Word: inwardness
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...drowning sounds of Powell Street in the afternoon, and in the early evening as the sun set on the bay the soft odors of won-ton soup drifting up through the air vents. Crazy! But take my advice, and give up the Oriental bit, and go domestic. Contemplation, inward communion, and all that jazz is all right, but all I got was anemic from eating too much rice...
...mind from all contact wtih his senses, the Hindu fails to extract the essence of all religion, and instead attempts to find the way to essential truth through his mystical vision. Newbigin declared that men are too much caught in the concentration of life to avoid its problems by inward contemplation...
...Knoedler Galleries this week sold out (at prices up to $35,000) the day it opened. A better measure lay in the faces of those who came just to look. They would begin by admiring, which is easy, and then after a time they would fall silent and look inward, storing his pictures in their minds...
...swinging Sam gave for me was wild, icy, far out. Nobody moved for hours. We sat on the floor, looking inward, Zenward, sipping our good gold Schaefer brew. Suddenly the door swung open, and a bearded, haunted, serene face appeared, and it was a poet and he had been out there everywhere and he had dug it all and he was back. He knew, man, he knew it and we knew it, that he knew. He was crammed full of Zen-wisdom and his eyes were wise and wild and his whole body was bandaged. He was beat...
...balloon hung steadily in the eye of the storm. Whenever it rose above a predetermined level, an automatic mechanism released a little of its buoyant gas. Whenever it sank too low, another gadget dropped a bit of ballast. Gentle breezes spiraling inward kept it always close to the storm's calm center...