Sentences with phrase «hermits living»

He has photographed brides at Niagara Falls, hermits living off the grid in Arkansas, kids dancing at prom in Cleveland, and people he met on driveS following the course of the Mississippi River.

Just a bunch of hermits living off take - out, wine, and holiday cheer.

Also, the novelty of the method of assassination ensures that the hit becomes international news that is available to everyone else whom that government might want to exert pressure upon in the future (and a link to a verifiable third - party news clip could send the same message to hermits living on rocks who didn't catch this news the first time around).

There is a wonderful story of two Desert Fathers that goes like this: Two hermits lived together for many years without a quarrel.

Merton has vividly recorded just such an encounter between himself and Chatral Rimpoche; a Tibetan hermit living in the Himalayas:

They dogs were not correctly socialized and really needed to be owned by a hermit living alone at the end of a long road.

So, to combat the cold and to advocate the hermit life, I have compiled a list of games that I have chosen to spend winter with, and, in turn, I hope I can help guide you into doing the same with my recommended games.

I didn't choose the hermit life.

[15] Three years later he wrote: «I grow older every day and rather like my hermit life.»

BM: I am thinking about someone like Agnes Martin and if you were to introduce the work by talking about her forsaking everything and turning her back on the world and living a hermit life, if that would lead to a more spiritual aspect in the conversation rather than if you waited just through the works for someone to get there.

Well, then you must be a tree - hugging hermit living out in the boonies.

Not exact matches

Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer goes in search of the infamous viral video star and discovers him living a hermit - like existence on top of a mountain, unaware of his fame.

we don't have to live as hermits, and pretend we're still in middle ages, but we don't need to end up in oposite ditch either....

A monk who lives all by himself in the woods is called a hermit.

Hermit, Yes I've been called a dreamer, but I'm not the only one maybe some day you will join me and the world will live as one.

This led some of the more devout to escape the temptations of public life and go into the desert, either as hermits or to live in communities.

Then I was invited to visit a monastery of Camaldolese Benedictine monks who live by the Rule of St. Benedict and the Brief Rule of St. Romuald, a tenth - century Italian known as the «father of reasonable hermits.»

This was an asceticism of a novel sort, worldly and systematic, looking forward to the time - and - profit calculus of industrial life rather than backward to the flesh - denying torments of the desert hermits.

Some Christians gave up all their possessions and lived as hermits, and later as monks.

The hermit is an established type in both Western and Eastern Christianity, and monastic institutions, even though striving for a common and closely knit way of life seemingly at the opposite pole from solitude, have often been linked with hermetical institutions and practices of one sort or another.

Working as a music critic, author and broadcaster he lived «as a sort of urban hermit» as Katherine expresses it, and as a counsellor took a rather different approach from the standard secularist one.

The life story of the northern Russian wilderness - dweller Nikodim Kozheozersky tells of how this saint, as is customary for hermits, ate only wild plants, an assertion that is not hindered even when the hagiographer announces in the next sentence that he also cultivated turnips for his diet.

In a way, we are like Merton who are living as kind of hermits out in the world, many of us in isolation from other Christians and church communities.

But it also has its dangers, such as living the life of a hermit holed up in my cave without any real live humans to disturb my introspections.

There's no more meaning or purpose to «living life to the fullest» than some hermit that spends his days in a drunken stupor.

Once more, withdrawing to the small but beautiful estate of Tegel near Berlin, he turned scholar and hermit and devoted the remaining years of his life almost exclusively to the comparative study of languages.

Writings about the early desert hermits tell of the seductress somehow finding her way to a solitary who leads a life of prayer and meditation.

Until then she'll live the arduous but necessary life of a wandering hermit.

Distressed by the vices of the nominally Christian population, in his teens he left the city and adopted the life of a hermit.

Gregory Zilboorg, a convert himself and a skilled psychoanalyst, warned Merton in the 1950s that his desire to leave the Trappist communal silence for the even more withdrawn life of a hermit was schizophrenic: «You want a hermitage in Times Square with a large sign over it saying «Hhermit was schizophrenic: «You want a hermitage in Times Square with a large sign over it saying «HermitHermit.

From the monasteries many went forth, some as individuals to live as hermits, and others in groups, often of twelve with a leader in imitation of the Apostles and Christ.

See also Max Müller, Chips, IV, 188: «If he lived the life which is there described, few saints have a better claim to the title than Buddha; and no one either in the Greek or in the Roman Church need be ashamed of having paid to Buddha's memory the honor that was intended for St. Josaphat, the prince, the hermit, and the saint.»)

He read the Lives of the Fathers and wondered at the austerities of the desert hermits: «I used to imagine such a saint, who would live in the desert, and abstain from food and drink and live on a few vegetables and roots and cold water.»

Upon his conversion, Charles de Foucauld — a French monk and hermit — was ready to live all - out for God in some monastery or other.

Evagrius Ponticus (d. 399), who systematized the thought of Clement of Alexandria, of Origen, and the Cappadocian Fathers, as it applied to the monastic life, distinguished between the «righteous» of the organized church and the «perfect,» or «philosophers,» i.e., the monks and hermits of the monastery and the cell.

Despite his own monastic formation, this eloquent preacher to the turbulent, variegated «audiences» of the two Eastern capitals was certain that monks were not the best fitted for the role of priests, but rather those «who, though having their life and conversation among men, yet can preserve their purity, their calm, their piety, and patience, and soberness, and all other good qualities of monks more unbroken and steadfast than those hermits do themselves.»

Now that the weight of the manuscript is lifted from my shoulders a little bit (although the work doesn't stop here), there will finally be some more time for all the things that often get neglected when a big project takes over one's life — more beach hangs with the fam, catching up with friends who've long declared me a hermit, grilling outside until sunset, and long, leisurely breakfasts, like this one.

It's literally impossible not to get someone else's coodies every day unless you intend on living alone and becoming a hermit, and even then you are exposed to germs.

It was in 1294, when the elderly hermit Pietro of Murrone, who had been elected as Celestine V after a two - year deadlock, abruptly resigned after five months and went back to being a hermit, a life he evidently preferred.

North Korean Studies: the focus on the hermit kingdom, its politics, economics, and society; the kingdom that poses a real - life threat to South Korea, and the world order as we know it today; a unique Marxist - Leninist state in the twenty - first century.

Other kinds of hermit crabs live in coral reefs, but typically move in and out of a series of mollusk shells as the crabs grow.

A new species of hermit crab discovered in the shallow waters of southern Japan has been enjoying the perks of living like a peanut worm.

Other kinds of hermit crabs live in coral reefs, but typically move in and out of a series of mollusk shells as the crabs...

In experiments done at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute here, hermit crabs living in highly acidic conditions did not show the increased boldness of Munday's clown fish, but they took far longer to withdraw into their shells than normal when they came under attack from a potential predator (in this case, a toy octopus).

This curious hermit happens to have had a former life as both a professor at Harvard and an entrepreneurial CEO at a successful biotech company that made millions for its investors.

Codename: Green - eyed hermit crab Name: Paragiopagurus atkinsonae Compromised: May Known territory: South African coast Physical characteristics: Green eyes; living shell composed of anemones held together by sand Notable skills / traits: EVASION / CAMOUFLAGE: P. atkinsonae wasn't spotted until 2012.

To see how acidification might affect one deepwater creature, marine biologist Taewon Kim and colleagues at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, California, used a robot submarine to vacuum up some deep - sea hermit crabs (Pagurus tanneri) that live off the coast of California at depths of 900 meters.

It could have been just another hermit crab, but a researcher conducting a sea life survey spied P. atkinsonae's signature green eyes.

My avoidance tactic didn't do much to ease my fear, but if I ever wanted to pursue life as a hermit, my skills would be off the charts.

Either I am traveling and living it up or I'm a hermit who is home bound, computer on lap while glued to the couch.