Only after Jacob's quest-experience wrestling with "the man" can he embrace the masculine within himself, re-embrace Esau after years apart and change his name to become the patriarch Israel (Genesis 35).
Vision quest, supernatural experience in which an individual seeks to interact with a guardian spirit, usually an anthropomorphized animal, to obtain advice or protection.
The over-all subject of this episode, and maybe even of the series, is the quest for experience and self-awareness as a function of sensitivity to others.
Although she is on the opposite end of the autism spectrum from my brother, she faces similarly formidable challenges in her quest "to experience all aspects of life".
The drive for purity extends through all domains — intimate, intellectual, artistic, and, for that matter, religious — as the quest for experience comes into conflict with the yearning for the realization of a higher, even transcendently great, ideal.
Not until the end of the play, when Faust returns to find Gretchen in prison for infanticide, and on the edge of madness, does he realize how selfish his quest for experience has been.
There are so many world-class sporting events scheduled for June 9, many of them in the New York metropolitan area, that it would take a Kerouac-caliber quest to experience them all.
The drive for purity extends through all domains intimate, intellectual, artistic, and, for that matter, religious as the quest for experience comes into conflict with the yearning for the realization of a higher, even transcendently great, ideal.
Bobby's a young man in a hurry, but his hurry is less to wander the world in quest of experience than to find a woman from outside his circle (of course, a shiksa from the American heartland) to settle down with, in a part of New York that's just far enough from home.
READ: Naturally High: My Quest to Experience Different Realms Without Psychedelic Drugs.
