Essays on Spiritual Life

Quality nursing services should be patient-centric to ensure that the care provided addresses all the patient’s needs and concerns. Spirituality is increasingly taking a major role in nursing practice to take care of the spiritual needs of patients (Connell, 2012). Spiritual beliefs play an important role in the way patients and family members cope with illness. This essay evaluates spiritual disciplines in the context of nursing care. Spiritual disciplines refer to characters and behavioral patterns learned from a spiritual perspective but applied in everyday life to promote spiritual growth (Willard, 1991). What is your experience with spiritual disciplines? ...

A. Hotel California and how it offered to connect or reconnect with the sacred

The song Hotel California, raised a lot of opinion and interpretation worthy of debate, however, among the most prominent interpretation relates to how its lyrics are symbolic of the spiritual aspects. As pointed out, it has by its means offered “shimmering light” for people who seeks to have some form of spiritual connection or bondage. Accordingly, there are several ways by which the Los Angles area provided an opportunity for people to experience spiritual connection. The beautiful geography of California presents an environment where the early Spanish settlers experienced spiritual connection because of the majestic environment of the region. ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is one of the most famous novels by the American romantic writer. While the novel is well-known for its depiction of the relationships between the characters, and the romantic plots and subplots, the novel also has great value as a historical study of the Puritan period. Puritan society was a highly gendered society, with strict gender roles for men and women, and a well-established patriarchal society. Explorations of the novel, and of the depiction of Hester’s character, her punishment, and her actions in the novel can help reveal whether Hawthorne was realistically ...

Currently, one of the main places in the political processes takes the media. Their interaction with politics, its subjects is felt on a daily basis in a variety of forms and manifestations. The importance of the media becomes apparent when one considers that the instruments of mass communication, as such, are the instruments of power ("fourth power"). The speed and agility give the media an opportunity to effectively influence on the spiritual life of society, the consciousness of the broad masses of the population. They can contribute to the stimulation of public opinion in support of a particular purpose ...

Summary

Nouwen’s ‘Reaching out’ presents a model that releases Christians and people in general to live in the ‘Spirit of Jesus’. According to Nouwen, Christians have to learn to outlive the tension created by an elusive state, loneliness and personal hostility. As he opines, the human life often shifts between two poles of fruitful and stressful living and hence, the temptation to be indifferent is real to all hence the inner cry for true spirituality among many. Consequentially, the author argues that there is a need to shift from living in personal loneliness to embracing solitude and from living ...

According to Rolheiser spirituality is the ultimately what we do with the Eros, that desire. I agree with his idea and definition. From the past experience religion has focused on confining people to a given spirituality. They however never managed to do this through the forceful attempts as people still had the chances to desire. This show that the spirituality within person breaks out in their own way no matter the conditions and thus it is true that spirituality is just what we do as the eros that desire. The one of the many struggles as outlined in the ...

During creation, GOD created man in HIS own image which shows that human beings are different from other. The Bible has stated that our bodies are the temples of CHRIST, and we should always use them in acts that glorify our creator. The Theology of the Body tries to explain and expound on human sexuality, the purpose of our existence as young people can be explained through understanding the theology of the body. It is through an understanding of this theology that young people will be able to understand what love is the theology gives the importance of having ...

A comprehensive understanding of the term theoretical lens is first attained by breaking the subject into two; theory and lens. Prevalently, a theory is a set of words or ideas put forth to elucidate or rather reveal the existence of a phenomenon. In this context, the theory is used to explain cultural perspective in a given subject, child development. Conversely, a lens from a lay’s perspective is a transparent object used to view or magnify the given object, thereby enabling the user, to ascertain a clear understanding of the viewed material. However, from the literature perspective, a lens is an instrument that enables people in a society to ...

In this paperwork, I am going to discuss two or three major themes that emerge from Sufi poetry and how these themes connect to the general teachings of Islam. I will also compare the Sufi poetry with Merton Thomas work.

It is important to note that the Sufi poetry comprises the work of a variety of writers thought to have come, mainly, from Persia. I will start by looking at the theme of love and beauty as depicted by Hafiz of Shiraz. According to Hafiz, he uses the theme of both beauty and love to remind us of our responsibilities ...

Despite the fact, that both meditation and prayer are the methods of obtaining the religious experience. However, those are not the same despite the fact that many scholars and mystics claim that meditation and prayer are of the same matter. The word "Meditation" (Meditatio) is of a Latin origin. It didn`t come from pagan religions, but from the Christian West. It correlates with the verb "meditor" or "to meditate", ponder and means the deep concentration associated with a detachment from external objects and individual inner experiences. The Christian West gave it two meanings. On the one hand, it means ...

The Great Church in Captivity

Diverse scholarly monographs dedicated to the Orthodox Church history during the reign of King Ottoman have recently been published. One such scholarly work is that of The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence by Steven Runciman. Sir Steven has successfully penned down the patriarchate history by chronicling the events during the Ottoman rule. It is indeed a detailed and a lucid piece of work which displays the research conducted on language relevant to this theme. However, the book gives a detailed account of ...

One of human being innate desires is spiritual fulfillment. Spiritual fulfillment refers to the realization of true self. This realization is not only enough but always more than enough. It means that nothing in life that can prevent human beings from attaining spiritual fulfillment. Spiritual fulfillment allows human beings to overcome things that challenge them. Spiritual fulfillment also refers to life that is distinct from the ordinary physical existence. It's commonly used to describe a lifestyle that is based on specific religious practices. Clacks stand on spiritual fulfillment is logical and right. She relates spirituality with life that is ...

Spirituality in most cases is arrived at through religion. Spiritual matters in that sense revolves around a person’s relationship with the forces that are beyond nature and the material world. The connection between an individual and these forces define spirituality. Religion plays a critical role in defining a person’s spirituality because it serves as “food” for one’s though, mind and soul so as to qualify to be spiritually fit. It is therefore imperative to understand that it is through religion that one achieves spiritual satisfaction and fitness (Nelson 2009). Religion has quite a number of effects on spirituality. To ...

The history of Mahatma Gandhi is dated back in October 2 1869, when he was born in Porbandar India. He rose to become among the most respected political and spiritual leader in India. History has it that he played an essential role in the fight for independence of India from the British colonial rule. He led the Indian people in the nonviolent resistance against the rule of colonialism. The name Mahatma was developed by the Indians to mean great soul. This shows that Mahatma Gandhi had a great love for the people. Therefore, mahatma Gandhi can be described a political figure a ...

4. The changes that the author refers to in the quote “and most men have yet to really adapt to the changes in women” center on the different roles that women play in the household nowadays. Women are the breadwinners now just as much as the men are; they have forsaken traditional homemaker roles and have more demanding lives. Thus I think the author is right. Women must balance work and family life so they are more at pressure to meet all of their responsibilities as best they can. Yet a lot of men cannot handle this aspect of marriage ...

For sometime literature has been considered mainly as a subject which is used to develop the written and spoken skills of an individual. Teachers have not cultivated the art of ensuring that literature imparts much more than just educational knowledge to the students. Contrary to what literature has been taken to be in schools, literature authors had more than just language in their mind. Coming up with a literature work in its sense requires the artist to be inspired. It is something that is deeper than it actually appears. For an artist to come up with a literacy piece that will touch ...

In writing Siddhartha, the author has used literary techniques of imagery, metaphors and imagery in the use of water, river and symbolic names of characters to communicate certain concepts on spirituality. The name Siddhartha is symbolic. He represents the image of the seeker of enlightenment. Guatma’s Buddha original name before he became enlightened was Siddhartha. The name represents the journey that both men must go through to become enlightened. The Sansara stage of the Hindu life of seeking enlightenment is a stage that has many bodily pleasures that bring evil and suffering. Siddhartha arrives in Sansara where he meets ...