The phrase "action and contemplation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to discuss the balance or relationship between doing something actively and reflecting on it thoughtfully.
Example: "In the pursuit of personal growth, one must find a balance between action and contemplation to achieve meaningful progress."
Alternatives: "deed and reflection" or "activity and thoughtfulness".
Humanitas called for a fine balance of action and contemplation, a balance born not of compromise but of complementarity.
"Action and contemplation joined together", he said in full Zen mode last June, "is what I would call the highest path that we can follow .A celebrity himself, he will probably face another one.
Salutati, the learned chancellor of Florence whose words could batter cities, represented in word and deed the humanistic ideal of an armed wisdom, that combination of philosophical understanding and powerful rhetoric that alone could effect virtuous policy and reconcile the rival claims of action and contemplation.
We welcome America's rural and urban communities, faith-based communities, college and university campuses, community gardens and botanical gardens, as well as non-profits of all kinds to join us in a day of action and contemplation for imperiled pollinators from dusk on April 13th (Palm Sunday) to dusk on April 14th (Rachel Carson's death anniversary).
Center for Action and Contemplation: www.cac.orgis the home of the Rohr Institute and its Living School for Action and Contemplation.
Instead, it will do something better: it will remind you of the richness of a life that embraces action and contemplation, company and solitude, living in the moment and planning for the future.
He's equally averse to pain and to pleasure, to hardship and to indulgence, to action and to contemplation.
There were two ways, then, of resisting evil: engagement and disengagement; attachment and detachment; action against it and contemplation despite it.
On the other hand, his merit was action and not the Contemplation which would place him unreservedly in the higher realm.
The Pain Stages of Change Questionnaire (PSOCQ; [J Pain (1997) 227]) was designed to assess four components of readiness to self-manage pain: pre-contemplation, contemplation, action, and maintenance.
The written information is based on the transtheoretical model of behavior [ 28, 29], called "active living" which identifies different stages of activity (pre-contemplation, contemplation, action, and maintenance).
