17. As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive i...
Emphasis is placed on the process of understanding ourselves and with this a clear distinction is made between mechanical and self-knowledge, a distinction that ultimately changes the meaning of intelligence. Education has a role to play in encouraging the right balance between these distinctions. A...
Perceived value refers to the perceived relevance and meaning of actions and outcomes to an individual9,12. According to CVT, there is a negative relation between perceived value and boredom. Given the universality assumptions of CVT, we expect that this relation will also apply to spiritual bored...
Naturally, the content of the themes overlap, and many themes can resonate with each other; for example, meaning and life transformation are connected in many ways. In the following sections, the application of the RCOPE to ecological grief is discussed in the order of the five main themes....
28. In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed. he becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values. It hasoften been noted that those who live, or have liv...
Lastly, intra-personal struggles may emerge from doubting core doctrines or teachings from one’s S/R, not living congruently with perceived moral standards, or a painful void of ultimate meaning about the deeper purpose of life in general and/or the significance of one’s life in particular....
Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith. —Paul Tillich 36 Short Spiritual Faith Quotes ...
the devil."242The proper name Satan (which is not used here) is a transliteration of the Hebrew wordsatanmeaning "adversary," and in the Bible, in a very special sense, the enemy of God, simply "Satan, the Enemy."243The worddiabolosis used synonymously withsatanin Revelation 2:9-10 and...
spirituality emphasises an individual’s search for meaning in life (Frankl,1985). While some people perceive spirituality and religion to go hand in hand, others note differences, including in relation to the views of atheists or spiritual practitioners (Arrey et al.,2016; Tanyi,2002). In ...
In its broad meaning, prophecy is simply God communicating His thoughts and intents to mankind. When a true prophecy is given, the Holy Spirit inspires someone to communicate God’s pure and exact words to the individual or group for whom they are intended. It is delivered without any additi...