“Just like two pieces of wood can be rubbed together to produce fire and the same fire later consumes them both, intellect… — Om Swami Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Since I was introduced to the practice of God's presence, which in turn led me into the contemplative way, I have nearly… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
They were creating a program on contemplative prayer called Be Still. They asked me to be a part of this project that… — Priscilla Shirer Copy Share Image
The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
“Therefore the activity of God, which surpasses all others in blessedness, must be contemplative; and of human activities, therefore, that which is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
So in this case, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Attention is riveted on what is tangible, useful, instantly available; the stimulus for deeper thought and reflection may be lacking. Yet human… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We live in a cluttered culture, a culture of information in which even our computers can't tell us what's worth knowing and… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Inspirational Psychology includes the practical application of identifying the thoughts and mistaken beliefs that cause us pain, along with a contemplative practice… — Lee L Jampolsky Copy Share Image
“The dog appeals to cheap and facile emotions; the cat to the deepest founts of imagination and cosmic perception in the human… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are… — Jenni Olson Copy Share Image
“A life of feminine submission, of 'contemplative purity,' is a life of silence, a life that has no pen and no story,… — Sandra M. Gilbert Susan Gubar Copy Share Image
A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to… — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I like to think of the landscape not as a fixed place but as a path that is unwinding before my eyes,… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some former occasions, have entered… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says it's because of finding balance between work,… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
“We do not come to ‘know’ an entity theoretically through contemplative knowledge in the first instance. As we have already seen, we… — Barbara Bolt Copy Share Image
To Time it never seems that he is brave To set himself against the peaks of snow To lay them level with… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To make films, you have to have boundless energy; you have to work and play with others really, really well, and I'm… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
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