Sentence examples for observing oneself from inspiring English sources

It is a powerful book, but with the dangerously charmed inertia of heroin's spell cast across its prose, which moves between story and writing about story, observing oneself in an act that for Trocchi was becoming untenable.

Estimated to occur in about 20% of patients who survive cardiac arrest, near-death experiences are frequently described as hypervivid or "realer-than-real," and often include leaving the body and observing oneself from outside, or seeing a bright light.

In fact, observing oneself engaging in effortful behaviors can rather ironically give one the impression of higher available levels of energy.

Principally, one must observe oneself concerning four things: if one is just; if one is sincere; if one is capable of true friendship; if one has courage" [CDS, p.103].

"In person" or "personal" (qin) is explained as "observing it there oneself".

Suddenly, I fully understood something I observed at work all the time — how it was possible to love a frail relative, prioritize his comfort and well-being, and yet repeatedly find oneself doing things that felt awful to everyone.

"It is worth asking oneself," Danto observes, in reference to an article about the shooting that appeared in The New York Post, "how many other American artists would have made headlines had they been shot.... Of no other artist in America would this have been true".

Sentimentality, as Solomon observes, involves in giving oneself over to such manipulation; the criticism of consumers as complicit in this process implies that the emotions felt are not the person's own, real and authentic, but a product of the skillful manipulation of Hollywood.

Several functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies showed that observing the emotional state of another individual activates a neuronal network involved in processing the same state in oneself, whether it is pain, disgust, or touch[3], [4], [5].

The approach when observing and talking to the actors in the MERCI sample was open to their views, interpretations and memories of the reported events, following the ethnographic tenet that the best way to understand a different cultural setting is to immerse oneself in it (Schensul & Lecompte, 2013, p. 1).

We ought to be able to see a similarly objective reason for altruism, one rooted, as the philosopher Thomas Nagel observed, in "the conception of oneself as merely a person among others equally real".