In the Buddhist learning process, we say three stages. The first is hearing, the second is contemplation, and the third is meditation. — Lobsang Tenzin Copy Share Image
If you learn music, you'll learn history. If you learn music, you'll learn mathematics. If you learn music, you'll learn most all… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
“Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that remembrance will give you the freedom.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else,… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only… — Immanuel Hermann Fichte Copy Share Image
What is high birth to him to whom high birth has never been the theme of his contemplation? What is a throne… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
“If you cannot recollect yourself continuously, do so once a day at least, in the morning or in the evening. In the… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific enquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Nature is seen by humans through a screen of beliefs, knowledge, and purposes, and it is in terms of their images of… — Roy Rappaport Copy Share Image
“Earthly contemplation means to the Christian, we have said, this above all: that behind all that we directly encounter the Face of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“Silence is not always complacency. It is contemplation and forethought taking place in the minds of those who would be careful with… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Eternity is with us, inviting our contemplation perpetually, but we are too frightened, lazy, and suspicious to respond; too arrogant to still… — evelyn underhill Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
“The unknown is a stone in the sea, which obstructs our progress. We can try to pack dynamite in the crevices of… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge… — Max Born Copy Share Image
A Seed for Contemplation: Creative people who cherish the gift of life often slip into the secret chambers of the creative mind.… — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Yes, we have abolished the distance that artistic contemplation necessarily requires. So what is left? Love plus anatomy are left.” — Michel Tournier Copy Share Image
“The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel… — Nikos Kazantzakis 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
We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who are so removed from the world that… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. — Midge Decter Copy Share Image
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
Reflection is the process of stepping back from an experience to ponder, carefully and persistently, it's meaning to the self through the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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