«I am a psychotherapist and an art therapist who is committed to helping my clients
with self understanding and achieving their life goals.
Not exact matches
By thinking through small cultural confrontations, those who live abroad come to
understand their values, preferences, and personalities better, and they carry this
self - knowledge
with them when they come home.
They are in constant education mode, reading and buying books, magazines, journals and
self - help information and taking advantage of other resources they believe will improve their
understanding of themselves, their work
with others and their business and marketing skills.
Improved internal communication — The ISO 9000 certification process's emphasis on
self - analysis and operations management issues encourages various internal areas or departments of companies to interact
with one another in hopes of gaining a more complete
understanding of the needs and desires of their internal customers.
Being
self - aware,
with the deep
understanding of one's own thoughts and feelings creates clarity.
Many entrepreneurs don't
understand when their data becomes valuable enough to sell, and they don't realize how many users their software needs to be
self - sustaining
with just ads.
The causes likely run deep, and it is unlikely that even the excellent prescriptive program that Steve lays out will make much difference if the top level leadership does not
understand and take action
with respect to the
self - protective strategies that decision - makers appear to be following.
The shift in our
understanding of sex from a sacramental and life - changing encounter to the thing you do
with your friends when you're bored has made all of our relationships shallower and made each of us less capable of the profound gift of
self on which marriage is founded.
in the day, s that jesus our lord was on the earth (jesus) there was many people named jesus, just as among hispanic and central american peoples, it was a common popular name of many people, if you want to prove to your
self that jesus was not married, look up what the apostle said,» i saw standing upon mount zion
with the lamb 144,000, these are they that have washed thier robes and were not defilled
with women, for they are virgins, jesus emphasised in parts the need and values of a husband and wife in a home, the two mary, s and the women that followed him and ministered unto him tells us the great importance of women, and women in the home, he wanted all married men to have thier own wife, in those days of so many years ago there was false prophets, storytellers, wild imaginations, he told us not to believe them, whether you are catholic, christian, islamic or any other, we can all take pride in the fact what the prohets, jesus and the apostles told us all fits jointly to gether, they were a work of love, to
understand the christian bible correctly, islamic people are not rejected, but rather they are a equal, the angel told hagar to return to her mistress, he also told her he would make ishmael a blessing and his seed a great nation, regards
its not really atheism or religion that I have a problem
with, its the hate, control, and fear that goes along
with it that I have a problem
with, you say that those who are spiritual are into new agey, crystal ball, stuff, see that's what I'm talking about, you assume to know what something is about when you don't
understand something you naturally fear it, your
self righteous clouds you, don't you get that by being narrow minded in your view towards things, you really act no better than religious fundamentalists, being spiritual is a lot more than just the new agey, think positive all the time that you think it is, its about being aware of who you are?
Separatism,
understood as a woman's creation of
Self in passionate connection
with others like her, is, in a sweeping reversal of patriarchal values, fundamentally relational.
Being unhindered and unburdened by
self - awareness, there is a sincere expression that comes through when their young voices ring out
with the melodies and lyrics reflecting the deepest mysteries of grace — mysteries they may not fully
understand as they sing.
The body of God, as theologians would say, is creation,
understood as God's
self - expression; it is formed in God's own reality, bodied forth in the eons of evolutionary time, and supplied
with the means to nurture and sustain billions of different forms of life.
Yet this same criticism, that Jesus»
understanding of his
self - hood is incommensurate
with the kerygma's concept of a dramatic shift in the course of history or the cosmos, has been presented in still more radical fashion.
When we see that there can be no
self -
understanding apart from some grasp of Origin and Destiny, an
understanding which certainly includes an acknowledgment of what is unknown in both Origin and Destiny, then the counselor
with whom we seek
self -
understanding takes on a new significance.
For to Jews the Holocaust is not an event to read about in a few books, or to remember on a few special occasions; it is for them to confront, to agonize over, to reject and resist, to search deeply and widely for a glimmer of hope - all this
with a view to a Jewish
self -
understanding, of which an essential part is being heir of the murdered millions, the remnant of the catastrophe.
For the pastor to work
with that
self -
understanding makes more sense than to avoid it by playing amateur psychiatrist.
The body of God, then, is creation,
understood as God's
self - expression; it is formed in God's own reality (although not thereby identical
with it), bodied forth in the eons of evolutionary time.
Their
self -
understanding as sexual beings is disturbed by encounters
with homosexuality, both in themselves and in others.
This is not to say that Bornkamm has moved to the position of «realized eschatology» (91); rather he sees (
with Bultmann) the tension between future and present as inherent in the involvement of the imperative in the indicative, i.e. inherent in the historical
understanding of the
self.
Altizer betrays his assumption of a metaphysics when he states, «Hegel's central idea of kenosis, or the universal and dialectical process of the
self - negation of being, provided me
with a conceptual route to a consistently kenotic or
self - emptying
understanding of the Incarnation, an
understanding which I believe has been given a full visionary expression in the work of William Blake.»
A true commitment to marriage gives the grace and strength to gradually overcome individual
self - love, to learn to
understand the other in depth, to learn to forgive and to ask for forgiveness, to be tolerant
with the defects of the other and intolerant
with one's own defects.
If the radical
self - assertion which makes it impossible for man to achieve the authentic life of
self - commitment is identical
with sin, it must obviously be possible for man to
understand his existence altogether as a gift of God.
I can be without fear, I can be pacific, irenic, for faith gives to me the surety that the hungry are filled
with good things and the humble exalted, and so I need not be resentful, or
self - enclosed, or placatory, but rather I strive to
understand, as my fellows do, whether they are men of faith or not.
(c) Because these interests are socioculturally situated they are diversely concrete, threatening to fragment «
understandings» of God, and they are open to the suspicion of ideological bias; but because they are interests in God the capacities they guide also require cultivation of capacities for conversation
with other concrete
understandings and capacities for critique of ideological
self - deceptions.
Some of us tend to lavish our love on ourselves, while a few who have the eyes to see, the ears to hear and the heart to
understand the needs
with which we are constantly surrounded in the lives of others, tend to neglect
self and tend mostly to others.
People are
self - centered and fussy creatures
with little
understanding of how the universe operates.
He
understood that when the effect of past oppression has been to leave people in a diminished state, the attainment of true equality
with their former oppressor can not much depend on his generosity but must ultimately derive from an elevation of their
selves above the state of diminishment.
As I
understand it, the relevant features of a «proposition» are these: A «proposition» is a «concrete possibility; it is abstracted from some objective event in the actual world; it is proposed as a possibility that an entity may want to consider for itself in a future moment in its process of
self - creation; it is apprehended by the entity in «feeling» and so is preconceptual and largely preconsciously apprehended; it stands in a complex of relationships
with other «propositions,» and the set of propositions presupposes a systematic universe; its «interest» (as «lure») is more important than its «truth.»
In the second and third sections I explain two proposals for Christian
self -
understanding that originate from a dialogue
with Buddhism and that have direct relevance for the adoption of life - centered ethic and belief in a life - centered God.
By invoking the memory of Galileo's struggle
with the church in the same breath
with the «revolutions in science» associated
with Newton, Darwin and Einstein and the claim that science transforms our
self -
understanding, the writers fall into a stereotype about the warfare between science and religious faith and they exhibit a 19th - century common belief that science will displace religion.
Polk's suggestion of a
self - limiting on the part of the all - determining God Pannenberg accepts as compatible
with his
understanding of God's power as love; still, in other respects the conceptual foundations of their two doctrines of God appear to diverge widely.
When it is objected that we are dealing
with a universal revelation, we must raise the issue of finite human
understanding, through which God's
self - disclosure is communicated.
My aim in the following sections is to illustrate this third approach by discussing two proposals for Christian
self -
understanding that emerge from a dialogue
with Buddhism.
The preferred Eastern Orthodox
understanding of hell, one
with profound patristic pedigrees, defines hell as something
self - imposed, a condition of the soul that freely refuses to open itself in love to God and neighbor, and that thereby seals itself against the deifying love of God, thereby experiencing divine glory as an external chastisement.
If women assume that sisterhood is similar to brotherhood
with respect to freedom and
self - affirmation, then the struggle to
understand female bonding results in the imitation of male comradeship / brotherhood.
In this sense, Asia can become an enormously promising «other,»
with which and against which the
self -
understanding of Christian and Jewish faith can only gain.
I've beaten myself
with self - doubt and the pressures to make something of myself while struggling to
understand what it means to actively wait on God's timing.
Because of the stridency
with which he has criticized Israel in the past and the uncertainty about what he is proposing, he speaks for a small minority within a somewhat larger minority of Jews calling for a revised
self -
understanding of Israel's role.
For those who love this great country,
understand this, the Declaration of Independence proclaims that «We hold these truths to be
self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness».
I use to feel very much the same way as you have described above, until I
understood that my old
self is still very much
with me even though my spirit has been made new in Christ.
He
understands theology, which he defines as «the scientific
self - examination of the Christian church
with respect to its distinctive God - talk,» to be a spiritual discipline within the community of faith.
For example, when Dennis Hirota writes that Shinran «avoids a voluntaristic... view of reality,
with such concomitant problems as predestination, the need for a theodicy, and a substantialist
understanding of reality or of
self», I applaud Shinran and hope that the Christian tradition to which I belong succeeds equally well in these respects.
Azariah who later became Bishop of Dornakal argued that the church in accepting the position of a communal political minority
with special protection would become a static community and it would negate its
self -
understanding as standing for mission and service to the whole national community, that in any case the Indian church is not a single social or cultural community since it consists of people of diverse background, each of whom would have its own political struggle to wage in cooperation
with the people of similar background in other religions; and therefore theologically and politically Christians should ask only for religious freedom for its mission and service to all people, not as a minority right, but as a human right (ref.
So far as Gandhi was concerned, it was towards a syncretism of mystic Hindu spirituality
with the
self - giving and suffering love of Jesus the Crucified Messiah producing the politics of nonviolence aimed at a secular nation - state based more or less on inter-religious
understanding and the decentralized socialism of Sarvodaya.
From a logical point of view, however, these two conceptions are not mutually exclusive, especially if Bultmann is right in regarding the true sense of myth as the disclosure of the «
self -
understanding of man», and the objectivizing imagery
with its implied mythical world view the inadequate means for the expression of that sense.
He gives the neurotic the
understanding which the world has denied him and makes it more and more possible for him to step out of his
self - imprisonment into a genuine relation
with the analyst.
Letty Russell writes that «if authority is
understood as authorizing the inclusion of all persons as partners, and power is
understood as empowerment for
self - actualization together
with others, then the entire game of authority shifts...» 7
The conflict arises -
with religion and much else - when art is
understood exclusively in terms of «individual creativity,» meaning
self - expression.
These queries demand answers, for my
self -
understanding, my sense of worth, my identity and my community have been wrapped up
with fulfilling what I have believed to be an appropriate and vital response to God's calling, to serve God by serving the church, and more precisely to do so in the field of theological education.