Sentence examples for Critical meditation from inspiring English sources

Mesmerizingly episodic, the piece weaves together references to technology, labor, mineral wealth and ecological damage but turns what might have been a political tract into a critical meditation on the American industrial landscape, as fact and poetic symbol.

He will be the subject of a retrospective at the Whitney in 2018; he is also one of the subjects of "The Lonely City," a critical meditation on New York, art, and loneliness by Olivia Laing, the British writer.

This is not to suggest that Wittgenstein was anything like an uncritical follower of Kohler or of Gestalt psychology generally; whole sections of his multifarious writings on the philosophy of psychology can be read as sustained critical meditations on the philosophical wrong-turns taken by that movement (e.g. reifying the interpretation-laden perception into a mental object).

The title of Ms. Vandenburgh's new book and the snippets from it provided above might lead you to think that this volume is a critical, essayistic meditation on fornication and its discontents.

But the studies represent a new strain of critical thinking about mindfulness meditation amid an avalanche of hype.

After World War II Paton, Gordimer (who later was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature), and others produced what might be called a literature of the liberal conscience, combining sharp and critical social observation with meditation on the responsibilities and fates of individuals enmeshed in oppressive situations they lack the power to change.

Little did I know though that meditation — a critical component of ikigai — is the opposite of quick fix, which is also why I suspect most of us fail to pick it up successfully.

The fact that religious faith is the critical pivot for Alÿs' meditation on mediation makes the marvelous work even more powerful.

While growing up I developed into an atheist and yet the deeper understanding of secular values was shaped by the progressive culture of my Kashmiri Pandit family and the community that nurtured the centuries-old tradition of free inquiry, critical thinking, and deep meditation initiated by Buddhist monks, Shaiva philosophers, and Muslim Sufis in Kashmir.

A close and critical reading of the Meditations and Ortega's later writings reveals that albeit "I am I and my circumstances" appeared in this early work, we fail to perceive a systematic elaboration of "I am I and my circumstances" as an analytical and ontological statement in his general philosophic point of view before his later works.

Stephanie Denning: I know Ray Dalio credits meditation as a critical part of his success.