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.
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.
But people were also 'contemplative' and prayerful.
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' .
Vergil is a kind of 'contemplative' who finds himself writing epic, at the average pace of about three lines a day.
The long, dreamy, 'contemplative' takes of classic Hollywood studio movies or postwar European art films are long gone.
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.
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.
Nonetheless, the act of reading can be sacred if we realize how close it is in spirit to the search for the 'contemplative' .
His air is 'contemplative' and dreamy in both self-portraits.
We are now fully in the domain of 'contemplative' prayer.
Despite the noisy celebration with loud conches and raucous bells, the essence of practice of Hinduism is a quiet introspection and 'contemplative' meditation.
I would sit there with my books and studies, or sometimes engage in my own form of 'contemplative' prayer.
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.
People walk the labyrinth slowly, as an aid to 'contemplative' prayer and reflection, as a spiritual exercise, or as a form of pilgrimage.
What Evans has provided, however, is a well-written and masterful introduction to this great monastic 'contemplative' and doctor of the church.
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.
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.
Plus, you will need to set aside 40 minutes each day for 'contemplative' prayer.
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's as old as humanity, and in the Christian tradition there is a very clear and strong affirmation of the 'contemplative' dimension of prayer.
In lieu of more thoughtful and 'contemplative' reflections, I'll just present my top 5 panels.
The mood of his album is dreamy and 'contemplative' , with occasional bursts of childish exuberance.
In more 'contemplative' moments, Dick must pine for the relatively simple life he enjoyed at his previous posting.
The false self that the 'contemplative' would renounce is problematic.
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.
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.
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.
The daily prayer services move through themes loosely associated with the seven days of creation; each service repeatedly invites silent 'contemplative' prayer.
These painted images are 'contemplative' musings of a reflective thinker looking through veils of timelessness to honour the artistic masters of the past.
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