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
One form of prayer moves us particularly to take up the task of evangelization and to seek the good of others: it… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without… — Norman Cousins 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
Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkness above them,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The disciplines of prayer, silence, and contemplation as practiced by the monastics and mystics are precisely that - stopping the noise, slowing… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
We are whirling through endless space with an inconceivable speed, all around us everything is spinning, everything is moving, everywhere is energy.… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
The famous Greek physician Hippocrates administered musical treatments to his patients in 400 B.C. Although this type of treatment did not originate… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception.… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results.… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I could say I believe in every drop of rain that . . . Well, I believe life is a Zen koan,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Being hurried sacrifices the journey for the sake of the goal. But have I stopped to think that achieving the goal is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough 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
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
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action. — James Harrington 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
“Our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence...And I feel that we need a lot… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
