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
...man is a musical being. His origin is in the spoken Word. By sound was he sustained and by music he evolved.… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
When like the patriarchs we learn to dig wells of virtue and spiritual knowledge within ourselves by means of ascetic practice and… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die a man. The bed of death brings… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image
Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows… — Honore de Balzac 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
Catholicism is the big house of Christianity. It's got many, many rooms in it. And I've always been attracted to the rooms… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Perhaps... these days of less sunlight are opportunities for more contemplative time, more looking deeply to see what can only be seen… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign… — David Hume Copy Share Image
For what lies inside of man is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In man's inner organism we have an image… — Rudolf Steiner 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
In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
