Sentences with phrase «meditation on the nature»

Dr Greg Farrelly, back by popular demand after showing off his teaching skills at London Bridge, headed up our lay - led summer meditations on the nature of the human person, and our very inspiring six autumn talks on «Love», led to the now famous (see Faith Magazine January 2015) post-Synodal tour de force by Jaqueline Stewart.

And while even the best episodes of Galactica and Lost are ultimately pop - culture ephemera, HBO's mob show is closer to real art: Dostoevsky crossed with Emile Zola, a novelistic meditation on the nature of societal corruption and personal sin.

, where chef Justin Woodward morphs seasonal produce into brainy meditations on nature, as in his onion «terrarium» with green almonds and charcoal oil.

One of the most interesting explanations about why yoga (body meditation) is so helpful to people has been presented by the 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso along with Khonton Peljor Lhundrub and Jose Ignacio Cabezon) in the book, Meditation on the Nature of Mind.

Meditation on the Nature of Mind.

This film is an act of spiritual faith — an eloquent, deeply felt meditation on the nature of compassion.

It's a breathtaking work of immense beauty and a thought - provoking meditation on the nature of crime and punishment, of identity and solitude, of guilt and absolution.

The result is not a moral inquiry into human action but rather a compelling meditation on the nature of being itself.

Another excellent Alfred — Alfred Enoch, of the Harry Potter films and American TV series How to Get Away with Murder — succeeds Eddie Redmayne as Rothko's assistant, forming a compelling duo in this 90 - minute meditation on the nature, process and purpose of art.

This visual meditation on nature, death and tradition paints a shattering portrait of a family overcoming extraordinary circumstances to honor a final request.

«A luscious widescreen meditation on nature, death and Southern discomfort.»

As a meditation on the nature of acting and the various ways in which analog is being supplanted by digital — one look at the title tells you which side Carax favors — this giddy / sad smorgasbord offers plenty of grist for interpretation.

Jim Jarmusch's wry meditation on the nature of creativity.

No genre film, Hors Satan presents a meditation on the nature of good and evil, an arty film that might reward patient audiences or bore viewers as vague and pretentious.

The open ending, which deliberately doesn't quite connect the dots in the coincidence - driven story, is essentially a meditation on the nature of anticipation.

Raging Bull (1980, Martin Scorsese): The best director currently working in American movies hit a career peak by turning the life of boxer Jake La Motta into a poetic meditation on the nature of violence.

What began as a stand - alone film turned into a continuing meditation on the nature of individuals and relationships over time.

«SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE» As so often happens, the breathless awards - oriented marketing has made this dizzying, defiantly eccentric cinematic hodgepodge sound less interesting than it really is — it's less a «triumph of the spirit» tale than a jagged, fantastical meditation on the nature of fate.

Rotten: The director Scott Derrickson seems uncertain as to whether he is making an exploitation pic intended to give audiences a few fairground - style thrills and frights, or a William Friedkin - style meditation on the nature of evil.

In Life, Newbery Medalist Cynthia Rylant brings readers a meditation on nature and the course of a life, one that begins tiny and blooms with an appreciation for the world at large.

«It's a great book to experience France with both suspense and mystery and it's a meditation on the nature of love and whether we can ever escape the past and reinvent ourselves.

A stunning story about how love and war inalterably change the lives of those they touch, The Surrendered is elegant, suspenseful, and unforgettable: a profound meditation on the nature of heroism and sacrifice, the power of love, and the possibilities for mercy and salvation.

As Lee unfurls the stunning story of June, Hector, and Sylvie, he weaves a profound meditation on the nature of heroism and sacrifice, the power of love, and the possibilities for mercy, salvation, and surrendering oneself to another.

APE is overwhelmingly a guide to the world of self - publishing, but large sections of the book are thoughtful meditations on the nature of publishing, on defining oneself as an author, and what makes a successful book.

Written in lyrical prose, If I Forget You is at once a great love story, a novel of marriage, manners, and family, a meditation on the nature of art, a moving elegy to what it means to love and to lose, and how the choices we make can change our lives forever.

It is also the revelation of a highly developed contemporary meditation on the nature of reality and the historical and logical paths that lead to knowledge.

Motifs do reappear — black pears, strawberries, monkeys, noses, silhouettes, roosters, clocks — but less as representations or signatures, and more as a visual lexicon which allows her to expand and distort their meanings in an ongoing meditation on the nature of representation and the elasticity of symbols.

Pictured above: A Meditation on Nature in the Absence of an Eclipse, 2017, digital video with stereo sound, 4:32 min.

These surroundings informed her meditations on nature, and the high ceilings of her studio allowed Mitchell to work on larger canvases and create multi-paneled works.

Honarvar's works are intellectually dense meditations on the nature of human existence.

Born in New York and based in Stockholm and New York, Amy Simon's works are evocative meditations on the nature of recollection, identity, and the significance of place.

The artist will be present at a public opening on Thursday, May 7th from 6 - 8 p.m. Tim Hawkinson's idiosyncratic creations are meditations on nature, machines, mortality, the body and human consciousness.

Kiefer wrestles with the darkness of German history, unearthing the taboos that underlie the collective past and interweaving them with Teutonic mythology, cosmology and meditations on the nature of belief.

Tim Hawkinson's idiosyncratic creations are meditations on nature, machines, mortality, the body, and human consciousness.

His text, which offers a poetic meditation on the nature of human existence and artistic expression, suggests that a person — defined in political and aesthetic terms — is always «less than one.»

Ryan McNamara: MEEM: A Story Ballet About the Internet at Connelly Theater, presented by Performa 13 McNamara's most ambitious work to date, Meem proved to be both a captivating performance and a potent meditation on the nature of reception in a state of digital distraction.

A 24 - hour - long meditation on the nature and artifice of time, «The Clock» consists of thousands of film (and to a lesser degree, television) clips that feature clocks, watches and other timepieces, edited together so that the time you see on screen reflects the current time.

A duality is set up by Penone, wherein the river - as - artist loops around into a meditation on nature and culture, implicating both in the act of creation.

His works encompassing and transcending painting, sculpture, photography, and installation are epic in both scale and subject matter; in them, Kiefer wrestles with the darkness of German history, unearthing the taboos that underlie the collective past and interweaving them with Teutonic mythology, cosmology, and meditations on the nature of belief.

In advance of our New York Evening Sale, we talk to Pat Steir about her waterfall paintings, meditations on nature and influences ranging from John Cage to Chinese landscape painting.

She isolates transitory moments of perception, multiplying and dividing the forms that emerge from them, to create visionary meditations on nature, the mutability of time, and natural cycles of growth and decay.

Richard Long at Sperone Westwater, through June 25 Richard Long takes on Sperone Westwater's vast new (as of last fall) space on the Bowery, filling the gallery with his site - specific meditations on nature and travel.

As the title «Time Exposed» indicates, these works by Uta Barth, Linda Connor, Vera Lutter, Chris McCaw, and Hiroshi Sugimoto are both meditations on the nature of time and representations of its passing.

Like her «Threshold» works, these paintings serve as a thoughtful meditation on the nature of occupancy within a domestic environment, exactingly rendered in multiple paint layers.

Francesca Capone's recent solo exhibition, Oblique Archive, is a meditation on the nature of language as it is increasingly unmoored from the physical realm of paper and set adrift in our digital landscape.

It's a disquieting meditation on the nature of time — endlessly replenished but endlessly fleeting — made more ominous by «Well (elh version),» a series of small ledges bearing water glasses that must be topped up with eyedroppers every day by gallery staff.

The 60 - year - plus career of this great American color painter ended with the artist absorbed in deep meditation on the nature of paint as a carrier of transcendental light.

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Daily wellness activities on the island include yoga, meditation, farm - to - table dining, cooking classes, fitness classes, nature activities and more.

Research on naps, meditation, nature walks and the habits of exceptional artists and athletes reveals how mental breaks increase productivity, replenish attention, solidify memories and encourage creativity

The first expression of gnosticism hid in the spiritual nature of the human person and focused on meditation and sacrifice.