Sentences with phrase «wisdom of high»

Eskimos are given as an example to prove the wisdom of high - fat, animal based diets.

Whatever their own views about the wisdom of high prices and low yields, it might have made sense to buy anyway.

For thousands of years, human beings have sought the guidance and wisdom of a higher power.

Not exact matches

But while male billionaires» reading choices get plenty of press coverage, we hear relatively less about the books that have been most inspirational for super successful, but slightly less high - profile women — the kinds of books that are most likely to provide similar wisdom and mental nourishment for the generation of leaders coming up behind them.

With this type of social trading, eToro claims, «The collective well - being of the community is fostered through high levels of interaction, the wisdom of the crowds, strategy sharing and trading tips.»

«While common wisdom has it that higher volatility necessarily signals a discrete end to the [bull market], it is often the case that higher vol is a natural occurrence in the «late innings» of extended rallies, particularly when the Fed is raising rates, as was the case in late 1999 - 2000,» he wrote.

The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High - Performance Organization This book (from HarperBusiness, 800-242-7737, 1993, $ 15), by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. Smith, is certainly a worthy treatise, but it's pretty darn dry.

For the time being Japan companies should show higher earnings as costs are under control, says Jesper Koll of Wisdom Tree.

But he added falling corporate taxes in the U.S. and higher taxes in Canada since then have reinforced the wisdom of the move.

He enlists the help of a more experienced and successful designer named Karen, who acts as a sort of pricing Yoda, guiding Steve to discover his potential as a high earner and acting as an oracle to dispense FreshBooks» wisdom.

Wisdom from the island of Okinawa, which has a shockingly high number of residents who live to see their 100th birthday, helped him deal with a professional crisis and learn to manage his career in a sustainable way.

Another factor that was discussed earlier is the wisdom of not consolidating higher interest loans and lower interest loans together.

Conventional wisdom holds that the millennial generation, influenced by the 9/11 attacks, burdened with student debt and reared in a world of high - speed mobile devices, is a unique group of young people.

Conventional wisdom says that when you're younger and further from needing to live off your investments, you can afford to have a high percentage of your investments in the stock market.

«A high level of concentration flies in the face of conventional wisdom which hails the benefits of diversification (typically > 50 companies).

Perhaps it's Talmudic wisdom but, selling stocks before the eight - day span of the high holidays has avoided many declines, especially during uncertain times.

Gold, in dollar terms, is unchanged on the month in defiance of conventional wisdom as higher short - term rates have not yet brought a liquidation of the precious metals.

To say that one can find good things in the bible qualifies it as a source of higher, transcendental wisdom is grabbing at straws.

CORRECTION: «To say that one can find good things in the bible qualifies it as a source of higher, transcendental wisdom is grabbing at straws.»

Should read: «Saying that because one can find good things in the bible qualifies it as a source of higher, transcendental wisdom is grabbing at straws.»

There is, of course, no gainsaying the common - sense psychological wisdom contained in a program to enhance one's self - image, to develop and utilize our highest potential for creativity, for mental and physical health.

We try to contribute to the renewal of these treasures of salvation in the lives of Gods people through a renewed clarity of understanding of Gods plan of Wisdom and redeeming Love for his creatures, a renewed enthusiasm for handing on his Word, a deepened personal love for our Lord Jesus Christ and a fresh dedication to living the high standards of integrity in both charity and chastity which should mark his true disciples and apostles in the modern world.

On a far higher level, intellectually and spiritually, is that very noble philosophical poem called the Wisdom of Solomon, and that still nobler monument of ancient Hebrew thought, the Book of Job, a dramatic dialogue in splendid and sonorous verse upon the theme of suffering and its place in a providential order.

Consistent with that attitude's deepest wisdom, our intellectuals, even of the left - wing, are often employed in «our institutions of higher learning and are permitted relatively free expression because we know that they are really no threat to us.

Instead of simply stating the law and reacting in panic when it is widely broken, those concerned for traditional moral wisdom would do much better to affirm the high possibility of the life of faithful love, and to understand with love what is happening to people in ghettoes, in college campuses, in the life of the family today.

They also become rivals when religion claims it's denomination to be the highest form of wisdom to the denial of everything else simply based on dogma.

To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties — this knowledge, this feeling... that is the core of the true religious sentiment.

There, in a high hour of social passion and sacrifice, began the road that, leading out from fury to wisdom, brought him at last to God.

Psychosynthesis offers a variety of methods for facilitating spiritual growth by opening oneself to the creative energies and wisdom of one's higher Self.

(20) Falling into the trap of perfectionism is seen as being prevented by getting in touch with the wisdom of one's higher Self.

Another approach to increased awareness of your higher Self is to picture and carry on an inner dialogue with your Wise Teacher or the Wise Woman or Wise Man within you, or image and consult with your «inner light,» as the Quakers and Mahatma Gandhi refer to the inner source of wisdom.

The sutra is inexhaustibly rich with deep and fine similes which express this anxious love.10 The wisdom of the Tathagata is so high, his knowledge is so deep, that to the man who is blind, erring, and engrossed in the world it must seem to be absolutely incomprehensible.11 However — and what Mahayana shows to us is the highest reconciliation between God and man — this compassionate love turns to each man with the appropriate means and in unique ways in order to show him that he too has within himself the potential not only of ending his own suffering but also of one day being himself transformed from one saved to a savior, a Tathagata.

After the late Council there did take place in the centres of higher learning in the Church this wholesale jettisoning of the traditional wisdom of the Church, and I am bound to say that the undue subordination of all things to Ecumenism helped the process on, for the theology of the non-Catholic ecclesial communities has long been enervated by the same rationalist principles.

Matthew knew what John knew — John did not have a higher evolution of understanding of who Jesus claimed to be than the other apostles — it is just in the wisdom of God as He used each writer to convey understanding to the folks who received the letters and for our benefit in the ages to come that Matthew focuses on different things than John.

All that we have achieved as we have left behind our savage origins and have climbed higher and yet higher in civilized life has been through the leadings of the divine wisdom.

All through the world's history we find that the men and women who have entered into the realm of true wisdom and power, and hence into the realm of true peace and joy, have lived in harmony with this Higher Power (Ralph Waldo Trine, In Tune with the Infinite: Or Fullness of Peace Power and Plenty.

And, here again, Kant is not Greek but Christian; the Greek schools, he says, did not resolve the problem of the practical possibility of the highest good: they believed that the wisdom of the sage enclosed in its analytic unity the just life and the happy life.

But a study of the context will show that what was most particularly in his mind was just this distinction between the fundamental Gospel and the higher wisdom (not to be confused with «the wisdom of men») which can be imparted to those whose apprehension of the Gospel is sufficiently firm.

Rather than listening to the wisdom of our bodies and changing our high - pressure life - styles, we pop an aspirin, a tranquilizer, or a psychic energizer.

Have you ever been in the midst of a stimulating theological conversation only to have it end abruptly when someone reminds you that «God's ways are higher than our ways» or that «in much wisdom is much grief»?

We want to instill in her what is best about ourselves, to give her the highest of our values, the finest of our beliefs, the depth of our wisdom.

Perhaps the pivotal point of relation between higher learning and religion lies somewhere between the deepest human sense of the limits of our knowing and the cultivation, in the midst of such chastening wisdom, of the spiritual virtue of hope.

This massive cultural transformation, called by some the rise of the postmodern era, has transformed everything: travel and tourism, reading, the «high arts,» popular arts, health care, gender roles, the places where «wisdom» is deposited and sought, the relation of religion to the state, family continuity, sexuality, patterns of physical activity.

Theodore Hesburgh said, «Here is an apostolate that no secular university today can undertake» for they are largely cut off from the tradition of adequate knowledge which comes only through faith in the mind and faith in God, the highest wisdom of Christian philosophy and Catholic theology.»

Theology was considered to be the highest of all sciences because it studied the highest wisdom of all, revealed by God.

Revelation, as the highest Wisdom, synthesises and illuminates all the insights of the lower sciences.

For one, theology is faith's inherent insightfulness or wisdom brought to a high level of self - conscious critical reflection.

We can go much further and say that the whole cosmos will only make sense, even as a material equation, within a higher Wisdom or «Law» that relates all creatures to the Creator; relates body and soul in Man as one creature without confusion of orders, and Man to God as his true environment; and, finally relates all Creation and the whole of humanity to God Incarnate in Christ as their source and their goal.

The fact that Jesus was baptized by John does not imply any inferiority, submission or acknowledgement of higher wisdom.

In this we are not to see an excess of legalism but, on the contrary, his high appraisal of wisdom: it contained all the best in human life; it was the revelation of God.