Word: outwardly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indian philosophy views self-realization as the purpose in life. During the life cycle, a soul moves toward greater awareness through evolution and involution, through a Path of Pursuit and a Path of Return. Men on the outward path assert their willfulness in the physical world and accumulate knowledge of its temporal objects and fleeting sensations. Through wisdom and meditation, men on the inward path gradually break down the separateness of the individual self, and realize their identification with the eternal, divine Self which is one with all of nature...
...elders have been willing to adapt to the outward life style of the young, they have been far more chary of their inner motivations and discrete mores. Youth, of course, has always been a topic of indefatigable fascination to what was once regarded as its elders and betters. But today's young people are the most intensely discussed and dissected generation in history...
...Visser 't Hooft, one major change in ecclesiastical outlook created by the World Council is that Protestants no longer justify their disunity by saying that they all nonetheless belong to the "invisible church"-the concept of a band of Christian brothers united by baptism and faith but no outward ties. Today, he says, "all churches are aware that a unity that cannot be grasped is just as unbiblical as a faith that is kept hidden. It has now also become impossible to believe that the Western-European type of Christendom is the definite and normative form of Christian life...
...Christmas buying usually begins in mid-November, but this year it has not begun yet. The nation of shopkeepers grumbles that sales of television sets are down more than one-third from last year, and sales of autos are down more than onequarter. These are a few of the outward results of Prime Minister Wilson's program to achieve national economic strength through deflation. And the indications are that the Prime Minister has given his country too big a dose of austerity...
...freely given by the church, and in much of Europe the practice has been observed by hardly anyone but the clergy. While declaring that abstinence was no longer binding under pain of sin, the bishops urged the faithful to preserve the custom, particularly during the Lenten season, as "an outward sign of inward spiritual values...