Sentences with phrase «by his meditation on»

Discursive reasoning can lead to understanding of God either by meditation on the everyday world or by meditation on scripture.

This, I believe, is an accurate representation of what Anselm intended by his meditation on the grounds of faith seeking understanding, and Hartshorne's account clearly expresses the situation of the believer in relation to the two opponents.

An excavation of the residue of colonial occupation and other global power shifts can be traced throughout his oeuvre, accompanied by a meditation on the notion of freedom in different guises.

Choksi's investigation of materials and temporality for accessing existential insight is augmented by meditations on hands and feet — the first tools used by humans to move toward these more exalted realms.

Not exact matches

While conducting research for their book, The Mind of the Leader, Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter interviewed more than 1,000 leaders and found that practicing mindfulness, meaning a focus on the present, achieved by meditation and other techniques, helped those leaders engage with their employees, create better connections and improve company performance.

Chock full of powerful perspectives, Meditations is an exploration on how to stay true to yourself and remain unaffected by externalities.

Mindfulness and meditation are not just a fad or fiction created by some new age gurus to sell you their latest book on self - discovery.

I'm always amused by those professionals who manage to tell me they have no time for meditation, but on their own, they can't figure out why their life isn't working out the way they had planned.

The same way you wouldn't start a running habit by running 10 miles on your first day, you shouldn't start a meditation routine by immediately attempting a 20 - minute session.

By June 2015, the company had a services marketplace — an Uber - like app where users could quickly find, book and pay for health services such as massage, yoga, meditation and so on.

So the 35 minute DVD followed by meditation really kept me grounded and connected and focused on my intention.

Finally, the very idea of the nation - stirring «Demosthenes blogger,» the one presented in the 90s sci - fi novel Ender's Game, was revealed to be hopelessly naïve: the true guides to how the Internet World would and would not empower individuals, and whether it would allow underdogs and unknowns to be heard by society, turned out to be Hobbes's meditations on self - promotion and Tocqueville's on the way equality stoked and then discouraged each individual's ambition.

This challenge led to a finger - wagging review by Hitchens in The Atlantic and a series of punch - counterpunch exchanges in various transatlantic venues, all of which obscured both the thoughtfulness of Amis» meditations on grief and his discovery of the depths of human depravity: «Hitler - Stalin tells us this, among other things: given total power over another, the human being will find his thoughts turn to torture.»

Rekindling the Christic Imagination: Theological Meditations on the New Evangelization, by Robert P. Imbelli (Liturgical Press): For those who've watched (as every sentient Catholic should have watched) Father Robert Barron's Catholicism series, here's the next step — a theologically rich, entirely accessible walk through the great themes of Evangelical Catholicism, keyed to four masterpieces of Christian art.

By the same token, we can no more imagine Cioran eating McKenna's magic mushrooms than sharing the latter's enthusiasm for the «ambient music» of the international youth culture - which might only drive him to one of his meditations on suicide that he has found to be «almost as liberating as the act itself.»

Over the last decade, Davidson and his colleagues have produced scientific evidence for the theory that meditation - the ancient eastern practice of sitting, usually accompanied by focusing on certain objects - permanently changes the brain for the better.

Because he rooted his new political realism in his own theological conversion — his new meditation on the wisdom and trustworthy observations of Augustine — Niebuhr called the new movement he called for by the theological name, Renewed Orthodoxy or Neo-Orthodoxy.

The Fourth Gospel offers, in my view, a most profound and moving meditation on the traditions used by the Synoptists, in the light of the experience of Christian believers who truly encountered the risen Lord in the worship and witness of the Church.

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

Psychosis / most psychiatric illnesses often arise in adolescence or in early adult life however 75 per cent of children with mental health disorders / issues do not get the help they need — I fell into that 75 per cent, I was misdiagnosed by a doctor and then the self - induced trance - like altered state of consciousness induced by intense / deep meditation and prayer coupled with the theology about how prayer and God work in a Christian's life (more on this below) just pushed me right over the edge.

Here's a fuller synopsis of the play: The Jeweler's Shop is a meditation on marriage by the future pontiff, told with warmth and wit through the stories of three couples: a young couple torn by war, an older couple tempted by infidelity, and lastly the children of these two marriages who themselves are called to love.

On the first night the story of the woman caught in adultery from the Gospel of St. John is read, followed by a guided meditation in which the retreatants are invited to enter into the woman's experience of shame and despair.

Recently, I chanced upon a book on meditation by the Vietnamese master Thich Nhat Hahn.

By contrast, Hawthorne found in marriage, family, work, and meditation on history and religion a surer guide to relative wisdom and happiness.

Not knowing that Berrigan opened each class with a period of silent meditation, Mel on the first day of class, was disturbed, irritated by the fact that nothing seemed to be happening.

Yet perhaps someone on the jury has been reading the Meditations of René Descartes and is troubled by the possibility that the sensible world is only an illusion caused by an evil demon or by the nature of minds.

A complete meditation on the word, on the claim of the word by being, and hence a complete ontology of language is essential here if the expression «word of God» is to be meaningful or, in Bultmann's terms, if this statement is to have a nonmythological signification.

Even at the end of the original (1953) version of Brother to Dragons, the «tale in verse and voices» which dramatizes the brutal murder of a slave by two of Thomas Jefferson's nephews and constitutes a meditation on sin, guilt, history and much else, the narrator (this time called R. P. W.) replies to his own father, who has inquired whether, having visited the murder site so many years later, his son has now finished with his purpose: «Yes, I've finished.

The record was a critical favorite and commercial success, and was followed up by 2015's I Love You, Honeybear, a meditation on Tillman's real life as a new husband, discovering the trappings, burdens and benefits of love and domesticated modern life.

Karl Rahner, in his «Meditations on St. Ignatius» Exercises,» states: «The crucified Lord is betrayed and abandoned by his friends, rejected by his people, repudiated by the Church of the Old Testament» (cited in AJCT).

These novels by McDermott and Hijuelos are meditations on sainthood in the same vein as Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory, but instead of a protagonist as priest hunted by totalitarian thugs, they show us New Yorkers as unlikely saints: an advertising executive and a worker for Con Edison.

Some of it was about Sufi like teachings on meditation and going only within and I will have to admit it was borderline a bit too mystical for me to understand... but then I tried to picture how they may have been influenced by Eastern meditation and that not by having the knowledge we have today, perhaps that made more sense then and perhaps even for some people it makes sense today.

Their comments serve as texts for meditations by the five authors, meditations on themes from — where else?

A series of associative meditations on the social nature of salvation, this influential book focuses on the unity of the human race as understood by the Church Fathers.

Dr Greg Farrelly, back by popular demand after showing off his teaching skills at London Bridge, headed up our lay - led summer meditations on the nature of the human person, and our very inspiring six autumn talks on «Love», led to the now famous (see Faith Magazine January 2015) post-Synodal tour de force by Jaqueline Stewart.

For the immediate future the spotlight may fall on the use of the Bible in meditation (as suggested by Morton Kelsey's The Other Side of Silence).

He effects this transformation by offering meditations on each of the «stations» of Jesus» original journey along the Via Dolorosa, all of which are followed by second meditations reflecting on the meaning of the station for Jesus followers in today's world.

I turned intentionally to a life of crime at age twelve and found myself facing the death penalty at age twenty for offenses including conspiracies to commit bank robberies, hijackings, and homicide, and then, after a merciful and undeserved reprieve from God, spent ten years in America's worst prison trying to figure out, among other things, the nature of punishment — and «Saving Punishment» by Stephen Webb is certainly the best meditation I've come across on the subject.

This corrosion of faith can be answered and reversed but in order to do so we must, as Holloway says, realise «the need for personal prayer, penance, humility, and union with God by meditation and mystical communion,» [10] so that thereby the Word of God will be manifested in our world not as «the breath of any imaginary pale Galilean, but the splendour and dynamism of God in the power of the Spirit,» Jesus Christ «the bringer in of the enormous vision that is splendid, the majesty of the Intellect of God and of Man, the fullness of the Kingdom on Earth which God has made for Man, and can bring to consummation only in and through His creature, Man.»

Perhaps the reminder is again in order that Israel's interest in the original «event» rests predominantly in its present and continuing meaning that the form of the narrative before us is unquestionably cultically conditioned, that is, shaped by the influences of cultic circles at centers of worship in which, the tradition was maintained; and that this cultic tradition returns an image of Moses formed out of long years of meditation on the total significance of his life and time through the succeeding generations of Israel's life.

Daily Meditations on St Paul by Bishop Michael Campbell, St Paul Publications, 80pp, # 6.99 Catholic publishers have not been slow to respond to the announcement of a year dedicated to St Paul.

Only when he had reached the middle of the river was he diverted by the sight of the waves from his meditation on Buddha and his feet began to sink; but by renewed concentration of his thoughts on Buddha he became master of his insecurity and happily arrived at the opposite bank.

The Dissent of the Governed: A Meditation on Law, Religion, and Loyalty By Stephen L. Carter Harvard University Press.

Meditation has helped me, but I have to be on top of my mindfulness game, else I'm thwarted by those negative thoughts creeping in: 0.

For additional support on how to eat healthy this holiday, trying listening to this Eating Meditation by David Anderson.

Q is by no means a place to get your spicy tuna roll on: It's a zone of seafood meditation for hard - core sushi fans, where Naruke — or one of his masterful chefs — will prepare each small bite of Edo - style sushi as it's supposed to be eaten (i.e., no soy sauce or wasabi).

His career highlights at S.I. include road trips in search of sports on the equator, the world's most dangerous sport and Roman gladiators as the first sports superstars, a lengthy meditation on Don King's hair, the second - ever descent of Africa's Zambezi River, a weighty essay on the 580 - pound sumo wrestler Konishiki, an investigation into the questionable around - the - world run by Robert Garside, a look inside the mind games at the 1987 world chess championship between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in Seville, Spain, three weeks in the Sahara covering the 2002 Paris - to - Dakar Rally, a trudge through Panama's Darien jungle retracing Vasco Núñez de Balboa's 1513 expedition, and a journey into the world of Jeopardy! His essay on George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees» line of succession was called the «scoop of the year» in the 2008 Houghton - Mifflin collection The Best American Sports Writing.

In addition to medication (Zoloft and very occasionally 1/2 of a Xanax), the laundry list of things that are helping me recover (in no particular order) includes: sleep, finding more time for myself, yoga, exercise, abdominal breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, meditation, educating myself by reading books and web sites about anxiety disorder — what causes it, who it often affects, how to deal with it, etc., seeing a therapist on a regular basis, reiki, taking vitamins and supplements, and reducing my commitments.

DR. STUART FISCHBEIN: Usually [00:16:25] is something that I do because as the hospital birth practitioner when it gets to somewhere all other things are not working and then the possibility is to do an external cephalic version which is a hand - on technique to try and turn the baby, and that is usually done in the hospital described that in just a second but the way I do it because I don't use meditation, I often will have a woman spend at least thirty minutes prior to the procedure with a medical therapist to put her in a relaxed state, I do believe there is pretty good evidence out there that this increases the success rate by just being totally relaxed.

Secondly, by a deep focus on Jesus Christ, in our worship, in our meditations.