“Therefore the motionlessness which in the state of speechless wonder is no more than an incidental, unintended result of absorption, becomes now the condition and hence the out-standing characteristic of the vita contemplativa. It is not Wonder that overcomes and throws man into motionlessness, but it is through the conscious cessation of activity, the activity of making, that the contemplative state is reached.”

Hannah Arendt,
The Human Condition