Religious experience may also be distinguished from the aesthetic aspect of experience in that the former involves commitment and devotion to the divine while the latter is focused on the appreciation and enjoyment of qualities, forms, and patterns in themselves, whether as natural objects or works of art.
The Gardeners would choose them for their devotion to the divine natural world, and their saintly deeds could range from the writing of creature-friendly poetry – like that of Saint Robert Burns of Mice – to the saving of a species, like the efforts of Saint Diane Fosse of the mountain gorillas.
The sacred tales of his various relations with her manifestations led his worshipers to view human devotion as parallel to divine love and hence as universal, eternal, and sanctified.
Hell, even the first recorded case of anorexia in history lists it as a beautiful religious phenomenon, a divine devotion to God.
In an age of the divine right of kings, devotion to God and devotion to temporal power were united.
But in the devotional (bhakti) movements associated with Vishnu and Shiva, an intense personal devotion to the deity concerned is believed to earn divine aid to salvation.
The 'higher' power of the word grace sits within every human's reach, although we feel as if we are incapable of birthing the divine without religious intervention or devotion to faith.
His earlier, underground movies, starring the plus-size drag queen Divine (who died in 1988), are as exuberant in their devotion to the outré as they were, and in some ways still are, shocking.
The two-skinned damaru (drum) of Shaivism (devotion to the Hindu deity Shiva) and Tantrism, believed to be effective in communicating with the divine world, is shaped like an hourglass and fitted with two pellets that hang from cords and that strike the skins when the drum is twirled.
Her devotion to Koestler was absolute.
