True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve. — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
“Except for shukladhyan (contemplation as the Self, Pure Soul), engrossed involvement in any other forms of dhyan (contemplation), gives rise to the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Are you saying you don't love me?" Hazael asked Liraz. "Because I love you. I think." He paused in contemplation. "Oh. No.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
“When the mind enters into this imageless and thoughtless state, there is nothing in it to resist the union with divine consciousness.” — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Geology, perhaps more than any other department of natural philosophy, is a science of contemplation. It requires no experience or complicated apparatus,… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“Love never comes just a little bit at a time, I thought, as I watched him, absorbed in contemplation of the Virgin.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may become so… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
“In meditation, states of deep focus and concentration are developed, leading to deeper levels of contemplation. With greater peacefulness and heightened awareness,… — Todd Perelmuter Copy Share Image
“A pleasing paradox — The more frequently we contemplate our death, the less dominant its effect in our lives becomes. Like King… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
“... You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
How you see yourself is a mirror into how you view other people, and that predicts your outcome of your luck with… — Gayla Leach Copy Share Image
We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
“If we hope to move beyond the superficialities of our culture, including our religious culture, we must be willing to go down… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic… — Plato Copy Share Image
To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“. . . you must not build upon foundations of prayer and contemplation alone, for, unless you strive after the virtues and… — Teresa of Ávila Copy Share Image
“Why did we have to do terrible things to get what we needed? When all of this bloodshed and heartache and resentment… — Kailey Bright 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 think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order,… — Nadia Boulanger Copy Share Image
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
“Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“There is no control and no all-powerful creator, either – no more ‘God’ than man – but there is care, scruple, cautiousness,… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made regarding what… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror… — Elizabeth Prettejohn Copy Share Image
The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In the world of thought, there is no truth. Everything is relative, contextual, subject to more and more analysis. — Kumar Anupam Copy Share Image
When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
