Often likened to "looking at oneself into a mirror," reflection has generally been considered an essential aspect of self-understanding, contemplation, and meditation in philosophies of life.
The "science of the Origin" is a philosophical history, a history of the essential, whose contemplation enlists a dialectical perspective to grasp the form of the "original phenomenon": as something subject to a process of becoming and disappearing, and therefore only partial and incomplete.
Pack an "essentials box".
The question ushered in a striking moment — a lengthy contemplation rare in a political setting.
Arthur spent a total of a year in contemplation and writing a business plan.
"It's an exciting contemplation," he said.
I first saw one of my very favorite paintings in this book: John Singer Sargent's Fumée d'Ambre Gris, in which an extraordinary woman, in contemplation of the essential perfume of amber coming up to her from a harem censer, is lost in lush, joyful contemplation.
"It's now a temple of contemplation on a very serene site".
