Bassist Steve Uccello's Symmetria is filled with cool and unique sounds, textures, and musical ideas, evoking an imagined atmosphere of open spaces… — Bryan Beller Copy Share Image
The onset of this second movement is characterized by the falling away of self and coming upon "that" which remains when it… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her? She cost me almost… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when… — Jeremy Fisher Copy Share Image
When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
In spiritual growth, it is important to avoid imbalances between academic or intellectual learning and practical implementation. Otherwise there is a danger… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
There's something arbitrary about taking a picture. So I can stand at the edge of a highway and take one step forward… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“Anything and everything, depending on how one sees it, is a marvel or a hindrance, an all or a nothing, a path… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Finding God in all things is not an 'empirical eureka.' When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
“Dominic invites us to discover how we can be still and contemplative in this frenetic global village. Otherwise, we shall not be… — OP Donald J. Goergen Copy Share Image
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
What the Net does is shift the emphasis of our intelligence, away from what might be called a meditative or contemplative intelligence… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession… — Eric Frank Russell Copy Share Image
Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative,… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that… — John Green Copy Share Image
Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
You know, Monsieur, that, although the contemplative life is more perfect than the active life, it is not, however, more so than… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
...if we allow ourselves contemplative time in nature-whether it's gardening, going for a walk with the dog, or being in the heart… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk,… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is not a man of The Gut, and it is driving official Washington crazy. This is a good thing, because… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of "memory," not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The highest point reached by contemplative [anschauende] materialism, that is, materialism which does not comprehend sensuousness as practical activity, is the contemplation… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine why my vision will have some value in the world..and yet I know it will..I think I will count… — Gwen John Copy Share Image
As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Most religions have always appreciated the extreme power of concentrated thought directed toward the benefit of others, especially when that person is… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
![“While the accompanimental [sic] figures come from Prelude, the melody is wholly original to this theme. First stated on a lonely duduk, and then in octaves by the violins and violas, it is a melancholy and contemplative tune.” quote by Bear McCreary](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e85/bear-mccreary-4348_contemplative_while-the-accompanimental-sic-figures-co_1908864.jpg)
![“The highest point reached by contemplative [anschauende] materialism, that is, materialism which does not comprehend sensuousness as practical activity, is the contemplation of single individuals and of civil society [bürgerlichen Gesellschaft].” quote by Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cec/karl-marx-399_civil-society_the-highest-point-reached-by-contemplati_2816706.jpg)
