I cite it for what it is worth and because that is how, in a state of pure contemplation, I reacted to the Lyric Suite.

Alas, this Paradise of cleansed perception, of pure one-sided contemplation, was not to endure.

Thus Pythagoras suggests that the highest purification of a life is in pure contemplation.

And when the public is kept off the lawn's great, grassy oval, it becomes a thing of pure contemplation, just like the newly visible reservoir.

Aesthetic value for him is fitness to please as object of pure contemplation.

But an exquisite combination of sculptural form, color, surface and craftsmanship elevates each to a transcendental realm of pure aesthetic contemplation.

And Origen, as you recall, struck off the offending member, and returned to purer contemplations, undisturbed.' '

In other words, the happiest life consisted of the pure contemplation of truth just like Aristotle's!

I knew the purest contemplation, the release of physical boundaries, the brotherhood with all the universe.

He was, in fact, engaged in living a life of pure contemplation in conditions that were comfortable and yet sufficiently ascetic.