Sentence examples for divine desire from inspiring English sources
Freud, Proust, Lawrence have located love inside the human & there is no need to question their location; however, there is no need either to define love as they do — only as desire, since this precludes Divine love, which, while it too may be desire, is a different kind of desire — Divine desire — and is outside of man and capable of lifting him up to itself.
Certainly "will" is consistent with emanation in the pages of Plotinus; we should not start out tacitly wearing Augustinian lenses with any assumptions to the contrary in the Fons Vitae.[16] (In this regard, Pessin 2009, p. 286 with note 54, uses the term "Divine Desire" to replace the Latin "voluntas" and the English "Will" as a translation of Ibn Gabirol's Arabic "al-irâda").
Michael John Cusick is the author of Surfing for God: Discovering the Divine Desire Beneath Sexual Struggle (Thomas Nelson, Inc).
Ecclesiastes states: ve'ha'elokim yevakesh et a ha'nirdaf, The Divine desires (seeks after, embraces, longs for, sides with) the one that is pursued (persecuted).
When they try to divine human desires and happiness, mainstream economists look much more at what people do rather than at what they say.
These examples of web-enabled collective intelligence are inspiring to read about.1 More than inspiring, even; they've come to look like management wish fulfillment — evidence that a committed embrace of collective intelligence is all it takes for a company to magically divine market desires, create exactly what's needed to satisfy them and do it all at little or no cost.
But having glimpsed the divine object of desire, you cannot remain as you were, separate and individuated: you are impelled to unite with it.
The human soul, noblest of all created forms, loves all things to the degree that they manifest the divine goodness, but desires above all to be united with God.
When such unification (copulare) occurs, the individual "sees and desires divine beauty as in a crystal or a clear mirror, but not directly" (vede e desia la bellezza divine come in uno mezzo cristiallino, o sia chiaro specchio, ma non in se stessa immediate).[38] Judah refers to this act as prophecy.
The imagery, linking sexual desire with divine revelation, is inherently Platonistic, although Claudel gives it a unique twist drawing on his own understanding of poetry, religion and sex.
