The opposite ofLivingness is Deadness, that is, inertia and stagnation.
What completer proof can we have that livingness consists in deed rather than in consciousness of deed?
When we realize the truth about the Creative Process, we see that the originating life is not physical: its livingness consists in thought and feeling.
What is seeking for expression, then, is the perfect Livingness of the Spirit; and this expression is to be found, through ourselves, by means of our renewed mode of thought.
But if we think of Life as the fact of livingness we do not associate it with any idea of extension, and we at once realize that the mouse is quite as much alive as the elephant, notwithstanding the difference in size.
There is, of course, one sense in which the quality of livingness does not admit of degrees; but there is another sense in which it is entirely a question of degree.
At first we may be disposed to say that livingness consists in the power of motion and deadness in its absence; but a little enquiry into the most recent researches of science will soon show us that this distinction does not go deep enough.
We have no doubt as to the livingness of a plant, but we realize that it is something very different from the livingness of an animal.
Let us then commence by enquiring what we really mean by the livingness which we attribute to spirit and the deadness which we attribute to matter.
The solution of the problem will never be found by comparing Life with what we call deadness, and the reason for this will become apparent later on; but the true key is to be found by comparing one degree of livingness with another.
This is the image which men make of God and then bow terrified before it, offering a worship which is the worship of Baal, and making life blank because all the livingness has been wiped out of it.
That is the living proof of the value of his opinion to himself, and no change in his opinions can be for the better that does not lead him to a greater recognition of the livingness of Divine Spirit in himself.
It is the grand intelligence and livingness of Universal Spirit continually pressing forward to manifestation of itself in a glorious humanity.
As we advance in this knowledge we know ourselves to be unlimited, and that, in the miniature world, whose centre we are, we ourselves are the very same overflowing of joyous livingness that the Great Life Spirit is in the Great All.
The unqualified affirmation of our own livingness is not an audacious self-assertion: it is the only logical outcome of the fact that there is any life anywhere, and that we are here to think about it.
It may seem a truism, but the great secret of Life is its Livingness, and it is just more of this quality of Livingness that we want to get hold of; it is that good thing of which we can never have too much.
Look at Life as the one thing that is, whether in you or around you; try to realise the livingness of it, and then seek to enter into the Spirit of it by affirming it to be the whole of what you are.
Its livingness is patent to our observation, at any rate from the point where we recognise it in the vegetable kingdom; but its intelligence and responsiveness are not, perhaps, at once so obvious.
The Spirit is Life, hence its generic tendency must always be lifeward or to the increase of the livingness of every individual.
The livingness of Life consists in both concentration and externalisation: it is not the dead equilibrium of inertia, but the living equilibrium of a vital and rhythmic pulsation.
Desire is thus the sum-total of the livingness of Life, for it is that in which all movement originates, whether on the physical level or the spiritual.
Of course it must be borne in mind that a machine can only claim any appreciable even aroma of livingness so long as it is in actual use.
Omnipresent non-livingness or mechanism with appearances as though the mechanism were guided and controlled by thought--which appearances are deceptive; this is the other.
Are we to let it pass beyond the limits of the body, and allow a certain temporary overflow of livingness to ordain as it were machines in use?
By this admission degrees of livingness are admitted within the body; this involves approaches to non-livingness.
If this origin of our own creative faculty is left out of sight we shall fail to recognize the Livingness of the Greater Life within which we live.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "livingness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
