Sentences with phrase «become contemplatives»

Unless we become contemplatives, how will we ever be able to face a lifetime of doubts, temptations and fears?

The psalmists were poets and I began to absorb beauty, the sounds and repetitions, and became a contemplative — realising that language was not just telling me something but inviting me into a world of language that was more about what you couldn't see than what you could.

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.

To have become a contemplative, he asserts, is to have touched the center of peace with the discovery that God is one's other and true Self.

They become contemplative, sensual, and pregnant with issues of time and human intimacy.

Up - ended and stripped of its utility, Lamson's canoe becomes a contemplative object, a luminous sculpture.

Not exact matches

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».

Tyranowski, possibly because he was supporting his mother, became intent on living the contemplative life in the lay state.

A trained psychologist based at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he has become the leader of a relatively new field called contemplative neuroscience - the brain science of meditation.

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.

Inspired by a spirituality retreat, Joe becomes the unofficial leader of a small band of contemplatives.

Later the concept becomes more individual, contemplative: He is free who has autopraxia, that is who can do what he wants.

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.

The contemplative life, in which the hidden life of oneness with the divine becomes more and more central, may well begin in an experience of pain.

Usurping the contemplative basis of a truly fruitful spiritual life and becoming that which we turn to in all our needs.

Life is contemplative when the means become congruent with the ends.

AND And teaches us to say yes And allows us to be both - and And keeps us from either - or And teaches us to be patient and long suffering And is willing to wait for insight and integration And keeps us from dualistic thinking And does not divide the field of the moment And helps us to live in the always imperfect now And keeps us inclusive and compassionate toward everything And demands that our contemplation become action And insists that our action is also contemplative And heals our racism, our sexism, heterosexism, and our classism And keeps us from the false choice of liberal or conservative And allows us to critique both sides of things And allows us to enjoy both sides of things And is far beyond any one nation or political party And helps us face and accept our own dark side And allows us to ask for forgiveness and to apologize And is the mystery of paradox in all things And is the way of mercy And makes daily, practical love possible And does not trust love if it is not also justice And does not trust justice if it is not also love And is far beyond my religion versus your religion And allows us to be both distinct and yet united And is the very Mystery of Trinity

Some of his interpretations of the word are incredibly far from the original intent, and I think IHOP has become a place for legalism and aberrant spirituality, like mysticism through contemplative prayer, etc..

Rather, it's to keep busy so the Devil doesn't tempt you (and also so that you don't become one of those Catholic contemplatives).

But when sports are dislocated from a life with a proper balance between work, study, and more contemplative forms of leisure, they can become pernicious.

Likewise, although modern yoga has become equated with asana, the physical postures are only a small part of the larger contemplative tradition of classical yoga as put forth in the Patanjali's Yoga Sutra.

What is contemplative and meaningful at first becomes tiresome when you dwell on it.

There's a certain class of low - budget indie filmmaking that's become almost its own recognizable style — full of ordinary people just trying to find happiness in unorthodox ways, hand - held close - up shots, montages of locations (easily recognized if you live in the area where they're shot, but not particularly tied to the story, which could take place anywhere) with light music underneath, a tendency to shift focus amateurishly (though I think often on purpose as part of the style), a lot of contemplative pauses and awkward conversations.

The crisis of potentially losing his only friend sends Manglehorn into some dark, contemplative territory that threatens to upend his secluded existence, especially as his relationship with the bank teller becomes potentially romantic.

Where there's increasingly not much to enjoy or contemplate in von Trier's work, Refn's genre films in arthouse drag have become increasingly bewitching, and contemplative in their dissection of the masculine aesthetic and behavior.

Finally, Mia's actions become so incredibly sickening by the over-the-top finale that they steal any sense of soul or contemplative power the episode may have had before.

Old characters die off, new heroes take the spotlight, a cartoonishly evil villainous empire which manages to NOT be cartoonishly evil but nuanced and complex in its culture; the deeply philosophical and contemplative hero Jedi who eventually becomes the villain thanks to GOOD WRITING instead of NOOO NOT MY WIFE DO N'T HURT MY WIFE WAAAHHH I AM VADER.

With each passing, Emily became a bit more solemn and quiet and contemplative.

Become entranced by the charms of this contemplative and poetic adventure, inhabited by the bewitching melodies of a string quartet.

It sees, in the passage from Chardin's world of objects to Rembrandt's contemplative paintings, a movement toward the radical interiority for which Proust would later become widely celebrated as a novelist.

During the 1980s, Kudo's art changed direction, becoming more reflective, and the visceral gave way to more abstract and contemplative works.

Mehretu's works, made in the wake of the recent American election, are frenetic yet contemplative, as her gestures become characters in their collaborative performance.

And in the 1970's, his style became more fluid and contemplative, as can be seen in the work... Whose Name Was Written in Water (1975), in which the use of paint diluted with oil yielded longer and more gestural brushstrokes.

Chapel of Meditation offers a contemplative space in which the viewer becomes enveloped within the radiant light and veiled mists found in the artist's work.

Lou's commitment to this community of Zulu women and to the exploration of process and test of the limits of her chosen material has led to a minimal, contemplative practice in which the material has become the subject.

They point out that something contemplative and private like the act of drawing becomes inverted and tied to temporality and the spatial relations of something more public like dance.

One can see the broad gestural strokes of Capelight (1958) becoming more sensitive and contemplative in Alternative X (1978), yet the spontaneity of the early work still remains.

Her commitment to this community of Zulu women and to exploring the process and testing the limits of her chosen material has led to a minimal, contemplative practice in which the material has become the subject.

Moving into the exhibition's second gallery, the textures get increasingly richer and the tone of the exhibition becomes more serious and contemplative.

Beginning as a series of dialogues between the Dalai Lama and leading Western scientists and scholars, Mind & Life has since expanded to become the leading convener, catalyst, and community builder in supporting contemplative research and bridging practice and real - world applications.

Both contemplative approaches and mindfulness - based approaches have become widely accepted and practiced methods for relieving stress and symptoms related to a multitude of psychological issues..