We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
In the etheric body are centered the forces animating man's physical vehicle, so disease is evidenced in the etheric before it manifests… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity - those… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
I do a lot of reflection. I do. I spend a lot of time in reflection and contemplation. I guess the way… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I finished my cigarette, but i would like very much that i finished myself with it.” — Mladen Đorđević Copy Share Image
So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal… — Boethius Copy Share Image
It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays waste his powers. Work… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blessed, beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed. — John Mason Neale Copy Share Image
In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the… — Robin G. Collingwood 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
To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not… — George Spencer-Brown Copy Share Image
For what lies inside the human being is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In our inner organism we have an… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation. — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
