In the end, the biggest mistake we Senior parents could make is to sanction the sacrifice of this precious, finite time to the grasping notion that there are a certain very few number of right places for our kids to go to college, and that we have no choice but to be all-consumed with getting them there.
Not only is the idea of a permanent self a conceptual fiction, but adopting such a view leads to grasping after notions such as 'I,'meme,' and 'mine' with deleterious effects for our psychological well being: attachment to such a fictional 'I' is the root cause of a range of negative emotions, including selfishness, craving, hatred, conceit, and ill-will.
Grasping this notion can be especially difficult for up-and-comers who have been able to accomplish a great deal on their own.
For outsiders, grasping the notion is key to fathoming the Koreans themselves.
My college friends, a largely wealthy and liberal set, chiefly from big cities or their well-heeled suburbs, at times didn't seem capable of grasping this notion.
But what type of evidence is needed to safely say that an aspiring teacher has not only grasped essential notions and concepts from the teacher education course, but is also able to implement them in real world classroom situations?
When Hilliard's shoulder was dislocated by Brian Dawkins's helmet last Monday night in Philadelphia, a large load fell to Carter and Dixon, a third-year player who has spent most of his professional career trying to grasp the notions of consistency and maturity.
The company hadn't grasped the notion that ads increasingly interact.
Not until Episode 3, for instance, does he grasp the notion of death.
They do not grasp the notion of the White House as a hallowed place where hustling is off-limits.
If a language has no future tense, for instance, its speakers would simply not be able to grasp our notion of future time.
