These qualities are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being " ( Dalai Lama ).

The ultimate source is the Sumerian word gamun.

In some cases, such as " shirt " and " skirt ", one of the cognate pairs has an ultimate source in another language related to English, while the other one is native, as happened with many loanwords from Old Norse borrowed during the Danelaw.

The term creation refers to the beginning of things, whether by the will and act of a transcendent being, by emanation from some ultimate source, or in any other way.

Pope John Paul II on October 2, 2000 emphasized that this document did not say that non-Christians were actively denied salvation: "... this confession does not deny salvation to non-Christians, but points to its ultimate source in Christ, in whom man and God are united ".

Ultimately, those who persist in rejecting God condemn themselves, by cutting themselves off from the ultimate source of all Life, and from the God who is Love embodied.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of critical theory, as Adorno and Horkheimer elaborated in their Dialectic of Enlightenment ( 1947 ), is a certain ambivalence concerning the ultimate source or foundation of social domination, an ambivalence which gave rise to the “ pessimism ” of the new critical theory over the possibility of human emancipation and freedom.

( This Zoroastrian conception of polar opposition and conflict would later come to influence the development of Christianity as it elaborated upon the idea of the Devil as an ultimate source of evil opposed to the Christian God, an idea that was previously absent in Judaism.

A representation of the exchanges of energy between the source ( the Sun ), the Earth's surface, the Earth's atmosphere, and the ultimate sink outer space.

This implies a common origin in Romance Latin, but the ultimate source of the word is unknown.

Buying bullets from a high quality source will help ensure quality, but for ultimate accuracy some shooters will measure even the best bullets, and reject all but the most consistent.

Some authors reject both the French and Goidelic theories and instead suggest that the ultimate source both for the Norman French, Scots and Goidelic variants of this word are to be found in a common Norse root.

Nor was Hitler willing to allow Goebbels or anyone else to usurp his own power as the ultimate source of all decisions.

Second, the absolute Savior is the Father, who is the ultimate source of the risen Lord and of all reality.

Because the ultimate source of law now comes from the sovereign, and the sovereign's decisions need not be grounded in morality, legal positivism is born.

Book I holds that the Bible is the ultimate source of religious authority, and its hymns are written to provide the believer, through simple language, with a thorough understanding of its contents.

Therefore according to this view, God is the " ultimate cause ", but not the " proximate source " or " author " of sin.

In addition to maintaining normal levels of oxygen in the atmosphere, photosynthesis is the source of energy for nearly all life on earth, either directly, through primary production, or indirectly, as the ultimate source of the energy in their food, the exceptions being chemoautotrophs that live in rocks or around deep sea hydrothermal vents.

In packet switching networks, routing directs packet forwarding, the transit of logically addressed packets from their source toward their ultimate destination through intermediate nodes, typically hardware devices called routers, bridges, gateways, firewalls, or switches.

It is the symbol of the source of life, of light and the ultimate wholeness of humanity.

" However, its ultimate source is from the East, although there are disputes as to exactly where or when.

" Natural Law " referred to " the ultimate source of order and harmony displayed throughout creation.

In response to these criticisms, Pope John Paul II on October 2 of that year emphasized that this document did not say that non-Christians were denied salvation: " This confession does not deny salvation to non-Christians, but points to its ultimate source in Christ, in whom man and God are united.

The assumptions of naturalism that underlie the scientific method have led some scientists-especially observationalists-to question whether the ultimate reason or source for the universe to exist can be answered in a scientific fashion.

In 730, while still living in Damascus, Alhazred supposedly wrote a book of ultimate evil in Arabic, al-Azif, which would later become known as the Necronomicon.

Eschatological prophecy deals with the ongoing struggle between the forces of light and darkness, and the ultimate triumph of good over evil.

In the original conception of Zoroastrianism, for example, Ahura Mazda was the spirit of ultimate good, while Ahriman ( Angra Mainyu ) was the spirit of ultimate evil.

In the Idealist ( or Spiritualist or Symbolic ) approach, the events of Revelation are neither past nor future, but are purely symbolic, dealing with the ongoing struggle and ultimate triumph of good over evil.

All realities are in themselves good ; they produce bad results only incidentally ; and consequently the ultimate cause of evil is fundamentally good, as well as the objects in which evil is found.

In his book The Cold War Gaddis argues that, in their use of the phrase " evil empire ," Reagan and his anti-Communist political allies were effective in breaking the détente tradition, thus laying the ground for the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union.

The narrative is one which documents the quintessentially evil essence of the apostate's former organization chronicled through the apostate's personal experience of capture and ultimate escape / rescue.

In the Revelation of John ( Greek Ἀποκάλυψις Ἰωάννου, Apocalypsis Ioannou ), the last book of the New Testament, the revelation which John receives is that of the ultimate victory of good over evil and the end of the present age, and that is the primary meaning of the term, one that dates to 1175.

A " symbol of courage, strength, and wisdom ", Link was designed by Miyamoto as a coming-of-age motif for players to identify with: he begins the game an ordinary boy but strengthens to triumph over the ultimate evil.

Though not the final adversary in the game, Emperor Draygon is the ultimate antagonist and the root of all of evil in Crystalis.

The ultimate Jewish origin of the Mandaeans can still be found despite the vehement polemics against the Jews in Mandaean literature, in which Moses is a false prophet and Adonai ( one of the names of God ) is an evil God.

In the books, Túrin was a Man of the First Age of Middle-earth, whose family had been cursed by the ultimate evil being of the legendarium, Morgoth.

He recalled, simply, that " I thought it would be interesting to create some sort of ultimate evil and combine it with the notion of matter and anti-matter ".

This is a civil war against the ultimate evil, and consequently we must identify us and them in no uncertain terms, a task which will prove to be half the battle ".

To prove to himself that he is capable of " the ultimate evil ", he decides to kidnap and murder a young woman — and eventually chooses Saskia.

The ultimate goal for each human being, according to Strangites, is to willingly conform oneself to the revealed character of God in every way, preferring good to evil not out of any fear of punishment or desire for reward, but rather " on account of the innate loveliness of undefiled goodness ; of pure unalloyed holiness.

The goal is nothing less than to free Tharizdun, the long-imprisoned god of ultimate evil and entropy, and to finally destroy him.

The ultimate goal of the Reckoners is to turn the entire Earth into an evil, haunted wasteland — literally a Hell on Earth.

He commanded them to live in the mountains north of the land of Beleriand, in order to " watch upon " Morgoth, the ultimate evil power who had made war upon the Elves and Men, and to help the exiled Noldorin Elves " in extreme cases ".

His inevitable destruction symbolizes the ultimate victory of good over evil in the Messianic Age or World to Come.

Chomsky argues that the targets of U. S. preventative war must be " virtually defenseless ", " important enough to be worth the trouble " and also there must be " a way to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to survival.

Examining examples of preventative war waged by the United States, he notes that all of the nations that have been attacked have shared the same three characteristics: 1 ) they are " virtually defenseless ", 2 ) they are " important enough to be worth the trouble " and 3 ) there has been a way to portray them as " the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.