A contemplative life has more the appearance of a life of piety than any other; but it is the divine plan to… — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
Science is a contemplative possession of reality through exclusion of all illusion, error and ignorance. — Georges Canguilhem Copy Share Image
“Perhaps... these days of less sunlight are opportunities for more contemplative time, more looking deeply to see what can only be seen… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“I think anything like that- which is contemplative, silent, shows a person alone- people always feel sad. Is it because we've lost… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
“Life is a deep and contemplative story stuck on repeat. love, loss, self-destruction, self-discovery” — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality. — Tilden Edwards Copy Share Image
“everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive. The boy keeps me alive, he… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Contemplative practices have a way of gracefully gerrymandering the borders that once rigidly defined self and other.” — Kyle Parton Copy Share Image
A lot of people do their practice. They meditate on compassion. Then they yell at people afterwards. That is not quite working.… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“Developing the cognitive control that leads to a more contemplative Christian life is the key to living as free men and women… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a contemplative side. Each person has the possibility for the sacred and to bring what he does in his daily… — Mother Noella Marcellino Copy Share Image
Meditation is a good starting point, or even a little bit of contemplative reflection, asking questions like: Who am I without my… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
“The contemplative life remains freely available to us through our choices—what we read and buy, how we commit to leisure and self-improvement,… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
I just think of interesting roles to play. I guess that I have matured, I guess growing up and becoming a man,… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
“I wonder if I am not turning into a contemplative . . . But those roses . They were something else. I… — Muriel Barbery 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
Prayer is nothing but that complete surrender, complete oneness with Christ. And this is what makes us contemplative in the heart of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Everything he wrote aims at awakening others to the contemplative dimension in themselves. His contemplative theology-as well as his entire theological "system"-emphasizes… — Wayne Teasdale Copy Share Image
No one's quite figured out how to make the images come to the viewer. I guess if they put it on a… — David Salle Copy Share Image
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
“Contemplative prayer is not so much a type of prayer as something that should be a component of all prayer. It is… — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
“A serene mind does not require precepts. An upright behaviour does not need contemplative practice. 心平何勞持戒 行直何用修禪 Filial piety is gratefully taking care… — Linbergh Chu Copy Share Image
“We lose, again and again, the present moment — which is not a poetic concept but the literal location of everything that… — Ayisha Bhatti Copy Share Image
“Tiny Titans: A Haiku Ants toil with intent, Embrace chores they loathe and love, Unified spirits.” — Amogh Swamy Copy Share Image
“Writing, an expression of freedom, is an unobtrusive reflection of a contemplative soul.” — Rian Nejar Copy Share Image
“...I am better Thoughtful Prince than King. Potential holds appeal since in its castle walls One is protected from the awful shame… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
“Det va bra dokker kom. Æ satt just her og tænkte på om ho Hilvarda huska på å læmpe ut monsen før… — Arthur Arntzen Copy Share Image
The book is the book and it will always be there. It's a quiet ending. In the book it's a contemplative ending… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
“The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Inevitably, there will be many aspects of culture that would benefit from a more reflective or contemplative approach to them. — Maryanne Wolf Copy Share Image
Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine. — Barbara Kolb Copy Share Image
We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“How could men get fat by being bad and starve by being good? I thought and thought about my vision, and it… — John G Neihardt Copy Share Image
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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