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Rooted in the ancient tradition of Christian asceticism and contemplation ... prayers often involved stillness and contemplation, similar to forms of ...

knowledge of God through prayer and contemplation, even more than his substantial ... Symeon's attitude was one of mystical contemplation, more typical ...

the next three years. This period of contemplation culminated in the writing ... the intelligent interpretation and contemplation of which leads one, inevitably ...

at a cross-faith conference on contemplation when he touched a badly ... from their inmost selves. The way to contemplation is still the way to reality ...

as the Smaller Pure Land Sutra; and the Contemplation Sutra, or Visualization ... Pure Land Sutra"); and the Contemplation Sutra (Visualization ...

could be achieved through philosophical contemplation, the highest level and ... of the one. Thus, the function of contemplation to be the process of ...

for extending the monastic teachings of contemplation and self-denial to the layperson, and taught that the purpose of the Christian life was ...

in a state where the mind rests in the contemplation of the infinite goodness ... supreme end of life is such a union, in contemplation or intellect and in intense ...

was through an intellectual ascent to the contemplation of ever higher beings, culminating in contemplation of the First Cause (God) and the temporary ...

lives dedicated to isolation and contemplation. Such discipline allows ... from the unreal through intense study and contemplation ...

God that is beyond human understanding is by the contemplation of these symbols. He then discusses the philosophy of these symbolic terms that appear ...

part of an ascetic lifestyle, often devoted to contemplation. The voluntary aspect has led it to be included among the counsels of perfection. ...

Tukaram spent much of his time in contemplation and study of the works of Jnaneswar, Namdev and Eknath, famous saints of his native land. He ...

purging of the impure; illumination leading to contemplation; and nourishing perfection through contemplation. Of particular interest to twentieth-century ...

and cathedrals, a favored object of contemplation. This may partially be ... crucifix, sometimes looking at it in contemplation, or merely in front of ...

of the Guan Xin Lun (Treatise on the Contemplation of the Mind, written ... upāya; Wade Giles: fang-pien) for “contemplation of the mind,” advocating ...

world was not distinct from Dharma. Contemplation of poetry, art, literature or drama could lead to enlightenment, since, if done in the context ...

differed from Maimonides in emphasizing contemplation of goodness as a moral ... itself, while Maimonides stressed that contemplation should lead to positive ...

practice of Dzogchen teaching is Dzogchen 'contemplation,' which is rendered in English as "The View." "The View" when stabilized ...

but also spent a good deal of time in silent contemplation. During the plague of 1583 at Granada, he ministered heroically to the sick, a sacrifice which ...

spiritual self-concentration and inner contemplation, known in mystical nomenclature ... the “prayer of quiet” or acquired contemplation, is drawn from the well ...

Stephen intended to retire to a life of holy contemplation and hand ... Stephen intended to retire to a life of holy contemplation and hand ...

that which is joined with Him in our contemplation, but all providence, ... and finally a darkness of the mind in contemplation of the God who cannot ...

the head between the knees, absorbed in contemplation and murmuring prayers ... of which marked both the end of his contemplation and his lapse into unconsciousness ...

to the foreign-policy adventuring and contemplation of pre-emptive war, which culminated in German readiness for conflict in 1914. ...

eternal and eventually a realization in contemplation that the true self merges ... in right mindfulness and right contemplation. Ninian Smart, The Religious ...

require some measure of faith in a divinity and contemplation of perhaps multiple methods of communication. For example, in the modern era; the ...

through philosophy and intellectual contemplation; * The belief that ... be liberated, or enlightened, through contemplation, leading to insight. ...

of Amida. In addition to the Larger Sutra, the Contemplation Sutra and the Amitabha Sutra (The Smaller Sutra of Immeasurable Life) are important to the ...

Eudaimonism is an ethical theory which maintains that happiness (eudaimonia) is reached through virtue (aretê). Eudaimonia and aretê are two ...

everyday world in order to practice true contemplation. Iamblichus devoted much of his work to the defense of mystic theurgic divine possession against ...

to persevere. Even though he sees contemplation of God as the highest ... Nature through physics can be seen as contemplation of God. Arne Næss, the ...

poems were his earnest attempts to instigate contemplation in those who viewed life and death as subtleties, and the musical and rhythmic nature of ...

Prayer/Contemplation/Reflection: For example, love of the Gospel of ... that there must be a spirit of prayer, contemplation, and reflection that ...

Hashanah Readings: Inspiration, Information, and Contemplation. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Pub, 2006. ISBN 978-1580232395. * Hoenig, Sidney ...

said about him, “Never in a human head was contemplation more separated from desire.” Wright died suddenly of a stroke on September 12, 1875 ...

of essential breath energy. In contemplation, the practitioner watches thoughts as they arise and recede. [[Image:The_Immortal_Soul_of_the_Taoist_Adept ...

a fire that broke out, remaining in blissful contemplation while confusion and chaos reigned around him. When an epidemic struck Lima, 60 residents ...

certain practices that encourage the contemplation of the divine mysteries ... spent long periods in meditation and contemplation. Indeed, the tradition ...

by human consciousness. Intuition is the direct contemplation of objects, and furthermore the assembling of the entire set of cognition from sensory perception ...

of its encouragement of solitary and silent contemplation. Before this, however, he traveled to Medina del Campo, where he met the charismatic Saint ...

was Upon Appleton House, a poem written as a contemplation of the merits of a life of public service as opposed to a life of inner insight. This marked ...

philosophical tradition had elevated contemplation and ideas over actual ... visible and not just a quality of inner contemplation. Freedom was first experienced ...

second is the devata, which corresponds to the Contemplation insofar as the devata is the method we use for developing the state discovered in the initial ...

where he passed his remaining years in religious contemplation, although he was still very much sought out as a diplomat by Pope Urban V. He died in Arquà ...

* [http://www.crystalrivers.com/poetry/brahma.html Contemplation of Brahmā - The creative power of the Infinite] * [http://www.dollsofindia.com/brahma ...

myself," said Fresnel, "by a pure contemplation of the facts, that it was not possible to discover the true explanation of double refraction ...

of her personal time was spent in religious contemplation. In 1938, President Franklin Roosevelt named Joseph Kennedy Ambassador to the Court ...

power is limited and soon exhausted in the contemplation of the things the truth of which it would find; therefore, of necessity, there must be something ...

counselor with time for reflection, contemplation and discourse with God as to their meaning. She has realized that her visions were not just ...

actions are to be purified of self-interest in contemplation of Him. His philosophy can be described as "Show love to all creatures, and thou wilt ...

or more intense than the state of aesthetic contemplation" Clive Bell, Art (Illustrated Edition) (London, UK: Dodo Press, 2007, ISBN 1406547522 ...

prayers are unnecessary, but contemplation, both mystical and rational is encouraged. In Apollonius' supposed writing, On Sacrifices, we ...

a knowledge of universal ideas to a contemplation of particular imitations ... of the good was accomplished through contemplation, much in the way in which ...

author of the Guan Xin Lun (Treatise on the Contemplation of the Mind), written between 675-700 McRae, 1986, 119 ), a text once attributed to ...

art. The aesthetic aspect lay in the way that contemplation of art carried a person beyond mundane, everyday preoccupations and secular desires to a serene ...

and the senses marked a great change from the contemplation on the biblical values of humility, introspection, and meekness that had dominated European ...

viwopisi [Russian icon painting. Colourful contemplation. Question of the meaning of life in early Russian religious painting], Moscow: Beliy Gorod, 2003 ...

Walden emphasizes the importance of self-reliance, solitude, contemplation, and closeness to nature in transcending the crass existence that ...

Pacceka Buddhas, having spent seven days in contemplation in the Gandhamādana, bathe in the Anotatta Lake and come to the habitations of men through ...

as a straw and they set their hearts on the contemplation of Shiva.” [http://www.thenewyoga.org/guru_abhinavagupta.htm About Abhinavagupta: Five ...

unites itself in a confused and unconscious contemplation to the One, and sinks into it in the state of ecstasis. In the neo-Platonism of Plotinus ...

*Of Divine Contemplation or Vision (unfinished) (1624) *Of Christ's Testaments (1624) **I. Baptism **II. The Supper *Of Illumination (1624) ...

for about a week. He spent his last days in contemplation of Vishnu and suffered agonies of separation from Him. The members of his family assembled ...

based on the 365 days of the year and contemplation of the mystical name of Abraxas. The Non-Being God of Basilides also bears some resemblance ...

of Gandhavyha sutra (Ipbeop gyepum chogi), Contemplation on the ten immeasurable revelations (Hwaeom sipmun ganbeop gwan), Explanation on the Sukavativyha ...

provided the ideal environment for intellectual contemplation and personal development. [[Image:Cecil john rhodes00.jpg|thumb|right|Cecil Rhodes ...

of his greatest moments of joy in the contemplation of the order and beauty ... "Can I find God, who in the contemplation of the entire universe ...

to earn their living through work. No aids to contemplation, such as the processions, gyrations, and mutilations employed by Sufi dervishes, were permitted ...

The contemplation of his works made men better. It is said of one of the old Italian painters, that he never began a painting without first offering ...

of all things who, after ages of silence and contemplation, gave rise to other beings by a process of emanation. The first series of beings, the aeons ...

Introspection can also be called contemplation on one's self, as opposed to "extrospection," the observation of things external ...

| Second period after noon|| Personal: recreation, time for contemplation |- | Third period after noon||Inspect and review forces |- ...

who came to see him. He found joy in the contemplation of beauty, of art, of ideas, of service; of science, of nature. It was the joy of this knowing ...

as simple reasoning, communication, or contemplation of Universals. Concepts are specific to philosophy: Science has got "percepts," ...

quot; in traditional Hinduism involves inner contemplation, a rigorous system of meditation practice, ethics, metaphysics, and devotion to the one ...

based. They were works of devotional contemplation, he said, in which the ... Respect for life, resulting from contemplation on one's own conscious ...

and lives in eternal bliss in devotional contemplation of God. Liberation, therefore, would be unflinching meditation on the nature of God and participation ...

a pillow. She spent all night in prayer and contemplation, reciting the Qur'an and chided herself if she fell asleep because it took her away from ...

it has come to the fore with more serious contemplation in the early years of the twenty-first century. Advocates of the tunnel are seeking funding ...

Sabbath took on new emphasis as a day of contemplation, prayer, and sacred rest. Circumcision, too, grew in significance as the special mark of the Israelites ...

hermit seeks solitude for meditation, contemplation, and prayer without the ... (liberation) through meditation and contemplation of God. The title Swami ...

"The contemplation of these effects induced me first to doubt infallibility of the old (free market) theory" (List 1827). In some respects ...

and thoughts,”Dumoulin, 95. stressing the contemplation of wisdom. The link between the Lankavatara Sutra and the “Bodhidharma school” is provided ...

# Dhyāna paramita : one-pointed concentration, contemplation (禪定波羅蜜) # Prajñā paramita : wisdom, insight (智慧波羅蜜) ...

or escape from suffering in aesthetic contemplation, sympathy for others ... from other experiences is that contemplation of the object of aesthetic ...

spends the rest of his life in spiritual contemplation. It is the last in the four phases of a man, which are referred to as brahmacharya, grihastha ...

matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation nothing but an immense, an uninterrupted succession of causes and effects (Holbach, System ...

bliss was through pure spiritual contemplation and worship of the Supreme Being, and that sacrificial rites were intended only for persons of ...

others toward religious dialog and contemplation. She was a courageous yet moderate pioneer for women in an age when to think, let alone to speak ...

font of Jewish mysticism, centering on the contemplation of Ezekiel's visions of the heavenly chariot. Known as Merkabah mysticism, this speculative ...

works that are objects of pure, disinterested contemplation, the chief criterion of the aesthetic experience. Their remoteness from mundane concerns ...

* [http://www.crystalrivers.com/poetry/brahma.html Contemplation of Brahma - The creative power of the Infinite] Category:Hindu philosophical concepts ...

logic, Socratic dialogue and self-dialogue, contemplation of death, training attention to remain in the present moment (similar to some forms of Eastern ...

their collection of all my philosophical contemplation, counterbalances all these afflictions. And I beg you to take care of the children of Metrodorus ...

by a rational process, through the contemplation of man’s moral nature and condition. Reason would lead to common decisions about the right ...

of absurdity. And the daily contemplation of the abyss between excellent meals or artistic entertainments, can only heighten the enjoyment of ...

wounds without any blood. Lengthy periods of contemplation, prayer, and ecstatic visions usually accompany the stigmata of many of these individuals ...

his depth of religious thought and contemplation. His compositional forms bring out the changes between substantive climaxes and virtual silences ...

engaging our capacities of reflective contemplation. Judgments of beauty ... For Arthur Schopenhauer aesthetic contemplation of beauty is the most ...

themes: the appeal of the life of contemplation vs. the appeal of the life of action. After "The Wanderings of Oisin," he never attempted ...

who argued that a life of moral contemplation was morally preferable to seeking martyrdom: "Such is also the case with him who does not ...

stemmed from Nabokov's love of detail, contemplation, and symmetry. == List of Works == === Fiction === * [http://www.nabokov.tk Nabokov ...

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 ...

symbolically the objects of worship and contemplation of the Tibetan Buddhist cosmology. To symbolize impermanence (a central teaching of Buddhism ...

This triple-contemplation establishes the first stages of existence. It continues, giving rise consequential intellects which create between ...

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 ...

of ideas, and philosophical investigation is the contemplation of these ideas. This concept would influence subsequent internalist movements, as Descartes ...

to the head) further meditation/contemplation or union with deity develops. In macrocosmic orbit, the qi is also guided through the main channels ...

from earthly desires, toward the heaven of contemplation. Emil Krén and Daniel Marx, [https://www.wga.hu/html_m/c/correggi/mytholog/ganymede ...

Big Sur also became home to centers of study and contemplation--a Catholic monastery, the New Camaldoli Hermitage in 1958, the Esalen Institute ...

knowledge conceived as the object of contemplation was conceived as having intrinsic value, and therefore its value was derived by itself. This ...

*[http://www.buddhanature.com/buddha/maitreya.html A Contemplation on Maitreya - The Coming Buddha] *[http://share-international.org/maitreya/Ma_main ...

Clausewitz introduced systematic philosophical contemplation into Western military thinking, with powerful implications not only for historical ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

is contrasted with mystical contemplation of the kind developed in India. Weber noted that some aspects of Christianity sought to conquer and ...

(i.e. a trance state), other than perhaps using contemplation, meditation and incubation (i.e., ritually "sleeping on it"). His sole description ...

Milton's poetry distilled into serious contemplation. The Victorians of the late nineteenth century, particularly George Eliot and Thomas Hardy ...

20. ¦¦¦¦||Viewing (觀 guān) Contemplation 21.|¦¦|¦|Gnawing Bite (噬嗑 shì kè) Biting Through 22.|¦|¦¦|Adorning ...

with wild and even fantastic emotion, the contemplation of nature and spirit, and an almost mystic interest in "primitive" literature, particularly ...

of their own self to properly live in full contemplation of the divine’s existence (Melchert, 1996). Building on these notions, Sufism developed ...

spent in celibate, controlled, sober, and pure contemplation of life's secrets under a Guru, building up body and mind for the responsibilities of ...

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 ...

can be produced or consumed solely for the contemplation or enjoyment of the refined sensory experience. This use is perhaps best exemplified in ...

unlike some Japanese Zen traditions, rejected contemplation on a lengthy, graduated series of deeper kōans. The typical Korean approach proclaimed ...

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 ...

Few concepts in human history have generated as much fascination, intense longing, rapturous devotion, somber contemplation, and endless debate ...

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 ...

— which is paying honor to God through contemplation of objects such as paintings and statues, and adoration (latria) — which is properly given ...

* Contemplation: Members examine themselves. They are individually and collectively self-aware of the world outside themselves, the world inside ...

person, humble, simple, peace-loving, given to contemplation, moderate, a lover of poetry." These endearing qualities helped him in his beatification ...

other-worldly, aiming only at a passive contemplation of the dissolution of all identity into the theophanic self-creation of nature. ...

such as "the valleys of mental contemplation," "the wings of thoughts," "solicitudes and dreams," "the veils ...

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 ...

right meditation (classed as meditation or contemplation). Full-time mendicants keep a set of precepts, some of which also apply to laity. In ...

creation and experiences moments of pure contemplation, when she becomes, forgetting herself, "the limpid eye of the world." ...

atheism, which involves philosophical contemplation of the nonexistence of god(s), was often denied by theists throughout history. That anyone ...

*[http://www.buddhanature.com/buddha/maitreya.html A Contemplation on Maitreya - The Coming Buddha]. *[http://www.chabad.org/library/article.asp ...

read as a question of existence. Hamlet's contemplation on suicide in this scene, however, is more religious than philosophical. He believes that ...

and intellectual brilliance, a hazard of contemplation and creativity. The newer concept abandoned these associations and through the nineteenth ...

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 ...

of absurdity. And the daily contemplation of the abyss between excellent meals or artistic entertainments, can only heighten the enjoyment of ...

became settings for ceremonies, amusement, and contemplation, and began to surround residences of the upper class. Japanese gardens are designed for ...

a robe. (He had a replica tailored for his contemplation.) The realized version displayed Balzac cloaked in the ample drapery, looking forcefully into ...

denying existential attitudes such as aesthetic contemplation, sympathy for others, and asceticism. Twentieth-century thinkers like Martin Heidegger ...

Address, Lincoln declared, "I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity ...

bucolic prose works in praise of retirement, contemplation, and direct observation of nature. He also brought the "Ancients and Moderns" quarrel ...

mandate isolation for purposes of contemplation removed from the everyday world, in which case members of the monastic community may spend most ...

duties and stimulate him to mystic contemplation. [[Image:Wormsjews.jpg|thumb|250px|Left|Sixteenth century drawing of two Jews from [[Worms, Germany ...

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 ...

came after intensive personal contemplation, as he realised he would have to abandon his career and material ambitions. {{cite book ...

and his lifestyle of prayer, perseverance, and contemplation. |right|250px|Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for ...

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 ...

wrote, an ideal place "for meditation and contemplation." He also learned from the monastery, he wrote, that "standardization led to ...