Sentence examples for of being instead from inspiring English sources

Over the next weeks -- and really all the years since -- I used my process of reporting to take a step back and engage in something called "Vipassana" meditation, a Buddhist philosophy known as "insight meditation" in the West, where we simply observe our state of being, instead of clinging to it, and try to get some insight into our rage.

I also think that by referring to joy as a state of being instead of a feeling, it transforms the word, solidifying it somehow, and it becomes a mindset we can hold onto during the swing of feelings we will experience throughout our lives.

… [c]haracter and virtue, often considered to be too subjective, have a place in today's professional health care ethics… Descriptions of character and character traits portray a way of being instead of a way of acting… [A health worker] who responds to a difficult patient care situation with respect, patience and attitude of care is described as a "good" person ([ 18], p.49).

Evidently Ibn Daud considered the second to be a better proof than the first given that it yields a first principle of being, instead of merely a first principle of motion.

Note that in Fig.6.2 the range of is taken to be instead of.

They are as entrenched in language as the saying of "lol" is instead of actually laughing.

None of this is "instead of" knowledge and skill.

Chances are, if you asked these people why they used "were" instead of "was" or "be" instead of "are," many couldn't tell you.

That's instead of room service.

The X Files is instead of politics.

Arguing is instead of sex.