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Posted by A.J. Mahari on October 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Loneliness is, on one level a universal experience. There is a collective experience, to some degree, by each and every living individual of what it means, from time to time, to be lonely. The degree to which anyone finds loneliness a painful experience, of course, varies and is related to your level of personal awareness and to the choices that you have made and are making in your own life.
Filed under Culture, Self Improvement · Tagged with aj mahari, childhood pain, Dialectic Magazine, grief, Loneliness, loneliness is a teacher, loss, Mental Health, pardox of loneliness, purpose of loneliness, Self Help, Self Improvement, self psychology, separateness, solitude, transformative loneliness, unresolved abandonment
Posted by A.J. Mahari on October 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The focus on weight loss promoted by a bloated and dysfunctional diet industry causes many New Year’s resolution ideas and media-based stories to focus on people of size in ways that promote fat phobia. Size and self acceptance would be a much more productive New Year’s resolution on the part of everyone.
Filed under Body and Self, Culture, Self Improvement · Tagged with aj mahari, body image, diet industry scam, eating disorders, fat, fat acceptance, fat fit, fat prejudice, media thin is in spin, new year's resolutions promote fat phobia, obesity, shame, weight obsession in culture
Posted by Irene S. Roth on October 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment
What Are We Doing When We Pray? On Prayer and The Nature of Faith, a book by Vincent Brummer. Brummer’s book is a concise and sophisticated book which addresses the practical question of whether prayer makes a difference in the lives of believers. Brummer addresses a classic difficulty that was initially raised by Kant and other philosophers and theists about whether prayer is only a private mental exercise or something much more than this. Brummer argues that, for believers, prayer has the power to transform the ordinary into something extraordinary. Prayer is more than a bunch of words that believers utter to God. Prayer is a way of opening our lines of communication with God on a deep level by telling God our wishes, desires, deep-seated fears, and disappointments. Prayer is a unique way of communicating with God that isn’t really possible by any other means.
Filed under Books & Reviews, Culture, Religion · Tagged with believers, Dialectic Magazine, faith, hope, Irene S. Roth, praying, religion, Vincent Brummer, what are we doing when we pray, what is prayer
