It was the only movement in the room, and it leant an improbable earthliness.
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For the most part, you just have to get them back to the manufactured earthliness of the Hab, safely.
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And my chaster imperial love, what were you too but earthliness?
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" (GC 614). She explains this is necessary because the "earthliness" of the remnant must be cleansed that the image of Christ may be perfectly reflected: "God's love for His children during the period of their severest trial is as strong and tender as in the days of their sunniest prosperity; but it is needful for them to be placed in the furnace of fire; their earthliness must be consumed, that the image of Christ may be perfectly reflected."(GC 621). White emphasizes that attaining God's blessing will mean denying self: "Those who are unwilling to deny self, to agonize before God, to pray long and earnestly for His blessing, will not obtain it.
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Woman Holding a Balance (Dutch: Vrouw met weegschaal), also called Woman Testing a Balance, is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. At one time the painting, completed 1662–1663, was known as Woman Weighing Gold, but closer evaluation has determined that the balance in her hand is empty. Opinions on the theme and symbolism of the painting differ, with the woman alternatively viewed as a symbol of holiness or earthliness.
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There is a continual reference to duality in the travelling party, with a group led by Voss and a group led by Judd eventually dividing after the death of the unifying agent, Mr Palfreyman. The intellect and pretensions to godliness of Mr Voss are compared unfavourably with the simplicity and earthliness of the pardoned convict Judd. Mr Judd, it is implied, has accepted the blankness of the desert of the mind, and in doing so, become more 'godlike'. The spirituality of Australia's indigenous people also infuses the sections of the book set in the desert.
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That Śākyamuni's hands are always concealed by the folds of his robe rather than forming a mudra resonates with the Zen Buddhist virtue of wordlessness. Finally, the narrative of the story itself in conjunction with artists' emphasis on earthliness suggests, in accordance with Zen teaching, that enlightenment is not found by completely cutting off oneself from the world. Historically, paintings on this motif had a relatively small audience, circulating among the overlapping networks of literati elites and Chan monks. In ritual use, Shussan Shaka paintings are hung on the walls of Rinzai Zen temples during the holiday celebrating the enlightenment of Śākyamuni Buddha.
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To people of Beethoven's day, "Gypsy music" and "Hungarian music" were synonymous terms. Beethoven seems to have conflated alla zingarese (in the Gypsy style) and all'ongarese (in the Hungarian style) to come up with a unique term alla ingharese. Robert Schumann wrote of the work that "it would be difficult to find anything merrier than this whim... It is the most amiable, harmless anger, similar to that felt when one cannot pull a shoe from off the foot," citing the work as an instance of Beethoven's earthliness against those fixated upon a transcendental image of the composer.
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Alexei Purin (full name Alexei Arnol'dovich Purin, ) (born 1955) is a Russian poet and critic. thumbnail Born in Leningrad, Purin graduated from the Leningrad Technological Institute as a chemical engineer but soon turned to literature. In the 1970s he became part of the group around the poet Alexander Kushner, who opposed the government's socialist realism but also rejected the "underground poetry" often found in samizdat publication. > For Purin and his circle the core concepts of literary art were the > ‘everyday word’ of Innokentii Annenski (1856-1909), who inspired the > Acmeists, a group of early-20th-century poets reacting against the vagueness > and affectations of Symbolism, and Mandelshtam’s ‘nostalgia for a world > culture’. Purin’s first book of poems contains the much-discussed cycle > ‘Eurasia’ (1985), which deals with his years of military service in Karelia > on the Finnish border. ‘Never before has the Red Army been written about in > this manner,’ said the reviewer of Novii Mir... The combination of > earthliness and literary condensation in Eurasia became Purin’s > trademark.
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