Sentence examples for this contemplation from inspiring English sources

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.

This contemplation is a vague, undetermined view of God that inhibits man's interior powers.

And now, from this contemplation of the true God, in whom all the treasures of wisdom and the sciences lie hidden, I think I can see a way forward to the knowledge of other things.

The consonance of feeling that arises from this contemplation gives the facial features of each a distinct, spiritual beauty, reminiscent, especially the faces of the angels, of the more idealistic creations of Hellenistic art.

This contemplation of doomsday (or salvation) — a sleep-deprived mix of baby-photo montages, bloglike soul baring and next-level prognostication — perhaps recreates something akin to an Internet session, circa 2000.

He looked to theosophy, as manifested in Kabbalah: "those religious streams within Judaism," he explained, "which strive to arrive at a religious consciousness beyond intellectual apprehension, and which may be attained by man's delving into himself by means of contemplation, and the inner illumination which results from this contemplation".

Is this beyond contemplation?

This knotty contemplation of amour fou that transcends time and place is a movie for extreme romantics.

This disinterested contemplation and the experiences that arise from it acquaint us, according to Kant, with the ultimate harmony that exists between the world and our faculties.

(Dargis) 'Café de Flore' (No rating, 2 00, in French) Set in contemporary Montreal, this knotty contemplation of amour fou that transcends time and place is a movie for extreme romantics.

As directed by Simon McBurney, this remarkable contemplation of the life of the great, famously troubled Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75) presents darkness as an element that while all-consuming is by no means sterile.