Reflective thought

Usage examples of contemplation.

However, the final decision to write is made above all as a means to achieve permanently the state of ataraxia that he experiences only in moments of pure aesthetic contemplation.

General Aur made an expansive gesture with one hand, then resumed his satisfied contemplation of the stars, only occasionally glancing over his shoulder at the other men in the office.

After serving in his youth as a samurai retainer, Toju denounced the rigidities of such service and retired at the early age of twenty-six to a life of study and contemplation at his birthplace on Lake Biwa in Omi Province.

I lie as lies yon placid Brandywine, Holding the hills and heavens in my heart For contemplation.

No adequate study of contemplation can be conducted without a thorough investigation of its broader context of contemplative training as a whole.

His closest friend, Nathaniel Bar Tholomew of Cana, sat beside him, deep in contemplation.

Orient may appear in all its realistic detail, in Chateaubriand the ego dissolves itself in the contemplation of wonders it creates, and then is reborn, stronger than ever, more able to savor its powers and enjoy its interpretations.

To him the contemplation of the Future lets in light upon the Present, and develops the higher portions of his nature.

After a moment of contemplation of what they had hidden he dropped the rags--or rather threw them from him with a violent gesture --got up and came back to Domini, and looked at her without speaking.

He released the image and headed out toward the emptiest quarter where only a few people sat deep in their own contemplation.

Wisdom, which consists in the contemplation of all that exists in the Intellectual-Principle, and as the immediate presence of the Intellectual-Principle itself.

As they glided toward the red-shaded sands of the plain, Firebird withdrew into a gray haze of contemplation, staring out the viewport.

But in his phases of contemplation the sense of fleetingness would enter deeply into his mind, so that at all times the physical features of the planet, the woods, the hills, the sea, affected him with an added poignancy.

There had once been eighteen schools of Hinayana teaching -- all of which had dealt with Buddha as a teacher and urged contemplation and study of his teachings rather than worship of him -- but by the time of the Big Mistake, only one of those schools survived, the Theravada, and that only in remote sections of disease- and famine-ravaged Sri Lanka and Thailand, two political provinces of Old Earth.

Principles of this order, dwelling There, are as it were visible images protected from themselves, so that all becomes an object of contemplation to contemplators immeasurably blessed.