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In an age of sound bites, contemplation is becoming a lost art. Attention spans grow shorter and the soul suffers. To contemplate, as defined by Webster, is “to look at with continued attention, to meditate on.” It comes from the root contemplari, which means “to mark out a temple” (con, “with”; templum, “temple”) or “to gaze attentively.”