The power of quiet is great. It generates the same feelings in everything one encounters. It vibrates with the cosmic rhythm of… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
You are purer than the pure. Never manifold, you are individual Consciousness. Unborn, unchanging, all-pervasive You are a mountain of joy. — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the… — Aldous Huxley 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
“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
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion. — Liberty Hyde Bailey Copy Share Image
It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put… — Jeanette Winterson 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
Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research… — Abhinavagupta Copy Share Image
My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here. — Gunilla Brodde Norris 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
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
“Be still, and know that I am God," sings the Biblical Psalmist. This simply means that the movement of thoughts and emotions… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy. — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
People say that the soul, on hearing the song of creation, entered the body, but in reality the soul itself was the… — Hafez Copy Share Image
I practice Buddhist philosophy and contemplation but I don't know if I'm more of anything. — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image