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spiritual and awakening
`` Roots '', the new play at the brand-new Mayfair Theater on 46th St. which has been made over from a night club, is about the intellectual and spiritual awakening of an English farm girl.
Its goal is to effect enough change in the alcoholic's thinking " to bring about recovery from alcoholism " through a spiritual awakening.
Brubeck believed what he saw during World War II contradicted the Ten Commandments, and the war evoked a spiritual awakening.
Voight followed up this and other performances with a role in the 1986 film, Desert Bloom, and reportedly experienced a " spiritual awakening " toward the end of the decade.
The real birth of Aikido came as the result of three instances of spiritual awakening that Ueshiba experienced.
Ueshiba then walked to his garden and had a spiritual awakening. Onisaburo Deguchi
Book III is written to express Newton's ideas of the stages of personal spiritual awakening and salvation.
Many religions attach spiritual importance to particular places: the place of birth or death of founders or saints, or to the place of their " calling " or spiritual awakening, or of their connection ( visual or verbal ) with the divine, or to locations where miracles were performed or witnessed, or locations where a deity is said to live or be " housed ," or any site that is seen to have special spiritual powers.
At the fundamental level conversion is the awakening of religious knowledge or understanding within a human being who had previously no belief in or concern with religious or spiritual matters.
This awakening to moral and spiritual realities thus precedes a transformation of lifestyle and thought patterns often taking place over a long period of time and requiring a significant level of effort and commitment as described in the spiritual teachings of the world's great religions.
# Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
Further, the most recent edition of Ives's biography admits that Anne may very well have had a personal spiritual awakening in her youth which spurred her on, not just as catalyst but expediter for Henry's Reformation, though the process took a number of years.
* The Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America is neither Anabaptist nor Pietistic, but is the result of a late 19th century spiritual awakening among Lutheran congregations in the upper Midwestern United States.
He stated that " Resurrection " means that the appearance of a new revelation, and that " raising of the dead " means the spiritual awakening of those who have stepped away from true religion.
Kundalini refers to the mothering intelligence behind yogic awakening and spiritual maturation leading to altered states of consciousness.
After his time in Granada, he returned home and spent much time at the Alhambra palace, a Moorish relic overlooking the town which he regarded as his spiritual awakening.
The latter term, meaning ‘ witness ,’ best indicates the use that Kabir and his followers envisioned for these poems: “ As direct evidence of the Truth, a sākhī is ... meant to be memorized ... A sākhī is ... meant to evoke the highest Truth .” As such, memorizing, reciting, and thus pondering over these utterances constitutes, for Kabir and his followers, a path to spiritual awakening.
In other cases, denominations form very rapidly, either resulting from a split or schism in an existing denomination, or if people share an experience of spiritual revival or spiritual awakening, and choose to form a new denomination based on that new experience or understanding.
According to some Hindu traditions, Kundalini yoga is considered a highly developed spiritual awakening which relies upon a technique called shaktipat to attain enlightenment under the guidance of a spiritual master.

spiritual and is
Now this concern for the freedom of other peoples is the intellectual and spiritual cement which has allied us with more than forty other nations in a common defense effort.
Because God is what He is, the laws of the universe, material and spiritual, are what they are.
Wonder is indeed the intellectual gateway to the spiritual world.
This is a straightforward denial of the spiritual world and a vigorous defense of pure materialism.
To derive Utopian communism from the Jerusalem Christian community of the apostolic age or from its medieval successors-in-spirit, the monastic communities, is with an appropriate shift of adjectives, misleading in the same way as to derive it from Plato's Republic: in the Republic we have to do with an elite of physical and intellectual athletes, in the apostolic and monastic communities with an elite of spiritual and religious athletes.
It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that ninety per cent of the energy of most churches -- whether in terms of finance or spiritual concern -- is poured into the private and domestic interests of the members.
To state fully what the Bible means as my daily spiritual food is as intimate and difficult as to formulate the reasons for loving my nearest and dearest relatives and friends.
It is definitely a `` spiritual guidance conference ''.
This is a vital part of their spiritual growth and assimilation.
To the Zen monk the universe is still populated with `` spiritual beings '' who have to be appeased.
This picture of extreme self-reliant individuation is difficult to reconcile with such Zendo formulas as: `` O you, demons and other spiritual beings, I now offer this to you, and may this food fill up the ten quarters of the world and all the demons and other spiritual beings be fed therewith.
The new birth is necessary because the spiritual kingdom requires a spiritual nature.
For you, readers, are an all-important part of the spiritual experiment that is Guideposts.
The latter is of interest to the historians of esotericism, psychologists, spiritual and new age communities, and hermetic philosophers.
The theologian Paul Tillich characterized existential anxiety as " the state in which a being is aware of its possible nonbeing " and he listed three categories for the nonbeing and resulting anxiety: ontic ( fate and death ), moral ( guilt and condemnation ), and spiritual ( emptiness and meaninglessness ).
According to Tillich, the last of these three types of existential anxiety, i. e. spiritual anxiety, is predominant in modern times while the others were predominant in earlier periods.
In its pathological form, spiritual anxiety may tend to " drive the person toward the creation of certitude in systems of meaning which are supported by tradition and authority " even though such " undoubted certitude is not built on the rock of reality ".
A notable example is Emanuel Swedenborg who wrote some 18 theological works which describe in detail the nature of the afterlife according to his claimed spiritual experiences, the most famous of which is Heaven and Hell.
An abbey ( from Latin abbatia, derived from Latin language abbatia, from Latin abbās, derived from Aramaic language abba, " father ") is a Catholic monastery or convent, under the authority of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serves as the spiritual father or mother of the community.
According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, " Amazing Grace " is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse.

spiritual and achieved
Puebloan tradition holds that the ancestors had achieved great spiritual power and control over natural forces, and used their power in ways that caused nature to change, and caused changes that were never meant to occur.
" According to Anthroposophy, moral development reveals the extent to which one has achieved control over one's inner life and can exercise it in harmony with the spiritual life of other people ; it shows the real progress in spiritual development, the fruits of which are given in spiritual perception.
Schmidt experienced a spiritual and physical breakdown after this, but achieved an artistic revival and resolution in his Fourth Symphony of 1933 ( which he inscribed as " Requiem for my Daughter ") and, especially, in his oratorio The Book With Seven Seals.
In the third book, Calvin describes how the spiritual union of Christ and humanity is achieved.
The physical freedom that the Hebrews achieved at the Exodus from Egypt was only the beginning of a process that climaxed with the spiritual freedom they gained at the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai.
Vedda cave drawings such as those found at Hamangala provide graphic evidence of the sublime spiritual and artistic vision achieved by the ancestors of today's Wanniyala-Aetto people.
Released from the burdens of spiritual leadership, which passed to the reformed Cluniac movement after the mid-tenth century, and occupied with the administration of great landed properties, some of which lay far from Westminster, " the Benedictines achieved a remarkable degree of identification with the secular life of their times, and particularly with upper-class life ", Barbara Harvey concludes, to the extent that her depiction of daily life provides a wider view of the concerns of the English gentry in the High and Late Middle Ages.
Some Orthodox monastic leaders that are critical of monasteries that are too large, arguing that they become institutions and lose the intensity of spiritual training that can better be achieved when an elder has only 2 or 3 disciples.
Here, as in A Child of Our Time, Tippett turns to the blues for spiritual and emotional solace, and in his writing for solo soprano achieved perhaps his most successful and moving tribute to Bessie Smith, an artist he had long admired.
To give oneself completely to the shooting is the spiritual goal, achieved by perfection of both the spirit and shooting technique leading to munen musō, " no thoughts, no illusions ".
Often this derives from a spiritual or natural law perspective, that for world peace to be achieved, conscience, properly understood, should be generally considered as not necessarily linked ( often destructively ) to fundamentalist religious ideologies, but as an aspect of universal consciousness, access to which is the common heritage of humanity.
Chinmoy claimed that within only a few months of arriving at the ashram, roughly at the age of 14 years-old, he had achieved the spiritual state of God-realisation or full enlightenment.
The Bodhi Tree, also known as Bo ( from the Sinhalese Bo ), was a large and very old Sacred Fig tree ( Ficus religiosa ) located in Bodh Gaya ( about from Patna in the Indian state of Bihar ), under which Siddhartha Gautama, the spiritual teacher later known as Gautama Buddha, is said to have achieved enlightenment, or Bodhi.
These were the golden years of his spiritual journey at the end of which he achieved arihant status.
In his short life, Rebbe Nachman achieved much acclaim as a teacher and spiritual leader, and is considered a seminal figure in the history of Hasidism.
Mass conversions have also occurred in the region around Pura Agung Blambangan, another new temple, built on a site with minor archaeological remnants attributed to the kingdom of Blambangan, the last Hindu polity on Java, and Pura Loka Moksa Jayabaya ( in the village of Menang near Kediri ), where the Hindu king and prophet Jayabaya is said to have achieved spiritual liberation ( moksa ).
Also, the Gregorian Reform, introduced to the County of Urgell during the last years of the 11th century, preceded by the change of the Visigothic rite for the Roman rite, reduced those interventions of the laymen in ecclesiastical affairs and achieved the complete freedom of the Church in the spiritual and temporal domains.
" The third group is that of the " very small number ... who have been ordained without the Pontifical mandate and who have not asked for, or have not yet obtained, the necessary legitimation "; these, the Pope said, " are to be considered illegitimate, but validly ordained ", and " the faithful, taking this into account, where the eucharistic celebration and the other sacraments are concerned, must, within the limits of the possible, seek Bishops and priests who are in communion with the Pope: nevertheless, where this cannot be achieved without grave inconvenience, they may, for the sake of their spiritual good, turn also to those who are not in communion with the Pope.
Many of his disciples achieved spiritual height, including Shaikh Nasiruddin Muhammad Chirag-e-Delhi, and Amir Khusro, noted scholar / musician, and the royal poet of the Delhi Sultanate.
* In Hinduism, it is believed that some Hindu gurus who have become siddhas ( those who have achieved spiritual powers ) have the siddhi ( power ) of being able to levitate.
Pawas: Besides its natural beauty and serenity, Pawas achieved prominence when Swami Swaroopanand ( a spiritual leader who influenced an entire generation of Maharashtrians ) had made it his abode.
In Tamil Nadu, South India, a siddha ( see Siddhar ) refers to a being who has achieved a high degree of physical as well as spiritual perfection or enlightenment.

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