A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation. — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“Mystical experience is given to some. But contemplation is for all Christians.” — Michael Ramsey Copy Share Image
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret. — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy. — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Seek by reading and you will find by meditating. Knock by praying, and it will be opened to you in contemplation. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
You are purer than the pure. Never manifold, you are individual Consciousness. Unborn, unchanging, all-pervasive You are a mountain of joy. — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to… — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The Chautauqua Institution is truly a national treasure. It is a place for contemplation and a place for reflection, a place where… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“[T]he world as described is included in but is not the same as the world as it is. As a way of… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“Has modern society lost a measure of its spiritual awareness because we take so little time to walk? In not allowing ourselves… — amy litzelman Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For we are so preciously loved by God that we cannot even comprehend it. No created being can ever know how much… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
“Gillette--The best a man can get." I stared at the screen. What happened to me? I was meant to be one of… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
The source of inspiration can be any of the things:deep emotional experiences - say, romantic love or spiritual contemplation.I think such rare… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
“Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them:… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The highest form of praise you can offer to yourself, to God and to the world is to spend time each day… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“There is a 'movement' of meditation, expressing the basic 'paschal' rhythm of the Christian life, the passage from death to life in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Emotions are given to us by God, so that we can fully experience our experiences. The only problem with emotions is that… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it. — William Golding Copy Share Image
Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life. — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death.” — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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