contemplation

• “Thus we use the word contemplation so people might know we are talking about a totally different operating system, different software where the private self is not the center of attention and interpretation.”

  The Huffington Post: Fr. Richard Rohr: Contemplation: Finding Ourselves, Finding God

• “There's what we call the contemplation of place in our spirituality. posted by pgenrestories at 2:00 PM”

  Archive 2010-01-01

• “This kind of contemplation is to be distinguished from the more open, and more quiet, and more troubling introverted contemplation that Hartman describes.”

  'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth

• “The percipient who settles for contemplation is unable to experience art in quite this active way, but neither is the one driven by the sheer desire for beauty, who is willing to sacrifice the particularity of the work for the abstractly sensual, nor the "investigator," who, in his/her preference for "data" or illustration can only be impatient with the "uniqueness of the object perceived.”

  Subject-Matter

• “It seems clear that the recess appointment clause was written in contemplation of a different time — one in which Congress was not in constant session and where they were actually out of town more often than they were in session.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Recess Appointments to Art. III Courts, 1789–2004

• “Listening to Sharpton speak, might you have been too misty-eyed yourself in contemplation of the prospect of political change, and thus too credulous in believing that he was more able at looking into the eyes of others and discerning what is in their hearts than Bush showed himself to be?”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Jews and Catholics on the Supreme Court?

• “Why have the reader contemplate, even if for a moment and even if the contemplation is quickly rejected, the possibility that you have actually been barred from practicing (which is to say disbarred) in some states?”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Barred

• “The greater problem with contemplation is that it is static, the proper object of contemplation, remember, was the eternal, the unchanging.”

  Comparing Aesthetic Experiences

• “The bushman seemed absorbed in contemplation of this object.”

  Chapter 24

• “We can learn to heal our reactive responses by seeking "emotional sobriety," which is really the task that we call contemplation.”

  The Huffington Post: Fr. Richard Rohr: Contemplation: Finding Ourselves, Finding God

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