contemplative
ചിന്താവിഷ്ടനും
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
As a member of a 'contemplative' religious order spending time in silence is nothing strange to me, and is something I look forward to.
We are now fully in the domain of 'contemplative' prayer.
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 false self that the 'contemplative' would renounce is problematic.
On the other hand, the dynamic panoramic views reflect his 'contemplative' sense of analysis and recognition of space, timing and content.
People walk the labyrinth slowly, as an aid to 'contemplative' prayer and reflection, as a spiritual exercise, or as a form of pilgrimage.
Nobody really needs one more 'contemplative' musical sigh about how it's kinda sad when your woman leaves you or you realize you just don't fit into society or you're getting old.
In more 'contemplative' moments, Dick must pine for the relatively simple life he enjoyed at his previous posting.
And he was for 14 years a member of a 'contemplative' religious order so his values are all in the right place.
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.
But people were also 'contemplative' and prayerful.
The natural beauty of the Park is ideal for 'contemplative' life, as monks and nuns of earlier centuries found before us.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The mood of his album is dreamy and 'contemplative' , with occasional bursts of childish exuberance.
In lieu of more thoughtful and 'contemplative' reflections, I'll just present my top 5 panels.
These painted images are 'contemplative' musings of a reflective thinker looking through veils of timelessness to honour the artistic masters of the past.
Thomas was a biblical commentator, an educator of his fellow friars, a theologian, a preacher, and a great 'contemplative' .
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’.
Vergil is a kind of 'contemplative' who finds himself writing epic, at the average pace of about three lines a day.
Lewis's last three chapters are an extended allegory of 'contemplative' prayer.
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.
His air is 'contemplative' and dreamy in both self-portraits.
Nonetheless, the act of reading can be sacred if we realize how close it is in spirit to the search for the 'contemplative' .
What Evans has provided, however, is a well-written and masterful introduction to this great monastic 'contemplative' and doctor of the church.
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