There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it. — William Golding Copy Share Image
I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy. — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret. — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
“us. The good of contemplation is contemplation—not some result that it may bring.” — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
“Meditation is a universal practice, and our breath is a universal language.” — Heidi M. Morrison (Heidi Morrison Teachings Copy Share Image
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We have within us the power to uplift ourselves. This power is our own awareness. — Shankarananda Copy Share Image
I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted,… — Stuart Pearson Wright Copy Share Image
Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
O admirable necessity! O powerful action! What mind can penetrate your nature? What language can express this marvel? None, to be sure.… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“It was pretty absurd travelling up through Peru to arrive in Iquitos, hoping to find an expedition! Life does not work like… — Gordon Roddick Copy Share Image
While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
As I started to find my voice in photography, I became more interested in making the photograph a space of contemplation and… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
If contemplation of other people's pain just increases distress, then I think we should see it in another way. If we don't… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
The happy man needs nothing and no one. Not that he holds himself aloof, for indeed he is in harmony with everything… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
When we are clear enough about our own point of view, we can find help in the methods of Eastern Christianity or… — Morton T. Kelsey Copy Share Image
Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
A Christian receives divine wisdom in three ways: by the commandments, teachings, and faith. The commandments free the mind from passions. Teachings… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“The Surangama Sutra chooses, as the best meditation method for the present historic cycle, the one used by Avalokitesvara. It disengages bodily… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth… — John Stokes Copy Share Image
“Dagger of Love: Long and Distant Memories) c. 2016 The dagger of love sticks deep in me, Of loves lost; waves of… — Douglas Laurent Copy Share Image
“Although contemplating the nature of the body highlights its less attractive features, the purpose of the exercise is not to demonize the… — Anālayo Copy Share Image
“[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Magic is a faculty of wonderful virtue, full of most high mysteries, containing the most profound contemplation of most secret things, together… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
“The Orphic symbols center on the singing god who lives to defeat death and who liberates nature, so that the constrained and… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Realizing your goal, resolution, or transformation is a journey. Change, like any meaningful endeavor, proceeds sequentially through steps. The journey begins with… — John C. Norcross Copy Share Image
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