Philosophy sees a wide field for meditation open before it; it anticipates the probable future of religious communities; it may make conjectures on the influence which is reserved for them in society for the future.
The train of business, and the late turn which it had taken, had led him, he said, into deepmeditation on it, and he would candidly state the result.
The locomotive rushed along with rapid piston-beat, making a strange accompaniment to the meditation of the silent passenger.
Do you think," Eric broke in, "that a better result would come from a consultation of many, than from the quiet meditation of a single person?
After devoting herself for some time to meditation and prayer, she began a letter to the Superior.
Eric replied with great decision, that we must allow the deed resolved upon in meditation to come into the cold sharp air of the critical understanding.
And his meditation proceeded farther; for to the historical view of poverty there was added a consideration of its essential nature.
There are words which become poles of thought in the meditation of the lonely.
Meditation must, then, be the cause of devotion inasmuch as it is from meditation that a man conceives the idea of giving himself up to God.
Cajetan: Note these two intrinsic causes of devotion: one, namely, which arises from meditation upon God and His benefits, the other from meditationon our own defects.
In meditation on the Passion of Christ there is food for sadness--viz.
Some, however, argue that contemplation or meditation is not the cause of devotion, thus: 1.
But the intrinsic cause of devotion on our part is meditation or contemplation.
For it frequently happens that greater devotion is aroused by the contemplation of the Passion of Christ and of the other mysteries of His Sacred Humanity than by meditation upon the Divine excellences.
Lastly, prayer, reading, and meditation seem to belong to the contemplative life.
II The solemn stillness, the almost noiseless motion of the boat, the livid shades surrounding the place, all contributed to the mood of pensiveness andmeditation which was rapidly stealing upon them.
Man was made to Mourn'" takes the part of the humble and the homeless, against the coldness and selfishness of the wealthy and the powerful, a favourite topic of meditation with Burns.
Haste me to know it; that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge!
Lastly: that the period of invention and meditation be considered at an end; and that sleep on Mr. Cripps's part be regarded as an acknowledgment that meals are over for the day.
Here, with the Psalmist, I could say, 'How love I thy law; it is my meditation all the day.
Leaving company almost entirely, and not going into society except on certain occasions, to please my friends or escape reproach, I gave myself up to solitary meditation and to the inward and undefined strivings of my being.
A moment's meditation on the doctor's part, to judge by his face, was delectable.
When he ceased, the man at the net dropped his eyes for a moment, a curious look of meditation covering his face.
My meditation over, I left the milestone and proceeded on my way in the same direction as before until the night began to close in.
But I regard such a practice of meditation as he indicates as being rather an "advanced" exercise for a beginner.
So you say to yourselves: "Here is a man in a penny weekly paper advocating daily meditation upon the immortality of the soul as a cure for discontent and unhappiness!
Meditation (I speak only for myself) is the least dispensable of the day's doings.
The latter was seated in sorrowful meditation in the cabin.
Human meditation has no limits; at its own risk and peril it analyzes and produces its own bedazzlement; we might almost say that, through a species of splendid reaction, it dazzles nature with it.
Any one who had seen him while he was accomplishing these various acts, with which such grave meditation was mingled, would not have suspected what was taking place in him.
Deep meditation and rapt ecstasy are perhaps the undeveloped germs of catalepsy," he said in conclusion.
Silence and meditation are efficacious means of entering on this road; God always reveals Himself to the solitary and contemplative man.
He remembered with equal exactitude the ideas he had derived from reading, and those which had occurred to him in the course of meditation or conversation.
This state of rapt meditation often came upon him since his wife's death; he had been attached to her with the truest and most faithful affection.
Christophe, who knew not what to make of his transfer, had time enough for meditation on his behavior and on his future prospects.
One awakens, too, next morning, with, so to say, a very pleasant taste of meditation in the mouth.
Meditation is the digestion of the mind, but we allow ourselves no time for meditation.
Twice his lips parted to utter some decent remark, but after long meditation he could only say this: "Yes, he was certainly fond of me.
