Jonty Heaversedge and I refer to this as The Mindful Manifesto, meant not in the sense of an overt programme of meditation-based policymaking, but in the original spirit of the word as something manifest, or plainly appearing.
We often wait to see something manifest before we pay attention to it, but by that time, the situation is often acute.
Not all considerations in favor of desiring something manifest its desirability; for instance, incentives and sanctions attached to desire do not.
Less abstractly, something manifested in institutions such as schools, hospitals, churches – the things that enable people, in general, to live lives that matter to them.
"They don't think about it as something that manifests itself in everyday life at institutions like Oxford".
Something that manifests an intent.
"If normalcy and a better situation in Karachi have arrived, we need something to manifest that normalcy," Mr. Khan said.
They became an integral element of something that manifested the importance of collaboration, the willingness to work towards the common goal, the beauty of being in tandem.
Unlike his brother, who was into carpentry, and his academic sister, Underwood was more creative, something that manifested itself every time he danced with the neighbourhood kids or customised their jeans with a Magic Marker pen.
And in fact, sometimes the very thing you criticize in others is something you manifest yourself.
University of Michigan psychiatrist Alan Teo, whose study of short-term risk assessment was published in September, noted that patients with "command auditory hallucinations" -- unseen things or people ordering them to do something -- are manifesting a "potent risk factor" for violence.
