Sentences with phrase «life of a 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psychoanalyst, warned Merton in the 1950s that his desire to leave the Trappist communal silence for the even more withdrawn life of a hermit was schizophrenic: «You want a hermitage in Times Square with a large sign over it saying «Hermit.

But 15 years after their fashion heyday, the two are living in obscurity, with Zoolander pursuing the life of a hermit and Hansel living in the desert in an 11 - person marriage - a marriage that includes, in some screenwriter's flight of demented inspiration, Kiefer Sutherland.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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 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.

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).

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).

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.

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

(In Spanish with subtitles) Nothing Personal (Unrated) Romance drama about a depressed Dutch misanthrope (Anne Verbeek) who throws all of her earthly possessions away before abandoning Amsterdam to wander around Ireland where she finds a kindred spirit (Stephen Rea) living like a hermit in a cottage on the country's west coast.

Whether he is quizzing networking pioneers — men around his own age who still marvel at having been present at the creation — or listening to the testimony of «modern - day hermits» living off the grid and away from pervasive electromagnetic radiation, Mr. Herzog communicates compassion and astonishment in equal measure.

A reserved hermit, the squirmy Lars has a headspace as spartan as his living space — sleeping in the garage of his childhood home, now occupied by brother Gus (Paul Schneider) and pregnant sister - in - law Karin (Emily Mortimer).

Derek retreated to the hinterland of northern New Jersey to live out life as a «hermit crab.»

He's a hermit practically living in a far out part of the Tennessee woods.

Our top pick in nonfiction this month is Michael Finkel's The Stranger in the Woods, an intriguing account of the life and eventual capture of Christopher Knight, a hermit who lived in the Maine woods alone for almost three decades, burglarizing camps and cottages for food and other necessities.

Joel R. Dennstedt — Author, Journalist, World Traveler — was born and raised in San Diego, California, and lived 15 years in Alaska: the setting for his book Orange Cappuccino and parts of Hermit — A Novella.

Hermit crabs must live in the shells of dead snails.

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

Consider stocking at least a few representatives from each of the following groups: Sponges — many types, shapes, sizes and colors Zoanthids — colonial anemones (some can be harmful to true corals) Anemones — short tentacle, long tentacle and carpet Corallimorphs — mushroom anemones, Ricordea, Discosoma and elephant - ear Cerianthids — tube - dwelling anemones Mollusks (with and without shell)-- sea slugs, sea hares, nudibranches, turbo snails and many types of living shells and clams Cephalopods — octopus and cuttlefish Worms — feather dusters Arthropods — crabs, hermit crabs, shrimp and lobsters Echinoderms — sea urchins, sea cucumbers, sea stars (starfish), serpent stars and brittle stars.

You'll see schools of razorfish, hermit crabs, cuttlefish, stingrays hiding out under the sand, sea horses and some incredible macro life.

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.

«Hermit's Repose», life - size figurative oil on wood panel on permanent exhibit at the Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago, Illinois.

Is the live hermit crab inhabiting a shiny replica of Brancusi's sculpture «Sleeping Muse» in Pierre Huyghe's aquarium project «Recollection» an artist overwhelmed by history or a dealer imprisoned in the golden cage of Frieze Art Fair?

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.

Actual objects are something of a rarity for him, though he's recently been building sophisticated, uncanny fish tanks, and populating them with various kinds of underwater plants and sea creatures, such as a hermit crab that lives inside a model of Brancusi's 1910 sculpture Sleeping Muse.

De Haan sees The Loneliest Monk, a sculpture of a dismembered plaster foot speckled with tiny salt water pearls and set on a stack of Himalayan pink salt bricks, as a portrait of the Syrian hermit saint Symeon the Stylite, who lived for 37 years on a platform atop a pillar near Aleppo some 1,500 years ago.

Interestingly, he mentions the Lord of the Rings movies as the inspiration for his own hobbit home, as well as the stories of hermits who lived in spiritual contemplation.

Like most of you readers, I am not about to pursue a hermit - like life in the bush, wearing threadbare robes for decades.