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Lagonda in pieces all around me was a small moment of contemplative heaven
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I tried to reach a contemplative state, a balanced meditation, where my parents looked back at me from the veranda of our house in Jnah, the two of them smiling sweetly and holding hands
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Most often appearing contemplative and gentle, he hardly seemed like the typical battle-tested soldier
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In Nerissa’s few months with Euredon, she’d learned he had a very contemplative
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Quintus, who had been sitting by admiring the Praefect in all of his quiet, contemplative refinement, found his turn to once more interrupt the musings
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Someone who has explored the question of the human experience of the Divine is Bernadette Roberts, who comes out of the Contemplative Christian tradition of St
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Contemplative Christian Bernadette Roberts says that when you find enlightenment, and lose all self-centered desire, what remains is compassion
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The compassionate choice of the bodhisattva is echoed by the contemplative, Bernadette Roberts
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’ His voice more contemplative than outraged
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When the adventuress awoke, she and Dorro talked for many hours about their lives and choices—hers a life of wild exploits and his, a mostly contemplative one of study, though punctuated with some adventures of his own
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Man is a contemplative being searching for Meaning and Redemption with the hope of bringing an individual closer to God
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Truman sat several feet away upon a stool, his back to her, his feet crossed and resting on the railing of the patio appearing contemplative
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“He says he should be here in a couple of hours, maybe less,” he speculated, eyes screwed up in contemplative frown
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Her contemplative, barefoot stroll along the shore brought her to them
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We can also conclude from the Bible, as well as from other sources, that shepherding was a largely solitary occupation that could lead to many hours of contemplative thought
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has been beyond measure and presents contemplative thoughts for
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What would you do if you knew for certainty that you only had one day, (or one week for the purpose of this feature) left to live? It’s a question we’ve probably all pondered, whether that be in a contemplative, pensive sort of way, at an interview or for those of you who have been on death row
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If it remains doubtful that the animals have been endowed with some higher level of contemplative morality, it is quite possible that their human advocates have ceded their humanity
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“Perhaps,” Jacques Barzun suggests, it is energy and movement of an inventive and changing world that appears hostile to “the contemplative seekers of beauty and perfection
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But the human being Lukacs envisions is thoughtful, not aggressive; contemplative, not arrogant
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Life in Tasmania wraps visitors in a mystic aura, an ascetic and contemplative magnetism
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With this silent contemplative
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guessing game, squinting at the leaves above us, a contemplative
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According to Alan Wallace, Buddhist contemplative science, like Western physical science, describes two types of vacuums
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This switching from a bright temporal state to a dark timeless state during past-life hypnotic regressions opens up the exciting possibility that hypnosis, besides traditional meditative or contemplative methods, can be used to ‘realise a timeless and spaceless void’ in a shorter time
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contemplative mood, reflecting neither anger nor disapproval, but
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Since their single-minded sieges my race has adopted a contemplative lifestyle
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Far above, massive carved wooden trusses leaped effortlessly across the shadowy gulf - a sight to render contemplative even the most jaundiced eye
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contemplative monastic orders, and the seventh cycle would produce the
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Their vulture-like faces were immobile, their eyes introspective and contemplative
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Her contemplative silence made Mitchell worry that his previous comments were taken the wrong way
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This is really all there is to contemplative mysticism – to be aware without judgment or comment of what is actually happening at this moment, both outside ourselves and within, listening even to our involuntary thoughts as if they were no more than the sound of rain
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paused, and balanced a contemplative thumb on her lip
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thinking of using cowboy diplomacy, relying more own instinct than contemplative thought and statistical analysis, flying by the seat of your pants, then you should be less critical about people who operated by the same instincts
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Feeling melancholy and contemplative or reflective / sad / nostalgic are natural emotions
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formations of indigenous cohorts and unlikely suspects, arguably the best contemplative
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The contemplative life that Jane de Chantal longed for had to be primarily an interior experience because she often found herself being carted about in a carriage, or traveling on horseback from monastery to monastery
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He loved his Jewish roots and yet was strangely attracted to the contemplative side of the way Francis was living
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The tender noise from the campfire, along with the rhythmic lapping of the water at the lakeside, masked the sounds the two klutzes generated as the crept up behind their contemplative prey
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Their contemplative captive bounced bruisingly around in the back of the van, groaning in a mildly merciful half-sleep reverie
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They remain a magnificent example of spiritual friendship in the Christian contemplative tradition
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However, construing her contemplative mood as a proof of her embarrassment, he felt depressed at the tragedy of his own making
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displaying a serious and contemplative mood, he carried on
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“Whereas selfless action is the means for the contemplative
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has reached the culmination of his contemplative exercise that he gains
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Annoyingly the producers smile became contemplative and he stood up and began to pace
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Matt was more contemplative and
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The great master — who was about 60 years old at the time — was still in his room on the upper floor of the house where he had spent a relaxing, contemplative afternoon
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Whenever humanity discovered meditation, contemplative prayer, or any focused attention practice, they participated in the development of the Earth's brain
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Centering Prayer (New Age concept which is part in the contemplative prayer concept, which has an exoteric meaning that 'all roads and religions leads to God')
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Contemplative prayer (New Age concept with an exoteric meaning that 'all roads and religions leads to God'
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Divine center (New Age concept which is part in the contemplative prayer concept, which has an exoteric meaning that 'all roads and religions leads to God')
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Jesus candles (New Age concept which is part in the contemplative prayer concept, which has an exoteric meaning that 'all roads and religions leads to God')
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Practicing the Presence (New Age concept which is part in the contemplative prayer concept, which has an exoteric meaning that 'all roads and religion leads to God')
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Prayer stations (New Age concept which is part in the contemplative prayer concept, which has an exoteric meaning that 'all roads and religions leads to God')
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Practicing the Prophetic (New Age concept which is part in the contemplative prayer concept, which has an exoteric meaning that 'all roads and religions leads to God')
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Slow Prayer Spiritual formation (New Age concept which is part in the contemplative prayer concept, which has an exoteric meaning that 'all roads and religions leads to God')
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Spiritual formation (New Age concept which is part in the contemplative prayer concept, which has an exoteric meaning that 'all roads and religions leads to God')
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The Silence (New Age concept which is part in the contemplative prayer concept, which has an exoteric meaning that 'all roads and religions leads to God')
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Training how to hear the voice of God (New Age concept which is part in the contemplative prayer concept, which has an exoteric meaning that 'all roads and religions leads to God'
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” He continued in a contemplative and reflective tone of voice
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contemplative, relaxed state, and joy will naturally replace the discord of
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They used to file in when the bell rang with a sort of silent solemnity, a contemplative collectedness, which is best described by the word _recueillement_, and ate all the courses, however many there were, in a hot room full of flies and sunlight
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A contemplative smile tugged the corners of his
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“When are you the most contemplative? I’ll tell you
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He seems very contemplative
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Llewellyn's earlier remarks had made Rafferty oddly contemplative and now he wondered if there had been anyone to comfort Andrew Galvin
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Because of the scientific, cultural, ethical and technological changes within society, and the continual development and refinement of beliefs, values and morals through the progression of intellectual, emotional and social evolution, the process of hermeneutics in relation to the interpretation of Scripture is about reinterpreting ancient Scripture within a contemplative, spiritual and contemporary context
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� All that suicidal ideation, as the phrase goes, and I still dreaded the illusory dissolution of that same contemplative self even as I wished its conclusion
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The captains were silently contemplative in the aftermath of Captain Jansa’s words, with even a few of them nodding in apparent agreement with his expressed sentiments
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His look was thoughtfully contemplative as he responded, “There are some giveaways
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I glanced back to see her looking contemplative
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A is nothing but six straight lines drawn across a rectangular shape, and yet I think they convey something of the contemplative and peaceful sense given by a sunset over the sea on a calm evening
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Yet her ears were still working just fine, and when the wicked stepmother next spoke, it was in the contemplative tones of a woman in deep thought
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started instantly and off we drove at a much slower and contemplative pace with all of us
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and enhances it each time he or she sits on the chip in a contemplative mood
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can also serve as objects of contemplative meditation
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tranquility, contemplative approach that can succeed in evoking the
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Guy appeared with a box in his hands, sober now, breaking me out of my contemplative trance
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Unlike Serena – who was bubbly and chatty and not really his type – Maria was quieter, more contemplative, and obviously intelligent
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Despite the spike of anger Merlin always felt when he encountered yet another charming legend about Langhorne, he understood exactly why an austere, contemplative order would find this the ideal place to build an abbey, and the Chihirite nuns who lived here and maintained the Abbey with loving devotion found a deep, sincere joy in sharing it with others
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She seemed stilled, almost alarmed, at what had occurred, while the novelty, unpremeditation, mastery of circumstance disquieted him—palpitating, contemplative being that he was
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Their condition was objective, contemplative
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Cadwallader's errand could not be despatched in the presence of grooms, so she asked to be taken into the conservatory close by, to look at the new plants; and on coming to a contemplative stand, she said—
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In his dark eyes and on his mouth and brow there was that placidity which comes from the fulness of contemplative thought—the mind not searching, but beholding, and the glance seeming to be filled with what is behind it
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“We would make a good team,” Jevan said, his tone turning contemplative
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The nice temperature of a baby chick held in the hand after a long night’s sleep and just plucked from beneath a contemplative hen; that, that was it
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Rather, Marilyn was apparently subdued and contemplative throughout the burial service at Forest Lawn Memorial Park
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In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him
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How now in the contemplative evening of his days, the pious Bildad reconciled these things in the reminiscence, I do not know; but it did not seem to concern him much, and very probably he had long since come to the sage and sensible conclusion that a man's religion is one thing, and this practical world quite another
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And for Radney, though in his infancy he may have laid him down on the lone Nantucket beach, to nurse at his maternal sea; though in after life he had long followed our austere Atlantic and your contemplative Pacific; yet was he quite as vengeful and full of social quarrel as the backwoods seaman, fresh from the latitudes of buck-horn handled bowie-knives
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I never saw grief or tears on those occasions, but only love, which reached the point of ecstasy, but a calm ecstasy, made perfect and contemplative
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He had encouraged him to talk to him, although he had always wondered at a certain incoherence, or rather restlessness, in his mind, and could not understand what it was that so continually and insistently worked upon the brain of “the contemplative
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The stifling atmosphere foretold a storm, and the prince felt a certain charm in the contemplative mood which possessed him
