Or is it relevant because it teaches us something useful to know about ourselves??

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

As to our action, let us align ourselves with the purpose expressed by Jesus in the Lord's Prayer: `` Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven ''.

To honor him is to honor ourselves.

But if it is important, what can we do to improve ourselves??

Now the thing for us to do is to find ourselves a couple of those wonderful flowering currants such as the red Ribes sanguineum of our Pacific Northwest, or otherwise a good sloe tree, or perhaps some nice pussy willow in bloom, preferably one with male or staminate catkins.

We have consoled ourselves with the thought that this is a normal human reaction and is one of the consequences of any decision in an adversary proceeding.

The situation in which we find ourselves is brought out with dramatic force in Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, which deals with the Salem witch trials.

In any event, it is an irreversible step, and if we are at all honest with ourselves, we will know we have no other alternative than to live in the world in which God has seen fit to place us.

That is almost a perfect description of the predicament in which we find ourselves today, isn't it??

St Thomas interprets ' You should love your neighbour as yourself ' from Leviticus 19 and Matthew 22 as meaning that love for ourselves is the exemplar of love for others.

However, he thinks we should love God more than ourselves and our neighbours, and more than our bodily life — since the ultimate purpose of loving our neighbour is to share in eternal beatitude: a more desirable thing than bodily well being.

" It is " loving God with all our heart, and our neighbor as ourselves ".

Disraeli wrote a personal letter to Gladstone, asking him to place the good of the party above personal animosity: " Every man performs his office, and there is a Power, greater than ourselves, that disposes of all this ..." In responding to Disraeli Gladstone denied that personal feelings played any role in his decision then and previously to accept office, while acknowledging that there were differences between him and Derby " broader than you may have supposed.

As he told the graduating class of 1990 at Kenyon College, " It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

But all we the rest, although baptized and born again in Christ, yet offend in many things: and if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Thus, by speaking of ' consciousness ' we end up misleading ourselves by thinking that there is any sort of thing as consciousness separated from behavioral and linguistic understandings.

If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

Therefore Thucydides ' History arouses in the reader a sadness which is never aroused by Machiavelli's books.

Fo formulated an operational criteria to tell real satire from sfottò, saying that real satire arouses an outraged and violent reaction, and that the more they try to stop you, the better is the job you are doing.

However, they made a grave mistake in supporting this crime as it arouses the wrath of spirits who then pursue the ship " from the land of mist and snow "; the south wind that had initially led them from the land of ice now sends the ship into uncharted waters, where it is becalmed.

It is believed that Kundalini yoga is that which arouses the sleeping Kundalini Shakti from its coiled base through the 6 chakras, and penetrate the 7th chakra, or crown.

In the version of his defense speech presented by Plato, he claims that it is the envy he arouses on account of his being a philosopher that will convict him.

While " Amhrán na bhFiann " (" The Soldier's Song ") is the national anthem of the Republic of Ireland, its use arouses sensitivities among those with Unionist sympathies in Northern Ireland.

Constitutional conventions arise when the exercise of a certain type of power, which is not prohibited by law, arouses such opposition that it becomes impossible, on future occasions, to engage in further exercises of this power.

Seven years later, Molly ( Justine Waddell ) is now an attractive and rather unworldly young woman, which arouses the interest of one of her father's apprentices, Mr. Coxe ( Richard Coyle ).

Motivation is the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal and elicits, controls, and sustains certain goal directed behaviors.

In an interview as to why Hideki Takayama chose to tell such a violent and sadistic story he said " There is nothing that arouses a stronger response in human beings than either sex or violence.

Some dealt with his radical views on society and politics ; in his novel Drottningens juvelsmycke, his main character, Tintomara, is neither male nor female, and arouses both men and women to fall in love, and in his novel Det går an ( It is acceptable ), a woman lives with a man without being married to him.

She, who is veiled and lies behind a partition, warns Holly that the power of her splendour arouses both desire and fear, but he is dubious.

" Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men: Gifted story arc featured a " mutant cure " designed by Indian Benetech scientist Dr. Kavita Rao, and the prospect of " real " humanity arouses the interest of a heavily mutated Beast, who visits Rao only to discover that the drug is the product of illegal human experimentation on an unknown victim.

Billy, an orphaned illegitimate child suffused with innocence, openness and natural charisma, is adored by the crew, but for unexplained reasons arouses the antagonism of the ship's Master-at-arms, John Claggart, who falsely accuses Billy of conspiracy to mutiny.

In our own generation, R. Ovadia Yosef elsewhere is willing to be lenient on certain normative laws of tzniut when men are no longer enticed by them in the given time and place has expressed the opinion that, " you should not let your heart seize the argument that nowadays since we are accustomed to the voices of women, we need not be concerned that voice arouses lewd thoughts, for we may not say these things out of our own understanding if it is not mentioned in the authorities.

Those in support of sama continue to argue that " according to that which it is not sama and dance which induce ecstasy, but ecstasy which arouses dance, or furthermore, that sama is only a revealing instrument and that it only supplies that which is brought to it by the hearer.

To most psychologists, need is a psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a goal, giving purpose and direction to behavior.

The company which performed the Pulitzer Prize musical here last night and will repeat it twice today is full of bounce, the politicians are in fine voice, the chorines evoke happy memories, and the Little Flower rides to break a lance again.

During this sequence, it is revealed that Mrs. Alexander died from the injuries inflicted during the gang-rape, and her husband has decided to continue living " where her fragrant memory persists " despite the horrid memories.

* Memory encoding is the process of converting sensations into memories.

Back on Chapterhouse, Odrade confronts Duncan and forces him to admit that he is a Mentat, proving that he retains the memories of his many ghola lives.

Odrade is also killed in the melee and Murbella shares memories with her, thereby also becoming Reverend Mother Superior.

In the film, a survivor of a futuristic third World War is obsessed with a distant and disconnected memories of a pier at the Orly Airport, the image of a mysterious woman, and a man's death.

SRAM is not worthwhile for desktop system memory, where DRAM dominates, but is used for their cache memories.

When awareness is focused on memories of past experiences and mental verbalisations, the energy flow to the head chakra increases and the energy flow to the heart chakra lessens.

This is because these fast, but complex and expensive, memories are inherently limited in size, making compact code beneficial.

Of course, the fundamental reason they are needed is that main memories ( i. e. dynamic RAM today ) remain slow compared to a ( high performance ) CPU-core.

Alia had been born with her ancestral memories in the womb, a circumstance the Bene Gesserit called Abomination, because in their experience it is inevitable that the individual will become possessed by the personality of one of their ancestors.

Khrone is successful when he imprisons the Baron in a sensory deprivation tank for a prolonged period ; the Baron's memories of his former life return.

Its counterpart is known as non-declarative or procedural memory, which refers to unconscious memories such as skills ( e. g. learning to ride a bicycle ).

Semantic memories are those that store general factual knowledge that is independent of personal experience.

The ability to retain and recall episodic memories is highly dependent on the hippocampus, whereas the formation of new declarative memories relies on both the hippocampus and parahippocampus Other studies have found that the parahippocampal cortices were related to superior Recognition Memory.

Results from an experiment by Davachi, Mitchell, and Wagner ( 2003 ) and numerous subsequent studies ( Davachi, 2006 ) show that activation in the hippocampus during encoding is related to a subject's ability to recall prior events or later relational memories.

It is also well documented that a hemispheric asymmetry occurs in the PFC: When encoding memories, the Left Dorsolateral PFC ( LPFC ) is activated, and when retrieving memories, activation is seen in the Right Dorsolateral PFC ( RPFC ).