Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to… — Hazrat Inayat Khan 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
The source of inspiration can be any of the things:deep emotional experiences - say, romantic love or spiritual contemplation.I think such rare… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness. — Hakuin Ekaku Copy Share Image
But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Animists are people who recognize that the world is full of persons, only some of whom are human, and that life is… — Graham Harvey Copy Share Image
I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
We have within us the power to uplift ourselves. This power is our own awareness. — Shankarananda Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Both our present science and our present technology are so tinctured with orthodox Christian arrogance toward nature that no solution for our… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr Copy Share Image
He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Egoism will be destroyed, if you constantly tell yourself, 'It is He, not I','He is the force, I am but the instrument'.… — Sathya Sai Baba 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
We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Earthly contemplation means to the Christian, we have said, this above all: that behind all that we directly encounter the Face of… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“The painter Kramskoy has a remarkable painting entitled The Contemplator: it depicts a forest in winter, and in the forest, standing all… — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
“He sees the truth as with a jolt. There it is, within his own being, lying deep down but still in his… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Recitation of the Qur'an without contemplation and thought is futile. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
