“If we do not protect the quiet around us, there will always be noise within us.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it. — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
“My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Spirituality will take you like love; it seduces you from contemplation to completeness.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
The position of the planetary bodies at the moment of birth is a musical score done in planetary symbols of the heavenly… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
By harmony all phenomena are formed and sustained. There is a scientific statement to the effect that this earth is a vast… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
“Mescalin opens up the way of Mary, but shuts the door on that Martha. It gives access to contemplation - but to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh...the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I’m online or not, my… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don’t help our children… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
“This false “faith” which is what we often live by and which we even come to confuse with our “religion” is subjected… — Thomas Merton 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
There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“There is indeed in the contemplation of beauty of any kind, something which detaches us from ourselves by making us feel that… — Benjamin Constant 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 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
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 enter into paradise when, in contemplation, we enter into awareness of the Overself.” — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
In the woods I find things that are spiritual, redemptive, and worthy of contemplation. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature. — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
“Contemplation over action teaches that it is better to behold God than to try and imitate his power.” — Daniel Schwindt Copy Share Image
