Dr. Kanwal, who is a Sikh, said, "Indian parents worry about sex, and about their children becoming too materialistic and losing touch with religion".
"People who practice gratitude--and yes, it is something one can learn and improve--are also more compassionate, more likely to help others, less materialistic, and more satisfied with life".
Diderot seized on the Spinozist vision of a world materialistic and godless yet pulsating with energy and the unexpected.
The Imitation of Christ in part I gives "exhortations useful for spiritual living," in part II admonishes man to be concerned with the spiritual side of life rather than with the materialistic, and in part III affirms the comfort that results from being centred in Christ.
That means breaking with the materialistic and individualistic view of man and believing that there is something sacred in each individual, which is the foundation of human dignity.
In Holland La Mettrie published L'Homme-machine (1747; L'Homme Machine: A Study in the Origins of an Idea, 1960), developing more boldly and completely, and with great originality, his Materialistic and atheistic views.
Spiritualism appealed to many educated Victorians who no longer found traditional religious doctrine, such as that of the Church of England, acceptable yet were unsatisfied with the completely materialistic and mechanical view of the world that was increasingly emerging from 19th-century science.
It also requires a strict allegiance to the collective that can be at odds with Russia's new materialistic and individualistic ethos.
They are less materialistic and more creative.
America was built by materialistic and sometimes superficial strivers.
