Contemplation within activity is a million times better than contemplation within stillness. — Hakuin Ekaku Copy Share Image
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense? — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Copy Share Image
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation. — John of the Cross 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
The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation. — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“Mystical experience is given to some. But contemplation is for all Christians.” — Michael Ramsey Copy Share Image
This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“This would have once been a place for contemplation. He looked up at the towers surrounding him. Many of the dead bodies… — Rupert Thomson Copy Share Image
We want a state wise in its contemplation - just in its actions - and moderate in the reach of government into… — Sonny Perdue Copy Share Image
Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it. — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and… — Sri Aurobindo 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
You should live in a manner that should enable you to devote time to writing and contemplation. As is often said, the… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“If we search into the innermost part of our self, we come in the end to an utter void where nothing from… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception.… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
Prayer that works is prayer that makes a difference, contemplation that turns into action, on behalf of peace and justice in a… — Margaret Silf Copy Share Image
It is difficult to explain to children in the "overdeveloped" nations that not all children in the world have such beautiful and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything or you look… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“Everything in the service involved communication,” he says with gentle exasperation. “Greeting people, the lengthy sermon, the singing. There was no emphasis… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
In the etheric body are centered the forces animating man's physical vehicle, so disease is evidenced in the etheric before it manifests… — Corinne Heline 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
“Language is the element of definition, the defining and descriptive incantation. It puts the coin between our teeth. It whistles the boat… — Charles Wright Copy Share Image
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The power of quiet is great. It generates the same feelings in everything one encounters. It vibrates with the cosmic rhythm of… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
“There is a remarkable picture called 'Contemplation.' It shows a forest in winter and on a roadway through the forest, in absolute… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“No reprimand in the mirror Slow walk to Liberia Slow dance across the Sahara Slow unraveling of gray matter” — Mellon Black Copy Share Image
“Many solemn nights Blond moon, we stand and marvel... Sleeping our noons away” — Teitoku Copy Share Image
Vice: Whatever was passion in the contemplation of man, being brought forth by his will into action. — James Harrington Copy Share Image
Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation. — John Milton 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
Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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