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    con·tem·pla·tive
    /kənˈtemplədiv/

    adjective

    • 1. expressing or involving prolonged thought: "she regarded me with a contemplative eye"

    noun

    • 1. a person whose life is devoted primarily to prayer, especially in a monastery or convent.

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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › MeditationMeditation - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · Meditation is practiced in numerous religious traditions. The earliest records of meditation are found in the Upanishads, and meditation plays a salient role in the contemplative repertoire of Jainism, Buddhism and Hinduism.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › MindfulnessMindfulness - Wikipedia

    3 days ago · Mindfulness is the cognitive skill, usually developed through meditation, of sustaining meta-attention of the contents of one's own mind in the present moment.

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  5. shunspirit.com › article › how-to-meditation-and-contemplateMeditation And Contemplation: A Beginner's Guide | ShunSpirit

    2 days ago · The word "meditate" comes from the Latin "meditor", which means "to reflect". Thus, "contemplation meditation" can be understood as reflecting from a higher part of the mind, or a sacred space. Studying the Divine. Most spiritualities have at least one contemplative form of meditation that reflects on the divine.

  6. cac.org › daily-meditations › balancing-heart-and-actionBalancing Heart and Action — Center for Action and Contemplation

    3 days ago · Father Richard describes how practicing contemplation moves us beyond dualistic thinking: I used to think most of us begin with contemplation and a unitive encounter with God and are then led through that experience to awareness of and solidarity with the suffering in the world by some form of action.

  7. cac.org › daily-meditations › a-prayerful-exchangeA Prayerful Exchange — Center for Action and Contemplation

    5 days ago · Howard Thurman describes contemplation as a centering down in God. Learn how to practice centering pauses in the Daily Meditation from the CAC.

  8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Christian_mysticismChristian mysticism - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · Christian mysticism is the tradition of mystical practices and mystical theology within Christianity which "concerns the preparation [of the person] for, the consciousness of, and the effect of [...] a direct and transformative presence of God " [1] or divine love. [2] Until the sixth century the practice of what is now called mysticism was ...

  9. ssvpusa.org › vincentians › contemplation-true-presenceContemplation: True Presence - SVDP USA

    1 day ago · Jesus, Son of Man, was sent by the Father to share our humanity fully, to be present with us, among us, and finally, through bread and wine, in us. To share Christ’s love as Vincentians, then, is to be truly present, going to the neighbor as Christ came to us, bringing within us Christ’s true presence through the Eucharist we have received.