But the cheerfulness of my mind, which comes from the recollection of all my philosophical contemplation, counterbalances all these afflictions".
A Roman Catholic steeped in religious mysticism, he described "Des Canyons" as "an act of praise and contemplation" that "contains all the colors of the rainbow".
Activists would join contemplatives in the ancient disciplines of stillness, meditation and contemplation -- all of which would kindle a cool fire enflamed with contentment, resolve, conviction and compassion.
Designing environments that affect our mood is no new invention, of course: pyramids were built to inspire awe, monasteries to encourage contemplation, and all too often architecture has been used to instil fear and obedience in its users.
Both were in your contemplation at all times".
Here too we have a shorthand way of pointing to a larger principle, and a goad to keep it in mind in our contemplation of "all that exists".
Understanding that the good for an intellect is contemplation of all that the One is means that the will is oriented to one thing only, whatever transient desires may turn up.
And the Festival balances serious contemplation of all things Ring, along with fun forays into pop culture.
She had to find the humanly tolerable depiction of death that would allow prolonged contemplation of all physical demise, laced as it is with the undeniable and awful requirements of perpetual renewal.
Theodore Fielding, an early Victorian historian, noted how the "castle's situation, far from human dwellings, and the stillness which that solitude, insures to its precinct, leaves contemplation to all the solemnity, that is inspired by the sight of grandeur sinking in dignity, into decay".
