Sentences with phrase «of spiritual contemplation»

As a result, the paintings produce in the responsive viewer a sense of the ethereal and a state of spiritual contemplation.

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St. Gregory of Sinai stresses that this stillness is the fruit of prayer and its reward: «Stillness gives birth to contemplation, contemplation to spiritual knowledge and knowledge to apprehension of the mysteries.»

But it explains why contemplation of the majestic figures in Michelangelo's Medici Chapel is an experience more spiritual than aesthetic.

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.

She read from her mother's bookshelf the letters of Evelyn Underhill, an Anglican spiritual director of the 1930s and 1940s who wrote in a mystical vein about prayer and contemplation.

By contemplation, I mean spiritual practices of rest, prayer, and devotion that connect us to God in a way that unburdens.

Laudato Si», Pope Francis» 2015 encyclical, considers the connection between contemplation and the sacraments and attests that man's stewardship of creation is not only a material responsibility but also a spiritual responsibility.

The spiritual challenge of our time is to realize our sacred humanness, that there need not be a conflict between the natural and the supernatural, between the finite and the infinite, between time and eternity, between practicality and mysticism, between social justice and contemplation, between sexuality and spirituality, between our human fulfillment and our spiritual realization, between what is most human and what is most sacred.

With just the right mixture of humor and insight, compassion and incredulity, A Year of Biblical Womanhood is an exercise in scriptural exploration and spiritual contemplation.

This happens through the contemplation and study made by believers, who treasure these things in their hearts» and also through the «intimate understanding of spiritual things they experience» (Dei Verbum 8).

Through various forms of asceticism, renunciation of instinct, contemplation of the spiritual and the ideal, and eventually through death, the soul migrates back to its original home.

He also, from his own spiritual experiences, developed a pattern of meditation, contemplation and prayer which he set out in his very influential Spiritual Espiritual experiences, developed a pattern of meditation, contemplation and prayer which he set out in his very influential Spiritual ESpiritual Exercises.

As early as the mid-third century Origen of Alexandria [9] had urged that the actions enjoined by scripture constitute a «practice» that begins a spiritual journey and comprises the Christian life of most people in time; it flowers into pure contemplation in the afterlife as the ultimate and certain reward of faithful practice.

Cultivate your ««feeling function» through spiritual practice, therapy, radical self - care, yoga, breathwork, extended periods of silence, contemplation and creativity.

In this new body of work consisting of sculptures, works on paper, and video, Ward articulates a dialogue surrounding the idea of support — physical, spiritual, social, and judicial — while introducing contemplation of everyday objects.

Many of his large - scale works have a radiating light that invite contemplation and meditation and convey a sense of the spiritual and transcendent.

Wayne Marto has been painting abstract spiritual art since experiencing a profound spiritual awakening in 2014 after several years of deep spiritual contemplation and meditation.

Much of his work has art historical references but nods to religious / spiritual ceremonies that highlight repetition as a space for meditation and contemplation.

The woodcuts and the Simone Weil presentation enter into a reciprocal survey of dividing lines between handwork and art, spiritual experience and contemplation.

Historically a chapel is a non-religious place of worship and contemplation; a small, non-conforming annex to common and prevalent modes of spiritual practice.

Geographical, social, and spiritual motifs inform a body of work, which encourages viewer participation outside the confines of complacent contemplation.

The body elements seemingly «dissolve» into the landscape, signifying the unity of the physical and the spiritual — the metaphysical contemplation often reflected in Geng Xue's works.

But they are also positive, assertions of the energy of creativity, or, in Rothko's case, of the spiritual heights and depths to be plumbed in the contemplation of a coloured void.

Geographical, social and spiritual concerns nourish a body of works questioning global identities and the confines of complacent contemplation.

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.