#this-worldliness

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here a dot, a mark, a sign

  2480 4135       more and more every day       06 2491 2254       enthusiastic, rise       18 2495 0227       faint and fall down       20 2502 1123       travelling by night       02 2502 2502 7820 7820       Here a dot, There a dot       10 — 2515 2515 1890 1890       sway and shake       16 — 2546 7333       dizzy       01 2550 5331 2603 2604       in the dim twilight       22 2562 0342       dawn light (lit. or fig.)       17 — 2655 0673 5399 1378       luxuriant growth of jungle flora       18 — 2871 6125       a mark, a sign       22 — 2973 1172 0000 2076 2436       just as ... had imagined       22 — 2974 1489 1840       “This-worldliness”       17 [as opposed to] 1489 1840       “Other Worldliness” — 3081 3279 3403 3269       Dashing of waves and roaring of breakers       17 — 3089 1374       quiet, silent       17

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selection (in order of appearance) from Chinese Mandarin Advanced Course : Glossary for Newspaper and Periodicals Reader. Defense Language Institute (March 1972) ERIC ED066065 at archive.org

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[a-path-beyond84]

One of the most unfortunate results of this-worldliness is that even in the Church real hope is more and more replaced by optimism. One passes over in silence the metaphysical tragedy of man, his weakness in observing the laws of God, which is magnificently presented to us in the Dies Irae.  One thinks that this world is a "vale of tears" only because it contains poverty, social injustice disease - in other words for purely earthly reasons and not because of the metaphysical situation of man.  The spirit of this-worldliness even pushes into the background the deepest suffering which we can experience of earth, the death of a beloved person.

Dietrich von Hildebrand, The Devastated Vineyard, pg. 223