What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“The world suddenly vanished from view like a morning mist. I was left alone with Reality.” — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
True contemplation is reflecting on the blessings of God in your life. — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“If you are religious, pray. If you are philosophical, contemplate. If you are spiritual, meditate.” — John K. Brown Copy Share Image
“The written word can make one pause and contemplate. It can make a reader sigh to dream or question a belief in… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Have you ever notice that even though everything around you changes, the stars stay the same. Nothing is more beautiful... — Jesse Burciaga Copy Share Image
I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind… — Anselm of Canterbury Copy Share Image
I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in… — Don Cupitt Copy Share Image
A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“The saints repeated this truth time and again over the centuries; that the natural state of a human being is the continuous… — Kyriacos C. Markides Copy Share Image
No father, no son, no mother, no daughter should get so busy that he or she does not have time to study… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
There is a word in Old English which belongs wholly to that civilization - "dustsceawung," meaning contemplation of dust. It is a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
If it ever seems like everyone is arguing with you and no one else maybe its time to contemplate making a change… — Kels Holstine 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
The bicycles go by in twos and threes - There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night, And there's the half-talk code… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a… — Paul Auster 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
“Spiritual reading, discursive meditation, and prayer prepare our hearts for contemplation. Contemplation is a state of realized oneness with God. When engaged… — James Finley Copy Share Image
“However, the enormous superiority of contemplation over activity of any kind, action not excluded, is not Christian in origin. We find it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“You journey to Olympia to see the work of Phidias; and each of you holds it a misfortune not to have beheld… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Sometimes I make up my mind, other times my mind wanders, and every so often I lose track of it entirely. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
The Aim Of Life Is... To Strike A Balance Between Action And Contemplation... — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Contemplation places us in a purity and radiance which is far above our understanding. — John of Ruysbroeck Copy Share Image
