Sentence examples for willful thought from inspiring English sources

At school, he memorized the Baltimore catechism (which included such instruction as "What is actual sin? Actual sin is any willful thought, desire, word, action, or omission contrary to the law of God").

"Knight of Cups" is Rick's act of remembering, and it follows the strange double logic of memory — the triggering efforts of willful thought and the free-flowing associations of the unconscious mind.

This includes even willful thoughts, often translated from the ancient texts as "volition".

The willful thoughts that arrive milliseconds after the bodily contraction are my brain making sense of what's already taking place.

I have found in my own practice that not only are my willful thoughts not actually "mine", but they are often preceded by bodily contractions.

The Buddha observed that willful thoughts -- those connected with the desire to perform an action or think more thoughts -- are like all other thoughts; they arise and pass away without any conscious determination on the meditator's part.

From England, Mr. Poppy and Ms. Bardsley will present "Avalanche Thoughts," a multimedia performance installation piece described as "a succession of moments that teeter on the edge of disaster, saturated with willful and erotic thoughts that ease and tempt us into the abyss".

The trial, which took place in a closed courtroom in Shiraz in the last two months, has deeply shaken many of the 30,000 Jews in Iran, with some moved to willful silence and others to thoughts of emigration.

Is Wills's blindness willful?

Mr. Dudamel is a thoughtful if willful Mahler conductor.

Or, people will have a willful ignorance to it.