The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hesychast \Hes"y*chast\, n. [Gr. ? hermit, fr. ? to be still or
quiet, fr. ? still, calm.]
One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth
century; a quietist.
--Brande & C.
Usage examples of "hesychast".
That fish seems an asthmatic Hesychast that is losing its faith and accusing God of having lessened the meaning of the cosmos.
He grazes the asthmatic Hesychast, who navigates pensively, frowning, toward the Unspeakable.
There are the practices of yoga meditation, dervish dancing, psychotherapy, Zen Buddhism, Ignatian, Salesian, and Hesychast methods of "prayer," the use of consciousness-changing chemicals such as LSD and mescaline, psychodrama, group dynamics, sensory-awareness techniques, Quakerism, Gurdjieff exercises, relaxation therapies,the Alexander method, autogenic training, and self-hypnosis.