It's actually very straightforward but does take work, training, contemplation so that it embeds into your subconscious and becomes instinctive, automatic.
Stoic philosophical and spiritual practices included logic, Socratic dialogue and self-dialogue, contemplation of death, training attention to remain in the present moment (similar to some forms of Eastern meditation), and daily reflection on everyday problems and possible solutions.
Whatever religion or belief system that you align you with, or even if you don't align yourself with any organized religion at all, you need to carve out time in your schedule for deep contemplation and meditative training.
For those feeling particularly restless between the demise of last season and the birth of spring training, the contemplation of such a resting place may fill the bleak hours.
In the later piece Different Trains, his contemplation on the Second World War and the Holocaust, he even constructed his melodies around snatches of human speech.
I did not really have the luxury of contemplation; I sort of trained on the job.
You must begin a practice like mindfulness, yoga, meditation, contemplation, or prayer that trains your mind to focus on the here and now rather than jumping to the future or retreating to the past.
You end up contemplating your own contemplation.
Walking up the Green Hill on a Bayreuth afternoon or crossing the River Salzach at twilight is somehow more conducive to the contemplation of sublimity than riding the No. 1 train at rush hour while two squabbling strangers call each other "fatso" and "bitch," as happened to me on the way to "Götterdämmerung".
Ads show the train as a place for dreaming and contemplation, "where thoughts and coffee beans brew".
