“Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made regarding what… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror… — Elizabeth Prettejohn Copy Share Image
The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
I know," he said in almost bored contemplation. "My manners suck. I like to chalk it up to a dissatisfying childhood." "I'd… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Zazen is seated meditation-the opposite of contemplation-the emptying of the mind of all thoughts in order simply to be. In the midst… — Huineng Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, the character of Washington is among the most cherished contemplations of my life. It is a fixed star in the firmament… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may become so… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
“Love never comes just a little bit at a time, I thought, as I watched him, absorbed in contemplation of the Virgin.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus,… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“A pleasing paradox — The more frequently we contemplate our death, the less dominant its effect in our lives becomes. Like King… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“In meditation, states of deep focus and concentration are developed, leading to deeper levels of contemplation. With greater peacefulness and heightened awareness,… — Todd Perelmuter Copy Share Image
“I WANT EVERYONE to understand that no book and no doctor is a substitute for one’s own sensitive contemplation and careful observations.… — Sandra Joseph Copy Share Image
“The experience of art is best understood not from the perspective of "reading" or "decoding" but in contemplation and communion, metaphors that… — Daniel A. Siedell Copy Share Image
. . . nothing could touch the strength of my love, and the thoughts of my beloved. Had I known then that… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The dark is a quiet place. Reflection and contemplation are the only things to do in it. Well that, and imagine the… — Tara Brown Copy Share Image
“I cannot begin to say where this belief in Prophecy comes from. The future surely holds the same for us all and… — S.J. Faerlind Copy Share Image
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Be still, and know that I am God," sings the Biblical Psalmist. This simply means that the movement of thoughts and emotions… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“The practice of extending love towards all living creatures brings on ecstatic states of cosmic joy. In this intently concentrated state he… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be supposed… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The great and secret message of the experiential mystics the world over is that, with the eye of contemplation, Spirit can be… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
. . . the upsurge of Spirit is the only plausible way to stop the ecological destruction of our planet. Even people… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
“I believe contemplation shows us that nothing inside us is as bad as our hatred and denial of the bad. Hating and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In daily practice, reflect on the benefits of love, compassion and kindness, then reflect on the disadvantages of anger. Such continuous contemplation,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
There are many beautiful things in the world around us, but pearls can only be discovered in the depths of the sea;… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Whether you feel that your soul is pleased by the conception or contemplation of harmonies, or that your mind is stimulated by… — RosettaBooks Copy Share Image
“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another… — David L. Ulin 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