No person whose entire time is spent in the contemplation of limitation can demonstrate freedom from such limitation. — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Perhaps... these days of less sunlight are opportunities for more contemplative time, more looking deeply to see what can only be seen… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Music can minister to minds diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
“The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“When love has carried us above all things ... we receive in peace the Incomprehensible Light, enfolding us and penetrating us. What… — John of Ruysbroeck Copy Share Image
She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr Copy Share Image
Suddenness," he says. " You do not prepare, you do not explain, you do not apologize. Suddenly, you go. And with you,… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
“you’ve learned to align your consciousness with your inner Watcher and perch there, observing your physical and emotional feelings. Just one step… — Martha N. Beck Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep,… — Thomas Merton 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
... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Whether you teach or live in the cloister or nurse the sick, whether you are in religion or out of it, married… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“They who have received some portion of God’s gift, these, if judged by their deeds, have from death’s bond won their release;… — Muata Ashby Copy Share Image
For what lies inside the human being is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In our inner organism we have an… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely need to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine,… — William Temple Copy Share Image
For what lies inside of man is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In man's inner organism we have an image… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made as to… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in… — Frances Densmore 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
Spirituality lies in regarding existence merely as a vehicle for contemplation, and contemplation merely a vehicle for joy. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
the most deeply moving element in the contemplation of beauty is the element of loss. We desire to hold; but the sunset… — Pamela Hansford Johnson Copy Share Image
“One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
