Choosing to live a monastic life often means spending hours in quiet meditation daily. From LearnThat.org.
Such occurrences mark time in monastic life and find their way into the vitae. From Wordnik.com. [Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany] Reference
The sister of Rufinus, Sylvania, who passed her life at Jerusalem, is famous in monastic history. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Above all she called monastic communities and the clergy to a life in keeping with their vocation. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
The Rule of St. Carthach is one of the few ancient Irish so-called monastic Rules surviving. From Wordnik.com. [Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore] Reference
On this account I have already ventured to call monastic libraries the public libraries of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Care of Books] Reference
City-State and almost, except for its excessive intellectuality, recalling the monastic ideal of the Middle Age. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Will that simply reinforce the deceptions and delusions of my 'monastic' life?. From Wordnik.com. [Not Being Serious: Thomas Merton and Karl Barth] Reference
I was in another kind of monastic cell, but this time there was no window in it. From Wordnik.com. [A Renegade Psychiatrist's Story]
"She has a kind of monastic commitment to it," says her pastor, the Rev. Jeff Black. From Wordnik.com. [IN THE EYE OF THE STORM] Reference
Couldn't you make Greenpeace and the super old before mankind historical society happy and make some kind of monastic garden?. From Wordnik.com. [They won't let me trash my mansion. Wah!] Reference
The rest of the time, he said, '' I live a kind of monastic existence. From Wordnik.com. Reference
You would have boxing with the gloves to be a kind of monastic recreation. '. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
Coach says he's gonna take the "monastic" approach, no fire, no sleep, no food. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Digby's "Mores Catholici," and projecting a kind of monastic community, where celibacy should be practised and sacred art cultivated. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference
A kind of monastic flavour that I find is very taking. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
A kind of monastic history from which Thomas of Marga borrowed. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
(Indeed, cutting taxes is the sacred creed of the Tea Party monastic order.). From Wordnik.com. [Robert J. Elisberg: The Republican Miracle: Turning Water into Whine] Reference
"He's actually sort of monastic in his own personal life," says his son, John. From Wordnik.com. [Avedon] Reference
An expert Latinist, he translated all the works of the 12th-century monastic masters. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations Of A Man With An Uncaged Mind] Reference
If, indeed, truth is beauty and beauty truth, then the monastic and the artist are one. From Wordnik.com. [Sister Joan Chittister, OSB: The Artist and Monk Are One] Reference
We wanted to find an almost monastic rhythm of work and re-creation, of bells and meals. From Wordnik.com. [Tobias Jones: a retreat of one's own] Reference
All around Britain you can find deliberately ruined monastic buildings, picturesque now. From Wordnik.com. [The pope is coming. Liberals, be glad] Reference
He found her in the garden, which, like the house, was of an ancient, severe, and monastic style. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In doing so they chose a monastic existence over the potential fame and financial reward of football. From Wordnik.com. [Dai Greene and Andy Turner are reluctant gold medal celebrities] Reference
He's respected and curious about other people's life stories, but also eccentric and a little monastic. From Wordnik.com. [Bumps Along The High Road] Reference
To make sure the people didn't get too close, the whole entourage was surrounded by the monastic police. From Wordnik.com. [A Life In Exile] Reference
Take a look at some basic monastic practices and see how easy it is to steal some serenity for yourself. From Wordnik.com. [Karen Maezen Miller: 7 Tips Inspired By Monasteries to De-Stress Your Home] Reference
Some Tibetans thought it was a good way to cut down on the endless squabbling between rival monastic factions. From Wordnik.com. [The Day Of The Living Buddhas] Reference
I couldn't follow Jared's monastic devotion to the fast-food chain by sticking to veggie subs for dinner, though. From Wordnik.com. [The Men Who Stare at Nachos] Reference
Out of a job, Crist began playing the horses full time, a "monastic existence" and not an especially lucrative one. From Wordnik.com. [A Writer's Long Shot Comes In] Reference
The Darlington building has much older associations with monastic orders and stands in a street called Nunnery Lane. From Wordnik.com. [Council orders cabbies to smarten up] Reference
Basic to art are the very qualities demanded of the monastic: single-mindedness, beauty, immersion, praise and creativity. From Wordnik.com. [Sister Joan Chittister, OSB: The Artist and Monk Are One] Reference
But scholars have traced its origins back to the earlier monastic practice of reading the Psalms in three cycles of 50 each. From Wordnik.com. [A Renovation Of The Rosary] Reference
As is often discussed in this column, traditional monastic systems clash with the reality of a modern existence in the West. From Wordnik.com. [Lodro Rinzler: Buddhism and Alcohol: Is There Such a Thing as 'Right Drinking'?] Reference
To get his twelve hours of work, he had to retire at nine o'clock in order to rise at three; this monastic rule dominated everything. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
The new monastic movement, led by figures like Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hargrove, has also gained momentum in recent years. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Merritt: Will "Radical" Christianity Have Any Effect on the American Church?] Reference
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