Realize you must fill many hours together, and need to enjoy similar times and means of fun and of seriousness, such as shared responsibilities, house/yard work, hobbies, music, movies, reading and contemplation.
Because we direct their reading and contemplation to the sacred text that is the basis of our beliefs and social organization, the Commissioner would impinge on our right of free religious expression, as set forth in the First Amendment.
In the Carthusian monastery, the four steps of required spiritual exercise were reading, meditation, prayer, and contemplation.
"We hypothesize that smartphone use filled student's idle time, and that before they had their smartphones, that idle time was used for contemplation, or reading or reviewing of notes," Kortum said in the email.
Music, poetry, painting, sculpture, photography and, yes, films can overwhelm the senses with their naked beauty, without the contemplation demanded of reading Proust or Nabokov.
His poetry has been composed of harsh musics, the alarums of battle and the death struggles under the reading lamp — it takes to contemplation the way some men take to religion (Hill's relation to Christianity has been famously cryptic).
"It's going to be healthy to decompress, focus on meditation and contemplation or just reading the newspaper.
More long stares have been given in my direction for years regarding my inability to not read, yawningly pitying contemplations of poor old dad that grew exponentially this year when I decided to make a leap.
But with this role, there is an inevitable hollowing out of interiority, of the quietness of your thoughts – reading itself becomes directed outward, from private contemplation to a strategic act meant to satisfy some nebulous public.
The pleasure taken in reading a poem is not in the contemplation but in fulfillment of tendencies in the subject perceived.
And just like the sea, the proximity of the valley becomes reason enough for any type of relaxation or contemplation, from meandering conversation to reading to quiet gazing.
