“If you watch a contemplative person from afar, you'll start contemplating too!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
We benefit, intellectually and personally, from the interplay between different selves, from the balance between long-term contemplation and short-term impulse. We should… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“So if the ultimate felicity of man does not consist in external things which are called the goods of fortune, nor in… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action. — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
Your mind makes you dance like a monkey all the time... Now you have to become stronger; you have to make the… — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
“If we do not protect the quiet around us, there will always be noise within us.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition… — Midge Decter Copy Share Image
Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. [Fr., La vraie science et le vrai etude de l'homme c'est… — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after,… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
What it does remind us is that 'God' is not to be separated from the quest for the Kingdom of God and… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears. — Confucius Copy Share Image
At a certain stage of our progressive attainment, every Initiate undergoes an "Illumination by Sound" in which the Music of the Spheres… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
We're certainly not perfect, and we're not probably even better than anybody else, except that perhaps we are given to certain kinds… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
When I make my work, I am making what I hope to be something functional - a space for individual contemplation and… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific enquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
