Sentence examples for external contemplation from inspiring English sources
"Nature offers us two sorts of subjects of external contemplation of the natural world objects and their mutual actions," as Herschel (1830) put it.
You end up contemplating your own contemplation.
Similarly, Intellect's internal activity is its contemplation of the Forms, and its external activity is found in every possible representation of the activity of being eternally identical with all that is intelligible (i.e., the Forms).
In the same way as Nature, or to be precise, the true experience of Nature cannot be reduced to its mere physical or external manifestation, a work of art and its contemplation of it are, also, more than just the simple perception or the analysis of its appearance.
I had always thought of meditation as a way to keep the external world out of the picture during quiet contemplation.
He even suggests that the life of contemplation is secure against the need for external goods (1177a30).
I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute – prayer, contemplation, focus – is up to them.
In her view, it should stimulate meditation or contemplation or an emotion, reflecting the viewer's inner life, not the external world.
Corneo has urged Pico to put his studies to use in "the civil and active life", but to Pico this compromises the integrity of the philosopher; he is prepared to tolerate something tantamount to the mixed life in which contemplation and action are reconciled, but he maintains the superiority of a life free of any dependence on external recognition.
