131 adjectives to describe meditation

" Kaviak's air of profound meditation seemed to fill every requirement.

And here his religious meditations led him to enter the Augustinian monastery: he entered that strict retreat, as others did, to lead a religious life.

So many men, if any new honour, office, preferment, booty, treasure, possession, or patrimony, ex insperato fall unto them for immoderate joy, and continual meditation of it, cannot sleep or tell what they say or do, they are so ravished on a sudden; and with vain conceits transported, there is no rule with them.

As she grew up, and became a more equal and rational companion to her parents, the cares and business of life necessarily occupied more of her time and thoughts, and gave her less leisure for solitary meditation; and her daily increasing sense of the duties and responsibilities of a Christian, led her to regard as selfishness that indulgence of her own thoughts and feelings in which she had so much delighted.

Some supposed that he withdrew from the sight of men for the purpose of more fervent prayer and more holy meditation; others, that he visited his home, or some other distant country.

By forgiveness of injuries the learned are purified; by liberality, those who have neglected their duty; by pious meditation, those who have secret thoughts; by devout austerity, those who best know the Vedas....

Such incomprehensible subjects lie too far off, and only disturb our thoughts, if made the subject of daily meditation."

In maiden meditation, fancy-free.

In losing his brother, Francis lost the only human being with whom he possessed any sympathies in common; and he daily drew more and more into himself, in gloomy meditation on his forlorn situation, in the midst of wealth and expected honors.

"My real happiness was my poetic meditation and production.

LOVE ENTERING INTO THE INFINITE SAINTS, SAGES, AND SAVIORS; THE LAW OF SERVICE THE REALIZATION OF PERFECT PEACE THE POWER OF MEDITATION Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity.

What shall Austin, Cyprian, Gregory, Bernard's divine meditations afford us?

But sitting upon the bench they found a little old man, his legs extended, his hands thrust deep into his pockets, and a look of calm meditation upon his round and placid face.

Priestly perfection, one hundred brief meditations based on the exhortation of Pope Pius X to the clergy; from the original of Robert Montoli by Thomas J. Tobin.

"I am yearning for the refreshment of a little solitary meditation, Mrs. Denys," he said.

Every convent had a small library, mostly composed of Lives of the saints, and of devout meditations and homilies; and the Bible was the greatest treasure of all,the Vulgate of Saint Jerome, which was copied and illuminated by busy hands.

He was leaning back in his arm-chair, with his eyes fixed in mournful meditation upon his mother's portrait (at least I thought so), when I asked him if he was tired, and I fancied he was thinking sad thoughts of the mother who had not been dead so very long as never to trouble the thoughts of the living; so, laying down my slippers, I crossed the rug and perched myself on Charlie's knee.

His face had a look of sweet and solemn meditation.

A fresh tide of Crusaders Drove by the place of my retreat: three nights Did constant meditation dry my blood; Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way;

I glanced narrowly at him, but there was nothing in his manner to betray that he had not been sitting there for the past hour in peaceful meditation.

" I would willingly have listened longer; but, yielding to his prudent suggestion, again composed myself to rest, and left my good monitor to his melancholy meditations.

Perhaps the reason is that particular cases have to do with specific phenomena, that is with the law working under certain limiting conditions, whereas the principles of the law are not limited by local conditions, and so habitual meditation on them sets our intuition free to range in an infinitude where the conception of antecedent conditions does not limit it.

One day as he sat sadly in the temple, absorbed in painful meditation, and pondering how he might best relieve himself of his sacred functions, he was startled by the now unwonted sound of a footstep, and, looking up, espied an ancient woman.

They do not exalt the soul into inspiring ecstasies like the psalms of David, or kindle a holy awe like the lofty meditations of Job; but they are yet such impressive truths pertaining to human life that we invest them with more than human wisdom.

Phantasy, or imagination, which some call estimative, or cogitative, (confirmed, saith Fernelius, by frequent meditation,) is an inner sense which doth more fully examine the species perceived by common sense, of things present or absent, and keeps them longer, recalling them to mind again, or making new of his own.

131 adjectives to describe  meditation