Divine simplicity

ameliorated. Silence facilitates the healing of the psyche of its deep-rooted pains and leads to integration of the personality. In the midst of people, it provides solitude. Silence is the ground for ever-present mindfulness of God and the gateway for divine inspirations to enter. It opens the heart for offering of prayers leading to intense intimacy with God and resultant spiritual…

be a lot, Dorothea Mackellar’s use and placement of exclamation points, emphasize her love for Australia and her strong belief in her opinion. “The wide brown land for me!” “Core of my heart, my country!” To help the reader’s envision Australia’s divine landscape, Dorothea Mackellar uses a wide variety of language features such as alliteration, imagery and adjectives. Alliteration is used in the text to draw attention to the words used and make them more interesting and emphasize the image that…

krakauer’s Into the Wild). The often-ineffable natural beauty of the world as explained by Thoreau is an excellent first step into the transcendental experience for the average person. Nature is an easy sales pitch for transcendentalism and its simplicity is a catalyst to the transcendental experience. People in the modern world are positioned to easily reap benefits to their lives simply by experiencing nature in a raw, unaltered…

During the 16th century, composers focused mainly on church music since the Renaissance in England started much later than in the rest of Europe. The most popular secular music style was the partsong until innovative composers such as Thomas Tallis and William Byrd paved way beyond three- and four-part homophonic pieces. Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 – 1585) and William Byrd (c. 1540 – 1623) were versatile composers who wrote for the Catholic, Anglican, and Puritan churches alike. Tallis, best known…

When one reads Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, you are instantly aware of the Native American spirituality and Christian dualism in the novel. We see characters connected by nature’s touch and roped into a tangled web of people, places, and time. If readers look into the leaves of the book, wrap their mind around the message of interconnectedness of nature and life, they will see the same ideas mirrored from the transcendentalists in American history. Native American spirituality is based on…

ESSAY ON : WILLIAM WORDSWORTH’S “LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING” R omanticism was an intellectual and artistic movement that started in the eighteenth century and reached its peak during the nineteenth century. The most prominent standards of Romanticism focused on expressing the human social status, the glorification of nature, childhood and spontaneity of primitive forms of society (before it becomes affected with the lust for wealth during the period of the industrial revolution.) also…

The Influence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ruan Huisman and Banksy on My Artwork and Concept My concept and artwork has been inspired by hyper-realism and symbolism movements. That is why I have chosen these two artists for this essay. The first artist is Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the artwork is La Pia de' Tolomei (1868-80). The other artist and his work is Untitled I by Ruan Huisman. The final artist, Banksy, is a huge influence on me in both an emotional and physical way through his artworks.…

What is God to you? Is God the almighty, all-knowing, all-powerful being who watches over our every decision and action? Does God take a figure of a human, and walk amongst us, or is God only an imaginative being? In fact, God can be whatever people need him to be. Some of the biggest holy books which all portray a distinct type of God describing the way people should live their lives or the ways to everlasting life in heaven are the Bhagavad Gita, the Holy Bible, and the Quran. All these…

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Introduction Maslow’s Theory, better referred to as Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, is composed of various stages as well as the ideal final stage of two foundational ideas titled self- actualization and self-transcendence. Maslow (1943), was an American psychologist who, in my opinion, looked at the realm of phycology and human understanding in a fairly optimistic light compared to other psychologist of his time (Robbins, 2012, p. 380) . His main objective was to understand what motivates…