We have within us the power to uplift ourselves. This power is our own awareness. — Shankarananda Copy Share Image
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“us. The good of contemplation is contemplation—not some result that it may bring.” — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Meditation is a universal practice, and our breath is a universal language.” — Heidi M. Morrison (Heidi Morrison Teachings Copy Share Image
The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern. — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
“Be open to GOD’s graces, and live your life as a hymn of praise to our Creator.” — Pamela Mandela Idenya Copy Share Image
It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The world we have created does not encourage or promote leave-of-absences. It does not promote deep contemplation, especially the type with no… — Jane Meredith Copy Share Image
It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
For what lies inside the human being is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In our inner organism we have an… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The language of cinema as it has evolved has also excluded vast swathes of human experience. The forms we find in the… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the sleepers in a night of delution beholding so many dreams. In this world of darkness, only those who sever themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal… — Boethius Copy Share Image
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is… — George Will Copy Share Image
Catholicism is the big house of Christianity. It's got many, many rooms in it. And I've always been attracted to the rooms… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The power of quiet is great. It generates the same feelings in everything one encounters. It vibrates with the cosmic rhythm of… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
“Spiritual reading, discursive meditation, and prayer prepare our hearts for contemplation. Contemplation is a state of realized oneness with God. When engaged… — James Finley Copy Share Image
“However, the enormous superiority of contemplation over activity of any kind, action not excluded, is not Christian in origin. We find it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Ill health is also a blessing. The flesh and the ego are weakened and contemplation of God becomes easier. — Yogaswami Copy Share Image
Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
It is wise to consider a matter carefully before jumping in carelessly. — Nabil Jamal Copy Share Image
In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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