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"Meditation" in a Sentence (15 examples)
A sudden loud noise broke in on my meditation.
Flies and mosquitoes interfered with his meditation.
Being left alone, he sank into meditation.
He sat in Zen meditation.
He painted an image he had during meditation last night.
He hit on the plan after long meditation.
My father sat deep in meditation with his eyes closed.
A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.
I tried Buddhist meditation once, but I fell asleep halfway through the session.
Meditation gives me peace of mind.
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Free-associating on paper is valuable—letting loose, as I described in the last chapter, and writing whatever you feel like writing, any way you want. It’s valuable when you’re learning to write to help you deal with fear, and it continues to be a useful technique for starting a piece of writing or moving beyond a point where you’re stuck. It’s a good way to develop characters and story by drawing on unconscious associations, free-associating about something (a process that used to be called meditation before meditation came to mean emptying your mind). […] Writing to communicate is a different matter. Professional writers, without exception so far as I know, consider unstructured, unedited free association to be at best only the first stage of writing. Not even Jack Kerouac wrote that way, although he tried to make it look as if he did.
Her book is less a cookbook than a meditation on the craft of cookery.
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He was lost in careful meditation on how best to proceed when a sudden phone call forced him to decide.
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