Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Ill health is also a blessing. The flesh and the ego are weakened and contemplation of God becomes easier. — Yogaswami Copy Share Image
Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Be open to GOD’s graces, and live your life as a hymn of praise to our Creator.” — Pamela Mandela Idenya Copy Share Image
The world should contemplate a nuclear weapons-armed Iran with the greatest of concern. — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees... Strangers are like friends — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
The magic of "Musical Medicine" will come into its own. The application of such healing potencies will not be limited just to… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the… — William Penn Copy Share Image
It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation,… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Of the twenty-four hours a day, Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep and six… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation… — Ambrose 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
“What more could he need, this old man whose little leisure was divided between day-time gardening and night-time contemplation? Was not that… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of… — Bertrand Russell 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
“Another aspect inviting contemplation is the fact that the affective tone of any feeling depends on the type of contact that has… — Anālayo Copy Share Image
Meditation is object-less. If you use any object, then it is not meditation; it becomes thinking. It becomes contemplation; it becomes reflection,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“This is why most people do not stick with a contemplative discipline for very long; we have heard all sorts of talk… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“In my opinion, it was chiefly owing to their deep contemplation in their silent retreats in the days of youth that the… — Francis Assikinack Copy Share Image
For 2,000 years, the Church has been the cradle in which Mary places Jesus and entrusts Him to the adoration and contemplation… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
“Such a view of the divine will drives human weakness to despair and one wonders if it is not, itself, often the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
