What's the difference between amma and spiritual?

Amma


Definition:

  • (n.) An abbes or spiritual mother.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I wondered whether Amma felt like more of a mother to her than her real mother.
  • (2) Backed by big names such as Jessica Chastain, Juliette Binoche, Queen Latifah, Freida Pinto and Amma Asante, it will announce its first project at Cannes in May.
  • (3) We've seen what have looked like breakthroughs in the past and they haven't been – what they've been is industry fads Amma Asante “At this time last year a lot of questions I was getting from the press and people in the industry was ‘do you think we’ve hit a turning point?’ And it was a question that was nagging at me as well: have we finally hit a point where we’ve made a breakthrough?” “I was worried because we’ve seen what have looked like breakthroughs in the past and they haven’t been – what they’ve been is industry fads.
  • (4) A United Kingdom review: Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo in fine romance Read more The former, in which he stars as Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana, who caused an international stir for marrying a white woman from London in the late 1940s, comes from Amma Asante , whose mixed-race period romance Belle also debuted at Toronto.
  • (5) This piece was amended on 23 February 2015 to correct the spelling of Amma Asante’s name.
  • (6) The effects of acetylethylcholine mustard and its aziridinium derivative (AMMA) on acetylcholine (ACh) release and [3H]quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB) binding were studied in rat cortical synaptosomes.
  • (7) When I spoke to some of the live-in devotees, I realised that they see their connection with Amma as the strongest relationship in their lives.
  • (8) Mata Amritanandamayi Devi - "mother of immortal bliss", otherwise known simply as Amma, or "mum" - is said to be the divine embodiment of pure, selfless love.
  • (9) I've been to many hospitals," he said, gesturing to his shoulders and knees, "but once Amma is hugging me, all my problems will be gone, for sure."
  • (10) Since then, she had spent everything she had on Amma's organisation, taking summer jobs and using money left to her by her grandparents to pay for trips to Amritapuri, before moving here permanently four years ago.
  • (11) Devotees buy apples, oranges and bananas from stalls next to the stage to give Amma as an offering when they go up to get a hug.
  • (12) There's a cafe that serves perfect cappuccinos, lattes, pizzas and burgers, an in-house travel agent, an internet centre and a souvenir stand that sells everything from books, posters, DVDs and CDs to Amma dolls, calendars, fridge magnets and soap.
  • (13) It was shown that solutions of 3-AMMA were rather stable in weak acid and neutral media and degraded at pH greater than 9.0.
  • (14) She was 22, but hadbeen a devotee since she was 12, after she had her first hug on one of Amma's European tours.
  • (15) But for Amma Attar, who has spent more than a month living with 36 family members in a UN school in Gaza after fleeing her home amid shelling and shooting, it is close to a miracle.
  • (16) AMMA and oxotremorine both reduced the basal and 30 mM K+-induced release of newly synthesized [3H]ACh in dose-dependent manners over a 2.5-min period.
  • (17) My hug with Amma felt like an intimate experience, but it's one she has already shared with more than 30 million people around the world.
  • (18) AMMA (50 microM) reduced high-affinity choline uptake and ACh synthesis by greater than 90% in this tissue, but these effects did not account for the [3H]ACh release inhibition, because they were not atropine sensitive and hemicholinium-3 had no effect on [3H]ACh release under the conditions used in these studies, i.e., after extracellular [3H]choline was washed out.
  • (19) For Pikser the makeup of the academy is an extension of the industry as a whole: “Hollywood has created an audience and an expectation and the racism of society is built into the business model.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Amma Asante, right, directs Sarah Gadon and Gugu Mbatha-Raw in Belle.
  • (20) The inhibition of basal and 30 mM K+-induced [3H]ACh release by AMMA (10-250 microM) was blocked by 2 microM atropine during a 2.5-min release incubation, but not during a 30-min release incubation.

Spiritual


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the moral feelings or states of the soul, as distinguished from the external actions; reaching and affecting the spirits.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the soul or its affections as influenced by the Spirit; controlled and inspired by the divine Spirit; proceeding from the Holy Spirit; pure; holy; divine; heavenly-minded; -- opposed to carnal.
  • (a.) Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as, the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation.
  • (n.) A spiritual function, office, or affair. See Spirituality, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She is not: "Religion has nothing to do with spirituality."
  • (2) In turn, nursing strategies that are selected as a result of such theoretically based assessments are likely to be effective in preventing spiritual distress.
  • (3) It begins with the origins of treatment in the self-help temperance movement of the 1830s and 1840s and the founding of the first inebriate homes, tracing in the United States the transformation of these small, private, spiritually inclined programs into the medically dominated, quasipublic inebriate asylums of the late 19th century.
  • (4) Only recently has the spiritual aspect of care received attention in our professional literature.
  • (5) Mahler's Second Symphony - that song of love, renewal, and spiritual growth that Abbado has been singing for more than 40 years.
  • (6) Participant observation among white, middle class spiritual healing groups in the Baltimore area (1981-1983) revealed distinct sociocultural and interpersonal patterns of action and influence among two types of groups found.
  • (7) He called for care for the environment to be added to the seven spiritual works of mercy outlined in the Gospel that the faithful are asked to perform throughout the pope’s year of mercy in 2016.
  • (8) This article presents a conceptualization of health as consisting of social, mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical components; a conceptualization of wellness as the integration of these components; and a conceptualization of high-level wellness as the balance of these components.
  • (9) Caring for persons with AIDS calls upon a range of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual interventions that, in the absence of a cure, can make a palpable difference for patients.
  • (10) Aristotle clearly regarded this as a spiritual development also.
  • (11) I relate this clinical observation to the idea of non-attachment as found in spiritual tradition, and I draw on the work of Bion and Matte Blanco to locate these ideas within psychoanalytic theory.
  • (12) The two reformists Mr Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have sought to portray themselves as the true heirs of the Islamic revolution's spiritual leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, but this tactic has since worn thin and Khomeini's successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stepped up his drive to paint Mousavi and Karroubi as western-run heretics.
  • (13) Today George Avakian, the jazz producer who befriended both of them, believes: “The session in which she did A Sailboat in the Moonlight is really the one that expresses their closeness musically and spiritually more than any other.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Holiday admitted she wanted to sing in the style that Young improvised, while he often studied the lyrics before playing a song.
  • (14) We are a nation in a state of transition, and, whatever you believe about the spiritual dimension of Mount Kinabalu, it’s important for all Malaysians that tourists treat us with respect.
  • (15) Some of this stems from confusing spirituality with religion.
  • (16) Thanksgiving this year should be a worldwide celebration to honor the water protectors and recognize the spiritual battle that has sustained us since the arrival of Columbus,” said Cheryl Angel, a Sicangu Lakota.
  • (17) However, mainstream spiritual leaders have denied that the practice stems from religion.
  • (18) By the beginning of the 1960s the American press began to see Salinger's refusal to engage with the public as a provocation, while critics became increasingly impatient with the spiritual worries of the Glass family.
  • (19) The cross-gender status of the acaults is sanctioned by their spiritual marriage to Manguedon.
  • (20) They are regarded as symbols of the spiritual environment.