He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
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“To paint an image and to write a poem, is to reclaim the dignity and personal joy...it is an invitation for my… — Reclaiming my Life Isabella Koldras Copy Share Image
There is a great deal too much in the world, of the "heavenly-mindedness" which expends itself in the contemplation of the joys… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I believe that from the earth emerges a musical poetry that is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is… — George Will Copy Share Image
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Never allow any unnecessary or vain thought to occupy your mind. This is more easily said than done. You cannot make your… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
When we become incorruptible and immortal, and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
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All the sleepers in a night of delution beholding so many dreams. In this world of darkness, only those who sever themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
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The language of cinema as it has evolved has also excluded vast swathes of human experience. The forms we find in the… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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If you expound the teaching of the Logos from the standpoint of the moral life, using materialistic words and examples which correspond… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
You choose to shine with the light of your own divinity, or you hide it with the shadows you create in your… — Nirmalananda Copy Share Image
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Ancient tradition always depicts a true Chinese musician as blind. Esoterically, this implies that his gift of the divine art is so… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
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To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
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A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific inquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
I felt so liberated when I first saw Charles Mee’s 'The Glory of the World' at BAM play, because for me this… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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