Sentences with phrase «known in contemplation»

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In a finished universe, the activity of knowing was one of contemplation, not of foreknowledge, prediction and hypothesis.

My church had succumbed to writer Richard Rohr's prediction, «When the church is no longer teaching the people how to pray, we could almost say it will have lost its reason for existence,» Yet in the congregations I have visited, silence, meditation and contemplation were commonplace, and many new members testified to the spiritual attraction of prayer.

Humanity could no longer stand in rapt contemplation before nature or enter into worshipful relations with it.

When Adam and Eve take the fruit, they do not make a decision between good and evil but rather imagine possibilities of action and then act almost without knowing it, sunk in «a strange, dreamlike kind of contemplation.»

No longer was there a higher kind of life as there had been for the ancients, a life devoted either to theoretical contemplation or to participation in the public activities of a citizen.

Both Strauss and the physicists seem to say that a man is most fully himself when he loses himself in contemplation of eternity, but the truth is that, deep down, persons are incapable of losing themselves, of not knowing the truth about themselves in some sense.

«Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth — in a word, to know himself — so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves (cf. Ex 33:18; Ps 27:8 - 9; 63:2 - 3; Jn 14:8; 1 Jn 3:2).»

It was due to my reasoning, endless nights of contemplation, and deep inquiries into my faith and faith in general did I conclude that I could no longer believe in god.

What I do not find in Whitehead is any account of knowing or awareness understood as pure contemplation or passive receptivity.

Only in Christ does man know himself as the creature of God... If he is to know himself as the creature of God, the old man must have died and the new arisen, whose essence it is to live in self - disregard, wholly in the contemplation of Christ.

In any event, the saints have known that «union,» in the supreme sense intended by the mystics, is not attained by human effort but is (as they say) always a «gift» of God; while contemplation, in the strictest meaning of that term, is only possible for the few who are called to it — although there is an element of contemplation in all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall seIn any event, the saints have known that «union,» in the supreme sense intended by the mystics, is not attained by human effort but is (as they say) always a «gift» of God; while contemplation, in the strictest meaning of that term, is only possible for the few who are called to it — although there is an element of contemplation in all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall sein the supreme sense intended by the mystics, is not attained by human effort but is (as they say) always a «gift» of God; while contemplation, in the strictest meaning of that term, is only possible for the few who are called to it — although there is an element of contemplation in all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall sein the strictest meaning of that term, is only possible for the few who are called to it — although there is an element of contemplation in all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall sein all prayer, not least in «vocal» prayer, as we shall sein «vocal» prayer, as we shall see.

-- Stephen Keith Sagarin Love and Knowledge: Recovering the Heart of Learning through Contemplation — Arthur Zajonc Teachers» Self - Development as a Mirror of Children's Incarnation: Part I — Renate Long - Breipohl Of Seeds and Continents: Reliability, Predictability, and Scientific Knowing — Michael D'Aleo Reports from the Research Fellows Honest, Complete Assessment and Social Renewal: A Revolution — Patrice Maynard Crisis in the Kindergarten — Joan Almon and Edward Miller Henry Barnes and Waldorf Education: A Personal Tribute — Douglas Sloan

Democritus is known for conceiving atomic theory; legend has it that he gouged his eyes out in his garden so that contemplation of the external world would not disturb his meditations.

Just in case you're like me and your brain hurts a little bit from all this contemplation in 2011, you can sleep easy knowing that Real Steel will not make you think at all.

Curated by artist team Tasha and Monica Lopez de Victoria, known as the TM Sisters, I think it's in my head is a selection of fifty works from the collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz that inspire contemplation of the esoteric and the extra-sensory.

Reflecting on a work of art can open up conceptual meaning, but if we can suspend our preconceptions in the actual encounter, we can enter a state of contemplation, rather than reflection, in which we experience the nature of what is actually there — its ineffability, its inability to be pinned down, or somehow defined or even known.

A premarital agreement (also known as prenuptial or antenuptial agreement) is made between prospective spouses in contemplation of marriage to be effective upon marriage.

For example, «the claims» might be defined as ``... all claims, counterclaims, rights of set - off, rights of contribution, entitlements to costs, causes of action, or rights or interests of any kind or nature whatsoever, whether known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, however and whenever arising in whatever capacity or jurisdiction, whether in the contemplation of the parties at the time or not...»

PRINCIPLE (1): BASIS OF A CONTRACT The element of personal service has figured significantly in many of the recent cases on employment status, but the decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) under Elias P in Ellis v M&P Steelcraft Ltd and another [2008] IRLR 355, [2008] All ER (D) 353 (Feb) adds a new twist to it, shading into what in traditional contract law would be known as «intention to create legal relations», ie was there any contemplation of any form of employment being the basis of the relationship at all?