A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied. — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Copy Share Image
I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything. — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“Many solemn nights Blond moon, we stand and marvel... Sleeping our noons away” — Teitoku Copy Share Image
“No reprimand in the mirror Slow walk to Liberia Slow dance across the Sahara Slow unraveling of gray matter” — Mellon Black Copy Share Image
Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“objective. This objective is to silence the busy mind, free it from stress, and prepare it for reflection and contemplation.” — Anong Sasithorn Copy Share Image
The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro… — Ovid Copy Share Image
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
“Here was a thing Beatriz wanted: to devote time to understanding how a butterfly was similar to a galaxy. Here was a… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind,… — Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr Copy Share Image
The Medicine Man occupied the honored role of priest and physician to his tribe. They understood that healing was done by the… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The disciplines of prayer, silence, and contemplation as practiced by the monastics and mystics are precisely that - stopping the noise, slowing… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind.… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
The bud, though plucked, would not be withered, only transplanted to a fitter soil to ripen and blow beneath a brighter sun;… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Through humility, soul-searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We are whirling through endless space with an inconceivable speed, all around us everything is spinning, everything is moving, everywhere is energy.… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“We ought to consider not only that our life is daily wasting away and a smaller part of it is left, but… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“The world suddenly vanished from view like a morning mist. I was left alone with Reality.” — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation. — John Milton Copy Share Image
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
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