“Contemplation does not rest until it has found the object which dazzles it.” — Konrad Weiss Copy Share Image
“If we do not protect the quiet around us, there will always be noise within us.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
“Universe is an empty mirror. Life is just the reflection of your deep thoughts.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
The wider our contemplation of creation, the grander is our conception of God. — Cyril of Jerusalem Copy Share Image
“We enter into paradise when, in contemplation, we enter into awareness of the Overself.” — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order,… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here. — Gunilla Brodde Norris 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
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
. . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large… — Catherine L. Albanese Copy Share Image
I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through æther,… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
“1. Do all meditation work with open eyes, with the Buddhic smile. 2. Keep attention inside on the No-thought state and refrain… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things ... either… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“Just as faith teaches us that the sovereign felicity of the other life consists in the contemplation of the divine majesty alone,… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child's face, in the midst of the toils and troubles of everyday life,… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Everything is taken away from him; he is nothing and has nothing; yet he still feels one thing which utterly compensates for… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Contemplation is a very dangerous activity. It not only brings us face to face with God. It brings us, as well, face… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Controlling the position of one's body and keeping a straight back are not contemplation, but can in fact become an obstacle to… — Anonymous 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