Discernment is a term used in the Catholic Church, and other Christian traditions to describe the process of ascertaining God's will for one's life. In most contexts (in Catholicism), it describes the interior search for an answer to the question of one's vocation, namely, determining whether or not God is calling one to the religious life (the life of a brother, for males or sisterhood, for females) or priesthood. Other related archivesCatholic Church, Christian, God, brother, priesthood, re

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A Gift of the Spirit, achieved after much interaction between conscious mind and higher consciousness. The goal of the disciple is realized as the energy of the soul from its level and the higher mind blend in new awareness

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Historically, the sword was viewed as a sacred ritual object signifying bravery and power. The flaming sword of Boddhisatva procured knowledge and freedom from desire while the sword of Vishnu represented pure knowledge and the destruction of ignorance. A knight's sword was two-edged - one to strike down infidels, the other thieves and murderers; the point represented obedience. Traditional Christianity and chivalry viewed it as a "luminous tool for chivalrous tasks" with a power that united spirit and matter - the binding of heaven and earth.

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Examination : Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Examination signifies the mental action of discerning the truth

Examination signifies the mental action of discerning the truth.

An examination in a dream symbolizes a time for reflection and evaluation. The subject of the test will give further insight into the theme for reflection. For example, a medical exam will indicate the need to identify attitudes producing wholeness or dis-ease.

Source: The Dreamer's Dictionary

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Jnana Yoga - The Yoga of wisdom or knowledge

Jnana means wisdom or discernment. Commonly known as Yoga of the knowledge, Jnana focuses on man's intelligence. Yogis have an open mind for everything, they accept all philosophies and religions. Their unity of intellect and wisdom enables them to surpass boundaries and look beyond ideological controversies.

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To Cut Or Not to Cut The Tree Of Life

Cut this tree of life, advises Krishna in the fifteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. He likens life in this material world to a tree. It is the holy Ashwattha tree, says Krishna, indestructible, with its roots above and branches spread below, and so huge that neither its end nor its middle are discernible.

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The Energetic Patterns Of Dis-Ease

Disease, when looked at clairvoyantly, takes on very specific shapes and sizes in the muscles, glands and organs of the physical and energetic body. Although diseases can be classified as being similar or under the same "umbrella," they carry very distinct energetic patterns that are instantly discernible to a keen observer.

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Buddhist Quotes: Guard What's Won

Knowing this body

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Break Your Mental Barriers

Most of us find ourselves trapped in our mortal ken because of our ingrained habit of linear and sequential thinking. We find it difficult to break this habit. The habit arises from our innate striving to discern patterns in our sensory perception of reality. Our mind interprets these perceptions by piecing together their constituent elements with other entities in our mental database of past experience. By systematically stringing these patterns together we have created the corpus of human knowledge.

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Thirty years ago the historian Arnold Toynbee and Daisaku Ikeda, head of the Japanese Buddhist Soka Gokkai International, discussed at length various pertinent issues, trying to discern the future direction that our world must take if it is to survive these "times of the end".
Toynbee remarks, "...The question of mankind's future religion arises because all the current religions have proved unsatisfactory... A future religion that is to bring into being, and to keep in being, a new civilisation will have to be one that will enable mankind to contend with, and to overcome, the evils that are serious present threats to human survival."

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As you begin to read this, you might be thinking, "What now, another 'doom and gloom' book about how society is changing our kids?" No. This is perhaps the most exciting, albeit odd, change in basic human nature that has ever been observed and documented in a society which has the tools to do so. We ask you to discern for yourselves as you read on.

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Sacred Sexuality: The Principles and Practices of Tantric Yoga

We are in a season of accelerated personal and global awakening, a season that calls us to be clear about our values, our priorities, our soul purpose for this incarnation, and fundamentally, to be clear about our self-identity. But as metaphysics and mysticism go mainstream, great discernment is called for lest we bring along our old separate, fear-based self-identities that manifest the illusion of all lack and limitation.

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Insight is: the act or result of apprehending the inner nature of things or of seeing intuitively; Power of acute observation and deduction; penetration; discernment; perception; introspection; A kind of problem or problem solving behaviour distinguished from other kinds by insight phenomenology or psychological theories of insight The term Insight is used by: Insight (magazine); Insight Technology is a company producing lights weapons ; A

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Alectryomancy (also called alectromancy or alectomancy) is a form of divination in which the diviner observes a bird, several birds (or most preferably a white rooster or cockerel) pecking at grain (such as wheat) that the diviner has scattered on the ground. The observer may place grain in the shape of letters and thus discern a divinatory revelation by noting which letters the birds peck at, or the diviner may just interpret the pattern lef ...

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UV astronomy is the branch of astronomy and astrophysics which deals with objects visible in ultraviolet (UV) radiation. UV radiation ranges approximatively from 10nm (extreme UV) to 380nm (near UV). Ultraviolet line spectrum measurements are used to discern the chemical composition, densities, and temperatures of interstellar medium, and the temperature and composition of hot young stars. UV observations can also provide ess ...

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A critic (from Greek κριτικός, kritikós - one who discerns, from Ancient Greek κριτής, krités, a judge) is a person who offers judgement or analysis, value judgement, interpretation, or observation. The term can also be used to describe an adherent of a position disagreeing with or opposing the object of criticism. Critics include professionals or amateurs who regularly judge or interpret performances or other works (such as that of artists, scientists, musicians or actors) and, typically, publishes their ...

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Charism - Religious meaning. A charism is a power, generally of a spiritual nature, believed to be a freely given gift by the grace of God. From the greek, charis - grace. Well known Charismatic powers in Christian traditions: Discernment of spirits Laying on of hands Exorcism Charism - Social meaning. The word is also used in social psychology in secular circumstances, and takes the meaning of personal influence on oth ...

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Avicenna is a lunar crater that lies on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the western limb on the northern rim of the Lorentz basin. It lies to the north-northwest of the larger Nernst crater, and to the southeast of the Bragg crater. The northern half of the Avicenna crater has been obliterated by subsequent, overlapping impacts. The southern and southeastern rim is worn and eroded, but the outline can still be discerned. There is a small crater lying across the southern rim, although this formation is equally worn. Several tiny craterlets lie ...

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Cirrostratus clouds belong to a class characterized by a composition of ice crystals and often by the production of halo phenomena. They appear as whitish and usually somewhat fibrous veils, often covering the whole sky and sometimes so thin as to be hardly discernible. These clouds are of high altitude (20,000–40,000 ft or 6,000–12,000 m). Compare cirrostratus with other stratus cloud formations at lower altitude: al ...

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Within the Religious Society of Friends, the clearness committee represents a process for discernment. Clearness Committees are often used when a member of the meeting seeks to reach clarity on how to respond to a concern or dilemma. Because Friends believe that every person has within him or her that of God, sometimes called the inner light, the process is one of aiding the person seeking clearness in finding the answer within rather than seeking outside advice or guidance. A clearness committee can be requested by anyone for any reason and will usually be a ...

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