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  • noun Plural form of epiphany.

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  • Another comparison: "While Lynch dregs shocking epiphanies from the gunk of the subconscious, Weerasethakul’s mysteries lie right on the surface, in the obvious, seemingly trivial moments that are riddle and answer at once."

    GreenCine Daily: Syndromes and a Century. 2007

  • While Maslow's theories are humanistic, they have a connection to religion and spiritual life in what he called "peak experiences," and what the religious world might call epiphanies -- moments of clarity or ecstasy when the enormity of the wonder of the physical world, harmony with others and relationship with the transcendent, with God, are felt in powerful, transformational ways.

    Cathleen Falsani: An Invitation to The Great Conversation Cathleen Falsani 2012

  • While Maslow's theories are humanistic, they have a connection to religion and spiritual life in what he called "peak experiences," and what the religious world might call epiphanies -- moments of clarity or ecstasy when the enormity of the wonder of the physical world, harmony with others and relationship with the transcendent, with God, are felt in powerful, transformational ways.

    Cathleen Falsani: An Invitation to The Great Conversation Cathleen Falsani 2012

  • Then came what she likes to call her "epiphanies."

    NYT > Home Page By CONSTANCE ROSENBLUM 2011

  • Then came what she likes to call her "epiphanies."

    NYT > Home Page By CONSTANCE ROSENBLUM 2011

  • They recalled epiphanies at Harvard's Fogg Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery and the Williams College Art Museum.

    More Than the Art Would Be Lost 2009

  • Abraham, Moses, Joshua and many of the prophets experienced "epiphanies," where God appeared to them.

    Diana Butler Bass: Gabby Opened Her Eyes and We Should Too Diana Butler Bass 2011

  • Abraham, Moses, Joshua and many of the prophets experienced "epiphanies," where God appeared to them.

    Diana Butler Bass: Gabby Opened Her Eyes and We Should Too Diana Butler Bass 2011

  • And perhaps, I think, those are the kind of epiphanies that we no longer have because we don't listen to our elders the way the young listened to elders in Fred's time in the small town where he grew up in and which much of the book is about.

    Mark Joseph: Fred Thompson Teaches The Pigs To Dance 2010

  • And perhaps, I think, those are the kind of epiphanies that we no longer have because we don't listen to our elders the way the young listened to elders in Fred's time in the small town where he grew up in and which much of the book is about.

    Mark Joseph: Fred Thompson Teaches The Pigs To Dance 2010

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