contemplative
ध्येय
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'
मननशील,
विचारशील,
ध्यानपरायण
adjective
द्रष्टृगत,
ध्येय
example
And he was for 14 years a member of a 'contemplative' religious order so his values are all in the right place.
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.
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.
What Evans has provided, however, is a well-written and masterful introduction to this great monastic 'contemplative' and doctor of the church.
As a member of a 'contemplative' religious order spending time in silence is nothing strange to me, and is something I look forward to.
Plus, you will need to set aside 40 minutes each day for 'contemplative' prayer.
Haiku is 'contemplative' poetry and is characterised by spontaneity and lightness.
These painted images are 'contemplative' musings of a reflective thinker looking through veils of timelessness to honour the artistic masters of the past.
The long, dreamy, 'contemplative' takes of classic Hollywood studio movies or postwar European art films are long gone.
Then some of them are very 'contemplative' and introspective.
Described as part rock, part country, they straddle the very popular contemporary line between all out party animals and more considered 'contemplative' songwriters and performers.
Despite the noisy celebration with loud conches and raucous bells, the essence of practice of Hinduism is a quiet introspection and 'contemplative' meditation.
The natural beauty of the Park is ideal for 'contemplative' life, as monks and nuns of earlier centuries found before us.
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.
And I suppose the biggest and strongest desire I have is this one of being a 'contemplative' with a capital C.
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.
In lieu of more thoughtful and 'contemplative' reflections, I'll just present my top 5 panels.
Vergil is a kind of 'contemplative' who finds himself writing epic, at the average pace of about three lines a day.
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’.
The daily prayer services move through themes loosely associated with the seven days of creation; each service repeatedly invites silent 'contemplative' prayer.
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's as old as humanity, and in the Christian tradition there is a very clear and strong affirmation of the 'contemplative' dimension of prayer.
I would sit there with my books and studies, or sometimes engage in my own form 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.
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.
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' .
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.
But people were also 'contemplative' and prayerful.
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.
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.
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