Word: contemplatione
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Deep in a forest he met two hermits, with whom he practiced contemplation, until he saw that it led nowhere. Then he attached himself to five ascetics and fasted, until "when I touched my belly I felt my backbone through it." But this, too. proved a spiritual dead end, and...
What is needed is more uniformity. The University should proclaim a week of Universal Futility and end the muddlings of the snowbound. By resolving student's doubts about exams, the University could enable him to turn to a really constructive occupation--the mute and blissful contemplation of blankness. Unbothered by...
Ignatius gave his fine clothes to a beggar, placed his sword and dagger on the altar of the Virgin at Montserrat. and retired for eleven months to the caves of Manresa to train for God's service as he had once trained for the duke's. He disciplined...
Tricks & Skids. Willem de Kooning's Gotham News uses just about every trick in painting, except illusion, to create excitement. It is juicy à la Rubens, gaudy à la Delacroix, emphatic à la Vlaminck -and utterly ambiguous. Being too agitated for the purposes of either decoration or contemplation, De...
While the old San Marco buildings were being repaired, the Dominicans lived in huts and damp cells. But as the ground floor was readied, Fra Angelico and his assistants went to work, painting a series of Crucifixions in the cloister, the main refectory and the chapter house. For Cosimo'...