contemplative
ಚಿಂತನಶೀಲ
definition
noun
Asked why, the rabbi responded: ‘How many of your bishops are contemplatives ?’
a person whose life is devoted primarily to prayer, especially in a monastery or convent.
adjective
she regarded me with a contemplative eye
expressing or involving prolonged thought.
example
The natural beauty of the Park is ideal for 'contemplative' life, as monks and nuns of earlier centuries found before us.
It is such a fixture in our collective consciousness, it seems either much older or much younger, but certainly not the ordinary, pedestrian, 'contemplative' age of 50.
People walk the labyrinth slowly, as an aid to 'contemplative' prayer and reflection, as a spiritual exercise, or as a form of pilgrimage.
Then some of them are very 'contemplative' and introspective.
These painted images are 'contemplative' musings of a reflective thinker looking through veils of timelessness to honour the artistic masters of the past.
It can stimulate religions to excavate the 'contemplative' and meditative paths in their own heritages, such as the Jewish meditation movement and Christian centering prayer.
The quest for personal mastery requires some form of meditation or 'contemplative' prayer because ‘it is helpful in working more productively with the subconscious mind’.
In more 'contemplative' moments, Dick must pine for the relatively simple life he enjoyed at his previous posting.
At other points, the poetry of ideas is brought together with a more natural landscape to create 'contemplative' opportunities of the type usually associated with ancient temples and monuments.
Thomas was a biblical commentator, an educator of his fellow friars, a theologian, a preacher, and a great 'contemplative' .
He says he's trying to ‘create a 'contemplative' space’ in a city that has been overtaken by advertising and commerce, in a culture that is becoming less free and more mediated.
To my mind, the essential difference between philosophy and religion is in the religious type of 'contemplative' act, the observer is within it, not outside it.
The early poetry reveals an interest in religious 'contemplative' themes.
Then, in her middle seventies, she stopped, resolving to use the years she had left to pursue God through the solitary practice of 'contemplative' prayer.
I can tell you he's read thousands of pages, and met with a lot of different people who have very strong views, and he's been very 'contemplative' how he's considered this issue.
And I suppose the biggest and strongest desire I have is this one of being a 'contemplative' with a capital C.
Despite the noisy celebration with loud conches and raucous bells, the essence of practice of Hinduism is a quiet introspection and 'contemplative' meditation.
But people were also 'contemplative' and prayerful.
Described as part rock, part country, they straddle the very popular contemporary line between all out party animals and more considered 'contemplative' songwriters and performers.
Vergil is a kind of 'contemplative' who finds himself writing epic, at the average pace of about three lines a day.
Plus, you will need to set aside 40 minutes each day for 'contemplative' prayer.
It has been argued that the current interest in 'contemplative' prayer is a middle-class luxury for those who wish to experience some kind of spiritual frisson.
I would sit there with my books and studies, or sometimes engage in my own form of 'contemplative' prayer.
The long, dreamy, 'contemplative' takes of classic Hollywood studio movies or postwar European art films are long gone.
The daily prayer services move through themes loosely associated with the seven days of creation; each service repeatedly invites silent 'contemplative' prayer.
One would have liked a better balance throughout the album, as it slows dangerously on the latter half and misplaces its original rock intentions while it pursues a more 'contemplative' attitude.
As a member of a 'contemplative' religious order spending time in silence is nothing strange to me, and is something I look forward to.
This is one of the material reasons the world needs nuns outside the 'contemplative' orders - teaching sisters, hospital sisters, Missionaries of Charity and the rest.
We are now fully in the domain of 'contemplative' prayer.
He made application to Prior Richard at a local monastery, asking to be accepted as a 'contemplative' and spend the rest of his life in the monastery.
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