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reality and was
That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.
She was the opposite of everything she should have been -- a positive pole in a negative home, a living reaction of warmth and kindness to the harsh reality of her father.
The poet was by definition a realist, his imaginings and parables being natural organizations of reality.
A nation may go to war on some trifling pretext, when in reality it may have been guided by an unconscious instinct that its very life was at stake.
Adams was not breaking new ground when he claimed that the worship of an unseen power was in reality a reflection of man's inability to cope with his environment.
This error was compounded by declaring the recession to be `` a statistical one '', and not a reality.
But in the moment of truth everyone could see that the U.S. was in reality the principal.
These never ceased to suggest that if, in the eyes of Marx and Lenin `` full communism '' was still a very distant ideal, the establishment of a Communist society had now, under Khrushchev, become an `` immediate and tangible reality ''.
but this grinning, broken head, not ten feet away from me, was the sharp definition of what my reality had become.
the granular texture thus created likewise called attention to the reality of the surface and was effective over much larger areas.
That the dream was a reality on the infinite progressions of universal, gradient frequencies, across which the modern professor and the priest of ancient Nippur met??
Soon after the method changed, visitors began asking how he managed to irrigate his soil to keep it looking moist, when in reality, it was the soil treatment alone that accomplished this.
Perhaps this was reality and Dale Nelson, the actor, was delusion ; ;
It was this timeless unity that was all-important, and not its temporary manifestations in the world of reality.
All of the elements of the experience were impossible and yet the reality of them was heavy upon him and he resolved never again to visit the temple at Fudomae.
Schweitzer's passionate quest was to discover a universal ethical philosophy, anchored in a universal reality, and make it directly available to all of humanity.
In the panentheistic model of process philosophy and theology the writers Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne rejected that the universe was made of substance, instead reality is composed of living experiences ( occasions of experience ).
This Ecumenical council declared that Jesus Christ was a distinct being of God in existence or reality ( hypostasis ), which the Latin fathers translated as persona.
In reality, however, the number of chariots in Ahab's forces was probably closer to number in the hundreds ( this due to archaeological excavations of the area and the foundations of stables that had been found ).
Initially led by Canovas del Castillo as moderate prime minister, what was thought at one time as a coup aimed at placing the military in the political-administrative positions of power, in reality ushered in a permanent civilian regime tat lasted until the 1931 Second Republic.
In reality, this goal was divided into three main efforts — to prepare for future invasion, to seek revenge against Persia, and to organize a means of dividing spoils of war.
The original commission that reached Salieri in 1783 – 84 was to assist Gluck in finishing a work for Paris that had been all but completed ; in reality, Gluck had failed to notate any of the score for the new opera and gave the entire project over to his young friend.

reality and empty
The `` reality '' to which they respond is rationally empty and their art is an imitation of the inescapable powerfulness of this unknown and empty world.
Another closely related explanation is that reality is devoid of sensory mediation and conception, or empty, and therefore language itself is a priori inadequate without direct experience.
They investigate consciousness, levels of truth, whether reality is ultimately empty, and how enlightenment is to be achieved.
The Buddha-nature can also be understood as the primordial reality from which phenomenal reality springs or the changeless reality empty of only that which is other than itself.
According to others, the potential of salvation depends on the ontological reality of a salvific, abiding core realitythe Buddha-nature, empty of all mutability and error, fully present within all beings.
Laing suggests that without being enriched by injections of interpersonal reality, there occurs an impoverishment in which one's self-image becomes increasingly empty and volatilized, leading the individual himself to feel unreal.
Reversing the first paradox by asserting that any empty phenomenon is an expression of the absolute non-duality between emptiness and form, or the identity between conditioned, relative reality and the ultimate truth of suchness ( chen-ju ( j ).
* All things are empty and without essential reality.
This school also criticized Neo-Confucianism for being overly concerned with empty philosophical speculation that was unconnected with reality.
As the Doctor throws the switches again, the Cyberman-in reality an empty shell-is destroyed by the gun which emerges from a hidden panel, showing that the room is actually a testing range.
After arriving in Sweden, she is greeted by her future " employer " ( in reality, a pimp ) and taken to a nearly empty apartment where he imprisons her and rapes her.
# The secret class of dakini is Prajnaparamita ( Tibetan yum chenmo ) or voidness, the empty nature of reality according to Mahayana doctrine.
* Ultimate truth ( Sanskrit, paramārthasatya, Pāli paramattha sacca, Tibetan: don-dam bden-pa ), which describes the ultimate reality as sunyata, empty of concrete and inherent characteristics.
This meaning might later be generalized to refer to events both temporally distant ( e. g. the box was empty ) as well as separated in terms of reality or likelihood ( e. g. the box might be empty, if the box were empty ..., the box could be empty, etc.
The empty nest syndrome: Myth or reality?
The repressed representation does not come from the unconscious, it is simply unformed: the unconscious is only an empty representation, it does not exist-or rather, the real unconscious is life itself in its pathetic reality.
In reality both poles of duality are empty, luminous phenomena arising in the nature of mind.

reality and with
It is clear that, while most writers enjoy picturing the Negro as a woolly-headed, humble old agrarian who mutters `` yassuhs '' and `` sho' nufs '' with blissful deference to his white employer ( or, in Old South terms, `` massuh '' ), this stereotype is doomed to become in reality as obsolete as Caldwell's Lester.
some of them are driven over the borderline of sanity and lose contact with reality.
The corporation in America is in reality our form of socialism, vying in a sense with the other socialistic form that has emerged within governmental bureaucracy.
If art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.
What I do is to try to bring him into contact with reality as much as possible.
It reappears, in whole or part, whenever a new crisis exposes the reality: in Cuba last spring ( with which the Dominican events of last month should be paired ) ; ;
Even if it did not, how would this little world of gentle people cope with its new reality of grenades and submachine guns??
Except for those minutes in her room, he had lost touch with her as a reality.
When, therefore, it turned its attention to the concrete entities with which popular imagination had peopled the world of spirit, these entities soon lost whatever status they had enjoyed as actual elements of external reality.
There is no framework or structure of thought with respect to which we can organize it and no part of reality, as we know and apprehend it, with respect to which we can refer this experience.
The technique of reality confusion -- the use of paradox and riddles to shake the mind's grip on reality -- originated with fourth and third century B.C. Chinese Quietism: the koan is not basically a new device.
Korzybski thought that people do not have access to direct knowledge of reality ; rather they have access to perceptions and to a set of beliefs which human society has confused with direct knowledge of reality.
He, along with Moses, performed " signs " before his people which impressed them with a belief in the reality of the divine mission of the brothers ( Exodus 4: 15 – 16 ).
As an alternative ethical theory, Lewis offered a form of divine command theory which equated God with goodness and treated goodness as an essential part of reality, thus asserting God's existence.
Supporters of this view believe that the Roman Empire does not threaten the spread of the gospel of Jesus Christ because Luke “ simply recognizes its existence as a political reality, but he is clear that God is greater .” Throughout Acts, believers like Paul are being charged with spiritual crimes concerning “ teaching against Israel, the law, and the temple ” ( Acts 21: 21, 28 ; 23: 29 ; 24: 5 ; 25: 8, 19 ; 28: 17 ) or being a civil disturbance ( Acts 16: 20, 21: 38, 25: 8 ) rather than political charges.
Obsessed with creating his sculptures exactly as he envisaged through his unique view of reality, he often carved until they were as thin as nails and reduced to the size of a pack of cigarettes, much to his consternation.
Carolla has also appeared on the network reality television programs Dancing with the Stars and The Celebrity Apprentice.
Sakharov later described that " it took years " for him " to understand how much substitution, deceit, and lack of correspondence with reality there was " in the Soviet ideals.
In reality, gases are composed of molecules which collide with one another and solid objects.

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