Sentences with phrase «world of nothingness»

I wish I knew about my own life, death, the world of nothingness, the presence of the sky, artistic philosophy and the history of humankind.

As a yogi gradually seeps into yogic sleep, they are drawn far away into the world of nothingness, while they remain fully aware of their presence, their body and their existence.

Not exact matches

But, theologically, the world which modern man knows as «chaos» or «nothingness» is homologous with the world that eschatological faith knows as «old aeon» or «old creation» — both worlds are stripped of every fragment of positive meaning and value.

If the death of God has resurrected an authentic nothingness, then faith can no longer greet the world as the «creation.»

It is then forced in freedom to choose either to postulate a fundamental nothingness or absurdity in existence, thus denying intelligibility and destroying itself, or to transcend itself toward the infinite God of love who has made Himself known through the finite, visible structures of this world.

Not only is the mutable world separated from its divine principle — the One — by intervals of emanation that descend in ever greater alienation from their source, but because the highest truth is the secret identity between the human mind and the One, the labor of philosophy is one of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature of the living world, is not only accidental to this formless identity, but a kind of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals of one's individual existence; truth is oblivion of the flesh, a pure nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.

For, as I say, we moderns believe in nothing: the nothingness of the will miraculously giving itself form by mastering the nothingness of the world.

I'm waxing quite Eastern here, I know, But that, I would say, is the nature of God's presence in the fallen world: his image, his bride, the deep joy and longing of creation, called from nothingness to be joined to him.

Each individual spirit, in nearly all these worlds, attained at some point in life some lowly climax of awareness and of spiritual integrity, only to sink slowly or catastrophically back into nothingness.

«5 With Nietzsche he holds that «God» is «the deification of nothingness,» in polar opposition to the world, «the contradiction of life,» one who «crushes the life of man,» «the deepest embodiment of... No - saying, [i.e.,] absolute life and self - negation.

The self of the twentieth century is a voracious nought which expands like the feeding vacuole of an amoeba seeking to nourish and inform its own nothingness by ingesting new objects in the world but, like a vacuole, only succeeds in emptying them out.

Should we lead the world to nothingness, because nothingness is the way of resurrection?

Recent thought has it that ours is a world in which death, the passing away of life beyond being into nothingness, is an ultimate horizon.

«4 But the metaphysics of a for - itself (the self) which is «nothingness» and an in - itself (the world) which is «being» can not account for the impact of the past on the present.

Indeed, images of death or nothingness have dominated the modern imagination, and who can doubt that it is the power of such images which has opened our sensibilities to the world of Buddhism?

It is through the word, however, that God creates the world out of chaos or nothingness.

The religious visions of mankind have usually pointed toward something or someone that saves the world of nature and of human experience from vanishing into a total nothingness.

For decades Western theology was represented by the opinion that ancient Buddhism was nothing more than an atheistic world view and ethic which led to the nothingness of Nirvana, (Heiler, op.

The market ideology wants us to believe that the world is profane — life consists of buying and selling, weighing, measuring and trading, and then finally sinking down into death and nothingness.

According to Luria, the world came into being when God created it ex nihilo, out of nothingness.

God created the world out of his own nothingness through an act of self - diminution not unrelated to the idea of God's kenotic emptying of himself to which Dr. Altizer alludes.

I hope he gets all the insults in the world for dragging us down the path of nothingness for the last ten years.

Chris slides down through the chair and into a dark void, suspended in nothingness and gazing up at a tiny screen — like view of the outside world.

Now, with last year a yawning pothole in our rearview mirror, let's take a look at some of the most interesting games of 2018, and how they might deliver some much - needed entertainment to us as our world withers into dim nothingness.

At the same time, this drawn world is delineated by its own subjectivity: it can be nothing but a fantasy, a fiction, and so beyond its borders lies the great nothingness of the «real» world.