"It's going to be really boring," he said to himself at the time, contemplating a future of leisure at the age of forty-one.
Here the hero whiles away the time contemplating the condition of exile and lusting after "a lithe, goat-like servant girl", who he doesn't get to sleep with; and a "pale, puffy faced widow" with whom he does.
He was right, though – it's the only part you can't hide behind – and you spend most of the time contemplating your death, which is quite hard to do when you're 40, not yet ancient.
Although the United States and Britain were at the time contemplating punitive airstrikes against Assad's regime as a consequence for breaking President Barack Obama's "red line," the more seasoned diplomats in the room instinctually knew that the justice the opposition hoped for would not be forthcoming.
2. The aesthetic object is at the same time contemplated: its appearance is a matter of intrinsic interest and studied not merely as an object of sensory pleasure but also as the repository of significance and value.
…is at the same time contemplated: its appearance is a matter of intrinsic interest and studied not merely as an object of sensory pleasure but also as the repository of significance and value.
We spent most of that time contemplating the charges he would likely face once the 9-hour period elapsed.
Typically he will suggest, in this vein, that thought requires images, both genetically and concurrently, so that "whenever one contemplates, one necessarily at the same time contemplates in images" (De Anima iii 8, 432a8-9, 431a16-17; De Memoria 1, 449b31-450a1).
My fear was as big a fallacy as the thought that occurred to me when I was 21 and in rehab for the first time, contemplating a life without heroin : But how will I be able to play music?
Whether on the cushion or on the mat, spending time contemplating what lies beyond and seeking to connect with your deepest self provides a healing balm to your wounds.
