Sentences with phrase «called sacred time»
The characteristics of so - called sacred time — symbolic intensity, deep emotion, repetitive corporate behavior — do not cluster only in special moments and places.
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In this way of thinking, the Framers had not resolved but had only postponed the question of slavery, and Lincoln's sense that the time had come to move, however cautiously, toward a resolution had about it a force of obligation that he did not hesitate to call sacred.
Christians call them the Triduum Sacru, the three most sacred days of the year, the three most sacred days of all time when time is truly told.
Nature, therefore, is to be looked upon as sacred, rather than as a mere agent of utility for human needs, towards which human beings are called to relate with a sense of duty.161 The arrival of the harvest, as may be noted from the case of the mustard seed, asserts that the time has come when the blessings of the Kingdom of God are available for all including non-human creation.
Most people up until modern times — and here the exceptions are often intellectuals in university communities — have had an explicit sense of some «other dimension,» a sense of the sacred, the divine, the numinous, or what we shall call, in a general way, mystery.
Over the years I had been led to believe that God's leading and calling is to be understood as the supposed sacred mandate for those who enter «full time» service.
Since insufficient time has passed to assure to the books here discussed a permanent place among the sacred books of the world, such as that enjoyed by the ones that have so far been discussed, I feel it necessary to draw up a definition of a sacred book which will enable me to pick out of our modern world what may be called its sacred books.
Both transpired within what many observers would call «the sacred space» of Wiltshire Church's sanctuary, and both represented instances in what the same observers might call «the sacred time» of Wiltshire's ongoing history.
The: sacred mountain, «the mountain of God,» is called Horeb, a name used less than twenty times in the Old Testament, but it is called Sinai — quite apparently the same mountain — about forty times.
The things that define my life, my body, my relationships, the historical events and changes will be the opportunities I have for being reminded at some unique and particular times of an aspect of existence that I may call «sacred.»
And even for me as an individual, is it not important to note that this is by no means the first time I've been a church - goer, that I had been recently finding a kind of joy (one might call it an experience of the sacred) reading T. S. Eliot, that my commitment to the new church is by no means total (in the sense of excluding work or family or friends), and that if statistical predictions work in my case I will probably have moved on to some other kind of commitment in five or ten years.
In a column in The New York Times last October science writer George Johnson likened Hawaiian's opposition to the telescope to the Catholic Church's oppression of Galileo, and suggested that the indigenous protesters were pawns of environmentalists who «have learned that a few traditionally dressed natives calling for the return of sacred lands can draw more attention than arguments over endangered species and fragile ecosystems.»
Although researchers have longed to excavate the site, called Comb Wash, the cost — roughly $ 1 million — and the time — about five years — have been prohibitive, not to mention the opposition by Native Americans to disturbing sacred grounds.
Communing with nature, experiencing sacred spaces, listening to beautiful music, letting go of effort and hard work, entering flow, and taking time to become interested in your inner world will support the process of aligning all parts of you with the calling of your soul.
In this episode I talk about killing my sacred cow of not trading time for money as I'm going to start offer a limited amount of consulting calls.
They are perpetual nomads, without a permanent base to call home, but they «have climbed volcanoes, swum with sharks, gone caving deep into sacred Mayan caves, spent time with Buddhist monks, hiked in Patagonia and lived in some of the world's most exciting cities.»
★ METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: «JERUSALEM 1000 - 1400: EVERY PEOPLE UNDER HEAVEN» (through Jan. 8) Three major faiths — Judaism, Christianity and Islam — have called Jerusalem their own, and its varying histories as a sacred space, a theater of conflict and a cosmopolitan cultural emporium are reflected in this exhibition modeled along classic Met epic lines: 200 fascinating objects from 60 international collections, with a time frame in the past and context in the present (in the form of short videos in each gallery).
But going back in time, there is a wonderful book by Caroline Jones called Machine in the Studio, where she contrasts the attitude of the abstract expressionists working as solitary artists in what she calls a «sacred studio» to that of Frank Stella.
President Obama also ended his speech with a call to recognize the sacred importance of protecting Earth by recalling the astonishment of the astronauts when they saw the Earth from outer space as they came around the moon for the first time.
When I was seven and watched an Indiana Jones movie for the first time I had found my calling in life; I was going to be an archaeologist and fight evil while discovering sacred antiques.