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In a 2013 post, Dreher meditates on his perennial outsiderness.

The director Yasujiro Ozu meditates on family and longevity in this drama.

An exhibition meditates on blue's various connotations and how it manifests in politics.

Well, we obviously have to think that 4:44 meditates on death in some capacity.

Clad in Tibetan monk robes, Darrell meditates on a mountaintop until reaching his peak experience.

Drawing on many genres and styles, Vo meditates on history, freedom, love, faith, and death.

Sue's version meditates on this idea by adding crushed peanuts and a drizzle of condensed milk.

He does not look contemplative or melancholy when he meditates on these things, but rather furious.

In short bursts of observation he meditates on everything from the city's highways to Michael Bloomberg's wealth.

It's a novel, but it meditates on the question of how to understand terrorists in a different way.

Poe, when he discusses his definition of gravity, meditates on the complex relation of one atom to another.

She says she meditates on the subway ride here; when she's in the ocean, her mind is free.

The Pink Palace also meditates on the erotic, which might fuel the lust between you and your date.

The Trial of Murder Dog meditates on these real-world ideas in a strange, chaotic, and overly-violent way.

His book "Garbage" meditates on what we've done to our blue-green planet as well as to our minds.

She then meditates on a gospel story; lately, her choices have centered on reminders of God's love for his children.

This collection also includes a sequence that meditates on the art of Irish painters, followed by a series of Parkinson's Poems.

Laid bare across such classic sounds, however, the vocalist meditates on depression and what he sees as an inevitable, impending doom.

It's a tone-setting event for a film that meditates on the place that violence and grief occupy in daily life.

Excavating internet-fossilized synth sounds evocative of RollerCoaster Tycoon era video games, the track's voiceover meditates on artificial superintelligence and lattes.

The visual deluge of this terrific if vexatious show meditates on painting as object, performance, psychic communication, pleasure and, yes, salable product.

A stylized allegory, the opera meditates on the wonder, struggle and ephemeral nature of the creative process, of finding one's own voice.

Though morbid and slightly grotesque, this piece meditates on the death of the animals used in this study and grants them some dignity.

The memories and stories that Ritter meditates on are decades, even centuries, old, but the story itself is limited to a single night.

In this week's "Letter of Recommendation" in The Times Magazine, one writer meditates on cutting through clutter, in life and the kitchen sink.

This folk-rock musical, composed by and starring the married songwriters Abigail and Shaun Bengson, both celebrates their love and meditates on mortality.

It was your second film after Boneshaker — a short that meditates on belonging through the lens of a Ghanaian family in rural Louisiana.

Over warm strings and a steady acoustic strum, the Philadelphia native meditates on lucid images of the sheep and devils of his unconscious.

"Live Archiveography II" rethinks traditional archival methods and meditates on the physical fragments of life through live performance, films, storytelling and conversations with collaborators.

It's an ambitious task: a comic novel that also meditates on recent national events, with a measured dissection of ignorance and inspiration thrown in.

In this 1986 piece, originally printed in "The Best American Essays," Hardwick meditates on the art and meaning of the essay in American life.

Yet there is still a big disconnect between the consumer and "influencer" as we adapt to the internet, and Hank Green meditates on it.

" It's no surprise, then, that on a visit to the British Museum, Twitty meditates on the Akan drum, which "captured three moments in time.

In his fifth one-hour special, Jim Gaffigan meditates on the birth of his fifth child as well as the morphing political climate in 2017.

The two have a tense, polite, maddening exchange, wherein she meditates on the impossibility of justice and also helps him pick out a hostess gift.

In her new collection of essays, beloved fantasy and science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin meditates on aging, literature, human nature, and, of course, cats.

Aside from situating herself within history, Parker also meditates on magic by situating herself within pop culture alongside Black artistic icons that, to her, feel magical.

Robert Greene's documentary Bisbee '173, made to observe the centennial of the event, meditates on it through modern-day reenactment and probing those still connected to it.

Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night," for example, which my colleague Jason Farago meditates on, will resume its prominent place in the collection's opening gallery, the museum says.

It is also a game that is fundamentally about coming after, about following up, and it meditates on the difficulty of continuation after a story is supposedly finished.

" Mr. Mabey meditates on ancient plants — notably cycads, those odd quasi-conifer leftovers from the coal forests that "survived the ecological catastrophe that put paid to the dinosaurs.

"Vines," in which colorful flowers and vines are laid on top of a book open to a picture of a rib cage, similarly meditates on life and mortality.

Like his debut Orphan, he meditates on the particular circumstances that turned him into the person he is today—heavy-lidded, wise beyond his years, but still enthusiastic.

Throughout "Will and Testament," the plot is interrupted by short, cerebral chapters in which Bergljot meditates on life in the abstract, as opposed to reality in its particulars.

Over the course of the record, she meditates on the meaning of forgiveness, and comes to the conclusion that it's not a polite gesture, but a radical act.

Now she is having her first museum exhibition in the United States, a large video installation titled "Brig Und Ladder" that meditates on the pain of teenage alienation.

He recently released his second photobook, Singapore, a follow-up to his 2013 title How Loneliness Goes, which meditates on everyday alienation in our densely populated island metropolis.

As Roy meditates on his life and what he's learned from each of those men, An American Marriage explores what it means to be a dad in America today.

"Instead of focusing on how crowded or dirty the subway car is, try to feel the sensations of your own body," said Mr. Gelles, who meditates on his commute.

Stephen Towns's exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art honors black women and Nat Turner, meditates on labor, and makes room for nuance in debates on depictions of historical violence.

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In her new book "My Autobiography of Carson McCullers," Jenn Shapland searches for clues to the acclaimed writer's relationships with women, and meditates on her own struggle for self-knowledge.

While Als's commentary meditates on a range of Neel's portraits, there are a few—Georgie Arce, Benjamin, and Stephen Shepard—whose accompanying essays speak directly to Als's development since White Girls.

With help from Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber, the futuristic jazz ensemble, and dramatic, billowy white sheets, Ms. Batten Bland meditates on space and time while paying homage to her father.

Missing his wife's pregnancy while working overnight just to keep his health insurance, Tolan meditates on the self-absorption of earlier songs and the way that hardships have changed his perspective.

An essay by Ms. Stagi meditates on how "nature experiments in infinite ways" within the confines of trees that "grab on to the planet" and thrive only where it suits them.

Kim was inspired by the poem "Alba: Innocence" by Carl Phillips, in which Phillips meditates on a lover's bruise, "something like amber," and compares it to meat, soil, and a landscape.

Vietnamese artist Nguyen Trinh Thi meditates on these questions in "Fifth Cinema" (2018), currently on display at the inaugural Elevation Laos in Vientiane and the 9th Asia Pacific Triennial (APT9) in Australia.

The work meditates on the notion and experience of freedom, or the lack thereof, within the context of South Africa's historic struggle for social, political, and economic liberation during and after apartheid.

In an early sequence, Grace's meditates on the curious phrase "celebrated murderess" over quick cuts of the crime — a body tumbling to the floor, a strip of cloth tightening around a throat.

Such news clips, along with videos made by Russians apparently influenced by the coverage, make up this provocative collage film from Maxim Pozdorovkin, which meditates on the creation and influence of propaganda.

With McCarthy's aid, Thompson has written an emotional death metal record that meditates on the inevitability of human suffering, drawing on the warmth of an analog production to drive its point home.

But it's more than that — a hypnotic tone poem that meditates on the glimpses of humanity that we often leave behind in the refuse, or in this case, on the cutting room floor.

This time "A Little Uncanny," which compares Ronald Reagan unfavorably to Jane Fonda without falling for either, is nothing like a dirge, and neither is "Rain Follows the Plow," which meditates on sin.

It meditates on the story of Ferguson, not just as a symbol but as a home to those involved, and shows us what happens when black Americans demand to be treated like people.

In the final chapter Hatch meditates on the newfound love of a Liberian and an expat colleague and the weddings that abound in Monrovia as the outbreak is finally coming to an end.

Culminating in a brilliantly appropriate stunt (labeled a "ghoulish plot" by one news outlet), "The Proposal" meditates on the meaning of artistic legacy and hums with the fear of being wiped from public memory.

Titled "Before the Dawn," the film meditates on biology's origins, observing the otherworldly Hamelin Pool in Western Australia wherein the water's marine microorganisms strongly resemble the stromatolites found in fossils 3,500 million years old.

Tarell Alvin McCraney's script meditates on how money can corrupt the purity of the sport, all while musing on the racial undertones at play in a league largely dominated by black athletes and white owners.

In "The White Book," a new work translated by Smith and published in the U.K. in November, Han reflects on her mother's pain at losing an infant daughter and meditates on the act of mourning.

It resonates with Ali Shrago-Spechler's more muted "Eine Friedliche Industrie," a cardboard, papier-mâché, and concrete reconstruction of a secular Jewish home in 1938 Germany that also meditates on the sanctity of private space.

"Time Is a Dark Feeling" meditates on a separation from "somebody you knew and now you don't," with a bedroom-recording quietude, cycling through three picked chords with occasional ghostly doublings of voice and guitar.

In 2004, Castillo wrote an essay called "Texturing" in which he meditates on "the details of poverty," on buildings "infected by time" and the inevitability of decay and death, which eventually come for building and architect alike.

" The Trip to Echo Spring " (2013) is an account of six classic American twentieth-century writers and their struggles with alcoholism; in " The Lonely City " (2016), Laing meditates on loneliness and the art that is made from it.

Blue State, a group exhibition currently on view at Night Gallery, meditates on the color blue: its various connotations, how it manifests in politics, and its role in the visual language of expedition, evoking both sky and sea.

The image subsumed by black glitter flecked with blue, Bailey meditates on the vastness of the ocean — through triangle trade, the bodies of enslaved Africans engulfed by the sea, their lives lost to a brutal and merciless institution.

Its ambiguous collage libretto, by Mark Doten, meditates on both Ms. Manning's agonizing private messages about her gender dysphoria and quotations from the war logs she leaked; it never weighs in explicitly about the legitimacy of her disclosures.

Both films revolve around romantic developments in the young Obama's life: While Southside meditates on a mixed-race youth's bliss with his future wife, Barry is about romantic failure, the inability for love to bridge racial and class differences.

The visual artist, who hails from Los Angeles, collects her works for Gentle Existential, a solo show this fall which meditates on themes of the artist's self-possession, the human psyche, and the significance of nature despite an urban world.

And though the book clearly meditates on many of the same anxieties pushed to terrifying extremes in The Handmaid's Tale, Adebayo's real artistry comes through in her subtle staging of the deteriorating communication between the partners at the center of the story.

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Solmaz Sharif is the daughter of Iranian immigrants, and in her debut poetry collection, she meditates on her family's experiences in America's surveillance state, the family members who died in the Iran-Iraq War, and the ripple effects of America's wars in the Middle East.

The result is The Long Sleep, a four-track EP that recycles, remixes, and otherwise meditates on the elements of a single song that Hval couldn't get away from, together amounting to a shapeshifting melody, and the shapeshifting idea of what a song is.

The latest single from indie-rock band Grizzly Bear's upcoming fifth album, "Four Cypresses," finds singer Daniel Rossen accompanied by a wonderful mix of guitars and synths as he cryptically meditates on the life of four torn-down cypress trees "seen from a neighbor's yard."

Making his Broadway debut, the Oscar-winning movie star Forest Whitaker will be waging this struggle between consoling myth and lacerating memory in "Hughie," O'Neill's one-act drama from 1942 in which a petty grifter meditates on his luckless life in a seedy Manhattan hotel lobby.

" It meditates on a elements of faith and theories of afterlife, Yoon describing the flow of the video's symbolism as such: "The metal rings that appear in the beginning are representation of people that are stuck in void of darkness where they [are] dark, inactive and seemingly dying.

It's chimeric: a meditation on the construction of masculinity, masochism, the psychology of desire, queerness, as well as the simultaneous erasure and development of the feminine in men loving and desiring each other; it also meditates on the fine lines between love, being loved, fucking, and being fucked.

And for centuries, composers from Palestrina to Arvo Pärt have trod this path musically, through settings of the Passion narratives, Christ's final words and the anonymous 13th-century poem "Stabat mater dolorosa," which meditates on the suffering of Mary, the mother of Jesus, as she stands at the cross.

Centering on an 18-year-old drifter named Star, played by newcomer Sasha Lane in a revelatory turn, the picture meditates on a scarred outsider trying to find some sense of peace and self-determination in a world that has put her two steps behind from the start.

Preston-Myint and Valentine had put out an open call for applicants, then had a juried process to select vendors from a pool of about 275 to highlight a rich and diverse group of artists; the resulting showcase meditates on what an "art book" is, and can be.

More melancholic essay films such as Pol Merchan's Pirate Boys (2018) and Ana Galizia's Unconfessions (2018) offer visually seductive elegies to punk icon Kathy Acker and Brazilian actor and theater fixture Luiz Roberto Galizia, respectively, while Jodi Darby's Culturetrauma (2017) meditates on the specter (and spectacle) of death more broadly.

" Or when she meditates on the death of the physicist Schwarzschild, who wrote with such wonder to Einstein, mathematically proving his theory of relativity while serving on the German side of World War I: "There is a crater named for him on the northern part of the far side of the moon.

He has been commuting from his day job — that of chief curator at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, in Durham, N.C. At one stop, Mr. Schoonmaker was helping hang some of Genevieve Gaignard's photographic self-portraits at the Ace Hotel New Orleans, where she is presenting work that meditates on race, beauty and cultural identity.

As he searches for a stretch of road where cars pick up speed, he meditates on the waste of his youthful promise, and on a sense of shame so strong that it drives him to scrub the stains of other people's urine and excrement from public bathrooms, so that no one will think he left them.

But I've drawn inspiration from Kate Ascher, whose seminal book "The Works" illuminates where our trash and sewage go; The Atlantic's City Lab blog, which regularly meditates on what's next for global cities; and New York Magazine's analysis — complete with a sidebar buffet of quizzes and explainers — of how one mechanical failure sparked 625 delays on the subway.

With a new commission from Frieze, that looks set to change: At the fair, which opens tomorrow, she will show "We Are Opposite Like That II" (2019), a fantastical film that offers a feminist answer to masculine explorer narratives and colonial unease, and which meditates on ice as an archive of stories that risk being lost to glacial melt.

The episode depicts the events of the massacre as a flashback, then meditates on race, racism, and nostalgia through the context of masked superhero vigilantes in the present Nicole Kassel, the episode's director, described the process of portraying the tragedy historically accurate, including reading a book about the event and reaching out to the community that still lives there.

Larson meditates on these objects as relics and reminders of the ephemeral nature of music in two films: one is a digital slow pan of the 85 feet the paraphernalia take up in his studio, and the other, a black-and-white 16mm film, offers close-up vignettes of the Barbie dolls, lawn mower parts, suitcases, speakers, typewriters, xylophones, plastic bags, drums, and books.

Jadwiga, having overheard the plot, creeps away as the old sorcerer meditates on the ways of fate.

Scene 4. Susan B. Anthony meditates on the difficulties of her mission. Scene 5. Jo the Loiterer and Indiana Elliot are to be married.

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The song deals with singer Florence Welch's teenage struggles with an eating disorder. Ryan Reed of Rolling Stone wrote that throughout "Hunger", Welch meditates on the correlation between beauty, romance and mortality.

In the final scene, she is working on the education of Jax and meditates on the possibilities he will have at life, although she can't help feeling down because of the high price that was paid.

This new piece meditates on the feelings of isolation which such a situation can create.', Twite, C. (2011). 'Review - May I Have The Pleasure…?, Traverse Theatre', Exeunt Howells struggled with chronic depression throughout his adult life.

Weck sleeps in, and meditates on how she actually desires Mitchell, not Teeter. Teeter comes over, but Weck says she's busy. Mitchell tries to convince Weck to give up on Linden. Myrtle is encouraging Weck to set a date for her wedding.

"Three Days" is a song on Jane's Addiction's 1990 album, Ritual de lo Habitual. It is a three-part song that meditates on death and rebirth. The guitar solo by Dave Navarro was ranked as number 100 in Guitar Worlds "100 best guitar solos" article.

An Introduction to the History of Chinese Pictorial Art. (London: Quaritch, 2d ed., 1918), pp. 47-48. The contemporary Swedish writer Sven Lindqvist meditates on this legend and the challenge that it poses to modern aesthetics in his book, The Myth of Wu Tao- Tzu.

With an eagle as a guide, he meditates on the nature of fame and the trustworthiness of recorded renown. This allows Chaucer to contemplate the role of the poet in reporting the lives of the famous and how much truth there is in what can be told.

Chapter 8 looks at numerous kinds of horror and science fiction films of the 1950s-1960s from all over the world. Chapter 9 meditates on the science fiction film's evolution towards deeper philosophical themes and analyzes The Damned, The Birds, La Jetée, Alphaville, and Fahrenheit 451.

Finally, on the request of the sage Kaśyapa, Paraśurāma gives up anger and gives all the lands on the earth to Kaśyapa. He then goes to the Mahendra mountain to perform penance. # Ekadantanāśanam (Sanskrit: एकदन्तनाशनम्). On the Mahendra mountain, Paraśurāma meditates on the form of Śiva.

Finally, one meditates on suchness in the dream. One visualizes oneself as the deity, with a HUM at the heart, radiating light everywhere. This light melts everything in the dream into light, which is drawn into the HUM. One's body also melts and is drawn into the HUM.

According to Jigme Lingpa's (1730–1798) Treasury of Precious Qualities, the four applications of mindfulness are emphasized during the path of accumulation and in Mahayana are practiced with a focus on emptiness: > "If one practices according to the Hinayana, one meditates on the impurity > of the body, on the feelings of sufferings, on the impermanence of > consciousness and on the fact that mental objects are "ownerless" (there is > no self to which they belong). If one practices according to the Mahayana, > during the meditation session one meditates on the same things as being > spacelike, beyond all conceptual constructs. In the post-meditation period > one considers them as illusory and dreamlike."Longchen Yeshe Dorje, Jigme > Lingpa (2010).

He meditates on his own nature to find the ultimate truth Brahman, states the text; he is lost in the Brahman, his own self is all he is, he is one with Om. Such is the Avadhuta, states the Upanishad, he has done all there is to do. Thus ends the Upanishad.

The Buddhist practice maraṇasati meditates on death. The word is a Pāli compound of maraṇa 'death' (an Indo-European cognate of Latin mori) and sati 'awareness', so very close to memento mori. It is first used in early Buddhist texts, the suttapiṭaka of the Pāli Canon, with parallels in the āgamas of the "Northern" Schools.

One who meditates on this form of Ganesha is said to obtain Supreme Bliss.Bhandarkar p. 213 In a Tantric context, Mahaganapati is associated with six rituals of abhichara (uses of spells for malevolent purposes) by which the adept can cause the target to suffer delusions, be overcome with irresistible attraction or envy, or to be enslaved, paralysed or killed.Grewal pp.

Power, John (2007). Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism, p. 271. In the Unsurpassed Yoga Tantras, the most widespread tantric form in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, this method is divided into two stages, the generation stage (utpatti-krama) and the completion stage (nispanna-krama). In the generation stage, one dissolves one's reality into emptiness and meditates on the deity-mandala, resulting in identification with this divine reality.

He may stress his kinship with the animals of the desert, such as wolves and hyenas. Finally, in the therapeutic parameter, the poet meditates on the imminence of death. The most famous su'luk poem is the Lamiyyat al-'Arab of Al-Shanfara. Poetic production by the sa'alik began in the pre-Islamic era and continued throughout the Umayyad period, but disappeared under the Abbasids.

Dream yoga practice begins by first acquiring the skill to recognize one is dreaming within the dream. If one is not successful in recognizing one's dream through the practice of retaining the radiance of sleep,"one should cultivate a strong resolution to retain conscious awareness in the dream state. In addition, one meditates on the chakras, especially that at the throat."Mullin (2005), p. 176.

He mentions that in another tradition, it is taught that one meditates on five syllables (OM, AH, NU, TA, RA), with one at the center and the other four around it. One focuses on each of these in succession.Mullin (2005), p. 179. The second method is to pray as before, and meditate on a white radiant drop the size of a mustard seed between the eyebrows.

"The Gate" is a song recorded by Icelandic musician Björk. It was released on 15 September 2017 through One Little Indian as the lead single from her ninth studio album, Utopia (2017). The song was written and produced by Björk and Arca. An ambient and electronica song, "The Gate" lyrically meditates on the possibilities of love, from both a speculative and emphatic point of view.

"Where I'm Calling From" is a short story by American author Raymond Carver. The story focuses on the effects of alcohol. Throughout this story Carver experiments with the use of quotation and meditates on the healing factors of storytelling. This story also lends its title to a collection of thirty-seven short stories compiled by Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories.

But since not everyone has this discernment, one should not believe in them at all. However, dreams from God can be recognized. Sometimes one sees them in deep sleep, other times in a light sleep, as if sleeping but not really sleeping and for a short duration. And when he wakes up, he is full of joy, and his mind meditates on them, and they bring him theoria.

Her novel, Crackpot, was published in 1974. Both novels deal with Jewish immigrant heritage, the struggle to survive the Depression and World War II, and the challenges the next generation faced in acculturating to Canadian society. Wiseman also published plays, children's stories, essays, and other non-fiction. Her book, Old Woman at Play, examines and meditates on the creative process while paying tribute to Wiseman's mother and the dolls she made.

She is a trustee of the Awesome Foundation. Her newsletter Metafoundry was described by Wired magazine as being 'like being plugged Oculus-style into her brain while she meditates on science and culture'. She appeared on the PBS show If You Build It. She joined Olin College after her postdoc, working on fluoride and mineralised tissues. She was one of their founding faculty - the first class graduated in 2006.

There are numerous meditation deities (yidam) used, each with a mandala, a circular symbolic map used in meditation. In the Completion Stage, one meditates on ultimate reality based on the image that has been generated. Completion Stage practices also include techniques such as tummo and phowa. These are said to work with subtle body elements, like the energy channels (nadi), vital essences (bindu), "vital winds" (vayu), and chakras.

Kohler meditates on windows of various sorts throughout the book's sixth section. Kohler continues to reflect on his colleagues, his teacher Meg, his family life and his professional work on the Holocaust. A subsection, titled "Blackboard," contains Kohler's thoughts on classrooms, teaching, and students. Another subsection, "Kristallnacht" recalls Kohler's time in Germany as a student - he was present during the Kristallnacht, but his participation in the actual event is ambiguous.

The story meditates on life 'behind the veil' and the blindness of male privilege towards the experience of women behind the purdah. The other piece, Parde Ke Peeche, is a conversation between two women from affluent, sharif (respectable) families. Muslim orthodox clergy in the then united India opposed the book, forcing publishers to withdraw it. The British government too preferred to ban the book for its own political convenience.

He is among the very few saints in India who have made their soul to permanently or temporarily enter into another human body. According to Hinduism any living human being soul can enter the body of another living or dead human being. This fact is supported by Swami Vivekananda in his book - 'Raj-Yoga or Conquering The Internal Nature'. This can be done when one meditates on the body which is to be entered.

Musically, it was defined by critics as a multi-genre song. Stapleton said the song was inspired by "people who have passed away before their time." The singer recorded the song a day after a longtime friend died. "Broken Halos" is a mid-tempo country rock number in which Stapleton "meditates on the wounds people suffer and the road toward healing that they travel," as noted by a Los Angeles Times reviewer.

Tim, alone, meditates on the sin he has committed with Hawk. # Christmas Party at the Hotel Washington. Mary understands the gay relationship while Miss Lightfoot is puzzled by Hawk’s calling Tim "an Irish Tiger Cub." # Interrogation Room M304. Hawk is given several absurd tests that the Interrogator believes might reveal homosexuality— walking to a wall to detect hip swaying, direct questioning, reading a passage with a lot of "s’s" to detect sibilants.

Tsvetkova in the role of Fatima :Place:Caucasus, in a mountain aoul Act I. After the men of the aoul pray to Allah, Kazenbek tells his melancholy daughter, Fatima, that a bridegroom has been chosen for her. She meditates on her sorrow. Suddenly a crowd of highlanders arrive, bringing along a Russian Prisoner that Fatima's bridegroom has captured as a wedding gift. Fatima begins to sympathize and eventually to fall in love with the Prisoner.

Miss Vaughan asks Mouse to keep what she has discovered in her and Mrs Peddie's letters to herself. Mouse resolves to never dress as a boy again, and meditates on her father's lack of affection for her. She concludes that he loved his work too much. Mouse returns to Bath College with keepsakes of his, one of them being a book on anatomy (he was a surgeon) and his old doctor's bag.

This book is as much a work or art as it is philosophy. The piece meditates on the two personalities of the human character: the humane and the inhumane, and our own responsibility to nurture the one while we contend with the other. On the one hand we all possess the capacity to do great things with our lives. For example, we can be virtuous and kind and tolerant and compassionate and thoughtful.

Anuttarayoga tantric practice is divided into two stages, the generation stage and the completion stage. In the generation stage, one meditates on emptiness and visualizes one's chosen deity (yidam), its mandala and companion deities, resulting in identification with this divine reality (called "divine pride").Garson, Nathaniel DeWitt; Penetrating the Secret Essence Tantra: Context and Philosophy in the Mahayoga System of rNying-ma Tantra, 2004, p. 52 This is also known as deity yoga (devata yoga).

Penitence is one of the themes central to religious iconography. Jerome, whose main fame is his translation of the Bible into Latin, the so-called Vulgate, in old age retreated to the wilderness as a penitent. Here, as in any other paintings of this subject, he meditates on the crucified Christ. Beyond the crucifix may be seen the faint image of a church, probably representing vision of the New Jerusalem, the heavenly afterlife to which Jerome aspires.

Elizabeth Yates wrote a Newbery Medal winning biographical novel entitled Amos Fortune, Free Man in 1950.American Library Association Fortune is featured on a New Hampshire historical marker (number 13) along New Hampshire Route 124 in Jaffrey. A 1997 short film by Matthew Buckingham, Amos Fortune Road, meditates on the scantness and fragility of the surviving historical record regarding Amos Fortune.Amos Fortune Road F. Alexander Magoun's 1964 novel Amos Fortune's Choice gives a fictional biography of Fortune's life.

She sits on the large ledge by the window, staring into the different colors in the sky. As the video progresses, Carey is joined by a small black cat, which accompanies her as she meditates on the large stairwell. After the song's second verse, a large microphone is seen in the middle of the room, where scenes of Carey singing and standing on the window's ledge interchange. The last scenes show Carey staring out into the meadow, smiling.

An ideal spot for yoga is a secluded and pleasant spot, state verses 2.89–90 of the text. The verses 2.94–2.119 present Pranayama, "extension of the prāṇa or breath", to cleanse the body through breathing exercises. After Pranayama, states the text, the Yogi should seek self-knowledge through Kaivalya (aloneness), wherein he meditates on his transcendent Atman (soul). This process, asserts the text, can be assisted by a yogi focusing his awareness to kundalini centers within his body.

The entire story is narrated in the first person by the main character Hanta. Hanta is portrayed as a sort of recluse and hermit, albeit one with encyclopedic literary knowledge. Hanta uses metaphorical language and surreal descriptions, and much of the book is concerned with just his inner thoughts, as he recalls and meditates on the outlandish amounts of knowledge he has attained over the years. He brings up stories from his past and imagines the events of whimsical scenarios.

This poem is considered one of the shorter poems included in the first book of poems published by Wallace Stevens. The poem meditates on Stevens's increasing awareness, also notably expressed in "The Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks" (1923), that there are significant differences between imaginative activity and ordinary experience. This theme can be understood as signalling that writing poetry has dangers. Poetic drowsing is liable to attack by the Indian, or by Berserk in "Peacocks", defeating imagination's task of transforming the ordinary.

The canonical hours of the Breviary owe their remote origin to the Old Covenant when God commanded the Aaronic priests to offer morning and evening sacrifices. Other inspiration may have come from David's words in the Psalms "Seven times a day I praise you" (Ps. 119:164), as well as, "the just man meditates on the law day and night" (Ps. 1:2). Regarding Daniel "Three times daily he was kneeling and offering prayers and thanks to his God" (Dan. 6:10).

The yacht captain smooths over the situation, and brings Keith to the island where the wreck is located. There he meditates on the fate that has brought him so far, takes many pictures, erects a headstone, and salvages the yacht's engine, which he arranges to ship back to Britain to sell. After an amusing incident where Ferris's much-married daughter, Dawn, runs off with Jack Donelly, the yacht proceeds to Washington State. Keith spends several days visiting Hirzhorn, helping him with his model.

Kundalini Tantra that to raise the kundalini shakti (energy of consciousness) above Svadhishthana is difficult. Many Hindu saints have had to face sexual temptations associated with this chakra. One who meditates on Svadhishthana is believed to obtain the following siddhis: freedom from enemies, the status of a lord among yogis, eloquence and clarity ("words flowing like nectar in well- reasoned discourse"), loss of fear of water, awareness of astral entities and the ability to taste anything desired for oneself or others.

Reena reflects on her experiences with celebrities past and present, and contemplates whether the celebrity life is for her. The narrator ponders life, stating that death is omnipresent and Maris cries on Reena's shoulder, confessing her fear that she will never have a child. The party ends and Reena showers at her office, reflecting on the events of the party. _Chapter 15_ Reena meditates on her body's being, comparing the forms and identities to the flickering and mixing of flames.

Mulvey incorporates the Freudian idea of phallocentrism into "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema". Using Freud's thoughts, Mulvey insists on the idea that the images, characters, plots and stories, and dialogues in films are inadvertently built on the ideals of patriarchies, both within and beyond sexual contexts. She also incorporates the works of thinkers including Jacques Lacan and meditates on the works of directors Josef von Sternberg and Alfred Hitchcock. Within her essay, Mulvey discusses several different types of spectatorship that occur while viewing a film.

This is the faith that makes the abuses of the regime tolerable as the men consider the suffering of a few thousand, or a few million people against the happiness of future generations. They believe that gaining the socialist utopia, which they believe is possible, will cause the imposed suffering to be forgiven. Rubashov meditates on his life: since joining the Party as a teenager, Rubashov has officered soldiers in the field,Koestler (1941), Darkness, p. 249 won a commendation for "fearlessness",Koestler (1941), Darkness, p. 178.

After he has a vision of the Buddha advising him how to overcome it, he has a breakthrough and attains enlightenment. In some accounts, it is said that he meditates on the elements in the process. In the Commentary to the Pali Dhammapada, the question is asked why the two disciples attain enlightenment more slowly than the other former students of Sañjaya. The answer given is that Śāriputra and Maudgalyāyana are like kings, who require a longer time to prepare for a journey than commoners.

The clergyman proves to be an inconvenient convert, however; he spends his time getting drunk and trying to kiss Virginia, and Paul's intellectual arguments have little influence on him. Physical intimidation is more effective, since the clergyman is both a "coward" and a "weakling." When the drunken clergyman falls off a cliff, Paul meditates on the utilitarian aspects of his death. Paul eventually converts Virginia; she gives up her religious faith, and replaces it with a sexual desire for Paul -- which the intellectual Paul finds very uncomfortable.

At the end of chapter 45, almost entirely devoted to the epilogue of this affair, David meditates on these words which he repeats several times and whose relevance, applied to his own case, is imposed on him. He concludes that in all things, discipline tempered by kindness and kindness is necessary for the equilibrium of a successful life. Mr Murdstone preached firmness; in that, he was not wrong. Where he cruelly failed was that he matched it with selfish brutality instead of making it effective by the love of others.

Magda is deeply touched, but also uneasy: she knows that her past life as a courtesan would make her unacceptable to Ruggero's family, and possibly to Ruggero if he knew who she really was. As Ruggero leaves to post his letter she meditates on her dilemma, torn between her desire to tell Ruggero everything, her wish not to hurt him and her fear of losing his love. Prunier and Lisette arrive. Lisette has had a brief and disastrous career as a music- hall singer: her performance in Nice the previous evening was a catastrophe.

In Episodes and Visions, Abbey meditates on religion, philosophy, and literature and their intersections with desert life, as well as collects various thoughts on the tension between culture and civilization, espousing many tenets in support of environmentalism. In Bedrock and Paradox, Abbey details his mixed feelings about his return to New York City after his term as a ranger has finished, and his paradoxical desires for both solitude and community. Abbey also describes his difficulty finding the language, faith, and philosophy to adequately capture his understanding of nature and its effect on the soul.

These scenarios include the two playing a game, the first running away from the second, or the two teaming up to catch an unknown third person. Depending on the scenario the narrator feels that he would have different responsibilities. After these images pass through his mind he begins to think that the two could have nothing to do with each other, they could be sleepwalking or returning home to their families. He then meditates on the image of the first man being the one in trouble, him being armed.

In Tibetan Buddhism, unique tantric techniques which include visualization (but also mantra recitation, mandalas, and other elements) are considered to be much more effective than non-tantric meditations and they are one of the most popular meditation methods. The methods of Unsurpassable Yoga Tantra, (anuttarayogatantra) are in turn seen as the highest and most advanced. Anuttarayoga practice is divided into two stages, the Generation Stage and the Completion Stage. In the Generation Stage, one meditates on emptiness and visualizes oneself as a deity as well as visualizing its mandala.

Kohler begins work on his tunnel, breaking through his basement's cement floor to a layer of cobbles. He describes his workspace, and meditates on his marriage, his book, and his colleagues, specifically Culp, an inveterate dirty limerick writer and the leader of Kohler's sons' boy scout troop. Gass includes many of Culp's limericks (he's trying to write a history of the world using the form) and also brings back a few of the typographical inventions (a page designed to look like a paper sack; business cards) that dominated the novel's earlier sections.

According to Jamgon Kongtrul, the founder of the Rimé movement, in his 19th century commentary to the Lojong slogan, "To see confusion as the four kayas, the sunyata protection is unsurpassable", when one meditates on ultimate bodhicitta and rests in a state where appearances simply appear but there is no clinging to them, the dharmakaya aspect is that all appearances are empty in nature, the sambhogakāya is that they appear with clarity, the nirmanakaya is that this emptiness and clarity occur together, and the natural kāya aspect is that these are inseparable.

Transcendence and metamorphosis are central to her seminal work Le Couple (1963), translated in 1965 by Jonathan Griffin as Aspects of Love in Western Society. In writings on Rubens, the Androgyne or homosexuality in Ancient Greece, Lilar meditates on the role of the woman in conjugal love throughout the ages. Translated into Dutch in 1976, it includes an afterword by Marnix Gijsen. In the same vein she later wrote critical essays on Jean-Paul Sartre (À propos de Sartre et de l'amour, 1967) and Simone de Beauvoir (Le Malentendu du Deuxième Sexe, 1969).

There's always been a sense that Pittsburgh was > kind of a place unto itself—not really southern, not really Midwestern, not > really part of Pennsylvania. People just didn't move very much. In his 2009 book, The Paris of Appalachia, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writer Brian O'Neill meditates on this aspect of Pittsburgh's regional and cultural ambiguity. The title of the book is intentionally provocative: > "The Paris of Appalachia" some have called Pittsburgh derisively, because > it's still the largest city along this gorgeous mountain chain that needs a > better press agent.

They add that the Invaders only give such a "gift" to races when they're preparing to expel them entirely from their home planetary system. Confronted with this news, Javelin, Cathay, Vaffa and both clones of Lilo return to the solar systems to alert humanity. As the novel concludes, the clone of Lilo traveling in the asteroid towards Alpha Centauri meditates on her shared memories, and realizes that when she arrives there her fellow clones, and most of humanity, will be already be there waiting for her, having used the singularity for faster travel.

Using the Egg to create a planet called Paradise Omega, the Goddess kidnaps and brainwashes many of Earth's superheroes to act as her army. The heroes chosen are susceptible, as they are either especially religious, mystically inclined, or have had a near-death experience. The characters, led by the heroine Moondragon, are told to defend the Goddess while she meditates on how to rid the universe of all evil. Heroes Mister Fantastic, the android Vision, and Iron Man investigate the disappearance of their allies and find Paradise Omega.

Quoting the work of Harold Searles on patients with schizophrenia, the author also discusses the special situation in this regard of the schizophrenic patient who, according to Yalom, "clings to his or her denial of death with a fierce desperation". The author subsequently describes a psychotherapeutic approach based on death awareness. One of the methods he describes is a "disidentification" exercise, in which an individual first notes down answers to the question "Who am I" and then meditates on giving each of these up, one by one.Yalom (1980), Existential Psychotherapy, Chapter 5.

It is followed by Juliana, at 731 lines, Christ II, at 427 lines, and The Fates of the Apostles, at a brisk 122 lines. Three of the poems are martyrolical, in that the central character(s) in each die/suffer for their religious values. In Elene, Saint Helena endures her quest to find the Holy Cross and spread Christianity; in Juliana, the title character dies after she refuses to marry a pagan man, thus retaining her Christian integrity; in Fates of the Apostles, the speaker creates a song that meditates on the deaths of the apostles which they "joyously faced".

James and Ruth Bauer, husband and wife collaborative team, wrote an unconventional music theatre piece entitled The Blue Flower at the turn of the 21st century. Speaking through liberally fictionalized versions of artists Max Beckmann, Franz Marc, and Hannah Höch as well as pivotal female scientific figure Marie Curie, the piece works with the romantic significance of the blue flower as it meditates on the brutal political and cultural turmoil of World War I, the short lived Weimar Republic, and Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the Nazi Party.Isherwood, Charles. ″Inside the Whirlwind Set Spinning by War″. www.NYTimes.com.

Of Aristotle he possessed the whole of the Organon in Latin; he is, indeed, the first of the medieval writers of note to whom the whole was known. He first coined the term theatrum mundi, a notion that influences the theater several centuries later. In several chapters of the third book of his Policraticus, he meditates on the fact that "the life of man on earth is a comedy, where each forgetting his own plays another's role".John Gillies, Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference, Volume 4 of Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Cambridge University Press, 1994. .

Since the snow clad mountains become unpassable many times during winter, Diskit village and the monastery in the valley have become the congregation centre for people of the region of the valley. Diskit is the headquarters of the Nubra Valley and thus has lot of government offices with basic facilities. It is also connected by road with Leh. A monk meditates on terrace of Diskit monastery, with Nubra Valley and Diskit village seen in the background The approach road to the monastery is from the Diskit village through a rugged and dusty road that crosses a stream in the middle of the village.

The emperor meditates on military triumphs, love of poetry and music, philosophy, and his passion for his lover Antinous, all in a manner similar to Gustave Flaubert's "melancholy of the antique world." Yourcenar noted in her postscript "Carnet de note" to the original edition, quoting Flaubert, that she had chosen Hadrian as the subject of the novel in part because he had lived at a time when the Roman gods were no longer believed in, but Christianity was not yet established. This intrigued her for what she saw as parallels to her own post-war European world.Yourcenar. Memoirs of Hadrian.

The Cranbrook Museum of Art review of her work for her "Bend" exhibit noted it "...is renowned for its diverse collections and challenges to the definitions of craft and jewelry; the result is an unconventional retrospective of her twenty-five-year career told through a body of new work." Of Eichenberg's art Dora Apel wrote that her works "convey a searching spirit that permeates Iris Eichenberg’s work, which often meditates on making home and finding our place in the world. Related in some way to the body, her constructions produce sensorial and emotional effects that stretch conventional boundaries to explore structures of feeling".

Movie producer Mike Max meditates on the paranoia of fear of attack, in the movie business and life in general, as his wife Page announces she is leaving him. He receives a document via email from a NASA employee he met earlier at a conference. Before opening it he is kidnapped and almost killed, a scene captured by surveillance cameras and witnessed by computer scientist Ray Bering on surveillance footage scene in his laboratory at the Griffith Observatory. However, it soon turns out the two men have been shot, Max has escaped and now is accused of killing them.

Rorty felt these anti-humanist positions were personified by figures like Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Foucault. Such theorists were also guilty of an "inverted Platonism" in which they attempted to craft overarching, metaphysical, "sublime" philosophies—which in fact contradicted their core claims to be ironist and contingent. Rorty's last works, after his move to Stanford University, focused on the place of religion in contemporary life, liberal communities, comparative literature and philosophy as "cultural politics". Shortly before his death, he wrote a piece called "The Fire of Life", (published in the November 2007 issue of Poetry magazine), in which he meditates on his diagnosis and the comfort of poetry.

Instead, it drops a few supplies with which they attempt to continue their journey. However, shortly thereafter Joe Easter catches them up, and Prescott meditates on the idea of shooting him outright, but does not. Easter has come not to reclaim Alverna and punish Prescott, but to save Prescott from the mistake that he himself made, of becoming involved with Alverna. Easter goes on to explain that his stocks and warehouse have been destroyed by a fire set by the Cree in reprisal for the traders having cut off their credit: he is now broke and without resources or home (the fate of the others at Mantrap Landing is unclear).

124-125) mentions visualization, subtle body, chakra, prana, nadis, bindu and pure land: > Anuyoga-yana is associated with the feminine principle and is for those > whose principal obstacle is passion. In anuyoga the emphasis shifts away > from external visualization toward the completion stage, in which one > meditates on the inner or subtle body with its primary energy centres > (chakras), and its prana (winds or subtle energies), nadis (the inner > pathways along which one's energy travels), and bindu (the consciousness). > In anuyoga, all appearances are seen as the three great mandalas, and > reality is understood as the deities and their pure lands.Ray, Reginald A. > (2002).

The Age of Miracles received mostly positive reviews from critics. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times hailed the book as a "clever mash-up of disaster epic with sensitive young-adult, coming-of-age story" despite noting its "made-for-Hollywood slickness" and some wayward plot developments. In Entertainment Weekly Melissa Maerz agreed with Kakutani on the book's strengths, giving it an "A-" and praising it as "lovely, because of its simple writing and quiet moments." NPR's Maureen Corrigan also enjoyed the book, writing: "The Age of Miracles is a pensive page-turner that meditates on loss and the fragility of both our planetary and personal ecosystems.".

Marvel, as part of its Secret Wars multiverse crossover where pieces of the main Marvel universe, Ultimate universe, and several other alternate universes are melded into a Battleworld, offers two Marvel Zombies stories. The first one, simply called Marvel Zombies, falling under the Battleworld banner, is about Elsa Bloodstone who is stationed on the Shield, burdened with the Sisyphean task of keeping the zombie hordes from rampaging through Battleworld. When she is not enraptured in battle, she meditates on her deceased father Ulysses Bloodstone and his tough lessons that made her what she is today. But it seems that one more final lesson is yet to be learned.

1831: The wealthy Egyptian Kamylk-Pasha buries his treasures in the rock of an unknown islet, to save them from the greed of his family. 1862: In Saint-Malo, Pierre Antifer, an impulsive and gruff Breton sea captain, meditates on a document bequeathed by his father – a letter sent by Kamylk-Pasha, whose life the father had saved. This document mentions the latitude of the island where the treasure is hidden, with the longitude to be communicated to Antifer once upon a time. Antifer's nephew, Juhel, thinks only of his coming marriage with his beloved Enogate and fears the consequences of a possible trip.

When these eight pads were over, Maharaj could not hide his joy. He said to Swami, “You have sung very beautiful kirtans. Hearing these kirtans, I thought that this sadhu has so much focus on the murti of God, that I should get up and prostrate to him. If one meditates on God in the way described in these pads, one is liberated from the clutches of kal, karma and maya.” Once, after attending the arti, Shriji Maharaj entered the room of Vasudev Narayan. Here, Laduba and Jivuba asked a question to Maharaj, “Maharaj, you had given our father your darshan in the form of Shri Krishna.

Gyalwa Wensapa, in his A Source of Every Realization, outlines how one practices generation stage and then tummo to generate the radiance yoga. First one imagines oneself as the Buddha Vajradhara in sexual union with a consort, and then one visualizes the channels and chakras. Then one generates inner heat and meditates on the melting of the drops, which leads to the entry of the winds in the central channel and their dissolution.Tsong-Kha-Pa, Mullin, Glenn C. (translator) (2005) The Six Yogas Of Naropa, Tsongkhapa's Commentary Entitled A Book Of Three Inspirations A Treatise On The Stages Of Training In The Profound Path Of Naro's Six Dharmas, p. 37.

In several chapters of the third book of his Policraticus, a moral encyclopedia, he meditates on the fact that "the life of man on earth is a comedy, where each forgetting his own plays another's role". The comedy takes place on the scene/in the world, while the auditorium is associated to the Christian paradise. Only a few sages, like some Stoic philosophers or the prophets like Abraham or John the Baptist, are able to accept the role given by God. This acceptation allows them to extract themselves from the theatrum mundi, to adopt a celestial position in the auditorium, and to watch and understand the roles played in the comedy.

Dick Corvey is suffering from advanced tuberculosis in a provincial sanitarium. While confined to bed 24 hours a day, he meditates on various events from his earlier life, his friendship with Tom, his relationships with women, especially his brief engagement with Lois who abandoned him when his virtually hopeless condition had become apparent. A recurring theme is that of the Vodi, a malevolent race of small creatures invented by Tom when at school. The chief concern of the Vodi is to persecute and destroy the unlucky: the good and harmless people who invite the wrath of the Vodi by these very qualities (while the undeserving minority can enjoy good fortune and all life's comforts unhampered).

Through their interactions and their critiques of each other, Darcy and Elizabeth come to recognise their faults and work to correct them. Elizabeth meditates on her own mistakes thoroughly in chapter 36: Other characters rarely exhibit this depth of understanding or at least are not given the space within the novel for this sort of development. Tanner writes that Mrs Bennet in particular, "has a very limited view of the requirements of that performance; lacking any introspective tendencies she is incapable of appreciating the feelings of others and is only aware of material objects". Mrs Bennet's behaviour reflects the society in which she lives, as she knows that her daughters will not succeed if they don't get married.

"Mending Wall" also plays with the theme of seasons as recurring cycles in life, and contrasts those cycles with both physical and language parallelism as the men walk along the wall, each to a side, and their language stays each to a side. Frost further meditates on the role of language as a kind of wall that both joins and separates people. Finally, Frost explores the theme of mischief and humor, as the narrator says halfway through the poem, "Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder/If I could put a notion in his head" (28,29). Mending the wall is a game for the narrator, though in contrast, the neighbor seems quite serious about the work.

"Art Deco" is a slow jazz- styled ballad with hazy beats and saxophone riffs, the lyrics of the song contain "hollowness and American ennui". "Art Deco" was rumored to be about rapper Azealia Banks. Del Rey dismissed these allegations in an interview with NME, saying that the song "is actually about a group of teenagers who go out every night." The eighth track on the album is an interlude entitled "Burnt Norton (Interlude)", the short spoken-word piece features Del Rey reciting an extract of the first poem from T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, which speaks about the nature of time, and meditates on the idea of fate, with an underlying suggestion our present experiences are out of our control.

B may just be the underdog worthy of an up-next title." Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone gave the album two and a half stars out of five, saying "At times, his third LP goes for playalistic realism; "Paper Route" meditates on the perils of rapping about politics ("Look what happened to the Dixie Chicks"). But tracks with Future and 2 Chainz highlight his limitations on the mic, and without the Dr. Luke-assisted buoyancy of 2012's Strange Clouds, the album falls flat – moments of well-meaning ambition not withstanding." Niki Gatewood of AllHipHop gave the album an eight out ten, saying "Overall, it’s the near balance of the thought-provoking, the party-educing, and the unabashed confident lyricism that constitutes the solid effort of, B.o.B.’s, Underground Luxury.

Hamsa must be meditated upon, states chapter 6 of the Upanishad, in the eight petal (a lotus flower) in the heart. The bird should be visualized, translated Paul Deussen, with Agni and Soma as his wings, the Om as his head and neck, the Anusvara (the curve and dot above the Om sign) its beak with eye, Rudra as his one feet and Rudrani the other, Kala as his left side and Agni the right, his sight is set above and is homeless below him. This Hamsa is that Paramahamsa (the highest soul), states chapter 7, that pervades the universe and shines like ten million suns. Each petal of the lotus, which a yogi meditates on, is then mapped to actions of the yogi, in chapter 8 of the text.

Nguyen's Landscape Series #1 (2013) meditates on the idea of the landscape "as the silent witness of history." During her search for photos, Nguyen came across hundreds of images of unidentified people in landscapes in the same position: pointing to indicate a past event, the location of something gone, something lost or missing. In these images, the figures are all in a similar pose, pointing at something unseen in the distance – a drama, a disappearance, a tragic episode, something that clearly seems to represent a past or a present threat, a yawning gap – which, since it cannot be seen, can only be pointed out. Together these anonymous witnesses, portrayed in compelling uniformity by innumerable Vietnamese press photographers, seem to be indicating a direction, a way forward out of the past, a fictional journey.

The artist is given a large sum of money as a first payment, to "put his mind at ease". As the artist progresses with the painting, he meditates on the life of the Buddha and the Buddha's previous lives, in order to be able to paint each part of the scene sincerely. Towards the end of the painting process, and after painting many other animals, the painter realizes that his cat, who he now sees as a truly noble being, cannot be represented in the painting. The story says that the traditional belief in his time was that cats are supposedly cursed, because of their pride and sense of superiority, which apparently caused them to refuse to bow before the Buddha in his lifetime, and that this therefore means they are barred from achieving Nirvana.

The poem's last stanza reveals that at age 9, Gabriel has largely lost his pacifist nature due to bullying and social pressures and now fights children who bully him. “In the Dust,” the section's penultimate poem, deals with the development of Ostriker's daughter and examines the mother's own role in helping mold her daughter into an acceptable woman in society's eyes, even if that role has made the mother personally unhappy. In the last poem of the section, “His Speed and Strength,” Ostriker meditates on seeing her son at play, overtaking her on his bicycle, using his strength for a purely creative purpose. She also sees a group of black and white children playing together without any tension and thinks to herself that maybe “it is not necessary to make hate.”Ostriker, Alicia Suskin.

Jakob's reflections are similar to the reflections found in commentary on other aspects of society, including art and literature, comparing them to classical and romantic approaches to physics. A more traditional theme, indicated by the novel's title, is the crumbling world of an old man as he nears death and meditates on his life. The world of Physics that Jakob has known for most of his career is being overthrown by new theories and discoveries of younger scientists, while at the same time his country is nearing defeat in World War I. Jakob struggles with his own relative meager place in the German academic system, as professor at a minor university who is increasingly out of place in the world of modern physics. Jakob's desperation leads him to thoughts of suicide again and again.

Trafic: Revue de cinéma is a French arts and letters journal focusing on cinema. The journal enjoys a significant position in debates about cinema and the moving image in France, and to a lesser degree internationally, due to the varied and extensive list of authors who have contributed to it over the past three decades. These have included philosophers such as Giorgio Agemben and Jacques Rancière, film scholars such as Jacques Aumont, filmmakers such as João César Monteiro, and critics such as Kent Jones and Jonathan Rosenbaum. Trafic is published by P.O.L, the publishing house established in 1983 by Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens, director of the autobiographical documentary Editeur (2017) in which he meditates on his experiences working with "the great names of contemporary literature" who lent prestige to his press.

To comfort her (or perhaps even to rebuke her), the elderly woman indicates the scene in the background reminding her that she can not expect to gain fulfillment from work alone. The maid, who cannot bring herself to look directly at the biblical scene and instead looks out of the painting towards us, meditates on the implications of the story, which for a theologically alert contemporary audience included the traditional superiority of the vita contemplativa (spiritual life) over the vita activa (temporal life), not that the latter was inessential. Saint Augustine had drawn this moral from the story in the 5th century, followed by countless other divines. In the Counter-Reformation the usefulness of the "active life" was somewhat upgraded by many writers to counter Lutheran assertions of the spiritual adequacy of "faith alone".

He takes shelter with, and goes to work for, the Mexican gardeners who find him and they help him investigate who is trying to kill him and why. Bering, who originally sent Max the email and recognized Max in the surveillance footage, has a conversation with an intelligence agent who makes it clear that anyone who gets in the way of a new “anti-crime” satellite surveillance program not yet approved by Congress will be dealt with terminally. Detective Dean Brock suspects Max is not a killer and on a tip meets with Bering, who is assassinated by a gunshot as they begin to speak. Max gives up his business and money to his wife and the movie ends as he meditates on how a real attack has freed him from paranoia.

According to the DLF web site, David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education is a non-profit organization, established to "fund the implementation of scientifically proven stress-reducing modalities" for "at-risk populations", including U.S. veterans and African war refugees with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), inner city students, American Indians, homeless and incarcerated men. The DLF also funds research to "assess the effects of the program on academic performance, ADHD and other learning disorders, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, cardiovascular disease, post- traumatic stress disorder, and diabetes". In 2005, the DLF announced the long- term goal of raising $7 billion in order to establish seven affiliated "Universities of World Peace" in seven different countries, to train students to practice Transcendental Meditation and become "professional peacemakers".Wasserstein, Scoop, "David Lynch meditates on peace", Harvard Crimson (September 30, 2005).

Saturday is a "post 9/11" novel, dealing with the change in lifestyle faced by Westerners after the 11 September attacks in the United States. As such, Christopher Hitchens characterised it as "unapologetically anchored as it is in the material world and its several discontents". "Structurally, Saturday is a tightly wound tour de force of several strands"; it is both a thriller which portrays a very attractive family, and an allegory of the world after 11 September 2001 which meditates on the fragility of life. In this respect the novel correctly anticipates, at page 276, the July 7, 2005 bombings on London's Underground railway network, which occurred a few months after the book was published: > London, his small part of it, lies wide open, impossible to defend, waiting > for its bomb, like a hundred other cities.

The following year, he published a fantasy about the Soviet future, Road to the Ocean, in which the hero, "another embodiment of Leonov, meditates on the suffering he has caused and endured and tries to answer the question whether it was worth while in the total economy of history." Immediately after the start of World War II, Leonov penned several patriotic plays, which were quickly made into movies and won him the USSR State Prize (1943). His novel The Russian Forest (1953) was acclaimed by the authorities as a model Soviet book on World War II and received the Lenin Prize, but its implication that the Soviet regime had cut down "the symbol of Old Russian culture" caused some nervousness, and Nikita Khrushchev reminded the author that "not all trees are useful ... from time to time the forest must be thinned."James H. Billington, The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture (Knopf, 1966), p. 28.

The theme of the interior decorations is the Epiphany, which represents the manifestation of Christ to the powerful of the earth and on which day the Congregation celebrates its own feast. The walls of the chapel present numerous seventeenth-century paintings, all inspired by the theme of the Biblical Magi. On the left wall Herod with the Magi and the wise men (circa 1694) by Sebastiano Taricco, Journey of the Magi towards Bethlehem (circa 1694) by Luigi Vannier, Opening of the treasures of the Wise Men (1705) by Stefano Maria Legnani (called Legnanino), and Announcement of the angel to the Magi circa 1694) by Sebastiano Taricco. On the left wall Appearance of the star to the Magi (1703) by Andrea Pozzo, King David meditates on the mystery of the Epiphany (circa 1695) by Stefano Maria Legnani, Massacre of the Innocents (1703) by Andrea Pozzo, and Procession of the Magi into Jerusalem (1712) by Niccolò Carone.

He meditates on how she really is thoughtful and good to him, and how she is not to blame that his talent as a writer has been destroyed. Helen, he remembers, is a rich widow who lost her husband and a child, was bored by a series of lovers, and eventually "acquired" Harry because "she wanted some one that she respected with her"; she loves Harry "dearly as a writer, as a man, as a companion and as a proud possession", while Harry makes it clear that he does not love her. Harry then recalls how he developed gangrene two weeks earlier: they had been trying to get a picture of some waterbuck, and Harry scratched his right knee on a thorn. He had not applied iodine right away, and the wound got infected; because all other antiseptics ran out, he used a weak carbolic solution that "paralyzed the minute blood vessels", thus the leg developed gangrene.

The second section of the poem, describing the piper and the lovers, meditates on the possibility that the role of art is not to describe specifics but universal characters, which falls under the term "Truth". The three figures would represent how Love, Beauty, and Art are unified together in an idealised world where art represents the feelings of the audience. The audience is not supposed to question the events but instead to rejoice in the happy aspects of the scene in a manner that reverses the claims about art in "Ode to a Nightingale". Similarly, the response of the narrator to the sacrifice is not compatible with the response of the narrator to the lovers.Vendler 1983 pp. 118–120 The two contradictory responses found in the first and second scenes of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" are inadequate for completely describing art, because Keats believed that art should not provide history or ideals.

Yi is one of the foremost writers of the 4.19 Generation and his literary output since has been both steady in pace and considerable in volume, and his subject matter has been varied. “The Wounded” (Byeongsin gwa mejeori, 1966) probes the spiritual malaise of the post-war Korean youth; This Paradise of Yours (Dangsindeurui cheonguk, 1976) explores the dialectics of charity and will to power, with the leper colony of Sorokdo Island as the backdrop; and The Fire Worshipers (Bihwa milgyo, 1985) meditates on the meaning of human rituals conducted in a Godless society when no ultimate guarantee of the absolute can be given. Lee Cheong-jun's fiction encompasses a broad range of political, existential and metaphysical concerns."Lee Chong-jun" LTI Korea Datasheet available at LTI Korea Library or online at: One of the recurrent themes in his fiction, however, has been the concern with language as a vehicle of truth.

NME gave the album an eight out of ten rating, calling it "a compelling balance between poetry and musicality," further noting that "the instrumentation soundtracks the imagery, rather than simply buffering it with noise" and citing the album as Smith's strongest vocal performance. Pitchfork Media editor Lindsay Zoladz gave the album a 7.1 out of 10, writing, "Banga meditates on ideas about exploration and adventure" but noted that "the shorter, less assuming tracks that best capture that spirit of discovery" and said "though neither a high point nor a low point in her freewheeling, four- decade career, Banga has the same charm of Smith's best albums: It flits with the impressionistic fascinations of a single mind." Rolling Stone reviewer Will Hermes awarded the album three and half stars out of five, saying that Banga "has sweet moments of song" but "the real magic happens when the words start flying off the grooves," citing "Constantine's Dream" as the album's stand-out track.

Morse produces a young man who is a doppelganger for Hobbins, who Morse plans to make the lead singer of the reunited Nazgûl, despite the fact that the doppelganger's musical talents are subpar and he lacks any charisma. Interviewing the surviving members of the band while tracking down his old friends from the 1960s, Blair meditates on the meaning of the flower power generation as he crisscrosses the country. He eventually becomes the Nazgûl's press agent and is soon swept up in the frenzy of their successful reunion tour and an oncoming supernatural convergence, whose nature he must uncover in order to solve the murders of Lynch and Hobbins. Blair comes to suspect that Morse wants to bring the Nazgûl together to perform an occult ritual that will unleash a dark supernatural power upon the world, an act of revenge against a world that has spurned the idealism of the late 1960s counterculture.