contemplative
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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.
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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.
Vergil is a kind of 'contemplative' who finds himself writing epic, at the average pace of about three lines a day.
As a member of a 'contemplative' religious order spending time in silence is nothing strange to me, and is something I look forward to.
The early poetry reveals an interest in religious 'contemplative' themes.
The film also implicitly questions the validity of a contemporary academic that fails to incorporate political activism in favour of a purely aesthetic or 'contemplative' mode of being.
The long, dreamy, 'contemplative' takes of classic Hollywood studio movies or postwar European art films are long gone.
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.
The mood of his album is dreamy and 'contemplative' , with occasional bursts of childish exuberance.
We must take it at face value for there is no torment beyond the exuberant grins, coy smirks or 'contemplative' musings of any of the grandmothers.
In more 'contemplative' moments, Dick must pine for the relatively simple life he enjoyed at his previous posting.
Thomas was a biblical commentator, an educator of his fellow friars, a theologian, a preacher, and a great 'contemplative' .
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.
People walk the labyrinth slowly, as an aid to 'contemplative' prayer and reflection, as a spiritual exercise, or as a form of pilgrimage.
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’.
I would sit there with my books and studies, or sometimes engage in my own form of 'contemplative' prayer.
The false self that the 'contemplative' would renounce is problematic.
Then follows his more recent photographic work that expresses his 'contemplative' enjoyment of the quiet landscapes unrolling between the Great Lakes and the East Coast.
In lieu of more thoughtful and 'contemplative' reflections, I'll just present my top 5 panels.
Despite the noisy celebration with loud conches and raucous bells, the essence of practice of Hinduism is a quiet introspection and 'contemplative' meditation.
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.
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 natural beauty of the Park is ideal for 'contemplative' life, as monks and nuns of earlier centuries found before us.
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.
On the other hand, the dynamic panoramic views reflect his 'contemplative' sense of analysis and recognition of space, timing and content.
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.
But either way, it's a warm, gently humid, 'contemplative' space, air filled with the gurgle of small waterfalls, flowing over the regular patterns of concrete steps, into pools sprouting with fern and reed.
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.
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.
These painted images are 'contemplative' musings of a reflective thinker looking through veils of timelessness to honour the artistic masters of the past.
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.
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