Sentence examples for life contemplation from inspiring English sources

Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Ghulām Aḥmad led a life of contemplation and religious study.

Throughout his writings the life of contemplation and solitude is exalted.

In "The Vendor of Sweets" the merchant eventually rejects the world for a life of contemplation.

He appeared to be content to lead a life of contemplation".

"That's how Benedictine life is — contemplation is a part of it, but it's also how to eat together.

Benedictines, in addition to their monastic life of contemplation and celebration of the liturgy, are engaged in various activities, including education, scholarship, and parochial and missionary work.

Juliet had thought of Penelope as being involved with transcendentalists, as having become a mystic, and spending her life in contemplation.

With the support of his brother Prochorus, Demetrius opposed Hesychasm, the belief in a life of contemplation and uninterrupted prayer taught by the Eastern Orthodox monks of Mount Athos and articulated by the 14th-century ascetic-theologian Gregory Palamas.

A CONNECTICUT nun's scholarly commitment to cheese has taken her from a cloistered life of contemplation, farm chores and Gregorian chants to a Fulbright scholarship, France and fame.

Not only is she denied the life of contemplation and prayer that she longs for, but she's forced to constantly hear about her sister's communion with God.