Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Give me, kind heaven, a private station, a mind serene for contemplation. — John Gay Copy Share Image
I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full. — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
Silence is not always saying yes to anything, it is just a perfect way of thinking what to do next. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we reconstructed human spirituality painstakingly, we would end up with a mangnificent tree whose branches go in so many directions, yet… — Henryk Skolimowski Copy Share Image
“What a contemplation for the mind, and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the human wall!” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather, I am quite content with philosophical contemplation.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sounds are the echo of the "Harmony of the Spheres" which man took into himself when he came down from the divine-spiritual… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
I could say I believe in every drop of rain that . . . Well, I believe life is a Zen koan,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“We have become a nation of thoughtless rushers, intent on doing before thinking , and hoping what we do magically works out.… — Len Holman Copy Share Image
I tell you truly, when we are born, we enter the world with the sound of God in our ears, even the… — Edmond Bordeaux Szekely Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access… — Robert G. Vosper Copy Share Image
“Contemplation, on the contrary, is the experiential grasp of reality as subjective, not so much “mine” (which would signify “belonging to the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“As we have seen, prayer, celebration of the religious offices, alms, consoling the afflicted, the cultivation of a little piece of ground,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It was a good thing, we told ourselves; the eyes grow weary with looking at new things; sleeping late, we said, has… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Everyone of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self..We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The study of letters is the study of the operation of human force, of human freedom and activity; the study of nature… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Dwelling much on the contemplation of little things, [we] are in danger of losing the intellectual appetite.” — L.H. Sigourney Copy Share Image
That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
COMFORT, n. A state of mind produced by contemplation of a neighbor's uneasiness. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Insight comes through relentless contemplation upon the world within and the world without.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and… — Colin Tudge Copy Share Image
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
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