I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made regarding what… — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
A recurring image in the work of the Rossetti circle was that of a woman absorbed in self-contemplation, gazing into a mirror… — Elizabeth Prettejohn Copy Share Image
The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Art transforms those that witness the creation, into philosophers, enquirers led down a path of mind; of quiet contemplation.” — Erik S. Lehman Copy Share Image
In the world of thought, there is no truth. Everything is relative, contextual, subject to more and more analysis. — Kumar Anupam Copy Share Image
When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
That's the thing about being a Labrador retriever - you were born for fun. Seldom was your loopy, freewheeling mind cluttered by… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Contemplation, sadly, helps you see your woundedness! That’s why most people do not stay long with contemplative prayer, because it’s not very… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
He who through virtue and spiritual knowledge has brought his body into harmony with his soul has become a harp, a flute… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
I meditate a lot and pray for guidance. If, in a moment of self-contemplation or meditation, I were to feel very strongly… — Michael Feinstein Copy Share Image
Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
One form of prayer moves us particularly to take up the task of evangelization and to seek the good of others: it… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“For moderns - for us - there is something illicit, it seems, about wasted time, the empty hours of contemplation when a… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see it, all… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The Surangama Sutra chooses, as the best meditation method for the present historic cycle, the one used by Avalokitesvara. It disengages bodily… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
“This renewed a contemplation which often had come to my thoughts in former time, when first I began to see the merciful… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth… — John Stokes Copy Share Image
“An Archer must never lose focus. If the world bends Archer. It is in within in contemplation we soar the sky ~” — Patricio telman chincocolo Copy Share Image
When you are in doubt, wait. Fall back on the contemplation of your vision, and increase your faith and purpose. And by… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
As we continue to become a society of tweets, shorter and shorter messages, there's great value in the contemplation and reflection that… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which… — Auguste Rodin 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
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve. — Mas Oyama 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
For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
“When the mind enters into this imageless and thoughtless state, there is nothing in it to resist the union with divine consciousness.” — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“Except for shukladhyan (contemplation as the Self, Pure Soul), engrossed involvement in any other forms of dhyan (contemplation), gives rise to the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“If we hope to move beyond the superficialities of our culture, including our religious culture, we must be willing to go down… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“... You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
How you see yourself is a mirror into how you view other people, and that predicts your outcome of your luck with… — Gayla Leach Copy Share Image
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