These personal and social goals often overshadow the goals of intellectual clarity, and spiritual transcendence.

These lay abbacies were not merely a question of overlordship, but implied the concentration in lay hands of all the rights, immunities and jurisdiction of the foundations, i. e. the more or less complete secularization of spiritual institutions.

These " conversations " as he called them, were more or less informal talks on a great range of topics, spiritual, aesthetic and practical, in which he emphasized the ideas of the school of American Transcendentalists led by Emerson, who was always his supporter and discreet admirer.

These duties included the administration of justice with the Episcopal court, the negotiation of ransom for captures, teaching and preaching to the masses, converting non-believers, offering spiritual guidance, maintaining political duties, and many other important duties.

These would be invested with some secular symbol such as a sword or scepter and the spiritual authority represented by a ring, miter and crosier.

These believe that what the New Testament described as " speaking in tongues " was xenoglossia, a miraculous spiritual gift through which the speaker could communicate in natural languages not previously studied.

These ideas offered the unlearned a folk spiritual revival, while also giving the scholarly elite a new depth and approach to mysticism.

These discourses, transcribed or worked up by close disciples from points given by Baba, address many aspects of the spiritual life and provide practical and simple direction for the spiritual aspirant.

" These are my Murids ( spiritual seekers ); I am helping them reach enlightenment!

These four world views are the Postmodern-ironist, which sees truth as socially constructed ; the scientific-rational, in which truth is found through methodical, disciplined inquiry ; the social-traditional, in which truth is found in the heritage of American and Western civilization ; and the neo-romantic, in which truth is found through attaining harmony with nature and / or spiritual exploration of the inner self.

These related fields include transpersonal psychology, which studies transcendent or spiritual aspects of the human mind, and Anomalistic psychology, which examines paranormal beliefs and subjective anomalous experiences in traditional psychological terms.

These holistic conceptions were championed by New Age spiritualists in a type of quantum mysticism that they claim justifies their spiritual beliefs, though quantum physicists themselves on the whole reject such attempts as being pseudoscientific.

These saintly figures, he asserts, are " the focal points of spiritual force-fields ", exerting " powerful attractive influence on followers but touch the inner lives of others in transforming ways as well.

These spiritual attitudes not only guided Canada's relations with Hitler but gave the prime minister the comforting sense of a higher mission, that of helping to lead Hitler to peace.

These denominations were based on an interpretation of man's spiritual equality before God, which led them to recruit members and preachers from a wide range of classes and all races.

These teachings emphasize that these acts of mercy provide both temporal and spiritual benefits.

These, together with his Dichos de Luz y Amor, or " Sayings of Light and Love ," and St. Teresa's writings, are the most important mystical works in Spanish, and have deeply influenced later spiritual writers all around the world.

These societies generally attach spiritual significance to such drug use, and often incorporate it into their religious practices.

These lectures, published as Lectures from Colombo to Almora, show his nationalistic fervour and spiritual ideology.

These rituals, along with medical practices, formed an integrated therapy for both physical and spiritual health.

These scholars prefer terms like " spiritual movement ", " new religious syncretism ", or " new religious movement " to avoid the negative connotations of " cult " or to avoid improperly categorizing those which do not fit mainstream definitions.

These include Falun Gong's popularity, China ’ s history of quasi-religious movements which turned into violent insurrections, its independence from the state and refusal to toe the Party line, internal power politics within the Communist Party, and Falun Gong's moral and spiritual content, which put it at odds with the atheist aspects of the official Marxist ideology.

These reflect other yogis of spiritual revelations, such as the vision of two sages, Vyagrapada and Pathanjali in Chidambaram.

These pronouncements, and many others on the album, came to attract extraordinary popular interest at a time when more of the world's youth were using drugs recreationally and looking for spiritual, political, and strategic advice from The Beatles.

These texts, as opposed to Aristotle's lost works, are technical philosophical treatises from within Aristotle's school.

These texts strongly condemn the slaughter of animals and meat eating.

These Orkhon inscriptions are the first known texts in the Old Turkic language.

These texts, in Hebrew, correspond both to the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint Text.

These texts also share an interest in challenging traditional views of the nature of divine justice.

These reformed French Breviaries — e. g. the Paris Breviary of 1680 by Archbishop François de Harlay ( 1625 – 1695 ) and that of 1736 by Archbishop Charles Gaspard Guillaume de Vintimille ( 1655 – 1746 )— show a deep knowledge of Holy Scripture, and much careful adaptation of different texts.

These patrons were intrigued by the novelty of a female writer and had her compose texts about their romantic exploits.

These secondary works ( e. g. Deconstruction for Beginners and Deconstructions: A User's Guide ) have attempted to explain deconstruction while being academically criticized as too far removed from the original texts and Derrida's actual position.

These texts deal with solving algebraic equations, many of which are now lost.

These works, too, are based on former Latin texts.

These two texts are also the only two sources that explicitly mention that the substance was heated over a furnace before being discharged ; although the validity of this information is open to question, modern reconstructions have relied upon them.

These texts discuss theology, philosophy, mythology, rituals and temple building among other topics.

These texts are the central shruti ( revealed ) texts of Hinduism.

These revisions, which since the Clarendon edition of 1869 have been assumed to include all of Act III, scene v, and a portion of Act IV, scene I, are often indicated in modern texts.

These were two or three part compositions in which several different texts, sometimes in different vernacular languages, were sung simultaneously over a Latin cantus firmus that once again was usually adapted from a passage of Gregorian chant.

These readings are most often part of an established lectionary ( i. e., selected texts to be read at church services on specific days ), and ( together with an Old Testament reading and a Psalm ) include a non-gospel reading from the New Testament and culminate with a Gospel reading.

These depictions of punishment may have influenced medieval perceptions of the inferno in hell via early Christian and Coptic texts.

These additional characters were encoded differently in different countries, making texts impossible to decode without figuring out the originator's rules.

These texts do refer to a number of states having Gaṇa sangha, or council-based, as opposed to monarchical governments.

These mostly Polish republicans, such as Łukasz Górnicki, Andrzej Wolan, and Stanisław Konarski, were well read in classical and Renaissance texts and firmly believed that their state was a republic on the Roman model, and started to call their state the Rzeczpospolita.

These two texts made clear the need for a new official English translation of the Roman Missal, particularly because the previous one was at some points an adaptation rather than strictly a translation.

These texts were linked together under the term of Daojia during the early Han Dynasty, but notably not before.

These texts have been passed down for generations from teacher to student.

These texts reflect varying degrees of bias and reliability, but not more so than is usually the case in early medieval writings, and they remain very important.