“Maybe the point of life (and youth, once it was over), was to elevate yourself, through time and reflection, into something worthy… — Matthew Gallaway Copy Share Image
“The mind travels more freely on this limitless expanse, the contemplation of which elevates the soul, gives ideas of the infinite, the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images,… — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
“Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to… — Paul Winter Copy Share Image
“Being hurried sacrifices the journey for the sake of the goal. But have I stopped to think that achieving the goal is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nature is seen by humans through a screen of beliefs, knowledge, and purposes, and it is in terms of their images of… — Roy Rappaport Copy Share Image
What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Prayer and contemplation are both exercises in concentration. The normal deluge of conscious thought is restricted and the mind is brought to… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each other and… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is the cause for pleasure and for pain: But music moves us, and we know not why? We feel the tears,… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“Often when he was not working he had come here and sat an entire afternoon, lulled by the din and music from… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
At a certain stage of our progressive attainment, every Initiate undergoes an "Illumination by Sound" in which the Music of the Spheres… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
“The painter Kramskoy has a remarkable painting entitled The Contemplator: it depicts a forest in winter, and in the forest, standing all… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“…it is certain that there are many things to which our language ascribes meaning indicative of a material substance, where simple contemplation… — Gustav Landauer Copy Share Image
When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“I lead a life much below my level. Beyond the books, which trickle in slowly (I have to read what I can… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after,… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
We must, with God's help, eradicate the deadly poison of the demon of anger from the depths of our souls. So long… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise… — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image
In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul… — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness:… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“Sri Ramakrishna: "The mind ordinarily moves in the three lower chakras. But if it rises above them and reaches the heart, one… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Divine service, being the high contemplation of the mind, is at the same time, and pre-eminently, the peace, the sweetness and blessedness… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation,… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a… — Jacob K. Javits Copy Share Image
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the… — Isaac Watts 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
