But although such imagery is offered in scripture and probed by mystics, it is seldom celebrated in church tradition. |
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This catalyzed the retrieval of these women as theologians-not simply as saints honored for their piety or mystics gazed upon with curiosity. |
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Supreme God Siva is immanent, with a beautiful human-like form which can actually be seen and has been seen by many mystics in visions. |
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The words of later Hebrew mystics capture accurately prophetic consciousness. |
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The idea of a light of darkness is certainly an oxymoron, certainly a contradiction in terms, and yet we find that among various mystics. |
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He quotes abundantly from Scripture, medieval mystics and gifted contemporary writers. |
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His portrait of this elusive, intensely private genius describes Faraday's links with painters and poets, polymaths and mystics. |
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On the other hand, Indian sages, philosophers and mystics have held out a shining vision that has inspired the world. |
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Like the monastics and mystics at their best, he has a gift for seeing God everywhere. |
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Are they behind the mysterious powers of fortune-tellers, mystics, clairvoyants, and palm readers? |
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The shrine also attracts Indo-Muslim mystics called faqir, religious mendicants who observe lives of poverty, chastity, meditation and prayer. |
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Like the monastics and mystics at their best, Bondi has a gift for seeing God everywhere. |
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He has read the Hindu mystics extensively, and delightedly recounts anecdotes about a southern Maharishi, Ramana, whose life has influenced him. |
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It is the job of poets and mystics to show us the ordinary and everyday in a magical light. |
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Way back when beards were in, mawkish mystics brought forth the concept album. |
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After all, I had learned from hard experience that there are few bona fide mystics in the world today. |
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Saints, mystics, spiritual writers, priests, nuns, and quintessential laywomen are well represented. |
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When you read Bondi on the desert ascetics and medieval mystics, you are there. |
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He even started a Sufi cult under his name that became also a place for mystics from different faiths too. |
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How has such a simple fact eluded scientists and mystics alike for so many millennia? |
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The mark looked like the symbol for life that the mystics had created years ago. |
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Muhammad's role as a source of emulation, however, is far from being confined to mystics and visionaries. |
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Freeman, like numerous mystics and contemplatives before him, shows us that our main problem is ourselves. |
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Most women writers were dismissed as mystics or visionaries, and some as mentally ill. |
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Probably not a direct relationship, but it's interesting to look at some of the great contemporary mystics. |
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Laurie Pappajohn, a local harpist, and her group played traditional music of the mystics using medieval Celtic instruments. |
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Jung's experience was similar to that undergone by shamans and religious mystics, as well as some artists, writers, and philosophers. |
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Unlike the case of other women mystics in the Minne tradition, no vita or life story was written for Hadewijch. |
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Your positions on religion, mystics, psychics, new age medicine, etc. are a breath of fresh air. |
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The great mystics and saints have told us that the spiritual journey does include a kind of retreat from the world. |
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Over there are lottery and card players, many priests and hierarchies, and mystics who insatiably covet their fellow men's goods. |
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Hinduism is a combination, a collection, of all the teachings and practices of thousands of rishis, gurus, philosophers, mystics and teachers throughout many centuries. |
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Recent findings have left many scientists sounding much like the alchemists, astrologists, and mystics who have long held this view of the universe. |
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The path to the unitive state, the mystics tell us, includes purgation, an encounter with the transforming love of God that cleanses and purifies us. |
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Theistic mystics are pressured by their surroundings, says Stace, to put a theistic interpretation on their introvertive experiences. |
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There are the lottery and card players, there are many priests and hierarchs, mystics that insatiably coveted their neighbor's goods. |
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For most of the world's mystics, however, conformance with reality's hidden dimension is achieved through its imitation. |
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I have later come to know that known mystics such as Theresa of Avila experienced raptures of her body or sometimes part of her body. |
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His presence was granting such romantic ecstasies to the seers, devas, mystics and simpletons. |
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After a visit to an isolated community of desert mystics, Jesus takes on a messianic role, which deepens after a transforming experience of temptation in the wilderness. |
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Other Indian mystics of the 18th century, such as MÄ«r Dard, played a decisive role in forming the newly developing Urdu poetry. |
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Sindh, the southern province of Pakistan, is considered to be the true home of the wandering mystics and ascetics known as dervishes. |
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Ottoman Turks wrested the shrine from the Franciscans in the 16th century and gave it to Sufi mystics. |
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The great saints and mystics were mindful of the far-reaching consequences of sin. |
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There is a city culture and a rural culture, a culture of mystics, of pastors, of social activists. |
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True mystics are always recognized by the humble submission of their judgment to the judgment of the competent authorities. |
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They knew of the danger of extreme messianic hopes, of secluded mystics, of nationalistic exuberance and of obstinate ref-erence to the past. |
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Like Roberts, Barker propels us into the embodied life of ritual and, again like the mystics, analogises God's love for humanity as a sexual union. |
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Remember, these were humble tradesmen, not high-powered rabbis or mystics. |
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To be sure, no priest with a decent theological training would want to suggest that any or all his parishioners can become mystics or visionaries. |
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And yet this seems very similar to perhaps mystical experiences or experiences of the mystics who wanted to lose themselves in the oneness of God, to become one with God. |
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Furthermore, some mystics claim that if one stares at a small pentangle long enough one will see that all triangles end in a circle with five sides. |
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The cultural life of Kashmir has had the impress of great mystics. |
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Naturalism tells us that mystics had temporal lobe epilepsy. |
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Do you consider these parallells substantially? Is there a real growth of knowledge in these fields, the western sciences and the mystics or philosophies of the east, pointing to a new complete philosophy? |
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Four hundred years ago, they were filled and vibrant with mystics. |
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This volume contains the writings of mystics of the fifteenth century, among whom are Bernardine of Siena, Catherine of Bologna, Enrico da Herp and Alonso of Madrid. |
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Many religious insults in the arts have an antinomian character by turning the religious code upside-down, but such elements are also common among religious mystics, who protest against religious legalism. |
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Yet the Arab canon extends far wider, linking the tribal bards of pre-Islamic Arabia to Sufi mystics, bawdy medieval jesters and angst-ridden modernists. |
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During this period many groups of mystics, world renouncers, and forest dwellers appeared in India, among whom were the authors of the Upanishads. |
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The vision of scripiture, St Francis, Hildegard of Bingen and many other mystics suggests that creation has an independent moral dimension, loved into existence by God. |
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Buddhist mystics reject even these affirmations. |
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God saved the world twice from materialism and corruption through the immense revolution of the Gnosis: through the mystics and the Gnostics, the hermits of the deserts and the great thinkers of the caverns. |
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This seeming inexplicability of the psyche has always been an inspiration for lyricists and mystics, but it can be perceived by every sensitive being. |
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This is the teaching of the great mystics, such as St. Gregory of Nyssa in the 4th century and St. Gregory Palamas in the 14th century, who underlined the radical transcendence as well as the relative immanence of God. |
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Many mystics who have disincarnated in the caves of the Himalayas in central Asia are now common, ordinary people in this world, although their followers still worship and venerate them. |
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For Western rational mystics, conformance with nous took the form of pursuing philosophical knowledge and, in some cases, its technological implementation, as in medicine or alchemy. |
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The mystics temperament, is venturous and impulsive. |
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This social concern of the Tamil Siddhas nullifies the general view of the Western critic about Indian mystics, that they are not devoted in seeking unselfishly the welfare of others. |
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Alston maintains, therefore, that when mystics talk about 'indescribability' they refer to the difficulty of describing in literal terms, rather than by metaphor, analogy, and symbols. |
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For political leaders in Iran to seek backing from popular clerics, mystics or even millennialists is hardly new in this country. |
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Warm colours and clear forms are meant to illustrate diversity as well as objectivity and consciously avoid any sense of mystics or science fiction. |
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It is very deep, and can be touched on only with those groups who are prepared to walk a little way with Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross and other mystics. |
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Like the great mystics he felt the flow of the love of the Trinity: the Father who takes the initiative of love, the Son who receives, and the Spirit who realizes the communion and the union. |
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Not long after, Huxley wrote his book on widely held spiritual values and ideas, The Perennial Philosophy, which discussed the teachings of renowned mystics of the world. |
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