Sentences with phrase «from contemplative»

I come from a contemplative background, offering a compassionate, loving approach to work alongside people who are moving through difficult transitions in life, and needing support and or tools.

I graduated from the Contemplative Psychotherapy department at Naropa University after an undergraduate education at the University of Washington.

Each artist has contributed new work, staking a claim in the gallery's future, and together they represent a range of sensibilities: from contemplative to pristine, to severe, to humorous and nostalgic.

Clare Lilley, who selected and placed the works, said: «From the contemplative and ephemeral to the robust and monumental, the exhibition includes the park's first - ever conceptual work — a remaking of a rare 1969 piece by Ed Herring — and classic painted sculptures by Claes Oldenburg and Jean Dubuffet alongside a newly created work by Eddie Martinez.

To do this, he takes inspiration from contemplative maps where a practitioner is given systematic techniques to explore their world, perception, consciousness, and relation to other through direct experience.

Composed by Frédéric «Elmobo» Motte (Nightmare Creatures 1 & 2, Dark Earth), the game's soundtrack is rife with heavy metal guitar work that ranges from contemplative and moody to upbeat and spunky, mixing in retro chiptune sounds throughout.

From contemplative, charming contemporaries to deliciously angsty tales of forbidden love to witty historicals where bodices may or may not be ripped, these are our 10 favorite romance novels of 2017.

There is one brilliant commentary from the contemplative director of the film, Anton Corbijn, which is as thoughtful as it is precise about the location, the story, and its characters.

Salk was convinced he had drawn his inspiration from the contemplative setting.

Aside from contemplative leisure and freedom, this lifestyle offers a certain social (or anti-social) appeal.

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In the now infamous YouTube campaign video, Herman Cain's chief of staff, Mark Block, extols the virtues of Herman Cain, then takes a long, contemplative drag from a cigarette and blows smoke toward the camera.

A comment that stays with me from many years ago, when I first encountered contemplative prayer on a visit to a Carmelite monastery, is a friend's observation that none of us can know how much of what God is doing in the world is brought about in response to the prayers of people we don't know and never see.

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.

This déchristianisation included abolishing contemplative religious orders; confiscating monastic and other ecclesiastical properties; forcing the clergy to sign an oath of loyalty to the state in the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1790); killing thousands of non-oath-taking priests in the Vendée uprising of 1793; pillaging churches and monasteries throughout France and Europe to finance the revolutionary armies fighting abroad; the abrogation of the Gregorian calendar and attempt to introduce a new one based on Revolutionary - era sensibilities; the renaming of streets and locales from saints» names to figures and ideals of the Revolution; the brief transformation of the venerable Notre Dame cathedral into a «Temple of Reason,» dedicated «to philosophy»; and, not least, the abduction and exile of no less than two popes, Pius VI (1798) and Pius VII (1809).

Donald Haggerty's first book, Contemplative Provocations (reviewed here in December 2013), offered aphoristic counsel on prayer and contemplation, particularly in light of God's concealment from those who most earnestly seek him.

If you want to bring a misty - eyed contemplative smile to a Christian from the Orthodox Church, mention the theology of kenosis — Christ «emptying» himself.

Holy Communion's contemplative and mystical practices are loosely drawn from the Rule of St. Benedict, and bits and pieces of monastic practice may be seen throughout the congregation.

But this tale of desolation in society and nature is not the end of the prophetic vision, When humanity mends its relation to God, the result must be expressed not in contemplative flight from earth but rather in the rectifying of the covenant of creation.

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.

Since then, I've tried a few different resources, learned from people much wiser than I am and generally tried to figure out this hybrid thing I have going on — happy - clappy - Jesus - kid anti-establishment woman that loves contemplative practices and liturgy and the Church.

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.

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 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 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.

He spent time talking with contemplatives, learning from them what their prayer was like and analyzing their experiences.

And where will this spirituality of contemplative co-creation come from in an individualistic culture?

Though the pope has condemned the film and conservative Roman Catholic groups still picket when it is shown, it has inspired contemplative silence from many viewers.

Crystal, From what you write it sounds like you are a true seer, a contemplative and mystic who can find god in all things.

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.

One sign of that is increased funding from the National Institutes of Health, which has helped establish new contemplative science research centers at Stanford University, Emory University, and the University of Wisconsin, where the world's first brain imaging lab with a meditation room next door is now under construction.

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.

For those interested in learning more about contemplative prayer, Jim Borst, author of Coming to God in the Stillness breaks it down into twelve steps, from silence through to forgiveness and intercession.

Conversely, a contemplative religio - cultural and ecclesiastical agenda for theology was preoccupied exclusively with the specificities of the energy that flows from the God - human encounter; it neglected the fertile activity of God in the other realms of the world.

Perhaps the rigors of medieval life made it necessary to have a division of labor: most people just struggled to survive, while the «religious,» freed from the duties connected with the day - to - day life of parish churches, held the contemplative fort.

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

By this point I had finally settled into the silence, using some tips I'd learned from the Benedictines about contemplative prayer.

Micha, a stay - at - home mom from Texas, describes herself as «Southern Baptist nurtured, Anglican by choice, Presbyterian by former church, and in love with Roman Catholic monastic and contemplative practice.»

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..

A skeptic who is prone to cynicism, and a contemplative who is prone to indulgence, I find myself sinking into a state of bitterness from time to time.

On the social level the contemplative easily intuits the roots of war: fear of self and others that springs from inability to trust God; the unrecognized self - hatred that we project onto others; the illusory view that our political ideals are purer than our opponents», and the accompanying moral paralysis that stems from an exaggerated sense of guilt about holding this illusion.

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.

We need something that can fire contemplatives and other religious, priests, preachers, teachers, catechists, theologians, parents, youth leaders, «the men and women in the pew» and the youth of today's Church as they all do their bit to learn from God's Word and announce the Good News revealed by Jesus Christ in His words, miracles, Passion and Resurrection.

In the more nuanced Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET), they saw only a small slice of a face and picked from four complex emotions such as «contemplative» and «skeptical.»

Co-author Harold Roth, professor of religious studies, taught the labs, which included about 30 minutes per session of specific contemplative practice from Buddhist or Daoist traditions.

He holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford and a graduate diploma in Contemplative Spirituality from San Francisco Theological Seminary.

Drawing from her background in counseling, psychology, and selective studies in contemplative traditions and neuroscience, her current classes focus on meditation, meditation practicums, and mentoring with an emphasis on transformation of self.

This series of photos, titled «Before and After,» comes from a larger project called «Contemplatives,» a visual exploration of the physiological qualities of meditation practice.

A slow and contemplative film from Mike Mills, the writer / director behind «Thumbsucker.»

Apart from MacArthur himself being represented musically by a strident march, the two scores have little in common — Goldsmith's music for the earlier biopic was largely contemplative and surprisingly low - key.

From the exquisite imagery to the nuanced soundtrack, the Tasmanian tiger tale is composed and contemplative.

Another distinctive score from British electronic composer Matthew Herbert, continuing his collaboration with Lelio after A Fantastic Woman, provides delicate enhancement to the contemplative mood.