Sentences with phrase «quiet contemplation»

Sometimes a few moments of quiet contemplation can really boost productivity.

Pop Art has never been known to have much time for quiet contemplation.

The group will then spend some time in quiet contemplation while participating in seasonal volunteer work and taking a peaceful stroll of the farm.

The result is a space that — surprisingly — encourages quiet contemplation.

Sometimes we need encouragement to speak our truth, and sometimes it's about quiet contemplation.

Furthermore, making meaning of new experiences — and the ideas that grow out of them — requires quiet contemplation.

Even just a few minutes of quiet contemplation and deep breathing will help you hit the reset button.

Each private terrace offers an ideal setting for quiet contemplation or intimate meals.

We sit on the dirt in quiet contemplation, looking at the stars.

Take a quiet stroll around the walled garden, share a few moments of quiet contemplation by the water in the Japanese - style garden, or take time out to smell the roses in the International Rose Garden (home to the annual Rose Week each July).

The serene Chinese Friendship Garden offers a place of quiet contemplation with its waterfalls, weeping willows and koi ponds.

Quiet contemplation after reception of Holy Communion surely touches our very being with the very essence of God.

Go into quiet contemplation of the word shalom that we translate as peace... and contemplate its full meaning, which is perfection, wholeness and completion... nothing missing, nothing broken.»

In the middle of all the historic buildings and museums of Balboa park, the Japanese gardens are an oasis of greenery, textures and quiet contemplation from all the crowds visiting the more popular attractions around the park.

He enjoys active hobbies, including hiking and jiu - jitsu, as well as quiet contemplation and meditation.

I think quiet contemplation would have been a whole lot easier, but the young are given to much histrionics these days.

Zhang leads a simple life by design, one geared toward quiet contemplation.

Park's directorial strategies also create a tension between action spectacle and more quiet contemplation.

The ritual practice of that day includes meditation and quiet contemplation on the importance of the watery environment that surrounds and sustains the islands.

«They invite quiet contemplation,» says the noted critic Donald Kuspit.

Maintaining that the infinite vastness of the horizon sparks an awareness of perfection in the human mind that, although unseen and immaterial, is ultimately the essential and pervasive character of reality, Martin intended to recreate this same quiet contemplation of nature in her canvases.

So museums are morphing into new shapes to suit their multifaceted roles as scholarly redoubts and singles bars, civic centers and catering halls, learning centers and living rooms, pilgrimage sites and places offering quiet contemplation and the occasional transcendent experience.

Photographed with a large - format film camera, the images find moments of pause and quiet contemplation amidst the frenetic energy of war games.

It has been a matter of quiet contemplation ever since...

Emphasis was placed on the understanding that everyone wants something slightly different and that there should be areas for quiet contemplation, study and talking, as well as active play.

Leading on from this is a new meadow lawn area and ecological planting was established around the existing trees and a number of enclosed seating areas have been set into the natural planting to encourage quieter contemplation and conversation between small groups of children.

Ellen Robinson's residency served as a place of quiet contemplation for textural assemblages and soft surfaces.

I find the commode an ideal location for quiet contemplation, a fine place to read all six volumes of Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as well as Us Weekly.

Although I am an atheist, I admire this lifestyle without earthy / material attachments and distractions a life of quiet contemplation.

The filmmakers frequently find Vanier in moments of quiet contemplation and community.

He was a mystic given to quiet contemplation, solitary prayer and silence.

This soldier refused to spend time in quiet contemplation (like everyone else who is not Christan) thus showing open contempt for all the other soldiers.

Given the importance of their next three matches, Roma did what they always do pre-match: spent the entire week in quiet contemplation... wait, what's that?

For an hour and a half, I sing, listen to readings, enjoy moments of quiet contemplation and throw a few coins into a collection.

The history of science includes many stories, some real and some apocryphal, of «aha» moments during mountain hikes and periods of quiet contemplation, but today the idea of giving scientists time to think seems quaint.

Quiet contemplation, in that sense, is the most meaningful kind of self - care.

From 4:00 in the morning to 10:00 in the evening, students sit in the hall in quiet contemplation, observing the breath, and eventually moving their awareness through their body and observing all the subtle (and not - so - subtle) sensations they feel.

Even just a few seconds of quiet contemplation and deep breathing will help you hit the reset button.

Create space at the end of your next yoga practice to sit in quiet contemplation, free of agenda or nagging concerns about what needs to happen next.

Even just 10 - 15 minutes of quiet contemplation or movement (try a few hip opener yoga poses, as we tend to store stress in our hips), will help you create the space to hit the reset button.

Somedays are made of these... getting out of town, discovering new places, quiet contemplation and spontaneous dancing.

What Brother lacks in dialogue and cohesion it more than makes up for in Kitano's peculiar sizzle and quiet contemplation.

To me, those scenes made another jarring juxtaposition with the overall mode of quiet contemplation that you mentioned earlier.

In virtue of this, Broken Song is more of a character piece than your run - of - the - mill music doc and despite the talent on screen and the arena of scope, the filmmakers are confident enough to allow moments of silence and quiet contemplation.

Newark — The New Jersey Legislature, in enacting a «moment - of - silence» law for public - school students last year, said the law called for just that — a minute of quiet contemplation and introspection to begin the school day.

We might have started down the writing path because we had this wonderful image of it being a perfect career for introverts, what with all the quiet contemplation in a mountain - top log cabin.