Inspired by novelists of an earlier era, I embarked on a career in journalism, hoping it would take me around the globe, expose me to extraordinary stories, and make me worldly in the process.
While Times scion Otis Chandler held the reins of the paper (1960 80), he transformed it into a more liberal and worldly publication, in the process offending most members of the Chandler family.
Rather, Berkeley's crowd scenes are macro-scale displays of micro-scale events, the visual conjuring of underlying mental and physical processes — and their worldly manifestations.
Human experiences are the outcomes of a range of interacting processes and are thus worldly events.
Three central moments can be discerned: (1) The soul's imprisonment in the terrestrial world, which is foreign to her; (2) the role of self-knowledge (i.e. coming to know one's true, other-worldly self) in the process of liberation; (3) wisdom as the means to this liberation.
Buffetrille (1998) describes two types of sacred mountain in Tibet: that of the locally relevant yul-lha; and those worthy of circumambulation (ne-ri), which have been converted into Buddhist supra-worldly divinities through a process of taming (dul-ba) significant to the wider Tibetan community.
The idea of destruction as both a creative process and a metaphorical protest against worldly violence continues to animate a lot of art today, to the point of cliché.
They also tell of worldly outcomes, intended or otherwise, of those interventions into processes that both antedate them and outlast them.
When we learn to identify the true worldly source of sin, the gnostics instruct, then we can begin the process of unifying with the divine by divorcing ourselves from the phenomenal world.
Hard work in the process is needed though (and quite a lot if you have big "worldly" dreams involving communities, equal access to education, economic-social and environmental sustainable growth opportunities and inclusive development for all).
