self-perfection

Noyes had come up with his own unique Christian theology, called Perfectionism, based on the values of self-perfection and communalism (which extended to something called “complex marriage”: every man and every woman in the community was considered married to each other.)

Things I Found in my Mother-in-Law's House: Vices ewillett 2008

Speaking of rejection, way back in the 1960s, I wrote a fable in novella form about self-perfection, love and hope that got dinged all over the place before I finally gave up trying to sell it.

"After all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm..." Ann Althouse 2009

What is significant is that Mulla Sadra proposes a thoroughly rational, or intellectual approach to understanding reality that assumes not only that reality is a given, existing independently of our minds, but also that human minds are capable through self-perfection to understand reality.

Mulla Sadra Rizvi, Sajjad 2009

Such feelings are intensely felt, but conflict with a fantasized self-perfection "I am more compassionate", "I am more loving", "I am a better person" cause them to be "disowned" and conveniently placed on the object of the envy, rage or hate.

Archive 2009-03-01 Dr. Sanity 2009

The word “samurai” is used to highlight the “very real similarities and the grounding that the game has in budo or bugei, the martial arts of old, and its relationship to bushido with its lessons about dedication, self-perfection, submergence of ego and development of inner strength.”

Samurai Baseball: Off Base or Safe at Home? 2007

The word “samurai” is used to highlight the “very real similarities and the grounding that the game has in budo or bugei, the martial arts of old, and its relationship to bushido with its lessons about dedication, self-perfection, submergence of ego and development of inner strength.”

井の中の蛙 » Samurai Baseball: Off Base or Safe at Home? » Print 2007

Unlike the baby boomers before us, who protested and marched and shouted their way from college into adulthood, we were a strikingly apolitical group, way more caught up in our own self-perfection as we came of age, than in working to create a more perfect world.

Mommy Madness 2007

The word “samurai” is used to highlight the “very real similarities and the grounding that the game has in budo or bugei, the martial arts of old, and its relationship to bushido with its lessons about dedication, self-perfection, submergence of ego and development of inner strength.”

Samurai Baseball: Off Base or Safe at Home? 2007

Mechanical, artificial, divorced from nature, utilizing only the smallest part of man's potential capacities, sentencing the great majority of workers to spending their working lives in a way which contains no worthy challenge, no stimulus to self-perfection, no chance of development, no element of Beauty, Truth, Goodness.

Distributism: Economics as if People Mattered 2007

The word “samurai” is used to highlight the “very real similarities and the grounding that the game has in budo or bugei, the martial arts of old, and its relationship to bushido with its lessons about dedication, self-perfection, submergence of ego and development of inner strength.”

AHC #13 2007