Sentences with phrase «spiritual practices in»

This work developed out of Woolfalk's experiences studying performance and its intersection with spiritual practices in Brazil.

Beads: Significance in Spiritual and Religious Practices The significance of religious and spiritual practices in the world is enormous.

I have a fairly deep spiritual practice in general, but this year with all the craziness, with all the angst in the world around us, with the challenges that are had, it really deepens the need to be present, and the joy that comes from being more deeply present.

When two people have a spiritual practice in common, their relationship has a better chance of surviving and thriving.

Paramaguru Sharath Jois believes in supporting all dedicated students in their pursuit of the spiritual practice in whichever way is possible.

Not exact matches

But after experiencing the benefits of cold showers I find the momentary discomfort of such a practice a very small price to pay in the bigger picture of the innumerable physical, mental and even spiritual benefits I receive.

RELIGION is a practice of something, not necessarily something spiritual; for example, one can brush their teeth in a religious way by brushing them before school and after dinner everyday.

«Mindful attention,» which Schwartz draws from the Buddhist tradition, is a spiritual discipline right in line with the practice of detachment employed by the Church's desert fathers.

I find it weird that many of the atheists I encountered until recently were of the thought that you can't possibly have spiritual or religious practices (or superstitions) AND not believe in deities.

And I believe that eventually we will see all those divisions fall away and truly achieve the unity that Jesus prayed for us to experience in practice and not merely in a spiritual detached sense.

Indeed, it becomes an explicit theological axiom for Luther that inward and spiritual grace is given only in and through the public, bodily, sacramental practice of the Church.

Song has always been a central worship practice for the people of God: The Israelites celebrated in song after crossing the Red Sea, and Paul talks about hymns, psalms and spiritual songs in Ephesians 5.

In this story two related elements of leadership as a spiritual practice are evident: first, leaders lead.

And I have felt the many ways Jesus reaches out his hand to catch me — in the love of family and friends, the sustenance of spiritual practice, the bonds of community and the moments of unexplainable peace in the midst of the struggle and the failure.

Today she talks about one spiritual discipline that many of us need a bit of practice in... slowing down.

In Faithful Families: Creating Sacred Moments at Home, Rev. Traci Smith, a Presbyterian pastor and mama of three, offers super-practical, creative ideas for developing spiritual practices as a family.

Such a God reeducates our disordered desires and calls our heartless society back to the spiritual practices of compassion, solidarity and justice - building with the marginalized and the humiliated in our midst.

I've come to the conclusion that Christian teaching in the current spiritual climate I have experienced doesn't always match with what happens in practice in Christian culture and that Christ wasn't a Christian.

A point of communion is the practice, discipline or place in which the Spirit has created special access to the spiritual nourishment and manna needed for each season.

Among the cultural forms studied by the anthropologist are ones that explicitly embody spiritual meanings, including the beliefs, practices, and institutions of religion, some forms of which appear in every known culture.

But even in my own very disciplined life I can easily practice these spiritual exercises and not actively engage with God on a personal and intimate level.

AA's twelve steps are a group of principles, spiritual in their nature, which, if practiced as a way of life, can expel the obsession to drink and enable the sufferer to become happily and usefully whole [quoted from the forward to the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions].

Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and practice these principles in all our affairs.

To suggest that total voluntary exclusion and participation in an individual's self selected religious practices and spiritual life is somehow politically incorrect or wrong, or making it a target of criticism or political point, is nothing less than a display of ignorance and disregard for individual rights.

Given this interest in spiritual practices and things monastic, it is not surprising that more and more people are practicing the daily office (also called «divine office,» «office,» «liturgy of the hours» or «common prayer»).

These spiritual practices help me focus in on the things that concern my heart and emotions to level things out.

This can been seen when their practice of spiritual fatherhood goes far beyond anything Paul practiced in his life and ministry.

Women also face a contradiction in how they are valued for their spiritual and intellectual capacities but are also judged by their bodies, in both appearance (modesty) and activity (sexual practices).

There is a wide range of spiritual practices that one might do on their own that does not include believing in any of the things you mentioned.

As such it requires a degree of maturity, both spiritual and psychological, in the individual undertaking it; she must have lived long enough as a virgin in adulthood to be «serene in the practice of chastity by which she is able to fulfil her resolve to remain in the virginal state over a lifetime» (Archbishop Burke op cit para 17).

When Wesley went to Wheaton College, his horizons expanded and he grew even more interested in nurturing his faith and practicing spiritual disciplines.

Also, the Sufi orders have some practices which resemble those of the tribes of Africa, such as the prescribed daily recitations, the gathering around the Shaikh, or head of the order, belief in spiritual powers, and communal living.

More than an intellectual manifesto, the invitation pledges signers to specific spiritual practices: maintaining a vital prayer life, conducting works of mercy and engaging in a regular Friday fast «as a form of prayerful resistance to the idolatrous practices of our culture.»

I will not get mesmerized by any impressive spiritual knowledge, belief or practice in myself or others.

Christians who seek to live from and toward the basileia theou find that they have personal, existential, psychological, and spiritual needs that are not always met by their participation in community with other Christians or by spiritual practices developed in these communities.

She invites her readers into Christian practices that heighten both the spiritual and relational dimensions of time, so that we may live with greater authenticity as people created in God's image — with an awareness of time as a gift rather than a burden thrust upon us by our daily planners, and with a sense of being «attuned to the active presence of God.»

Therefore I have come to believe that theology in Latin America today is synonymous with the practice of spiritual discernment.

While different from the role practiced in the local church, it is essentially a recognition of spiritual authority based on relational and proven experience as opposed to positional leadership.

In the traditional monastic practice of lectio divina, the meditatio stage that followed the lectio did not refer only to a discursive process of connecting spiritual concepts to draw fresh insights or moral applications.

Small but growing numbers of Christian theologians in Europe and North America have begun to meet regularly with Buddhists to foster mutual understanding and growth, one result of which is the recently established international Society for Buddhist - Christian Studies.4 In addition, following the lead of the late Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, many Roman Catholic monastics have begun to use meditative practices as an adjunct to their own spiritual disciplines (Walkerin Europe and North America have begun to meet regularly with Buddhists to foster mutual understanding and growth, one result of which is the recently established international Society for Buddhist - Christian Studies.4 In addition, following the lead of the late Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, many Roman Catholic monastics have begun to use meditative practices as an adjunct to their own spiritual disciplines (WalkerIn addition, following the lead of the late Trappist monk, Thomas Merton, many Roman Catholic monastics have begun to use meditative practices as an adjunct to their own spiritual disciplines (Walker).

A spiritual renewal requires that we practice some of the detachment that Neoplatonists are so fond of preaching about: in this case, a detachment from the dualisms and Neoplatonic flights of Augustine's spirituality.

I believe this practice, however, is the most basic and fundamental spiritual practice, and when a person learns to live life with God, this allows God to speak into their mind, and work in their life in ways that lead to other spiritual practices.

«Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.»

She recently contributed an essay on spiritual practices to Practicing Theology: Beliefs and Practices in Christian Life, edited by Miroslav Volf and Dorothy C. Bass.

I believe that they were a collection of social conventions to keep the Israelite people bound together in common spiritual and social practices, particularly their sexual practices, that would increase their power and numbers relative to the neighboring peoples.

Jesus practiced the genuine spiritual life according all matter and material sense with all its sin, sickness and death as nothing in contradistinction to the Life, Truth and Love, of Spirit.

Let me state them again: faith that peace is possible, provision for peaceful change from within the nations, international organization with the surrender of absolute national sovereignty, economic security for all men, faith in and understanding of and practice of the democratic way of life, and a unifying spiritual world community.

For Hauerwas and Marshall, the postliberal turn to Aquinas and the spiritual practices of the liturgical churches is linked to the original postliberal project of rethinking Christian orthodoxy in a postliberal spirit.

He suggests that the «traditional» Reformed groups be more open in attitude and practice to new ideas and more generous to people seeking a sincere spiritual transformation.

The spiritual vision of modernity as we know it in ideology and practice has emphasized three aspects of realty, namely progress through differentiation and autonomy of individuality; the concept of the world as history moving towards the Future through the creativity of human rationality; and the ethos of secularism as the basis of social ordering.