It is wise to consider a matter carefully before jumping in carelessly. — Nabil Jamal Copy Share Image
“If you watch a contemplative person from afar, you'll start contemplating too!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe. — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
It gradually became clear that the Green Belt Movement's work with communities to repair the degraded environment could not be done effectively… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
Spend more time in daily reflection, contemplation and meditation. Had I done that at 20, things would have been very different in… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results.… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The mess that's emerging...at least reflects the truth of my experience, the fact that every contemplation is interrupted, and that every interruption… — Edward St. Aubyn 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
At spare moments in the day, make it a point to contemplate the loss of whatever you value in life. Engaging in… — William Braxton Irvine Copy Share Image
To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not… — George Spencer-Brown Copy Share Image
Watchfulness is the path of immortality: Unwatchfulness is the path of death. Those who are watchful never die: Those who do not… — Juan Mascaro Copy Share Image
Mystics knew how to channel grace through prayer and they knew the power of that. They knew how to receive guidance through… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“This world has a higher meaning that transcends its worries, or nothing is true but those worries. One must live with time… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He… — Victor Hugo 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
In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
