Sentences with phrase «live for the contemplation»

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In another two years he's looking forward to «contemplation» in his nice home, where he lives alone and where everything he needs will be provided for him until he dies.

Early on he decided that monastery life would provide the best environment for contemplation and writing.

Joseph Fessio notes: «It's about heart change, an «integral ecology» that recognizes that «We are not God» and proposes «redefining our notion of progress» and adopting a «responsible simplicity of life, in grateful contemplation of God's world, and in concern for the needs of the poor and the protection of the environment.

A fellow historian reminded me that «the tradition has always reserved the contemplative life, and contemplation itself, for the very few.»

There are other signs of double thread being lived out through organizations such as the Center for Action and Contemplation and Socially Concerned Contemplatives.

He does not call for any simple return to a metaphysic which downplays the goods of worldly life in comparison to theoretical contemplation, religious devotion, or civic participation.

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.

In the last paragraph of the Third Meditation, one notices a direct reference to Catholic instruction: «For, as the faith teaches us, the supreme happiness of the other life consists in that single contemplation of the Divine Majesty, of which we already experience, albeit in a much less perfect contemplation, but that causes us nonetheless to rejoice of the greatest contentment of which we are capable of sensing in this life» (42).

But if it should as objects for the contemplation of the intellect but its objectification in actions and deeds that become embodied in the flesh and blood life of the reader, it will in turn realize a new potentiality: the transformation of the reader's self and the world to which that self belongs.

This is purported to be an improvement over the ancient Greek idea that to be ethical is to value as the only source of secure happiness that which can not be taken away from one, such as, for example, a simple, ordered, tranquil life, passed mainly in contemplation and the enjoyment of secure friendship — a life relatively immune to disaster.

In the moment of contemplation it stood out so distinctly before him, so clearly, that the Good, in truth, has all the advantage on its side, that the Good, in truth, is a gain both for this and for the future life.

For Dupré, Western culture's acquiescence in the materialist and positivist view of creation has resulted in such a profound neglect of the transcendent life that references to contemplation, meditation or mysticism only bring smiles of condescension or else incomprehension.

Too many have accepted the popular «neo-orthodox» idea that contemplation and mysticism have no place in the Christian life; on the contrary, they have a real place and an important one; and for those who may be called by God to this particular mode of communion with him, there is a great blessing and a wonderful gift.

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

It does not matter whether one is by God's providential decree placed in the role of politician, engaged in public action for the common good, or in the role of a lover of wisdom (philosopher), engaged as a private person in contemplation of eternal truths, or in some combination of the two: «A man can still lead a life of faith in any of these three lives and reach the eternal rewards.

[10] The Christian life, in short, is construed as mainly a life spent actively preparing by disciplined loving for a future fulfillment of our humanity in a perfect contemplation of the unchanging God.

This withdrawal may take the most diverse forms, from an ignoble «escapism» (for which our age has, significantly, invented such a rich apparatus) to a life of elegant or sublime contemplation (and again it is significant that mystical or pseudo-mystical cults have an astonishing vogue nowadays).

There's a lot I love about the Catholic tradition — the connection to history, the liturgy and ritual, the time for contemplation, the sense that the «great cloud of witnesses» that surrounds us is very much alive and active and a part of our lives.

The application states there is a need for the chapel as «it is every person's right to be able to have a place of retreat for contemplation and prayer, for religious observance, celebration of key life and family milestones, marriages, christenings and so forth».

Oord concludes that for Augustine, «God ceaselessly loves Godself in contemplation and enjoyment in the Trinity's inner life.»

They're a curious bunch, seemingly ordinary people who appear to have plenty of time for deep contemplation about life, death, and the course of time.

Yet these are the stories wanting to be told, where there is room for the audience to stand before a work of art in contemplation of how we should live and why — that which truly brings us together.

Thank Daniel Wallace, first - time novelist from Birmingham, Alabama, now residing in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for a singular and surprisingly comic contemplation on the death and life of a father as witnessed by his son.

The poolside antique joglo provides a historic living space in harmony with surrounding nature, and the bedroom terraces provide many quiet corners for contemplation and escape from the crowd.

They are graceful violent palimpsests, full of vitality but also quiet for contemplation, representing a life of originality, courage and dissidence.

The term «still life» signals the fundamental experience of painting for Milroy, encapsulating her fascination with the relation between stillness and movement, contemplation and action.

Inspired by notion of the garden as a metaphor for society, Narielwalla's works in Sanctuary gather as a multi-sensory forest, a refuge from the chaos of urban life and open up a space for contemplation and reflection.

His installations juxtapose portraits, nudes, still lifes and landscapes with abstract elements, creating veritable «salons», each one carefully orchestrated for the critical, yet hedonistic contemplation of the individual parts.

He has lived for the last twelve years in an isolated hamlet in Gloustershire with the conditions of contemplation and focus that he has increasingly sought as a background to making his remarkable work.

This exhibition of twelve works includes the Courbet - inspired installation L'atelier de la Peintrice: Allégorie réelle déterminant une phase de sept années de ma vie artistique (The Painter's Studio: A Real Allegory Defining Seven Years of My Artistic Life), 2000, and Apparat zum osmotischen Druckausgleich von Reichtum bei der Betrachtung von Armut (Apparatus for Osmotic Compensation of the Pressure of Wealth During the Contemplation of Poverty), 2005, which poetically imagines a reorganization of global resources.

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.

Longer design processes with more time for research, contemplation, real life impact tests, and fine tuning.

The earliest forms of Taoism — just like the earliest forms of Buddhism and Christianity, or the modern secular practice of minimalism — advocate for a simple life that provides room for contemplation and celebrates simple pleasures.

Debonee was honored to graduate with the first cohort of Richard Rohr's «Living School» at the Center for Action and Contemplation, earning a certificate in Contemplative and Non-Dual Consciousness.