The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds,… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation. — David Malpass Copy Share Image
From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
“Then they fell from a joyous life in the moment into the anxious contemplation of the vanished past and the distant future.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“The mind travels more freely on this limitless expanse, the contemplation of which elevates the soul, gives ideas of the infinite, the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Maybe the point of life (and youth, once it was over), was to elevate yourself, through time and reflection, into something worthy… — Matthew Gallaway Copy Share Image
Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
I cleanse the windows of my mind, that it may become a mirror reflecting inspiration from the most High. I do this,… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Hate engenders hate. Hate spreads to nations, and from this cause we have devastating wars. In the contemplation of these wars and… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
“My only stake was the hook I shot in the moon, trying to capture stardom on my way to heaven. Without bravado.… — Juliet Castle Copy Share Image
The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the… — Baldassare Castiglione Copy Share Image
There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
“Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child's face, in the midst of the toils and troubles of everyday life,… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“Today we will practice the mindful contemplation of an image. You may select whatever image you would like to look at, something… — Alexis G. Roldan Copy Share Image
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge… — Kate Chopin 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
Controlling the position of one's body and keeping a straight back are not contemplation, but can in fact become an obstacle to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Contemplation is a very dangerous activity. It not only brings us face to face with God. It brings us, as well, face… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“Everything is taken away from him; he is nothing and has nothing; yet he still feels one thing which utterly compensates for… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
“There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of the Divinity. It is a subject so vast, that all… — J.I. Packer Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is best to step back and observe the situation from outside. Renouncing action does not mean defeat it is a… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“Contemplation is a roadmap to doubt. Mom calls me impulsive. I like to think i'm intuitive. If you think about something...anything...long enough,… — Brooklyn James Copy Share Image
Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing… — David Shields Copy Share Image
“Don't waste life inflating your ego with elitist armchair analysis like some overfed aristocratic twit, you have circuits to break.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation. — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Self-recognition, the self-contemplation of spirit is the primary movement out of which all creativeness proceeds. — Paul Twitchell Copy Share Image
[To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and… — Anthony John Patrick Kenny Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
I'm not very religious, but having reached middle age I rather enjoy the quiet and the contemplation of spending an hour in… — Alexander Armstrong Copy Share Image
“So contemplation – regular practices of spirituality – is necessary both to have a product to deliver and to have the energy… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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