Sentence examples for inner contemplation from inspiring English sources

Rather, she said, it reflects the dying person's need to leave the outer world behind and focus on inner contemplation.

Insisting that she is no Luddite, Ms. Moss singled out the omnipresent siren call of cellphones, BlackBerries and similar electronic gadgets as a possible barrier to inner contemplation and artistic communion.

Ostaseski shared the inner contemplation that living daily with the dying had awakened in him.

Nemanna (1559) wrote Jnana Bhaskara Charite on the importance of inner contemplation rather than rituals as the correct path towards emancipation.

As concerned as Fonda is on physicality (including the importance of Kegel exercises -- squeezing and releasing vaginal muscles 200 times per day!), she devotes equal time to inner contemplation.

The leading sage of Advaita Vedanta, Shankara (early 9th century), while acknowledging in principle the possibility of coming to a knowledge of the Supreme Reality (brahman) through inner experience and contemplation of the grades of being, held that in practice a vivid apprehension of the divine arises from meditation on the sacred books, especially the Upanishads.

"As frank and honest and straight talk as our express is, sometimes I don't share all of the inner workings and contemplations of our campaign," he said.

The search for the absolute, in cinema, is as much a matter of inner experience and philosophical contemplation as it is of exploration and observation.

Having a daily practice helps calm anxiety and create opportunities for deeper contemplation and inner work, which will lead to a greater sense of meaning in all of life. 5. Presence: Living in the present moment has become a common catch phrase these days, but it is a necessary component of a life of meaning.

He looked to theosophy, as manifested in Kabbalah: "those religious streams within Judaism," he explained, "which strive to arrive at a religious consciousness beyond intellectual apprehension, and which may be attained by man's delving into himself by means of contemplation, and the inner illumination which results from this contemplation".

We can turn on TVs and radios and computers to drown the inner call for solitude and contemplation.