- Contemplation
- ID:
- T247692
- Contemplation (English, Latin script, Original)
Rest in the presence and accept the grace.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
- citation:
, 54.
In the context of information avoidance, Howell and Shepperd (2013) defined contemplation as thinking about why an individual would and would not avoid information.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
- citations:
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In the Islamic frame world, contemplation is generally thought to be a specific form of remembrance.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
- citation:
, 123.
Inclusive of meditation, but is considered somewhat broader than meditation since it includes practices (such as different types of prayer or energy movement practices) which would not be described as meditation in some contemplative traditions.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
- citation:
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Striving and a struggle of mind and soul to transcend earthly things and fix its gaze on heavenly; and the first step is the stripping the mind of all images and the ’hushing’ of the faculties,
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
- citation:
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Self-forgetting attention, a humble receptiveness, a still and steady gazing, an intense concentration so that emotion, will and thought are all fused and lost [in God] who embraces them all.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
- citation:
, 35.
Supernatural love and knowledge of God, infused by him by him into the summit of the soul giving it a direct and experimental contact with Him as He is in Himself.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
- citation:
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Hence contemplation is a sudden gift of awareness, an awakening to the Real within all that is real.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
- citation:
, 3.
The experience of contemplation is the experience of God’s life and presence within ourselves not as inject, but as the transient source of our own subjectivity. Contemplation is mystery in which God reveals himself to us as the very center of our own most intimate self.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
- citations:
, 125.
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Deep form of spirituality in which we commit to the intention of allowing God’s presence and action in our lives.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
- citation:
, 16.
State of prayer in which the mind remains steadfast and fixed in one simple gaze.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
- citation:
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Contemplation is “fixed attention” and contemplative energy can be directed at anything. However, synonyms for contemplation include “reflect” and “ponder”, highlighting that contemplation is often seen as a state or activity where we are more consciously focused on our thoughts- and often implying “higher level” thoughts involved with questions of self, relationships, cosmos- than in our typical day-to-day thinking.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
- citation:
, 107.
Experiential grasp of reality as subjective, not so much “mine” (which would signify “belonging to the external self”) but “myself” in existential mystery.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
- citation:
, 8.
The point is that the moral virtues involve an exercise of faculties that is part of our proper human functioning, faculties like practical reason, fear, desire, and so forth. But most of those faculties happen to have ends beyond themselves. The ultimate end, Aristotle argues, is contemplation.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
- citation:
, 69.
Infinitely abundant Source. Contemplation is, above all, awareness of the reality of that Source.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
- citation:
, 1.
Spiritual life of self-discipline and prayer, and as such, a thing to be desired and aimed at by all and several who give themselves up to such a life, as the end they may hope to attain to; further that the usual way of attaining to contemplation was by recollection and introversion, suppressing the workings of imagination and reasoning, and exercising the prayer of affections and acts of the will and aspirations and of loving attention to God.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Veronica Kuhn
- citation:
, 115.