Sentences with phrase «wholeness at»

«I am a licensed professional counselor and I have advanced sex therapy education through the Institute for Sexual Wholeness at Richmont Graduate University in Atlanta, Georgia.

(Healing and Awakening into Aliveness and Wholeness at www.lindagraham-mft.net.)

It's all me, all the time, just trying to stay aware of my motives and fears, and consciously choosing love and embrace wholeness at every turn.

I believe Advent reminds me that peace was announced then and peace was promised and that peace is our birthright and our endgame and our wholeness at last.

Not exact matches

Catherine Keller has also conjured these images in a vision of «wholeness not derived from separation at all, but growing organically within the flexible, infinitely complex web of relations — within and without» (WKM 93).

I never have to look at my stuff, own my stuff or deal with my stuff as long as holiness / wholeness is about busy programs or ecstatic experiences.

At the end of our lives, some of us might finish far away from Point Z perhaps but it took a tremendous amount of courage and faith to end up at Point P. And so we can celebrate any movement towards justice and wholeness in each other, however far from perfecAt the end of our lives, some of us might finish far away from Point Z perhaps but it took a tremendous amount of courage and faith to end up at Point P. And so we can celebrate any movement towards justice and wholeness in each other, however far from perfecat Point P. And so we can celebrate any movement towards justice and wholeness in each other, however far from perfect.

I needed her to teach me about breastfeeding and bonding with my babies, I needed her as the wind at my back moving me further into my wholeness.

I think it would surprise and amaze and intrigue the world, giving a glimpse of what God intended for wholeness within the body of Christ — and it would be a sigh of «finally at last» from the Holy Spirit.

I don't care what anyone claims to believe, whether they can recite doctrine and verse, whether they hang with the right crowds, write the top - selling books, whether they can work up a quivering lip and an impassioned voice at the conference as they call us to repentance or wholeness in Christ or [fill in blank].

My road to wholeness was similar to turbulence at 30,000 feet: filled with ups and downs and plagued with the thought I wouldn't survive.

In # 4, you say that there is an unseen wholeness to everything: for years, physicists have been searching for what they call the «unified theory,» one theory that will explain the physical properties of the universe and not break down at the very small or very large levels.

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.

The opposite of the state of estrangement is expressed in various words: at - one - ness, salvation, wholeness and in Whitehead's term «Peace», which is a harmony of all harmonies.

And the finality of Jesus Christ, in whom true God is active for the wholeness of men, consists in his endless fertility; as a modern saint has put it, «He is adequate,» and his adequacy is not for us alone but for all men everywhere and at every time.

What this means for the minister as counselor, is the importance both of striving for inner wholeness for oneself and of looking at one's counselees and parishioners as whole persons, individuals who are free to grow into whatever their own potential dictates rather than according to some arbitrary cultural or religious standards of «femininity» and «masculinity.»

And in the preaching of the gospel this same notion frequently shows itself, when the minister who proclaims in Christ the action of God for man's wholeness puts our Lord in a total isolation from other men in whom something of the divine activity is at work.

When Whitehead says an actual entity embraces the diversities of the whole universe and «brings them into is own unity of feeling under gradations of relevance and of irrelevance» (Religion 108), he should be referring to the unity (wholeness) required to establish an actuality at transition, but is likely expressing his belief the many grow together into a unity (whole) during concrescence.

There is a wholeness to the group, a sharing of lives at many different points.

He sees contemporary persons involved in what he describes as a process of oscillation: at those times when people have their bearings, there is a sense of wholeness, power and integration that encourages creativity and expression; at times of anxiety or weakness in the face of difficulties, there is a need to reach beyond the resources available in oneself to regain a sense of well - being and to «get it together.»

Looked at from this perspective, the parable is speaking of the efforts of the father to accept both of the sons, to integrate his family into wholeness once again.

The ethical consequences of such a christology are manifold; for it at once denies us, as a paradigm of wholeness, a Christ - figure morally impeccable in his unique and lonely perfection, and it gives us a model of moral integrity achieved through an ongoing struggle towards depth and truth in all of his relationships.

Only by looking at the world as a world can man grasp being as a wholeness and unity.

At this point it is sufficient to say that for the moment we recognize that we are not what we might be, that human existence is in defection from its proper fulfillment, and that we are in need of the wholeness of life which will put us on the right path and enable us to become more and more what God intends for us to be.

There are four affirmations about Jesus Christ that historically have been stressed in Christian faith: (1) Jesus is truly human, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, living a human life under the same human conditions any one of us faces — thus Christology, statement of the significance of Jesus, must start «from below,» as many contemporary theologians are insisting; (2) Jesus is that one in whom God energizes in a supreme degree, with a decisive intensity; in traditional language he has been styled «the Incarnate Word of God»; (3) for our sake, to secure human wholeness of life as it moves onward toward fulfillment, Jesus not only lived among us but also was crucified for us — this is the point of talk about atonement wrought in and by him; (4) death was not the end for him, so it is not as if he never existed at all; in some way he triumphed over death, or was given victory over it, so that now and forever he is a reality in the life of God and effective among humankind.

Buber defines «philosophical anthropology» as the study of «the wholeness of man,» and he lists the following as among the problems «which are implicitly set up at the same time by this question»:

When it has passed beyond what we called at the beginning its «critical point of socialization'the mass of Mankind, let this be my conclusion, will penetrate for the first time into the environment which is biologically requisite for the wholeness of its task.

What do mere words matter when a human being's wholeness is at issue?

«Because when I think about the aim, the purpose of religion, I think it becomes — when you put aside the social institutions that spring up around religions in all their strains and various forms of strands — I believe that the purpose of religion is love and connection, to feel connected to one another and to feel at ease with who we are... a kind of oneness, a kind of wholeness.

A somewhat stylized Niebuhrian analysis of a human problem is to state two opposite facets of the problem, then to reduce each further to negative and positive elements, to correlate the subnegation, then to show how the Christian answer meets these complexities, but only in the wholeness of the problem; for once any element of the Christian answer is emphasized at the expense of some other facet, distortion occurs.18

(7) A wholeness - oriented counselor - therapist should encourage clients to laugh more, have more fun, chuckle at themselves, and enjoy life's simple pleasures.

Those who think on Marxist lines believe that all that is necessary to inspire and polarize the human molecules is that they should look forward to an eventual state of collective reflection and sympathy, at the culmination of anthropogenesis, from which all will benefit through participation: as it were, a vault of intermingled thoughts, a closed circuit of attachments in which the individual will achieve intellectual and affective wholeness to the extent that he is one with the whole system.

Finally, there is the danger of denying proper proportion or patterning, in such a way that one particular element or aspect of the relationship is made so central that its wholeness or totality is denied or at least called into question.

It is catholic in that it is knit together as a social process, with a message that will give life and wholeness to people of every race in every nation and at every time.

Speaking in the tongues of other seekers at Pentecost, then, means among other things entering deeply into their lives to promote shalom, or wholeness.

Hartshorne's trust in the wholeness of reason and the wholeness of man in the universe is a refreshing reminder that man may at least still hope that alienation and fragmentation are not the final descriptions of his existence.

And wholeness includes a sense of at - one - ment with ourselves and the rest of the universe.

You recruit a team of professionals to work with you in promoting peace and wholeness with patients, psychotherapists to help them focus on hope, physical therapists to help them learn to be at home in their bodies again.

«Reality», for Panikkar, is the wholeness of Being that is constituted through God, Man and World, not the empirical reality which is of merely provisional character — as is maya in advaita - vedanta.60 Probably under pressure from the impact of Liberation Theology in the USA where Panikkar was teaching at the time, he had to face the issue of the political dimension of his theology and has reacted to it repeatedly in prefaces to his publications.

Of course, this is not all that Christians believe, or even the major part of what Christians believe, about Jesus Christ; but for our purpose, it is enough now just to admit at least that much, to see here life given in love to the point of complete surrender of self, to agree that the ages witness that this is healthy life, this is wholeness, and then to turn to oneself and ask the very simple but very searching question, «How do I measure up to that standard?»

I'll start to practice loving the best way I know, with the people I trust to show me the way forward, and hope that we can make space for God, over and over, to sweep in with healing, wholeness, a spirit - wind of unity and love, as an outpost of the way of Jesus, one daily completely unglamorous step at a time.

Because the only way to really heal our pain — particularly our soul pain, I believe — is to do the work at the place of the pain, to chase it all the way down, over and over, week after week, moment by moment, to keep resetting ourselves to the truth in hopes that someday the truth will hold, to believe that all of the healing by degrees that we are doing will someday turn into wholeness.

Prevention at the grass roots includes the whole range of activities in the program of a local church, which contribute to the development of wholeness in persons and the vitalizing of families so that they satisfy the basic interpersonal hungers of children, youth, and adults.

The system advocates seem, in comparison, more at home in chaos, with its paradoxical promise of integrity.55 How the change from disorder to wholeness occurs is the second characteristic of organic systems approaches: organization development.

The traditional moral code generally undergirds wholeness, freedom, and being, but not always, and when it doesn't, the quest for wholeness has come to take priority for me over the rules of behavior, at least as I deal with the lives of other people.

In some respects it is more healthy to be an honest non-Christian than a Christian schizophrenic, for the former has at least preserved some element of that integrity or wholeness of the human being for which the Christian faith expresses such concern in its Gospel of salvation.

Rather, members of the university must bind themselves together in the passion for human wholeness which was at the center of Christ's message and mission.

The blessed have arrived at perfection, a state of complete wholeness and maturity that is at least as incomprehensible to us now as the rewards of adulthood are to those caught in the hectic fever of adolescence.

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.

Bonhoeffer concluded that «only a polyphony of this kind can give life a wholeness and at the same time assure us that nothing calamitous can happen as long as the cantus firmus is kept going.