Word: objectional
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...sitting in the conference room of the largest marketing company in America. On the table in front of us we have a bottle, once filled with Chianti, now containing an olive oil and vinegar salad dressing, which is the object of this meeting. "You gentlemen have come to the right place," the president tells us. "We launch new products for some of the biggest brands in America--Libby's, Heinz, Del Monte, Campbell's, Kraft--so we can give you an exponential trajectory on the welter of details that have to be accomplished to launch your salad dressing...
...debut of a TV movie called Camp Cucamonga. Although it boasted a cast with the likes of DJ Tanner, Steve Urkel, and Winnie and Paul from The Wonder Years, one star clearly outshone the rest: a young Jennifer Aniston “Wait!” you object. “I’ve seen that movie ten times and Jennifer Aniston is not in it.” So sorry, my friend, but that’s her as camp counselor Eva Schector. It’s an easy mistake to make; after all, it?...
...butterfly mind, a monkey mind.” This tendency to flit from subject to thought to subject through free associations can make it quite hard to concentrate deeply on any one thing. In some meditation techniques, you are supposed to constantly return to the object of concentration, such as breathing, while in others you are simply supposed to be aware of the path your butterfly mind is taking...
After Mikhail Gorbachev laid the final blows to Soviet Communism, who’s going to stop him from laying a few harmless smooches on the cheek of a pretty woman? Not Miranda L. Kobritz, a Divinity School student who found herself the object of the former Soviet president’s affections last month while riding an elevator with him at a hotel in New York City...
...essence of meditation is nowness ... [it] is not aimed at achieving a higher state or at following some theory or idea, but simply, without any object or ambition, trying to see what is here and now. -Chogyam Trungpa...