All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“This is a pale reflection of a deeper truth: that the One who created us holds us with a constancy that does… — Ayisha Bhatti Copy Share Image
Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte 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
Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation. — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
By harmony all phenomena are formed and sustained. There is a scientific statement to the effect that this earth is a vast… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
Are you saying you don't love me?" Hazael asked Liraz. "Because I love you. I think." He paused in contemplation. "Oh. No.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life. — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature. — Irenaeus of Lyons Copy Share Image
“There comes a stage, whether in meditation or in the ordinary daily experience of life, at which he has to cross over… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There are many beautiful things in the world around us, but pearls can only be discovered in the depths of the sea;… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Ancient tradition always depicts a true Chinese musician as blind. Esoterically, this implies that his gift of the divine art is so… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The birds are the saints, who fly to heaven on the wings of contemplation, who are so removed from the world that… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full. — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
