"After chasing away the evil spirits, we have Nyepi to purify our minds, to reflect on what we did in the past year and to engage in introspection," said Made Mastra, 52, the neighborhood chief.
Michael Cavanagh, the JP Morgan executive who conducted the bank's internal investigation, opened his testimony by proudly noting that the bank had engaged in "introspection" and was "determined to be a better company because of this experience".
Re "Olmert Says Israel Must Leave West Bank" (news article, Sept. 30) and "As Holy Days Mix in Old City, So Do Wary Jews and Muslims" (Jerusalem Journal, front page, Sept. 29): Apparently imbued with the spirit of the Jewish High Holy Days, which obligate Jews to engage in introspection and repentance, the departing Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has had a change of heart.
"You think you are tasting coffee – but if you engage in introspection, you realise it's actually a smell that is misperceived as a taste".
Similarly, a member of Shenzhen's education department played it down as a "misunderstanding" and said the teachers involved were "engaged in introspection", Beijing News reports.
If there's no such precondition, and if we don't engage in introspection and eliminate the "Han chauvinism," prejudice, and discrimination that is deeply held by people across the country, then the goal of improving ethnic relations in China will be impossible.
Since I am by training a lawyer and by heritage a product of New England and the radical Protestant Reformation, both the insistence on following procedure and the willingness to engage in introspection may come more naturally to me than to others.
While we ponder such questions and engage in introspection over them, let us also remember that there are thousands of other women who are still missing.
The state-dependent utility approach assumes that individuals engage in introspection of their subjective health state before purchasing health insurance.
And in that time, what else are you to do, other than make the most of it by being present, enjoying life, and engaging in some introspection?
Introspection of the kind Steve Lewis engaged in can easily become divorced from real-world demands.
