It is a spiritual task that Buddhists and others can no longer avoid.
In contemplating the meaning of this litany of encampments, Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev teaches that everywhere the Israelites traveled in the wilderness, they were responsible for bringing forth "holy sparks," for fulfilling a spiritual task specific to that place.
In this case, the presumption should be that we do not wake the patient because we cannot guess whether he has a spiritual task to complete.
As Joan, Milla Jovavich is bristling, grimy and a trifle too maniacal for refined spiritual tasks in a film of "jarring, hand-held carnage interspersed with religious visions straight out of music video" (Maslin).
One possibility is that unfinished spiritual or religious tasks led to preferences for life-prolonging care at the end-of-life [ 56].
It dissolved private organizations of all kinds and severely curtailed the ability of churches to perform their spiritual and educational tasks.
Stew Brown, the head of a storefront center in Boulder, Colorado, said that, unlike losing a buddy or witnessing terrible things, coping with having killed is a spiritual, not a psychological, task.
Ngangkari explained their continuing role within contemporary Aboriginal life as 'conduits' or 'guides' for community members to link and understand both the physical and spiritual worlds, and their task of transiting between the spiritual (thus emotional) and physical expressions of sadness, worry and depression.
The first, as implied in the Constitution of the United States, was supported by a tendency to leave to the church, set free from state supervision, a maximum freedom in the realization of its spiritual, moral, and educational tasks.
He asked whether all the proposals to increase material well-being had obscured the task of improving spiritual health.
According to Te Papa, in the Māori world birds were given the task of carrying spiritual messages between the gods and people, and their feathers were prized and sacred.
