However, upon serious contemplation of this, it makes sense.
Late in September 1836, a five-year voyage came to an end, and a young naturalist stepped ashore at Falmouth on 2 October and looked back in rueful contemplation of the severe privations that he – unlike Captain Cook's men – never faced.
You end up contemplating your own contemplation.
Because each convent of Poor Clares is largely autonomous, practices have varied greatly, but generally the Poor Clares are regarded as the most austere women's orders of the Roman Catholic church, being devoted to prayer, penance, contemplation, and manual work and usually adopting the strictest enclosure, severe fasts, and other austerities.
This is most important to give careful consideration and contemplation in prayer: Some families might have someone who has a serious illness, addiction, or severe problem that causes suffering that touches the entire family.
The Jainas distinguish between external tapas, such as fasting (including the most severe form, fasting unto death), restricting the intake of food, meditating, and living in seclusion, and internal tapas, such as contemplation, confession, and repentance of sins.
When someone is diagnosed with a severe disease they are forced to face up to the reality of their own mortality and this leads to introspection or contemplation about their relationships with other people and the world in general.
That idea needed some contemplation.
