All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.” — David Hume 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
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
I'm not very religious, but having reached middle age I rather enjoy the quiet and the contemplation of spending an hour in… — Alexander Armstrong Copy Share Image
“So contemplation – regular practices of spirituality – is necessary both to have a product to deliver and to have the energy… — Paul F. Knitter Copy Share Image
But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“There is no control and no all-powerful creator, either – no more ‘God’ than man – but there is care, scruple, cautiousness,… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“1. Do all meditation work with open eyes, with the Buddhic smile. 2. Keep attention inside on the No-thought state and refrain… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things ... either… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“Just as faith teaches us that the sovereign felicity of the other life consists in the contemplation of the divine majesty alone,… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through æther,… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a… — Diana Gabaldon 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
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
“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
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
“[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Magic is a faculty of wonderful virtue, full of most high mysteries, containing the most profound contemplation of most secret things, together… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
“From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding… — Joseph Priestley 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
What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
“Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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