Transcendence

The phoenix is a powerful symbol. This symbol is often used in literature for its symbolic meaning. The mythological bird bursts into flames at the moment of death, but that is only the beginning of the bird’s story. When the bird has transformed into a mere pile of ashes, it is reborn out of those ashes. Therefore, the phoenix is a symbol of rebirth, resurrection, renaissance, and persistence. The UXL Encyclopedia of World Mythology actually clarifies that, “The main theme of the myth of the…

development of the self with respect to external influences. The six criteria are: relatedness, transcendence, rootedness, identity, frame of orientation, and stimulation (Engler, 2009). Relatedness is essentially an individual’s ability to relate to others and eventually empathize with others, which creates a sense of belonging to a social order and responsibility as a contributing member of society. Transcendence is essentially an individual’s acceptance of their existence and efforts to…

The stages-of-change model was developed in the mid 1980s by James Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente. The model showed that people can make behavior health changes on their own. The model has six steps including precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and relapse. The model shows that changes does not happen in one step but rather through different stages. The stages-of-change model has also been use in a broad range of behaviors health behavior change programs…

The Upanishad’s Guidance to Transcendence Philosophers of the past and present quarrel over the ways in which the soul becomes known, or if there even is one. Ideas drift around about the methods to seek the soul and how individuals realize they contain a soul. The Upanishads created an extensive and specific guide of how to seek the soul. This paper will detail further on how the Upanishads directs followers on spiritual experiences to seek the self. Truth signifies the acceptance of the…

improved health-care delivery system. Comfort can be difficult to define and subjective to every person. However, Kolbaca used other theories to propose three types of comfort: relief, ease, and transcendence. Relief comes when a specific comfort is met, while ease is a state of calm or contentment. Transcendence occurs when the individual learns to cope with the discomfort or “rises above” (p. 382-383). Comfort and discomfort can be perceived in on or more of the following contexts; physical,…

The characters in “The Dead” are not actually living at all, as one can see in the narrator’s descriptions of the events and traditions that are continuously brought up, and in how those and the characters are predictably and monotonously described. The first example of monotony is the mention of the dance, “It was always a great affair, the Misses Morkan’s annual dance,” (21). The description of the dance indicates that it has been going on for “Years and years” for “as long as anyone could…

“The paradox— and a fearful paradox it is— is that the American Negro can have no future anywhere, on any continent, as long as he is unwilling to accept his past. To accept one’s past— one’s history— is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it.” (81) This passage is taken from the second part of James Baldwin’s book, The Fire Next Time, in which Baldwin states his personal opinion on racism and the hardships of blacks. A sentence before this passage he is says that…

state allows the individual to define for himself the transcendent power that is at the center of the public democracy. The state does not make the citizens commit to a specific god, but instead leaves an “empty shrine” that stands for any general transcendence that a citizen could image. This respect for individual interpretation of the transcendent is the key element that makes the democracy of America universal, and thus sought after by the…

The Transcendence exhibition at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art displays abstraction and symbolism in art created by artists who used those methods while living in the American West. The exhibition shows the varying insights and points of view of the many artists involved, which shows the evolving view of the American West. In the Transcendence collection there are over thirty five artists. The artists include, Thomas Akawie, Emil Bisttram, Richard Bowman, Robert Brady, Harold Cohen,…

dynasty in China. In this dynasty they wrote poems to her, about her and about their stories of becoming one with the Dao. They refer to her in many ways, some use other names or terms for her, others use her different titles. They narrate their transcendence through these poems to show others how to find the Way. One such author, the Daoist master Ssu-k’ung T’u refers to her as “Amah,” which means wet nurse. He uses this term to claim that she is his surrogate mother as well as his teacher.…