But active programming consists of the design of new programs rather than contemplation of old programs.

I discovered that the horse is life itself a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability of life's generosity and beauty a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty the contemplation of mystery or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity gizmos eating hanging out things that make noise - all are now the norm often edging out much else.

If we know the divine art of concentration if we know the divine art of meditation if we know the divine art of contemplation easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.