Meditation is about directing the mind on peaceful, positive thoughts.
In these circumstances, the tension that results from expectation and that directs the mind to anticipate events and outcomes is dissipated, the spectator tires, and the mind fluctuates between waking and half-sleeping states in which the events on the stage mingle with mental fantasies to produce a new mode of consciousness.
Although the narrator obviously has a hidden agenda, the master manipulator here is Walters, whose commanding control over her inflammatory material -- and her readers -- distracts the eye from potential murder suspects and directs the mind to the everyday acts of casual inhumanity that are the real issue.
ănĭmadverto (archaic -vorto), ti, sum, 3, v. a. [contr. from animum adverto, which orthography is very freq. in the anteclass. period; cf. adverto, II. B.] (scarcely found in any poet beside Ter. and Verg)., to direct the mind or attention to a thing, to attend to, give heed to, to take heed, consider, regard, observe.
To so hold would be to overlook the primary and essential function of an exception, which is to direct the mind of the trial judge to the point in which it is supposed that he has erred in law, so that he may reconsider it and change his ruling if convinced of error, and that injustice and mistrials due to inadvertent errors may thus be obviated.
This presence, to which the mind is constantly directed without any mediation, albeit through an operation of which we are almost always unaware (intelligere abditum), is for Henry what directs the mind itself to all authentic knowledge (Emery 2001).
Almost anything that invokes pleasurable impressions can be the cause of pride, within the limitations that the idea of the subject must allow us to build associative connections directing the mind to the idea of self.
Indeed, pride seems both to require reference to an idea of the self, and to buttress whatever meager idea we may already have by directing the mind to an idea of the self outfitted with various pleasurable associations.
"People think it's about distracting someone by making them look away but it's actually about directing the mind towards something," says James Brown, a stage pickpocket and hypnotist based in the UK.
In the first rule of the unfinished Rules for the Direction of the Mind, he states: "The aim of our studies should be to direct the mind with a view to forming true and sound judgements about whatever comes before it" (AT X 359/CSM I 9).
