“Spirituality will take you like love; it seduces you from contemplation to completeness.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
In the woods I find things that are spiritual, redemptive, and worthy of contemplation. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
“Contemplation over action teaches that it is better to behold God than to try and imitate his power.” — Daniel Schwindt 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
“There is no control and no all-powerful creator, either – no more ‘God’ than man – but there is care, scruple, cautiousness,… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
“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
There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
As we continue to become a society of tweets, shorter and shorter messages, there's great value in the contemplation and reflection that… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“First, it has been charged with inviting people to remain in a kind of desperate quietism because, since no solutions are possible,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
You have got me walking up and down all day under those trees, saying to me over and over again, "Solitude, solitude."… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Contemplation, sadly, helps you see your woundedness! That’s why most people do not stay long with contemplative prayer, because it’s not very… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“SURELY YOU SEE from this that you shouldn’t take your own experience as the rule of thumb by which you judge other… — Carmen Acevedo Butcher 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
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 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
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
“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
