meditate
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He started the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace in 2005 to offer children throughout the world the opportunity to learn to meditate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
In a 15-slide post on his personal Instagram account, Fifa president Gianni Infantino tells his critics to "meditate, pray or watch a football match" instead of "spreading hate and false rumours" about his leadership.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Fifa president Gianni Infantino has told critics to "meditate, pray or watch a football match" instead of "spreading hate and false rumours" about his leadership, the governing body and the World Cup.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Buddhism-themed tourism is thriving and tens of thousands of locals and foreigners sign up every year for "temple stay" retreats where they eat simple monastic food, do chores and meditate.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
Not muscle strong or fighting strong—a kind of strength that gave him the self-control to meditate instead of falling apart, or to ignore what other people thought, and find meaning in a dead bird.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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Salah meditates for 15–20 minutes every day, either before sleep or upon waking, focusing on his goals and maintaining clarity.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
On the remarkable and moving “Little Gears,” a waltz-time number built atop piano and brushed drums, she meditates on a spider weaving a web.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025
The actors star in Hulu’s “Paradise,” which reunites Brown with “This Is Us” creator Dan Fogelman and meditates on climate change and technology.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025
Frazier said the garden has given her a place for more than just growing food — it’s where she meditates, connects with nature, and makes friends, too.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
She meditates a lot so during her class break it ain’t unusual to see her sitting on the desk with her legs folded and her arms crossed.
From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake
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I needed to know: Could this work for me, a stressed-out reporter with zero patience, who had never successfully meditated before?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Chelsea, in Oregon, meditated on the decision of whether or not to have kids for about a year after she started doubting it during the pandemic.
From Salon ● May 10, 2025
I’ve never meditated, and as a writer on place, I was often in motion, crisscrossing the globe every week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2025
As the sun dipped farther down the horizon, I walked upstairs and meditated to a sound bath.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
For a while they met in the back rooms of the abandoned part of the house, where Alba handed out walnuts and served them herbal teas while they meditated in a cross-legged position.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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"We're not saying it's all about just being spiritual and sitting under a tree and meditating," said Bovarnick.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
“Before I started meditating I worried that doing it would make me lose my edge, and I didn’t want to lose the fire to make stuff,” Lynch wrote in “Room to Dream.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Researchers were also interested in the subjective experiences participants had while meditating.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
He spends chapters meditating on trauma and fatherhood, on periods of feeling spiritually adrift, on coming to love a “majestic” faith tradition while remaining connected to the rowdy evangelicals of his childhood.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
As I was meditating on this discovery, a little girl, followed by her attendant, came running up the lawn.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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