contemplative
चिंतनशील
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.
translation of 'contemplative'
चिंतनाची आवड असलेला,
विचारमग्न,
चिंतनशील
example
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.
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.
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.
And I suppose the biggest and strongest desire I have is this one of being a 'contemplative' with a capital C.
The early poetry reveals an interest in religious 'contemplative' themes.
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.
His air is 'contemplative' and dreamy in both self-portraits.
Despite the noisy celebration with loud conches and raucous bells, the essence of practice of Hinduism is a quiet introspection and 'contemplative' meditation.
Plus, you will need to set aside 40 minutes each day for 'contemplative' prayer.
Vergil is a kind of 'contemplative' who finds himself writing epic, at the average pace of about three lines a day.
Nonetheless, the act of reading can be sacred if we realize how close it is in spirit to the search for the 'contemplative' .
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.
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.
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 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.
We are now fully in the domain of 'contemplative' prayer.
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.
On the other hand, the dynamic panoramic views reflect his 'contemplative' sense of analysis and recognition of space, timing and content.
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.
The daily prayer services move through themes loosely associated with the seven days of creation; each service repeatedly invites silent 'contemplative' prayer.
In more 'contemplative' moments, Dick must pine for the relatively simple life he enjoyed at his previous posting.
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.
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’.
Thomas was a biblical commentator, an educator of his fellow friars, a theologian, a preacher, and a great 'contemplative' .
And he was for 14 years a member of a 'contemplative' religious order so his values are all in the right place.
In lieu of more thoughtful and 'contemplative' reflections, I'll just present my top 5 panels.
The long, dreamy, 'contemplative' takes of classic Hollywood studio movies or postwar European art films are long gone.
The natural beauty of the Park is ideal for 'contemplative' life, as monks and nuns of earlier centuries found before us.
I can't really put my finger on it, but I have realised that it is seriously underplayed in my life, and definitely merits more frequent airings, especially when I want to be 'contemplative' .
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.
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