Sentence examples for former existence from inspiring English sources

Her mother, the only link with her former existence, suffers a long illness and dies.

"The shades of one's former existence do hang around for quite a long time.

Sounds and grammatical categories do not easily disappear or undergo radical change in so many daughter languages that their former existence can no longer be detected.

I was breaking all connections to my former existence: colleagues, clients, acquaintances, friends, bimbos, dogs, family and children, and annihilating my fortune in the process".

Because of the Buddhist belief in rebirth, beauty, in all its forms, was seen as a sign of virtue in a former existence.

One aspect of his former existence remains a constant, however, with his eviscerating approach to sibling rivalry very much still in tact.

Boonmee is a middle-aged man, in need of kidney dialysis, who has come to the remote forest to end his days: this is an important place from his childhood, and, he believes, the location for his former existences.

Usually five kinds of abhijna are enumerated: the ability (1) to travel any distance or take on any form at will, (2) to see everything, (3) to hear everything, (4) to know another's thoughts, and (5) to recollect former existences.

For the former, the existence of a fatigue limit was confirmed by a coaxing effect test.

He returns to his own island to continue his former solitary existence.

Calves are not hidden but accompany their mothers from birth an apparent adaptation to a former migratory existence.