“The practice of extending love towards all living creatures brings on ecstatic states of cosmic joy. In this intently concentrated state he… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we find… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The wider our contemplation of creation, the grander is our conception of God. — Cyril of Jerusalem Copy Share Image
Meditate nothing. Learn to contemplate. Contemplate glory. There will be a light. Contemplate Truth until it burns your eyes out. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
“It was one of those days when I was thinking too much, too fast. Only it was more like the thoughts had… — Sasha Mizaree Copy Share Image
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
I can recommend nothing better... than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I think you need to have the guts to not use comedy. Often, the people that work in comedy use a joke… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Prayer and contemplation are both exercises in concentration. The normal deluge of conscious thought is restricted and the mind is brought to… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
“There is a 'movement' of meditation, expressing the basic 'paschal' rhythm of the Christian life, the passage from death to life in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in… — Henryk Skolimowski Copy Share Image
I tell you truly, when we are born, we enter the world with the sound of God in our ears, even the… — Edmond Bordeaux Szekely Copy Share Image
Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
