No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“Like all religious evangelists, she realizes that there is little satisfaction in the contemplation of heaven for oneself if one cannot simultaneously… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“[S]torytelling, in ancient and modern practice, is always a contemplation of the experience of time passing. A story depends on things not… — Joan Silber Copy Share Image
Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Contemplative prayer is natural, unprogrammed; it is perpetual openness to God, so that in the openness his concerns can flow in and… — Ray Simpson Copy Share Image
Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics is not enough, nor is love, nor… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“A sort of halo, an occidental glow, came over life then. Troubles and other realities took on themselves a metaphysical impalpability, sinking… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Existence was given us for action, rather than indolent and aimless contemplation; our worth is determined by the good deeds we do,… — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image
Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“To trust the slow work of the sacred is to discover that the ground has always been there. That it was holding… — Ayisha Bhatti Copy Share Image
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Your mind makes you dance like a monkey all the time... Now you have to become stronger; you have to make the… — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
Furthermore, the apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it to know better the eternal truths it… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
To reenchant nature is not merely to gain a new perspective for its integrity and well-being; it is to throw open the… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“objective. This objective is to silence the busy mind, free it from stress, and prepare it for reflection and contemplation.” — Anong Sasithorn Copy Share Image
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Making work for me is being in the world, but it's also being specific about being in the world. I'm interested in… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
“No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I decided years ago that if I'm going to keep teaching contemplation, then the last years of my life should be contemplative. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The score of Pelleas and Melisande by Debussy, heralds that which will lift man from the earthly to the celestial, from the… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
“This objective is to silence the busy mind, free it from stress, and prepare it for reflection and contemplation.” — Anong Sasithorn Copy Share Image
To contemplation's sober eye, Such is the race of man; And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth is a poverty-stricken… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“Here was a thing Beatriz wanted: to devote time to understanding how a butterfly was similar to a galaxy. Here was a… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
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