You know what I like about a beard? You can always look contemplative. — Joshua Jackson Copy Share Image
“If you watch a contemplative person from afar, you'll start contemplating too!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“The lively is always more contemplative than what is dead and sad.” — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent. — Paul Schullery Copy Share Image
“Contemplative prayer is natural, unprogrammed; it is perpetual openness to God, so that in the openness his concerns can flow in and… — Ray Simpson Copy Share Image
Other forms of relating to God that have unique value in connecting us to Him include contemplative prayer and centering prayer. — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
“No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative act.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon… — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
We become, after the arrival of the printing press in general, more attentive more attuned to contemplative ways of thinking. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
“define Ignatian spirituality in a few words, you could say that it is: Finding God in all things Becoming a contemplative in… — James Martin Copy Share Image
The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When… — Marianne Williamson 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
Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never paid dividends. Never wory about the fellow ahead of you. If you start racing to get… — Ray Bergman Copy Share Image
You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
[William Shawn] took over The Voice and tried to turn it into New York Magazine - very glitzy covers that promised practically… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The bearing, rearing, feeding and educating of children; the running of a house with its thousand details; human relationships with their myriad… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“The fact that the universe is illuminated where you stand—that your thoughts and moods and sensations have a qualitative character in this… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Contemplative love seeks a heroic deed that can be accomplished without delay and in full view of everyone. Indeed, some people are… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“BUT as long as you pretend to live in pure autonomy, as your own master, without even a god to rule you,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Each person comes to have this musical experience, this moment with us, where they get to sink into our world for a… — Gillian Welch Copy Share Image
Sometimes people will think, I need to have pre-sanctioned spiritual joy. Getting joy from my contemplative meditation practice or getting joy from… — Moby Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“The contemplative seeks to be drawn ever more deeply into the circle of divine being, consciousness, and bliss, the circle of God… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“Henrietta, at heart a contemplative person, enjoyed alarums and excursions for a short while only. For her a background of quiet was… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need… — Franz Winkler Copy Share Image
“On the American desert are horses which eat the locoweed and some are driven made by it; their vision is affected, they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables. I thought… — jonathan safran foer Copy Share Image
“Certain vocations, e.g., raising children, offer a perfect setting for living a contemplative life. They provide a desert for reflection, a real… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
“This is why most people do not stick with a contemplative discipline for very long; we have heard all sorts of talk… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“For moderns - for us - there is something illicit, it seems, about wasted time, the empty hours of contemplation when a… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“She’s contemplative; I can feel the air around her thick with her thoughts. “No,” she says at last, “I want to believe… — Jaden Wilkes Copy Share Image
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