David Couzens Hoy states that Emmanuel Levinas's writings on the face of the Other and Derrida's meditations on the relevance of death to ethics are signs of the " ethical turn " in Continental philosophy that occurred in the 1980s and 1990s.

Ephrem's artful meditations on the symbols of Christian faith and his stand against heresy made him a popular source of inspiration throughout the church.

" In 1985, David Jasper praised the poem as " one of his greatest meditations on the nature of poetry and poetic creation " and argued " it is through irony, also, as it unsettles and undercuts, that the fragment becomes a Romantic literary form of such importance, nowhere more so than in ' Kubla Khan '.

" Other major melancholic authors include Sir Thomas Browne, and Jeremy Taylor, whose Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and Holy Living and Holy Dying, respectively, contain extensive meditations on death.

The poem is not about World War I, but it does try to address the relationships between destruction and beauty, and, in this sense, it resonates with ancient Greek meditations on these matters, especially in the plays of Sophocles and Aeschylus.

The next landmark publication by Koolhaas was S, M, L, XL, together with Bruce Mau, Jennifer Sigler, and Hans Werlemann ( 1995 ), a 1376-page tome combining essays, manifestos, diaries, fiction, travelogues, and meditations on the contemporary city.

* meditations on the psalms by Martin Samuel Cohen

His other early poems, which are meditations on the themes of love or mystical and esoteric subjects, include Poems ( 1895 ), The Secret Rose ( 1897 ), and The Wind Among the Reeds ( 1899 ).

Many of Heidegger's works from the 1930s onwards include meditations on lines from Hölderlin's poetry, and several of the lecture courses are devoted to the reading of a single poem ( see, for example, Hölderlin's Hymn " The Ister ").

Scriptural meditations on the rosary build on the Christian tradition of Lectio Divina, ( literally divine reading ) as a way of using the Gospel to start a conversation between the soul and Christ.

In his prison cell in the tower of the government palace he composed meditations on Psalms 51 and 31.

All of these books contain such features as meditations for the presiding celebrant ( s ) during the liturgy, and other material such as the rite for the blessing of palms on Palm Sunday, propers for special feast days, and instructions for proper ceremonial order.

From its obscure origins in the theaters of Athens 2, 500 years ago, from which there survives only a fraction of the work of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, through its singular articulations in the works of Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Racine, and Schiller, to the more recent naturalistic tragedy of Strindberg, Beckett's modernist meditations on death, loss and suffering, and Müller's postmodernist reworkings of the tragic canon, tragedy has remained an important site of cultural experimentation, negotiation, struggle, and change.

The Pope, either personally or through a representative, leads the faithful through meditations on the stations of the cross while a cross is carried from there to the Colosseum.

Her perennial themes include meditations on time and memory, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of Stalinism.

The title of the book is a reference to John Donne's series of meditations and prayers on health, pain, and sickness ( written while Donne was convalescing from a nearly fatal illness ) that were published as a book in 1624 under the title Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, specifically Meditation XVII:

The group would also employ newer production techniques to achieve a more refined studio sound on the albums Sleepwalker ( 1977 ) and Misfits ( 1978 ), as Davies ' focus shifted to wistful ballads of restless alienation (" Life on the Road ", " Misfits "), meditations on the inner lives of obsessed pop fans (" Juke Box Music ", " A Rock & Roll Fantasy "), and exhortations of carpe diem (" Life Goes On ", " Live Life ", " Get Up ").

* The Bodhi-Tree Practice-A set of meditations based on the four stages of the Buddha's enlightenment

These objects include meditations on the breath ( anapanasati ), loving kindness ( metta ) and various colours, earth, fire, etc.

On the West African coast they set up Zāwiyas on the shores of the river Niger and even established independent kingdoms such as al-Murābiṭūn or Almoravids. The Al Hakika Mizaan Mizaani Sufi Order deals with heavy internalization and meditations, their spiritual practice is called Al Qudra MizaanStates ) The Sanusi order were also highly involved in missionary work in Africa during the 19th century, spreading both Islam and a high level of literacy into Africa as far south as Lake Chad and beyond by setting up a network of zawiyas where Islam was taught.

Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, a prominent researcher of Jewish meditations, mentions in his books LSD and mescaline as a source of positive spiritual experience.

Approximately 200, 000 candles are distributed around the world each year, along with relevant prayers and meditations.

The following year, the third album Z rozmyślań przy śniadaniu (" From meditations over breakfast ") was released, displaying a tendency towards a more " polished " sound and more introspective lyrics.

The Layman's Breviary, or meditations for every day in the year, Boston ( Mass.

* Peace of heart in all things: meditations for each day of the year.

This is something that has to be thought through by each of us for ourselves, as we follow the course of the meditations.

This book was produced with the aim of providing extra music for non-congregational music items within services ( eg voluntaries, meditations, etc ) but has been adopted by congregations worldwide and is now used to supplement congregational repertoire.

( Contains an introduction by Archimandrite Sophrony ( Sakharov ), immediate disciple of St Silouan, together with the meditations of St Silouan ( 1866 – 1938 ).

" He compiled in 1645 a small volume of prayers and meditations — the Good Thoughts in Bad Times — which, set up and printed in the besieged city of Exeter, where he had retired, was called by himself " the first fruits of Exeter press.

Caedus ' meditations are disrupted by Luke Skywalker, in an attempt to hide Jaina's attack.

According to this belief, specific rituals, meditations and other elements of more traditional forms of magic are not to be understood as valuable by themselves, but only as gnosis-inducing techniques.

The most elaborate version of these is contained in the Siddur published by the 18th century Yemenite Kabbalist Shalom Sharabi for the use of the Bet El yeshivah in Jerusalem: this contains only a few lines of text on each page, the rest being filled with intricate meditations on the letter combinations in the prayers.

The mystic links that are forged by way of these initiations, which typically occur at puberty ( although they could in truth be performed as and when the Ifá oracle demands if they have not already been done at a period beyond this stage ), are the conduits that are used by adherents to attempt to achieve what can be seen as the equivalent of the Buddhist enlightenment by way of a combination of personalized meditations, reincarnations and spirit possessions.

It ranged from devout religious pieces such as The Tabill of Confession through thoughtful meditations such as the famous Lament for the Makars to outrageous entertainments typified by the notorious Flyting with Kennedy and boisterous satires including The Fenyeit Freir of Tungland.

Therefore, by chanting Mantras, maintaining Mudras, or performing certain meditations, one is able to see that the sense experiences are the teachings of Buddha, have faith that one is inherently an enlightened being, and one can attain enlightnenment within this very body.

In a letter dated January 25, 2007, the new Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal William Levada, following continued requests for clarifications on the writings and activities of Rydén, wrote to the Catholic hierarchy around the world stating that " the Notification of 1995 remains valid as a doctrinal judgment " of the writings, which should be seen as her own personal meditations and that Catholics should not take part in prayer groups established by Rydén.

At Pope Benedict XVI's behest, Cardinal Zen wrote the meditations for the traditional Stations of the Cross led by the Pope at the Roman Colisseum on Good Friday, 21 March 2008.

Besides the above mentioned " Filippiche ", and other works, some of poetry and some of literary criticism ( such as the Varieta ' di pensieri di Alessandro Tassoni-Diverse meditations by A. T .), Tassoni is best known as the author of the mock-heroic poem La secchia rapita ( The Rape of the Bucket ): it is by virtue of this work that he is remembered as Modena's poet laureate.

1688 ), appear some meditations by him, and one or two short poems, as well as the sermon preached at his funeral by his chancellor, Thomas Tullie.

The " Graveyard Poets " were a number of pre-Romantic English poets of the 18th century characterised by their gloomy meditations on mortality, ' skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms ' in the context of the graveyard.

To what degree, that is, are these meditations under democracy on Japanese uniqueness innocent reflections of a popular search for identity, and in what measure, if any, do they pick up from the instrumental ideology of Japaneseness developed by government and nationalists in the prewar period to harness the energies of the nation towards industrialization and global imperium?

The scholar Donald Lopez questions whether the ' initiations ' that Govinda received are to be understood in the traditional Tibetan way of the term, i. e., as an empowerment by a Lama to carry out Tantric rituals or meditations.