Sentences with phrase «as contemplative»

As a Contemplative Psychotherapist, I provide a non-judgmental and compassionate space to explore challenging life circumstances — past and present — that are currently creating suffering.

«As a contemplative psychotherapist and meditation practitioner, steeped in 28 years of experience, I am here to meet you right where you're at, in a safe and supportive environment.

Agnes Martin's abstract works adhere to no set of rules but appear instead as contemplative, intuitive signs.

Gates's construction also serves as a contemplative space meant to inspire dialogue across philosophical and cultural boundaries on topics ranging from politics and religion to culture, food, and art as well as a performative space for the Black Monks of Mississippi, a group of Baptist - Buddhist musicians who mix slave spirituals, monastic chants, and jazz to create a singular sonorous experience.

Corsini's works, like Flavin's glowing tubes and Reinhart's monochrome voids, operate as contemplative icons seeking to erase the self through communion with pure colour, light and space.

Spalletti's works are often described as contemplative, motivating the viewer to encounter them from many different angles, working to understand objects that seem to defy space.

She also leads workshops in art as a contemplative practice in various academic institutions, community settings, and professional associations.

To create this piece, Tai Hwa Goh explores floristry, the art of flower arranging, which is viewed as a contemplative and devotional practice in Eastern and Western cultures.

I think silence is played out in this book as contemplative space and space to accept what she (Terry) feels.

Wilson doesn't even get many jokes as the contemplative center.

As the contemplative cat communicates her thoughts about love and belonging, Sophie and Jason are unable to externalise their mid-30s angst.

In response, Merton calls for a spirituality of loving resistance, emphasizing that a quiet (miscalled meek) disposition is no guarantee of success either as a contemplative or as a peacemaker.

Nothing one can do will convert Gregorian chant into a style as bodily and erotic in its center as various kinds of rock; nor can rock be made to sound as contemplative or as ethereal as chant, though it can indeed take on an aura of ecstasy.

It can only be understood in the context of a profoundly personal relationship between the individual and Christ, which is why it is considered primarily as a contemplative vocation.

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The hardest aspect of my job as an executive coach is trying to get CEOs such as William and Rachel to sit still for 20 minutes a day in quiet, contemplative thought.

Schultz then went a bit contemplative on the raptly - attentive crowd, sharing with the audience his belief that individual citizens, not just politicians and political parties, need to increase civility and improve the discourse level in the country, not only every four years but ever day, in the face of what Schultz sees as increased partisanship, polarization and cynicism.

At its helm is a skinny, contemplative student of the world who revels in asking questions and couldn't be bothered by so trivial a pursuit as warring with the company's rivals.

I really like the concept of a calm and contemplative approach to investing as expressed by Warren Buffett in his annual newsletters and recent documentary «Becoming Warren Buffett».

And not go deeper in new ways of praying, but actually return to old historic practices that are rooted in our historic Christian contemplative tradition and my sense here, in the Sacred Enneagram is that as we come to terms with what our type is, that actually gives us a clue of what it looks like to nurture a deep, contemplative spirituality.

is that as we come to terms with what our type is, that actually gives us a clue of what it looks like to nurture a deep, contemplative spirituality.

The story of Mary and Martha was used as the basis for thinking about the pace of our lives, whether we're naturally more commuters or contemplatives and what pace God might be calling us to.

For the contemplative, prayer is her work, essential as it is, and she is often engaged in hospitality at her monastery.

So you find an identity with the mystics and contemplatives as well and the idea of an all - knowing, personal, caring deity is something you think of as silly and and obviously anthropocentric.

In defining the complex notion of wisdom, Deane - Drummond introduces the concept of wisdom as an understanding of different facets of reality, a contemplative «way of knowing» lost by modern science with its focus on specific discoveries.

It records a wide variety of life experiences — the happy and the difficult — from her youth and Hollywood years to her service to the world as a Benedictine contemplative.

The post is so full of historical inaccuracies, theological problems, and contradictions that it's hard to know where to start, but I want to make clear from the get - go that my response to this post should not be seen as an attack on Tim Challies himself, (who I respect and like), but rather a response to the general belief that God's presence is limited to the pages of Scripture and that all forms of contemplative or experiential spirituality should therefore be dismissed out of hand or regarded with suspicion.

One of the commenters after Challlies» post also mentioned Richard Foster, Thomas Merton, centering prayer, contemplative prayer, lectio divina, and prayer labyrinths, which the commenter describes as efforts to «access God in a pagan / occult way.»

Rather, they are dispositions for public actions — perhaps contemplative practices, perhaps discursive reasoning employing a publicly shared language, perhaps physical expressions of emotions employing culturally conventional facial expressions or bodily movement, perhaps intentional bodily action (as we have noted, just which of these public actions has not been specified).

Haggerty prescribes contemplative prayer as an antidote to the ills of secular society.

But when so little wilderness remains in a nation, the contemplative gifts it offers — such as silence, solitude and a sense of awe — become worth as much as the marketable commodities that can be extracted.

At the end of history, we can return to nature or eternity as either soulless animals or contemplative thinkers.

Himmelfarb's final example is the biographer Phyllis Rose, who, against her brother - in - law's strongly expressed wishes, published an intimate account of his abandoning a successful career as a concert pianist in order to become a contemplative monk.

He seemed more than merely curious, rather contemplative, as if this question was more personal to him.

For others, however, a contemplative pattern will ground their coming days, with morning prayer as orienting as a compass checked at dawn.

There are other signs of double thread being lived out through organizations such as the Center for Action and Contemplation and Socially Concerned Contemplatives.

I know we're programmed to see the 12 apostles as saints with halos and contemplative faces.

His purpose — as even, the somewhat fragmentary Asian Journal makes clear — was to enhance the contemplative life of his own tradition.

When I was at uni, our Friday night contemplative prayer group would have a meal together before the praying and we'd have the bread and wine (or grape juice) as part of the meal.

The result is a spiritually arid isolation, which is far different from the joyful work of contemplative priests and nuns, who value the world, as God's creation, and believe that quiet, redemptive prayer is the best way to improve it.

As if to redress singlehandedly the real and perceived neglect of women's contributions to the Catholic Church, McNamara gives us an exhaustively researched, comprehensively presented, and splendidly written history, from clandestine Roman days to the present, of the women who were consecrated to the lay apostolate or the contemplative life.

I enjoy doing my art, and it provides me with hours of relaxation, contemplative time, hard work that has visible results (unlike the ministry), and extra income to supplement what I make as a pastor.

From these he put together a theory of contemplative prayer: That as person becomes increasingly contemplative in his prayer, he will move from «meditation» (thinking about or imagining Our Lord, for example) to a place where meditation, affections, and thinking ceases and are replaced by what seems to be an experience of nothing, but is closer union with God.

Among converts to Orthodoxy, for instance, as well as among many cradle Orthodox of a particularly rigorist kind, Dostoevsky is especially honored for having held firmly to Chalcedonian orthodoxy and having introduced the greater world to the figure of Father Zosima, from whom all the light of Eastern Christian contemplative spirituality shines out; and, more generally, among Christians of many confessions, Dostoevsky is revered as a prophet, the great Christian anti-Nietzsche, the voice of ancient Christian truth crying out in the spiritual desert of the modern West.

Second, Dillard experiences her contemplative life very much as a late 20th century person, heir to the demythologizing that characterizes our time and culture.

As Fr Bertram suggests, those who have never felt drawn to the «contemplative» spiritual tradition may find Newman's work especially helpful - but in truth, there is something in these pages for everyone to treasure.

One idea is that the elves represent something of the contemplative, withdrawn as they are from the world, living peacefully in hidden places like Rivendell, whose ambiance is described by the author with the love and awe of a person who has experienced the depth of retreat - like stillness.

The religious vocation of priest or monk or nun was viewed as having a higher spiritual sanctity than ordinary labor, the contemplative being ranked above the active life.

As someone who spent three years in a contemplative novitiate in France, I can testify to the strength of this experience.

However, even if it were clear that contemplative prayer and God as transcendent must stand or fall together (and that is not clear), one would have to point out that it is strange that, if the transcendent God died fully and finally to his transcendence in Jesus of Nazareth, contemplative prayer should have flourished so vigorously in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, not to mention the classical theistic theologies of the fourth and fifth centuries and the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

The effect «is supposed to be contemplative, but really it looks as if the son has caught dad puzzling through a senior moment.»