Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“In contemplation lies the seed of peace – in peace lies the seed of morality - in morality lies the seed of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness:… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art… — Sri Chinmoy 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
Divine service, being the high contemplation of the mind, is at the same time, and pre-eminently, the peace, the sweetness and blessedness… — John of Kronstadt 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
Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the contemplation… — Marie-Luise Gothein Copy Share Image
“It was one of those days when I was thinking too much, too fast. Only it was more like the thoughts had… — Sasha Mizaree Copy Share Image
Scientists tell us that we have enough technology to save our planet. . . . Yet we don't take advantage of this… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and… — Steven Clark Rockefeller Copy Share Image
What I really believe is the only hopeful relation between our life and the whole of life is one of reverence and… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after,… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
We must, with God's help, eradicate the deadly poison of the demon of anger from the depths of our souls. So long… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
“SURELY YOU SEE from this that you shouldn’t take your own experience as the rule of thumb by which you judge other… — Carmen Acevedo Butcher Copy Share Image
“Often when he was not working he had come here and sat an entire afternoon, lulled by the din and music from… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
At a certain stage of our progressive attainment, every Initiate undergoes an "Illumination by Sound" in which the Music of the Spheres… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
“…it is certain that there are many things to which our language ascribes meaning indicative of a material substance, where simple contemplation… — Gustav Landauer Copy Share Image
“The painter Kramskoy has a remarkable painting entitled The Contemplator: it depicts a forest in winter, and in the forest, standing all… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“Sri Ramakrishna: "The mind ordinarily moves in the three lower chakras. But if it rises above them and reaches the heart, one… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a… — Jacob K. Javits Copy Share Image
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
It's just as well that I write in the same facile way wherever I am - no blocks or anguish, no contemplation,… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
“Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to… — Paul Winter Copy Share Image
Woman ... is the divine object, violated, endlessly sacrificed yet always reborn, whose only joy, achieved through a subtle interplay of images,… — Anne Desclos Copy Share Image
A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise… — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image
“Being hurried sacrifices the journey for the sake of the goal. But have I stopped to think that achieving the goal is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul… — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
Seek by reading and you will find by meditating. Knock by praying, and it will be opened to you in contemplation. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
