The Brazilian journey has often faltered, giving rise to the nostrum that this was a country with a great future condemned to its eternal contemplation.
Before him Philo, Alcinous, and Clement of Alexandria had construed the forms as thoughts in the mind of the Demiurge, while Alexander of Aphrodisias held that they gave content to God's eternal contemplation of himself (Armstrong 1960).
I value enormously the small statue of the Buddha that sits in eternal contemplation in our garden, where I sit writing these words on a sunny Saturday morning in twenty-first century Southern California; and the larger face of the Buddha, down whose cheeks the water of our fountain runs like ever-compassionate tears for the suffering we bring upon ourselves through our attachments.
But as the wind begins to stir and waves start forming on the sea, a sign of the energy beneath the surface, the narrator proclaims the necessity of choosing life by choosing eternal change over contemplation.Valéry approached the composition of the poem as if it were a musical form, with the rhythm of the verse mimicking the movement of the sea.
As Cole puts it, such views are "God's undefiled works, and the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things".
In reflexive thought, there is a return of the mind onto itself, or an attending to the contents of the mind; such reflexive thoughts are more attentive perceptions of the divine ideas, and these thoughts are contemplations of the eternal truths.
The opera is a sad but smiling tribute to the ephemeral, momentarily forgoing contemplation of the serious and eternal in favor of a night's light entertainment, giving listeners license to enjoy familiar themes as if they were old friends.
This knowledge requires discrimination between the eternal and non-eternal and eventually a realization in contemplation that the true self merges in a universe of pure consciousness.
Ehrenfels states in the preface to Das Primzahlengesetz that, after a long depression following WWI, the contemplation of the "field of numbers and their eternal, necessary connections" soothed his agonized spirit ("Weltangst") (Ehrenfels 1922, III).
This contemplation Plotinus interpreted as cognitive identity, since if the Demiurge were contemplating something outside of itself, what would be inside of itself would be only an image or representation of eternal reality (see V 5) -- and so, it would not actually know what it contemplates, as that is in itself.
That eternal-kid sound also suited "Toxic," the Duffy hit "Mercy," and "Sober," Pink's scared and scary contemplation of giving up a hard-partying life.
