith in turn
of what despair is, and
of the fact that one's condition is despair; there is some
sense in it
when such a man talks of being in despair: but the despair is essentially that of weakness, a passive experience; its form is, in despair at not wanting to be ones
when such a man talks
of being in despair: but the despair is essentially that
of weakness, a passive experience; its form is, in despair at not wanting to be oneself.
A man's life is wasted
when he lives on, so deceived by the joys
of life or by its sorrows, that he never becomes decisively conscious
of himself as spirit, as
self, that is, he never is aware in the deepest
sense that there is a God.
In this case the will does not constantly become concrete in the same degree that it is abstract, in such a way that the more it is infinitized in purpose and resolution, the more present and contemporaneous with itself does it become in the small part
of the task which can be realized at once, so that in being infinitized it returns in the strictest
sense to its
self, so that what is farthest from itself (
when it is most infinitized in purpose and resolution) is in the same instant nearest to itself in accomplishing the infinitely small part
of the task which can be done even today, even at this hour, even at this instant.
I could not rid myself
of the notion that
when I stood at the synagogue podium for my bar mitzvah,
when I declared myself a member
of the Jewish faith, I was lying, betraying my deepest
sense of self.
In that time I «wrote» a story that gave me the
sense of self loathing that I feel
when reading your «Life
of Regrets.»
Writes Dark, «It is only
when we're blessed by a feeling
of finitude that we can begin to perceive the holy, that
sense of a whole before which our limited understanding is dwarfed... Only a twisted, unimaginative mind - set resists awe in favor
of self - satisfied certainty... More humility might characterize our talk
of God if we believe that the whole truth can never be entirely ours and that our attempts to nail God down are always well - intentioned human constructs at best and idols at worst.»
For this book, I am using the phrase to describe our
sense of self at a time
when you feel like everything that you once knew «for sure» is being figured out all over again.
Daring to change our story
when we find our primary identity in that particular story feels like we are losing our own
sense of self.
The fact that one's past
self is in some significant
sense «another»
self should not be underestimated, especially
when the issue
of abortion is considered (CSPM 8).
Privileging ethnic survival makes
sense only
when one understands that the survival
of the Jewish people is not
self - justifying: As a genuine task for Jews, survival requires a transcendent purpose and reason for existence, and a claim that without ethnic survival, Jews will sink into individual or collective nihilism.
Suppose also that if the rung boys subjected to family abuse could have access to this MAOA therapy so that
when attaining adulthood they would possess a greater
sense of social responsibility exercised through greater
self - control.
That is,
self - love and love
of others are on much the same footing and neither makes much
sense without the other, (OOTM 107 - 8) especially
when it is realized that my previous
self is to some degree an other
self from the one I am now.
And this is so, I contend, precisely
when, on both constructions, it is taken in its fullest
sense — as meaning that God is both the subject and the object
of experience, not only reflexively in relation to
self, but also nonreflexively in relation to others.
Modern culture
sensed that naturalism did not comprehend the
self - transcendent human spirit, and that idealism lost spirit
when it did not conform to the pattern
of rationality.
McLoughlin proposes that the Fourth Great Awakening began about 1960, following the undeclared war in Vietnam, and that it has appeared at a time
when once again we are seeking a new understanding
of who we are, how we relate to the scientific worldview, and what is the meaning
of the many domestic and worldwide crises that threaten our security, our
sense of order, and our
self - image as a mighty and righteous world power.
What those ancient Greeks (who also had some understanding
of philosophy) regarded as a task for a whole lifetime, seeing that dexterity in doubting is not acquired in a few days or weeks, what the veteran combatant attained
when he had preserved the equilibrium
of doubt through all the pitfalls he encountered, who intrepidly denied the certainty
of sense - perception and the certainty
of the processes
of thought, incorruptibly defied the apprehensions
of self - love and the insinuations
of sympathy — that is where everybody begins in our time.
Self - involved, self - righteous, and sullen, the adult Scout is a young woman trying to make sense of her relationship to the town, or more precisely, trying to make sense of what it means to remain in continuity with this world when its aggressive reaction to national events is at odds with her own, which, it has to be said, is not without some unseemly elements (as when she assures a relative that while she supports civil rights, she'd never want to marry a black man, personal
Self - involved,
self - righteous, and sullen, the adult Scout is a young woman trying to make sense of her relationship to the town, or more precisely, trying to make sense of what it means to remain in continuity with this world when its aggressive reaction to national events is at odds with her own, which, it has to be said, is not without some unseemly elements (as when she assures a relative that while she supports civil rights, she'd never want to marry a black man, personal
self - righteous, and sullen, the adult Scout is a young woman trying to make
sense of her relationship to the town, or more precisely, trying to make
sense of what it means to remain in continuity with this world
when its aggressive reaction to national events is at odds with her own, which, it has to be said, is not without some unseemly elements (as
when she assures a relative that while she supports civil rights, she'd never want to marry a black man, personally).
Now the point
of this analysis is that
when we ask what
self is accepted in therapy, the answer must be that all these
selves are accepted, but in somewhat different
senses.
And
when reason, which works with equal truth, whether she be in the circle
of the diverse or
of the same — in voiceless silence holding her onward course in the sphere
of the
self - moved —
when reason, I say, is hovering around the sensible world and
when the circle
of the diverse also moving tnily imparts the intimations
of sense to the whole soul, then arise opinions and beliefs sure and certain.
An educated and worldly Muslim community leader like Rauf wants to build Muslim center close to ground zero, while the war and other thing is going, is this a common
sense or decency have been exercise or just Muslims
self - absorption and taking no responsibility
of their own community conduct, they should not be crying like a spoil baby,
when a ripple affect from their own conduct come back toward them (The Burning
of Koran and fire attempt toward Muslim community were coming from his fake and insincere agenda on this building issue).
The result
of the attempt has been, in the post-Cartesian west, the catastrophic isolation
of each «
self» from other
selves (except
when it submerges itself in the collective, where it becomes «faceless» and loses its creativity, in the popular
sense of that word).
If it is objected that production in and for small communities would be less efficient than large - scale centralized production, it could be answered, first, that
when the true costs
of transportation are calculated, this may not be true, and second, that efficiency in that
sense is less important than a good life in a
self - reliant community that has some control over its own destiny.
Some claim that it is
when we are most out
of touch with our truest
selves that we experience the deepest
sense of loneliness because we don't even know or love ourselves.
The guilt,
self doubt, and worry that plagued nearly every waking moment
of my life for the past twenty five years, has been replaced with a new wonder, a
sense of adventure, and a freedom that can only be had
when one is no longer shackled to a belief system that threatens to punish you for every human thought, word, or deed.
I came to London as a young Catholic in the early 1980s —
when belief in God was coming under attack not only from the secular establishment, which has always been philosophically materialist, but from the «fittest» members (in a Darwinian
sense)
of an increasingly materialistic and
self - satisfied society.
This
self of hers, which, if it had become «his» beloved, she would have been rid
of in the most blissful way, or would have lost, this
self is now a torment to her
when it has to be a
self without «him»; this
self which would have been to her riches (though in another
sense equally in despair) has now become to her a loathsome void, since «he» is dead, or it has become to her an abhorrence, since it reminds her
of the fact that she was betrayed.
It always seems that
when these things are investigated, the loser with the gun is some jerk like you with an overblown
sense of self - importance.
They allow for the divided
self and the struggle; they involve the change
of personal centre and the surrender
of the lower
self; they express the appearance
of exteriority
of the helping power and yet account for our
sense of union with it; («
When mystical activity is at its height, we find consciousness possessed by the
sense of a being at once excessive and identical with the
self: great enough to be God; interior enough to be me.
A conscious field plus its object as felt or thought
of plus an attitude towards the object plus the
sense of a
self to whom the attitude belongs — such a concrete bit
of personal experience may be a small bit, but it is a solid bit as long as it lasts; not hollow, not a mere abstract element
of experience, such as the «object» is
when taken all alone.
When we deny spirit,
self - transcendence, and freedom, we get caught up in what Niebuhr calls the vitalities
of life, through which we can deny our
sense of historical responsibility.
For the young pastors in the group, this smacked
of self - promotion, and Malphurs seemed to
sense this, because
when he was done, he said, «Well, enough
of selling my own books.»