We see visitors strolling past, engaged in contemplation or struck with amazement.
More than once, I have seen him stop in front of a slide with a graph on it, and become so engaged in contemplation of a particular data point that he grew oblivious of the audience.
He was engaged in contemplation in a cave in a mountain outside of the city of Mecca when suddenly, an entity appeared to him, pinned him to the ground, and instructed him to recite.
This kind of engaged spiritual contemplation is not something you do once and then finish with.
One definition of meditation is to engage in contemplation or reflection.
Finding time to engage in contemplation exercises or mindfulness meditation for short periods each day takes resilience to the next level.
This freedom, however, is enjoyed only by 'the divine and supernal substances' and by human beings engaged in the contemplation of God.
Park: We believe directors should not only be regularly informed and attentive to the process, but actively engaged, exercising objective contemplation and analysis of the activist's demands.
For Schopenhauer, the extent to which the human is engaged in the contemplation of the beautiful or sublime object is the extent to which the individual's will, inherently corrupt, is shut down: hence, the aesthetic life as moral remedy, and really the only moral remedy.
Rno ignites his play's engine when he's following his interesting imagination into a mysterious cornfield or the silence of a man who's deeply engaged in the contemplation of a maroon VW Bug.
For the past three years, as the director of contemplation and education at the Garrison Institute, a non-profit organization that explores the intersection of contemplation and engaged action in the world, I've been working with researchers to investigate whether and how these practices can be applied to educational settings on a wider scale.
