Search results for "Contemplation" - New World Encyclopedia
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- themes: the appeal of the life of contemplation vs. the appeal of the life of action. After "The Wanderings of Oisin," he never attempted ...21 KB (3,324 words) - 15:42, 6 May 2023
- who argued that a life of moral contemplation was morally preferable to seeking martyrdom: "Such is also the case with him who does not ...22 KB (3,506 words) - 20:42, 21 April 2023
- stemmed from Nabokov's love of detail, contemplation, and symmetry. == List of Works == === Fiction === * [http://www.nabokov.tk Nabokov ...22 KB (3,112 words) - 20:47, 3 May 2023
- Apology is to prove that it is through the contemplation of art that we can arrive at a virtuous understanding of life. One of the themes of the ...20 KB (3,264 words) - 03:48, 24 November 2022
- symbolically the objects of worship and contemplation of the Tibetan Buddhist cosmology. To symbolize impermanence (a central teaching of Buddhism ...23 KB (3,394 words) - 16:47, 24 October 2023
- This triple-contemplation establishes the first stages of existence. It continues, giving rise consequential intellects which create between ...23 KB (3,644 words) - 07:16, 23 August 2023
- She found it in prayer and in the silent contemplation of Jesus Christ, his Holy Face, his Sacred Heart." [https://www.vatican.va/content/john ...24 KB (3,633 words) - 20:00, 15 March 2023
- of ideas, and philosophical investigation is the contemplation of these ideas. This concept would influence subsequent internalist movements, as Descartes ...25 KB (3,599 words) - 04:02, 8 December 2022
- to the head) further meditation/contemplation or union with deity develops. In macrocosmic orbit, the qi is also guided through the main channels ...24 KB (3,564 words) - 17:25, 30 September 2021
- from earthly desires, toward the heaven of contemplation. Emil Krén and Daniel Marx, [https://www.wga.hu/html_m/c/correggi/mytholog/ganymede ...26 KB (3,834 words) - 19:48, 9 April 2024
- Big Sur also became home to centers of study and contemplation--a Catholic monastery, the New Camaldoli Hermitage in 1958, the Esalen Institute ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 03:49, 1 October 2023
- knowledge conceived as the object of contemplation was conceived as having intrinsic value, and therefore its value was derived by itself. This ...23 KB (3,596 words) - 04:48, 9 April 2024
- *[http://www.buddhanature.com/buddha/maitreya.html A Contemplation on Maitreya - The Coming Buddha] *[http://share-international.org/maitreya/Ma_main ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 05:32, 5 November 2022
- Clausewitz introduced systematic philosophical contemplation into Western military thinking, with powerful implications not only for historical ...24 KB (3,682 words) - 15:21, 27 November 2023
- not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement ...28 KB (4,246 words) - 03:31, 1 October 2023
- draw the viewer into the same state of deep contemplation that the figure(s) in his paintings convey. He was also a master at depicting the way light ...27 KB (4,136 words) - 07:23, 5 April 2024
- “I am the Truth” in a state of ecstatic contemplation. ʻAṭṭār, A.J. Arberry (1966), 266-271. The book is also a major source of information ...25 KB (4,069 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- were very large. The nuns were devoted to contemplation and also did field-work. The best known of all Cistercian convents was probably Port-Royal ...26 KB (4,063 words) - 22:24, 10 December 2023
- is contrasted with mystical contemplation of the kind developed in India. Weber noted that some aspects of Christianity sought to conquer and ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 01:03, 9 November 2022
- (i.e. a trance state), other than perhaps using contemplation, meditation and incubation (i.e., ritually "sleeping on it"). His sole description ...27 KB (4,102 words) - 10:08, 11 March 2023
- Milton's poetry distilled into serious contemplation. The Victorians of the late nineteenth century, particularly George Eliot and Thomas Hardy ...27 KB (4,256 words) - 03:00, 2 May 2024
- 20. ¦¦¦¦||Viewing (觀 guān) Contemplation 21.|¦¦|¦|Gnawing Bite (噬嗑 shì kè) Biting Through 22.|¦|¦¦|Adorning ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 11:13, 24 May 2023
- with wild and even fantastic emotion, the contemplation of nature and spirit, and an almost mystic interest in "primitive" literature, particularly ...29 KB (4,522 words) - 07:15, 5 April 2024
- of their own self to properly live in full contemplation of the divine’s existence (Melchert, 1996). Building on these notions, Sufism developed ...29 KB (4,602 words) - 13:45, 28 April 2023
- spent in celibate, controlled, sober, and pure contemplation of life's secrets under a Guru, building up body and mind for the responsibilities of ...61 KB (9,460 words) - 19:05, 17 March 2022
- things quite overpowered me, and the contemplation of ideas furnished my mind with wings, so that in a little while I supposed that I had become ...34 KB (5,421 words) - 21:24, 4 October 2022
- can be produced or consumed solely for the contemplation or enjoyment of the refined sensory experience. This use is perhaps best exemplified in ...32 KB (4,937 words) - 12:45, 4 March 2024
- unlike some Japanese Zen traditions, rejected contemplation on a lengthy, graduated series of deeper kōans. The typical Korean approach proclaimed ...32 KB (4,825 words) - 20:07, 15 August 2021
- the man wishes he could remain above ground in contemplation of the light of truth. Having pity on those below who are still imprisoned, however, he ...37 KB (6,078 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- Few concepts in human history have generated as much fascination, intense longing, rapturous devotion, somber contemplation, and endless debate ...102 KB (16,134 words) - 19:54, 31 December 2023
- to My will (with firm faith and loving contemplation). I shall liberate you from all sins. Do not fear. Bhagavad Gita 18.66. ==Influence of the ...36 KB (5,510 words) - 03:32, 1 October 2023
- — which is paying honor to God through contemplation of objects such as paintings and statues, and adoration (latria) — which is properly given ...37 KB (5,883 words) - 02:58, 19 April 2023
- * Contemplation: Members examine themselves. They are individually and collectively self-aware of the world outside themselves, the world inside ...37 KB (5,607 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
- person, humble, simple, peace-loving, given to contemplation, moderate, a lover of poetry." These endearing qualities helped him in his beatification ...35 KB (5,231 words) - 18:38, 30 April 2023
- other-worldly, aiming only at a passive contemplation of the dissolution of all identity into the theophanic self-creation of nature. ...35 KB (5,046 words) - 09:29, 15 December 2022
- such as "the valleys of mental contemplation," "the wings of thoughts," "solicitudes and dreams," "the veils ...35 KB (4,995 words) - 17:16, 29 November 2023
- Although he was dedicated to a life of quiet contemplation, Jerome remained surrounded by a few friends, both men and women (including Paula and Eustochium ...33 KB (5,192 words) - 19:50, 22 December 2022
- right meditation (classed as meditation or contemplation). Full-time mendicants keep a set of precepts, some of which also apply to laity. In ...39 KB (6,288 words) - 18:32, 22 November 2023
- creation and experiences moments of pure contemplation, when she becomes, forgetting herself, "the limpid eye of the world." ...35 KB (5,638 words) - 02:44, 5 November 2022
- atheism, which involves philosophical contemplation of the nonexistence of god(s), was often denied by theists throughout history. That anyone ...41 KB (6,063 words) - 18:42, 19 August 2023
- *[http://www.buddhanature.com/buddha/maitreya.html A Contemplation on Maitreya - The Coming Buddha]. *[http://www.chabad.org/library/article.asp ...41 KB (6,600 words) - 16:18, 9 November 2022
- read as a question of existence. Hamlet's contemplation on suicide in this scene, however, is more religious than philosophical. He believes that ...40 KB (6,336 words) - 16:59, 21 January 2024
- and intellectual brilliance, a hazard of contemplation and creativity. The newer concept abandoned these associations and through the nineteenth ...48 KB (6,504 words) - 22:08, 7 January 2024
- religion without God, and it would be pure contemplation of the universe; the desire for personal immortality seems rather to show a lack of religion ...45 KB (6,434 words) - 06:42, 15 April 2024
- of absurdity. And the daily contemplation of the abyss between excellent meals or artistic entertainments, can only heighten the enjoyment of ...41 KB (6,139 words) - 17:57, 30 April 2023
- became settings for ceremonies, amusement, and contemplation, and began to surround residences of the upper class. Japanese gardens are designed for ...78 KB (11,609 words) - 09:53, 1 April 2024
- a robe. (He had a replica tailored for his contemplation.) The realized version displayed Balzac cloaked in the ample drapery, looking forcefully into ...42 KB (6,353 words) - 19:06, 21 August 2023
- denying existential attitudes such as aesthetic contemplation, sympathy for others, and asceticism. Twentieth-century thinkers like Martin Heidegger ...50 KB (7,753 words) - 02:49, 9 November 2022
- Address, Lincoln declared, "I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity ...51 KB (7,956 words) - 06:30, 14 June 2023
- bucolic prose works in praise of retirement, contemplation, and direct observation of nature. He also brought the "Ancients and Moderns" quarrel ...54 KB (8,435 words) - 08:15, 4 August 2022
- mandate isolation for purposes of contemplation removed from the everyday world, in which case members of the monastic community may spend most ...53 KB (8,288 words) - 19:55, 9 November 2022
- duties and stimulate him to mystic contemplation. [[Image:Wormsjews.jpg|thumb|250px|Left|Sixteenth century drawing of two Jews from [[Worms, Germany ...56 KB (8,438 words) - 08:48, 3 April 2024
- as it follows the young artist Edgar in his contemplation of a new work on the four stages of love. [https://www.filmlinc.org/films/in-praise ...63 KB (9,163 words) - 20:22, 22 September 2023
- came after intensive personal contemplation, as he realised he would have to abandon his career and material ambitions. {{cite book ...64 KB (9,693 words) - 19:34, 15 September 2022
- and his lifestyle of prayer, perseverance, and contemplation. |right|250px|Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for ...58 KB (9,123 words) - 17:52, 18 January 2023
- Russell wrote, "because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors ...75 KB (11,466 words) - 17:25, 29 September 2023
- wrote, an ideal place "for meditation and contemplation." He also learned from the monastery, he wrote, that "standardization led to ...107 KB (16,223 words) - 20:24, 30 June 2023
