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Meditations (, literally "[that which is] to himself") is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy.
Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement. It is possible that large portions of the work were written at Sirmium, where he spent much time planning military campaigns from 170 to 180. Some of it was written while he was positioned at Aquincum on campaign in Pannonia, because internal notes tell us that the first book was written when he was campaigning against the Quadi on the river Granova (modern-day Hron) and the second book was written at Carnuntum.
It is unlikely that Marcus Aurelius ever intended the writings to be published and the work has no official title, so "Meditations" is one of several titles commonly assigned to the collection. These writings take the form of quotations varying in length from one sentence to long paragraphs.
Meditations is a 1966 album by John Coltrane. The album was considered the "spiritual follow-up to A Love Supreme." It features Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders as soloists, both playing tenor saxophones. Much of the recording is avant-garde, featuring extensive passages in free rhythm and extended saxophone techniques such as honked and overblown notes, as well as multiphonics. This would be the last Coltrane recording with long-time partners drummer Elvin Jones and pianist McCoy Tyner.
Alternative versions of tracks 2–5, later issued as First Meditations (for quartet), not issued until 12 years later in 1977, had been recorded in September 1965 by the same musicians minus Rashied Ali and Sanders, and were more restrained, containing fewer overblown notes.
Meditations (also released as Elmo Hope Memorial Album) is an album by American jazz pianist Elmo Hope recorded in 1955 for the Prestige label.
Meditations Is the Eleventh studio album By William Ackerman. The album was nominated for Best New Age Album at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards (Held on February 8, 2009).
Usage examples of "meditations".
Citizens of Wheeling were jerked out of their own meditations by the sound.
Graben and down Pfefferstadt, from grinding his teeth malignantly and lapsing into dark meditations about venal womanhood.
They had worked through every meditation in her books, and now wanted transcriptions of her tapes so they could continue reading the meditations to each other.
Sit down with a friend, or several friends, and appoint one person as a reader who guides the others through the meditations, like our friends did.
It is then visited by those elevated meditations which are the proper aliment of noble souls, and are, like manna, sent from heaven, in the wilderness of this world.
He had risen, he says, at daybreak, according to custom, to escape from the dreary meditations of a sleepless pillow.
The rituals of certain classes of Tantra offered the rapid union of the individual with the Absolute by the supernatural power of sound, or mystic formulas and syllables, meditations and sexual acts, symbolic of the unification aimed at.
The work of Atisa is marked by a great strengthening of the monastic tradition and its disciplines, but in common with all the teachers, both Indian and Tibetan, over the next two centuries he accepted, though in their symbolic and esoteric forms, the Indian Tantric teachings, practices and meditations that the Tibetans found particularly to their taste.
Favoral was plunged in her meditations, and a thousand miles as she was from the actual situation, it was impossible that she should not notice the intense excitement under which her daughter labored, the alteration of her features, and the incoherence of her words.