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"Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect." (Romans 12:2) [5] "Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate." (2 Corinthians 6:17) [6] "If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him."
In his Cratylus, Plato gives the etymology of Athena's name, the goddess of wisdom, from Atheonóa (Ἀθεονόα) meaning "god's (theos) mind (nous)". In his Phaedo , Plato's teacher Socrates is made to say just before dying that his discovery of Anaxagoras' concept of a cosmic nous as the cause of the order of things, was an important ...
Paloutzian suggests that "spiritual transformation constitutes a change in the meaning system that a person holds as a basis for self-definition, the interpretation of life, and overarching purposes and ultimate concerns" (p. 334). [5] One school of thought emphasises the importance of "rigorous self-discipline" in spiritual transformation. [6]
This transformation is described as a "renewing of your mind" (12:2), [79] a transformation that Douglas J. Moo characterizes as "the heart of the matter." [80] It is a transformation so radical that it amounts to "a transfiguration of your brain," a "metanoia", a "mental revolution." [81] Paul goes on to describe how believers should live.
In Repentance: A Cosmic Shift of Mind and Heart, Edward J.Anton observes that in most dictionaries and in the minds of most Christians the primary meaning of "repent" is to look back on past behavior with sorrow, self-reproach, or contrition, sometimes with an amendment of life. But neither Jesus nor John the Baptist says to look back in sorrow.
Division and ignorance are overcome, and replaced with a unity of consciousness. The physical body will be transformed and divinised. The gnostic being sees the spirit everywhere in the world, and in every other person. This awareness eliminates the usual separation between man and life, and between people.
Every month, thousands of Eritreans attempt to flee repression, torture and indefinite forced conscriptions by embarking on a dangerous journey to Europe.
One explanation for this is that happiness is not the brain's default and normal state of mind, whereas the Evolutionary psychologists claim that suffering is. Suffering in the form of everyday stress, hurt, anger, loneliness, worry and disappointment experienced by the layperson is thought to be the side effect of strategies that helped human ...