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“What is life?” By medical definition, life takes place when one’s brain and heart are functioning. Yet a person can be biologically alive but not alive at all; breathing and walking and talking are only themanifestationsof what we call life. The true source of life, the energy that ...
Compared with the "Ideas," the world of things was a world of shadows. This was the aspect of the Platonic doctrine of ideas which, as we shall see, Philo afterward seized upon, because it best fitted in with his general conception of the transcendence of God and His relation to the ...
Through self-actualisation and transcendence, we can turn our talents into achievements. Reaching out, we can find meaning in self-effacing love, or in service to relieve another's suffering. 'For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the ...
The purpose of this keynote address is to present the thesis that meaning-seeking and self-transcendence express our spiritual nature and are essential...
But the quest to rise above humanity's natural limits soon made the pillars the symbol of transcending nationality first and then transcendence in general, bearing the adapted motto plus ultra ("more beyond"; hence "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite" of 2001, A Space Odyssey and Buzz Lightyear'...
Nearly all transcendentalist doctrines stem from the division of reality into a realm of spirit and a realm of matter. Such a division is made by many of the great religions of the world. It is based upon the concept of transcendence, the rising to a state beyond sense experience. It ...
How does this second criterion of the transcendence of mercy out of the integrity of love apply? Does the afterlife testimony reveal that God is ultimately perfect in His power of love to forgive the repentant or does it teach the need for reincarnation because God is not ultimately perfect ...
Spirituality in the Age of Science: Conversations on God, Transcendence & MortalityHosted in the elegant Morgan Library and Museum, this thought-provoking series features Wisconsin Public Radio’s Steve Paulson in conversation with three leading thinkers and scientists: anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann, physi...